مفتر من قال إن القوم ماتوا

حدثينا عنهم يا معجزات

The one who said that the people died is a liar

Tell us about them, O miracles

حدثينا كيف أودى بالأولى

ملكوا الآفاق حراث عفاة

Tell us how the first perished

They ruled the horizons, barefoot farmers

كيف أفنى كل ذي درع وذي

لأمة مدرعو النقع حفاة

How did it destroy all those armored and armed

By a nation whose armor is rags and barefoot

نفر ظنوا ضعافا فإذا

هم للقرم الأشدين غزاة

A group they thought were weak but they were

The fiercest invaders against the enemy

فئة قلت وأعيا دونها

عسكر ضاقت به الست الجهات

A few in number but in their defense

An army that the six directions were too narrow for

هاجموها فتلقتهم كما

تتلقى هجمة البحر الصفاة

They attacked them as

The surging sea repels an assault

إنما الأضعف في الحومة من

ضعفت آراؤه والفتكات

The weakest in the defense are those

Whose opinions and views were weak

والقليل النزر في الأزمة من

خانه الصبر وجافاه الثبات

And the few in number during crisis are those

Whom patience has betrayed and steadfastness has abandoned

قيل هذا فيهم فعل التقى

والصلاح الحي للخوف ممات

It is said this about them the act of the devout

And the living righteousness of fear kills

صدقوا رأس التقي الفعل فإن

كان قولا فهو زور وافتئات

They were truthful, the act of the devout

And if it was just words then it is lies and slander

هكذا القوم وما تقواهم

فقر يتلونها أو دعوات

That is how those people were, and not their piety

Either poverty they wear or supplications they make

فإذا صام الفتى منهم فعن

دم أسراه وإن لم تعف شاة

So if a youth among them fasts it is over

Blood they nurse, even if no sheep was spared

وإذا زكى فجاري دمه

في سبيل الوطن الحر زكاة

And if they pay alms, it is their spilt blood

In the cause of the free nation that is their alms

وإذا صلى ففي جثوته

للمراماة سجود وصلاة

And if they pray, in their bodies lowered in marksmanship

Is prostration and prayer

من دعا الله على غاصبه

فالدعاء السيف والذكر القناة

Whoever invokes God against their usurper

Then that invocation is a sword and the remembrance a spearhead

أو حمى الأوطان والعرض معا

فهو الدين كما ترضى الحياة

Or who protects the homelands and honor together

Then that is the religion, as you wish for life

أيها السوقة كل منهم

ملك قد توجته الهبوات

O you villains, each of them

A king crowned by the winds

أيها الجهال كل منهم

قائد تؤثر عنه الخدعات

O you ignorant ones, each of them

A leader about whom you circulate rumors

يا حماة الخلق الحر وقد

عافه الناس وخانته الحماة

O protectors of free people, while

The people pardoned them and their own kinsmen betrayed them

صائني دارهم العذراء عن

واطيء إلا وما فيها موات

Guardians of their chaste home from

Any violator, and there is no life in it but theirs

شيدوا تاريخكم من نقض ما

شاده في أزل الدهر الطغاة

Build your history from destroying what

The eternal tyrants built in ancient times

ثابروا في وثبكم ولتهننا

في تلاشينا الهنات الهينات

Persevere in your resolve and let us grieve

In our collapse, our soft girlish defeats

تابعوا النصر بنصر ولتكن

خجلة الأنذال هذي النصرات

Continue victory with victory, and let it be

The disgrace of the lowly, these victories

يصفع الجبار من تعدمه

منكم للضرب والطعن أداة

The oppressor who lacks any of you

As a tool for striking and stabbing slaps himself

وفتانا يلثم الكف التي

في جبين الملك منها صفعات

And sometimes the hand that

Slaps the face of the king is ours

من لمينا أن يرى في لحده

كيف أخنت ببنيه الموبقات

Who can prevent us from seeing in his grave

How the heinous deeds have betrayed his sons

فلقد أرنو مصر التي

خلدتها الباقيات الصالحات

They have shown us Egypt, which

The righteous deeds have immortalized

فأرى روحا قديما طائفا

باكيا مما جنت مصر الفتاة

I saw an ancient soul wandering

Crying over what young Egypt has committed

كيف تحيا أمة هالتهم

شقة المجد فذلوا واستماتوا

How can a nation whose glory

Has vanished live, when they were humiliated and died

كيف يقوى معشر عدتهم

هزلهم والمشرفيات النكات

How can a group whom their weakness

And jokes made weak be strengthened

أبخوف الغول يرجى عندهم

خلق البأس وترجى العظمات

Can the fear of ghosts be hoped for in them

To create valor and greatness be hoped for

أم بآداب وألحان يهي

معها العزم وتقوى الشهوات

Or is it through manners and melodies that

Determination with it is awakened and desires strengthened

فارفع الصوت وأيقظهم فقد

طال عهدا بهم هذا السبات

Then raise your voice and awaken them, for too long

Has this slumber lasted for them

ما لمصر شبه قبر واسع

منذ فرعون ومن فيها رفات

Egypt is like a vast tomb

Since the days of the Pharaohs and those buried in it