يَا خَارِجِينَ كِرَاماً مِنْ مَحَابِسِهِمْ

وَمُبْهِجِي كُلِّ قَلْبٍ كَانَ مَغْمُومَا

O honorable ones emerging from their prisons

And gladdening every heart that was grieving

كَمْ كُبِّلَ الحَقُّ بِالأَصْفَادِ مِنْ ثِدَمٍ

ثُمَّ انْطَوَيْنَ وَبَاءَ البُطْلُ مَهْزُومَا

How much was right shackled in ignominy

Then it retreated, and the heroism of the brave was defeated

يَا سُوءَ دَهْرٍ قَضَتْهُ قَبْلَ نَهْضَتِهَا

مِصْرٌ يُخَيِّمُ فِيهَا الذُّلُّ تَخْيِيمَا

O evil fate whose decline preceded its ascent

Egypt, in which humiliation casts its shadow

تَهِي قُوَى اللَّيْثِ مِنْ عَيْثِ الذِّئَابِ بِهَا

وَيَلْتَوِي الأَمْرُ تَحْلِيلاً وَتَحْرِيمَا

The power of the lion is lost to the harm of wolves within it

And the matter twists with dissolution and prohibition

فَاليَوْمَ عَادَ إِلَى رَأْيٍ يُشَرِّفُهَا

مَنْ ظَنَّ إِقْلِيمَهَا لِلْخَفْضِ إِقْلِيمَا

So today one who thought its region was for debasement

Returned to an opinion that honors it

دَلَّتْ عَلَى قُوَّةٍ فِيهَا صَلابَتُكُمْ

تَذُودُ عَنْهَا الأَشِدَّاءَ المَقَاحِيمَا

You have shown a strength in it, your resilience

Wards off the fiercest assailants from it

هَلْ يُجْزِيءُ الشُّكْرُ مِنْ ضَيْمٍ تَحَمَّلَهُ

بِالأَمْسِ مَنْ مَنْكُمُو فِي رَأْيِهِ ضِيمَا

Can gratitude suffice for the injustice borne

Yesterday by one of you, diminished in his view?

قَدْ أَثَّمُوا وَكَمْ مِنْ مُثْلَةٍ نَزَلَتْ

بَالأَبْرِيَاءِ وَبِالأَبْرَارِ تَأْثِيمَا

They have sinned—and how many exemplary deaths

Befell the innocent and the virtuous, unlawfully

وَبَعْضُ مَا عَاقَبُوكُمْ فِيهِ جَعْلُكُمُو

صِدقَ الهَوَى لِلْحِمَى دِيناً وَتَعْلِيمَا

And some of what they punished you for was your making

Truth of passion a religion and teaching

لا حَاكِماً دُونَ مَا أَوْحَتْ ضَمَائِرُكُمْ

تُرَاقِبُونَ وَلا تَرْعَوْنَ مَحْكُومَا

No ruler except what your consciences inspired

You monitor without heeding the ruled

لَقَدْ ظَفِرْتُم بِمَا أَدْنَى القَصِيُّ لَكُمْ

مِنَ المَرَامِ فَلَيْسَ الفَوْزَ مَزْعُومَا

You have succeeded in what is nearest for you

Of aspirations, so triumph is not presumed

هَلِ اسْتَقَامَ زَمَانٌ يُقَوِّمُهُ

بَنُوهُ بِالصَّبْرِ وَالإِقْدَامِ تَقْوِيمَا

Has an age been set right which

Its sons rectified with patience and daring?

أَو نَالَ حُرِّيَّةً قَومٌ بِهَا جَدُرُوا

وَهُمْ يُبَالُونَ تَقْتِيلاً وَتَكْلِيمَا

Or has a people attained the freedom they deserved

While they are indifferent to murder and gagging?

يَا سَادَةً كَالنُّجُومِ الغُرِّ مَنْزِلَةً

وَسَيِّدَاتٍ كَعِقْدِ الدُّرِّ مَنْظُومَا

O masters lofty of station like stars

And ladies assembled as a necklace of pearls

حَمْداً إِقْبَالِكُمْ هَذَا وَحَفْلَتِكُمْ

تُهَنِّئُونَ الصَّنَادِيدَ المَقَادِيمَا

Thanks for your coming this way and your assembly

Congratulating the glorious preceding ones

مِنَ الأُولَى مَا وَنَوْا عَن وَاجِبٍ فَبَنَوْا

لِعِزِّ مِصْرَ طِرافاً كَانَ مَهْدُومَا

Those who turned from a duty and so built

For Egypt’s glory what was ruined

أُولَئِكُمْ إِنْ مِنْ فَضْلِهِم أَثَرٌ

فَكَمْ لَهُمْ مِنْ جَمِيلٍ ظَلَّ مَكْتُومَا

If some of their merit has traces

Then how much of their beauty remains concealed?

فَلْتَحْيَا مِصْرُ وَأَبْرارٌ نُجِلُّهُمُو

وَنَحْتَفِي بِهِمْ حُبّاً وَتَكْرِيمَا

So may Egypt live, and we revere

Its virtuous ones, honoring them in love