يَا أَمِيرَ الصَّعِيدِ يَحْرُسُكَ اللهُ

وَيَرْعَاكَ يَا أَمِيرَ الصعِيدِ

O Prince of Upper Egypt, may God protect you

And care for you, O Prince of Upper Egypt

تَاهَ شَطْرٌ مَنَ الْبِلاَدِ عَلَى شَطْرٍ

مُدِلاًّ بِالانْتِسَابِ الْجَدِيدِ

Part of the country has inclined towards another part

Sporting the new lineage

لقَبٌ بِاسْمِكَ الَّذِي لاَ يُسَامَى

خُطَّ فِي مُسْتَهَلِّ سِفْرٍ مَجِيد

A title with your unmatched name

Inscribed in the beginning of a glorious book

زَادَ مِصْرَ الْعُلْيَا عَلاَءً وَأحْيَا

بِطَريفٍ مَا فَاتَهَا مِنْ تَلِيدِ

It gave Upper Egypt prominence and revived

What it had missed of tradition

ذَلِكَ الطَّالِعُ السَّعِيدُ هْوَ

الْبُشْرَى لِسُكَّانِهَا بِعَهْد سَعِيدِ

That auspicious rising star

Is good tidings for its inhabitants of a prosperous era

هَلْ أَتَتْكَ الأَنْبَاءُ مُمْتَطِيَاتِ الْبَرْقِ

شَوْقاً مُسْتبْطِئَاتِ الْبَرِيدِ

Have the news reached you, riding lightning

Yearning, delayed by the mail

يَنْبِضُ النَّابِضُ الَّذِي حَرَّكْتَهُ

فَتُؤَدِّي الْحُرُوفُ بِالتَّغْرِيدِ

The pulsating heart you stirred

Utters letters melodiously

فَإِذَا مَا الْوَمِيضُ غَنَّى بِمَا يَنْقُلُ

غنَّى الْفَضَاءُ بِالتَّرْدِيدِ

So when the flash sang what it conveys

The sky sings in refrain

وَإِذَا بَشَّ ضَوْءُهُ بَشَّتِ

الآْفَاقُ مِنْ صَاقِبٍ بهَا وَبَعِيدِ

And when its light shines

The horizons beam, near and far

فرَحٌ قَامَ فِي الْجَنُوبِ وَلَكِنْ

شَمِلَ النِّيلَ فِي مَدَاهُ الْمَدِيدِ

Joy rose in the South but

Encompassed the Nile in its long course

يَا مَلِيكاً جَلاَ عُلاَهُ هِلاَلٌ

أَيْنَ مِنْ بِشْرِهِ هِلاَلُ الْعِيدِ

O King, a crescent exalted his grandeur

Where is its good omen from the crescent of Eid

هَزَّ مِيناً أَنْ عَادَ مُتَّصِلاً مَا

انْبَتَّ مِنْ مُلْكِهِ بِمُلْك جَدِيدِ

It shook the harbor that he returned reconnected

To his kingdom with a new kingdom