إِذَا مَا فَرَنْسَا قَلَّدَتْكَ وِسَامَهَا

فَخَاراً بِمِصْريٍّ يَجِيدُ لِسَانَهَا

When France adorns you with her medal

Take pride, O Egyptian versed in her tongue!

فَكَيْفَ فَخَارُ الضَّادِ بِالعِلْمِ الَّذِي

نَمَتْهُ فَأَعْلَى فِي البَيَانِ بيَانَهَا

Yet how take pride in the emphatic Dād by knowledge

Whose growth made supreme her expression?

وَهَلْ كَانَ غَيْرُ العِلْمِ وَهْوَ وَلِيدُهَا

مُعِيداً إِلَيْهَا فِي اللُّغَاتِ مكَانها

Could aught but knowledge, its fosterling,

Restore her place among tongues?

تَدَارَكَهَا فِي البِدْءِ وَالعَوْدِ رَبُّهَا

بِنَصْرٍ عزِيزٍ صَانَهَا ثُمَّ صَانَهَا

Her Lord saved her at first and last

With mighty, protecting victory,

بِطَهَ قَدِيماً عظَّمَ الوَحْيُ شَأْنَها

وَطَهَ حَدِيثاً عَزَّزَ العِلْمُ شَأْنَهَا

Anciently by Tā-Hā who revelation magnified,

Modernly by Tā-Hā whom science magnified.