طِيبُوا قَرَاراً أَيُّهَا الأَعْلامُ
وَعَلَى ثَرَاكُمْ رَحْمَةٌ وَسَلامُ
O leaders, rest in peace,
And may mercy and peace be upon your soil.
لا غَرْوَ أَنْ شُقَّتْ جُيُوبٌ بَعْدَكُمْ
فِي المَشْرِقَيْنِ وَنُكِّسَتْ أَعْلامُ
No wonder tears flowed after you
In the two easts, and flags were lowered.
مِصْرُ الَّتِي مِتُّمْ فِدَاهَا أَصْبَحَتْ
وَكَأَنَّمَا فِيهَا السرُورُ حَرَامُ
Egypt, for which you died,
Became as if joy in it is forbidden.
ذَهَبَ الأعِزَّةُ مُصْطَفَى وَرِفَاقُهُ
مَا كَادَ يَخْلُو مِنْ شَهِيدٍ عَامُ
Alas! Mostafa and his comrades are gone.
Scarcely a year passed without a martyr.
شُهَدَاءُ لَيْسَ أَخِيرُهُمْ بِأَقَلِّهِمْ
وَلِكُلِّهِمْ فِي الْخَالِدِينَ مَقَامُ
The martyrs - the last was not less than the first,
And for all a position amongst the eternal.
اللهَ فِي مِصْرَ الثَّكُولِ وَقَلْبُهَا
تَتْلُو سِهَامَ البَيْنِ فِيهِ سِهَامُ
O God! Egypt is distraught and its heart
Recites the arrows of separation.
عَبْدَ الْعَزِيزِ لَعَلَّ مَوْتاً سُمْتَهُ
قَدْ كَانَ أَيْسَرَ مَا غَبَرْتَ تُسَامُ
Perhaps for Abdel Aziz death
Would have been easier than the difficulties you endured.
أَكْرَمْتَ قَصْدَكَ عَنْ مُبَالاةِ الرَّدَى
وَعَزَمْتَ لا وَهَنٌ وَلا اسْتِسْلامُ
You were resolute, not caring for perdition,
Determined, neither weak nor resigned.
أَلمَوْتُ وَالإِحْجَامُ فِيمَا تَتَّقِي
شَرَعٌ وَشَرُّهُمَا هُوَ الإِحْجَامُ
I hesitated while hesitation in what you feared
Is lawful, and the evil of both is hesitation.
عُمْرٌ تَقَضَّى فِي جِهَادٍ لا تَنِي
فِيهِ وَلا يُلْهِيكَ عَنْهُ حُطَامُ
A life spent in unceasing jihad,
Which neither distracts you nor are you distracted from it by rubble.
هُوَ مُصْحَفٌ آيَاتُهُ وَحْيُ الْفِدَى
وَالْبِرُّ فَاتِحَةٌ بِهِ وَخِتَامُ
It is a scripture whose verses are the revelation of sacrifice,
Righteousness being its opening and end.
مَنْسُوجَةٌ أَيَّامُهُ مِنْ خَيْرِ مَا
يُبْدِي النَّهَارَ وَيَكْتُمُ الإِظْلامُ
Its days are woven with the best
That daytime reveals and nighttime conceals.
فِي حُبِّ مِصْرَ وَفِي ابْتِغَاءِ رُقِيهَا
يَقِظَانَ ذَاكَ الْقَلْبُ وَالأَحْلامُ
Awake, that heart and that dream
Out of love for Egypt and desire for its advancement.
مَا كِدْتَ تَمْكُثُ وَادِعاً فِي مَأْمَنٍ
إِلاَّ وَحَوْلَكَ لِلصُّرُوفِ زِحَامُ
You barely stayed peacefully secluded
Without tribulations crowding around you.
وَعَلَى جَوَانِبِكَ المَحَامِدُ إِنْ تُقِمْ
فِي بَلْدَةٍ أَوْ لَمْ يَسَعَكَ مُقَامُ
And praise was on your side whether you stayed in a country or a dwelling was not spacious enough for you.
That love for Egypt - none ever blamed you for it,
ذَاكَ الْغَرَامُ بِمِصْرَ لَمْ يُلْمِمْ بِهِ
أَحَدٌ وَلَمْ يَبْلُغْ مَدَاهُ غَرَامُ
Nor did anyone reach the extent of your love.
How many valleys did the pilgrim descend in them
كَمْ طِيَّةٍ فِيهَا بَرَى مِنْكَ الْحَشَا
سُقْمٌ وَبَرَّحَ بِاللَّهَاةِ أُوَامُ
Ill and was cured by Allah’s care for the hopeless.
You are called and you become active as if
تُدْعَى فَتَنْشَطُ ى تَكِلُّ كَأَنَّمَا
يُؤْتِيكَ قُوَّةَ بَأْسِهِ الإِيلامُ
The ailment gives you the power of endurance.
In the like of this while souls are great,
فِي مِثْلِ هَذَا وَالنُّفُوسُ كَبِيرَةٌ
تَتَخَالَفُ الأُرْوَاحُ وَالأَجْسَامُ
Spirits and bodies differ.
Glory is pleased with you and the country that
أَلمَجْدُ رَاضٍ عَنْكَ وَالْبَلَدُ الَّذِي
أَشْكَيْنَ مِنْ سُقْمٍ وَفِيكَ سَقَامُ
Complained of illness while in you was its remedy.
O emigrant of pens, almost
يَا هَاجِرَ الأَقْلامِ كَادَتْ مِنْ أَسىً
تَجْرِي نُفُوساً بَعْدَكَ الأَقْلامُ
The souls flowed after you with pens.
The crescent grieved for its glorious pillar
جَزِعَ الْهِلالُ عَلَى مُعِزِّ لِوَائِهِ
وَبَكَى أَشَدَّ حُمَاتِهِ الإِسْلامُ
And Islam bitterly cried for its protector.
Who will support the religion like his support,
مَنْ يَنْصُرُ الدينَ الْحَنِيفَ كَنَصْرِهِ
بِالرَّأْيِ يَنْفُذُ وَالْفِرنْدُ كَهَامُ
His opinion effective while axes are blunt.
With a heart receiving inspiration from his Lord
مُسْتَرْشِداً إِنْ شُبِّهَتْ سُبُلُ الْهُدَى
قَلْباً لَهُ مِنْ رَبهِ إِلْهَامُ
When the paths of guidance seem ambiguous.
He hurls his thoughts to the farthest extent
يَرْمِي بِفِكْرَتِهِ إِلَى أَقْصَى مَدىً
وَيَسِيرُ لا تَعْتَافُهُ الأوْهَامُ
And moves forward, not constrained by fantasies.
Sound opinion is supported by wisdom
وَيُؤَيدُ الرَّأْيُ الصَّحِيحُ بِحِكْمِةٍ
لا يَعْتَرِيهَا اللَّبْسُ وَالإِبْهَامُ
That is not marred by confusion or ambiguity.
Seeking nothing but rectitude though some of it
إِنْ يَبْتَغِي إِلاَّ الصَّلاحَ وَبَعْضُهُ
لا تَسْتَوِي فِي فَهْمِهِ الأَحْلامُ
Is not equal in his understanding to dreams.
Religion does not refuse civilization if it calls him,
أَلدينُ لا يَأْبَى الْحَضَارَةَ إِنْ دَعَتْ
فَأَجَابَهَا فِي الرَّاشِدِينَ إِمَامُ
And the rightly-guided leader responds.
Time is spacious with its ease so for our time
يَسَعُ الزَّمَانُ بِيُسْرِهِ فَلِعَصْرِنَا
أَحْكَامُهُ وَلِغَيْرِهِ أَحْكَامُ
Are its rulings and for others are its rulings.
After raising its status, who is the sincere, brilliant scholar
مَنْ لِلْمَعَارِفِ بَعْدَ مُعْلِي شَأْنِهَا
أَيْنَ النَّصِيحُ الْجِهْبِذُ العَلاَّمُ
The educator from whom knowledge flows unchecked to those who yearn and not barred from the obstinate.
For the spread of knowledge, its share is granted from him
مَنْ لانْتِشَارِ الْعِلْمِ تُمْنَحُ قِسْطَهَا
مِنْهُ السَّرَاةُ وَلا يُرَد طَغَامُ
To the zealous and not prevented from the arrogant.
You spend all that you are endowed with
فِي الْوَعْظِ وَالتَّثْقِيفِ تُنْفِقُ كلَّ مَا
أُوتِيتَ مِنْ هِمَمٍ وَهُنَّ جِسَامُ
Of ambitions while your bodies are frail.
And you see the strength of society in its morals,
وَتَرَى قِوَامَ الشَّعْبِ فِي أَخْلاقِهِ
هَلْ لِلشُّعُوبِ بِغَيْرِهِنَّ قِوَامُ
Can societies stand without them?
If there is no knowledge, you will find
إِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ عِلْمٌ فَإِنَّكَ وَاجِدٌ
أُمَماً تُسَاقُ كَأَنَّهَا أَنْعَامُ
Nations being led like cattle.
What can be expected to become of them
مَاذَا يُرَجَّى أَنْ تَصِيرَ وَمَا لَهَا
بِحَقِيقَةٍ مِنْ أَمْرِهَا إِلمَامُ
When they have no true comprehension of their affair?
Who can provide the equality
مَنْ لِلمُوَاسَاةِ الَّتِي عَتَمَ الْقِرَى
فِيهَا وَضَلَّ سَبِيلَهَا المُعْتَامُ
That has been obscured in the villages and the misguided lost its path?
Its freshness is gone from it and dwellings have strengthened
جَفَّ النَّدَى فِيهَا وَأَقُوَى مَوْئِلٌ
رُعِيَتْ بِهِ حُرَمٌ وَصِينَ كِرَامُ
In which sanctities were guarded and generous people esteemed.
By your care, bereft women regained their strength
بِنَوَاكَ جَدَّدَتِ الثَّوَاكِلُ ثُكْلَهَا
وَتَوَغَّلَتْ فِي يُتْمَهَا الأَيْتَامُ
And orphans penetrated in their destitution.
You joined estranged kinship ties, never
وَوَصَلْتَ أَرْحَاماً فَمَا أَغْلَيْتَ مِنْ
عَرْضٍ تَقَطَّعَ دُونَهُ الأَرْحَامُ
Disregarding a bond that kinsmen abandoned.
Take the gems and cast off their husks,
خُذْ بِالْجَوَاهِرِ وَانْتَبِذْ أَعْرَاضَهَا
مَا ككُل مَا فَوْقَ الرَّغَامِ رَغَامُ
Not everything above the cinders is cinders.
Was there a more virtuous young man than you
هَلْ كَانَ أَنْهَضَ مِنْكَ فِي الْجُلَّى فَتىً
حُرٌّ وَأَمْضَى فِي الأُمُورِ هُمَامُ
A free man, determined, resolute?
If those traits and character are magnified
إِنْ أُعْظِمَتْ تِلْكَ الشَّمَائِلُ وَالنُّهَى
فَلأَي شَيْءٍ غَيْرِهَا الإِعْظَامُ
Then for what else is magnification?
For God you and your comrades are the noble pioneers
للهِ أَنْتَ وَرَهْطُكَ الْغُرُّ الأُولَى
رَامُوا الأَعَزَّ فَأَدْرَكُوا مَا رَامُوا
Who sought the most glorious and attained what they sought.
Of everyone who pleased the truth and loftiness
مِنْ كل مَنْ أَرْضَى الْحَقِيقَةَ وَالعُلَى
إِذْ بَاتَ وَهْوَ الصَّاخِبُ الضِّرْغَامُ
When the darkness of night rested, the clamor subsided.
Which of your circles of good that slept
أَيْ عُصْبَهَ الْخَيْرِ الَّتِي رَقَدَتْ وَقَدْ
نَفِذَتْ عَزَائِمُهَا وَحَقَّ جَمَامُ
And its resolves were fulfilled and the outline completed?
Today your hopes grow its plant
أَليَوْمَ تُنْمِي غَرْسَهَا آمَالُكمْ
وَالْيَوْمَ تُجْنِي خَيْرَهَا الآلامُ
And today the affliction reaps its good.
After what hardship is one to give good tidings
هَلْ مَنْ يُنَبيءُ بَعْدَ أي مَشقةٍ
قدْ بَشرَتْ بِثِمَارِهَا الأَكمَامُ
That its fruits have been heralded by the buds?
Egypt will return to the days of its glory
سَتعُودُ مِصْرُ إِلَى سَنِيِّ مَقامِهَا
وَتطِيبُ مِنْ خُبْثٍ لَهَا الأَعْوامُ
And good years will replace its foulness.
You established opinion, fulfilled in success
وَالرَّأْيُ قَدْ أَثْبَتُّمُوهُ بَالِغاً
فِي النُّجْحِ مَا لا يَبْلُغُ الصَّمْصَامُ
What even sharp arrows cannot attain.
The intensity you faced defending the sanctuary
شَدَّ الَّذِي لاقَيْتُمُ دُونَ الْحِمَى
كَمْ شِدَّةٍ لانَتْ بِهَا الأَيَّامُ
How many intensities have the days befallen?
When you find deficiency in one's determination
وَإِذَا وَجَدْتَ المَرْءَ فِي إِقْدَامِهِ
نَقْصٌ فَلا يُرْجَى هُنَاكَ تَمَامُ
Then perfection cannot be hoped for there.
Why one who takes life as a means
كَيْفَ الَّذِي تَخِذَ الْحَيَاةَ وَسِيلَةً
وَسَمَا لَهُ فَوْقَ الْحَيَاةِ مَرَامُ
And above life are his aspirations?
Eras pass and Egypt never forgets you
تَمْضِي الدهُورُ وَمِصْرُ لا تَنْسَاكُمُ
وَوَلاؤُهَا عَهْدٌ لَكُمْ وَذِمَامُ
And its loyalty is a pact and guarantee.
Alas! It consoles the memory of its Abdel Aziz
هَيْهَاتَ تَسْلُو ذِكْرَ عَبْدِ عَزِيزِهَا
وَالرَّهْطِ أَوْ تَتَحَوَّلَ الأَهْرَامُ
Or the pyramids change.
Egypt which they thought quiet like a sanctuary
مِصْرُ الَّتِي ظَنوا الْحِمَامَ سُكُونَهَا
وَهَلِ السكُون مَعَ الشَّكَاةِ حِمَامُ
But is there stillness with the glowing embers?
Not every late riser is awake nor
مَا كُلُّ مَنْ قَامَ الدُّجَى يَقِظٌ وَمَا
كُل الأُولَى غَضوا الْجُفُونَ نِيَامُ
Are the early sleepers slumbering.
Concerns can preoccupy a people
قَدْ تَأْخُذُ الشَّعْبَ الثِّقَالَ هُمُومُهُ
سِنَة الْكَرَى وَضَمِيرُهُ قَوَّامُ
For a year, while its conscience is ever awake.
Egypt’s youth, its strength and support are its youth,
فِتْيَانَ مِصْرَ وَعِوّهَا فِتْيَانُهَا
وَهُمُ الْحِجَى وَالبَأْسُ وَالإِقْدَامُ
They are the shield, might, and determination.
Live! And may Egypt thrive through you,
عِيشُوا وَتَحْيَا مَصْرُ بَالِغَةً بِكُمْ
فِي المَجْدِ مَا لَمْ تَبْلغِ الأَقْوَامُ
Achieving in glory what peoples have not achieved.
And a ransom for it is the hero who for its sake
وَفِدىً لَهَا البَطَلُ الَّذِي مِنْ أَجْلِهَا
أَكْرَمْتُمُوهُ وَحَقُّهُ الإِكْرَامُ
You honored - and his right is to be honored.
And to you O Abdel Aziz a farewell
وَإِلَيْكَ يَا عَبْدَ العَزِيزِ تَحِيَّةً
مِمَّنْ يُوَدِّعُ وَالدُّمُوعُ سِجَامُ
From one bidding farewell while tears are stifling.
The days I will not forget, and situations where you
مَا أَنْسَ لَنْ أَنْسَى وَمَوَاقِفَ كُنْتَ فِي
أَيَّامِهَا شَمْساً وَنَحْنُ نِظَامُ
Were in those days a sun and we planets revolving.
You stripped yourself for virtues and loftiness
جَرَّدْتَ نَفْسَكَ لِلفَضَائِلِ وَالعُلَى
حَتَّى لَقِيتَ المَوْتَ وَهْوَ زُؤَامُ
Until you met death while it was inevitable.
You refused blame in life or in death
وَأَبَيْتَ ذَمّاً فِي الْحَيَاةِ وَفِي الرَّدَى
وَعَدَاكَ حَتَّى مِنْ عِدَاكَ الذَّامُ
Even from those who blamed you.
You remained in the shadows of eternity - may
بِتْ فِي ظِلالِ الخُلْدِ وَلْيَطْلَعْ لَنَا
بَيْنَ الثَّوَابِتِ وَجْهُكَ البَسَّامُ
Your smiling face rise for us amongst the constants.
