دَعِ الخَمْرَ نُصْحُ أَخٍ إِنَّهَا

لَتُوهِي القلوبَ وَترْدِي النَّهى

Leave the wine, the advice of a brother,

It confuses hearts and leads virtue astray,

وَحَيْثُ وَجَدْتَ دَمَاراً وَبُؤْساً

وَلَمْ تَدرِ مَأْتَاهُما ظُنَّهَا

Wherever you find ruin and misery,

And know not whence they came, suspect it,

أَما هِيَ تِلْكَ الَّتِي خَرَّبَتْ

بُيُوتاً بِتَقْويضِهَا رُكْنَهَا

Was it not that which destroyed,

Homes by undermining their pillars?

أَما هِيَ تِلْكَ الَّتِي ضَعْضَعَتْ

شُعُوباً وَدَكَّتْ بِهَا مُدْنَهَا

Was it not that which shook,

Nations and razed their cities?

وَكُلُّ المُرَبِّينَ مِنْ كُلِّ جِيـ

ـلٍ وَكُلُّ النَّبِيِّينَ عَنْهَا نَهى

All moral guides of every,

Generation, and prophets, warned against it,

وكلُّ أُولِي العزْمِ قَدْ سَبَّهَا

وَمَا فِي أُولِي الحَزمِ منْ سَنَّهَا

And the resolute bearers of Allah's commands denounced it,

And the wise never sanctioned it,

عَلَيْهَا حُمَاةَ الحِجَى غَارَة

فَخَيْرُ أُولِي الفَتْحِ مَنْ شَنَّهَا

The zealous protectors of sanctity attacked it,

So the best openers declared war on it,

وَأَلقوا دِرَاكاً بِكَاسَاتِهَا

تُهَاضُ وَلا تَعْصِمُوا دِنَّهَا

And cast the wine cups away,

Be sacrificed and protect not their faith,

طَلاقاً لِشَمْطَاءَ تُوهِي القُوَى

وَتُثْكِلُ أُمًّ الوَحِيدِ ابْنَهَا

Divorce the wanton that ruins strength,

And makes childless the mother of an only son,

عَجيبٌ تَزَايَدَ عُشَّاقُهَا

بِقَدْرِ اسْتِطَالَتِهِمْ سِنَّها

How strange that its lovers increase,

With the length of their years,

طَلاقاً بَتَاتاً بِلا رَجْعَةٍ

وَحَسْبُ امرِيءٍ جِنَّةً جِنَّها

Absolutely, categorically, with no way back,

And suffice a man his own madness,

وَلا تَقْبَلوا تُرَّهَاتِ غُوَاةٍ

تَرى سُوءهَا وَتَرَى حُسْنَهَا

And accept not the deceits of transgressors,

Who see its evil and see its good,

تُعَظِّمُ عَنْ سَفَهٍ نَفْعَها

وَتَرْفَعُ مِنْ ضَعَةٍ شَأْنَهَا

Exaggerate its benefit out of foolishness,

And elevate its status out of weakness,

أَلَيْسَ لِوَفْرَةٍ أَرْزَائِهَا

تَجَوَّزَ خَالِقُهَا لَعْنَهَا

Does not its abundance of harm,

Mean its Creator has cursed it?

فَيَا فِتْيَةَ الخَيْرِ يَا خَيْرَ مَنْ

تُقِيمُ بِهِمْ أُمَّةٌ وَزْنَهَا

So O youth of virtue, O best of those,

Through whom a nation regains its worth,

لِمِصْرَ بِكُمْ حُسْنُ ظَنٍّ إِذَا

عَفَفْتُمْ فَلا تُخْلِفُوا ظَنَّها

For Egypt, you are of good omen, if,

You are chaste, so do not betray its hopes,