1. يتناهى الأنام والأيّامُ

    ولك الخلد دولة ومقام

    Humankind and the days come to an end,

    and immortality is yours—a realm and an abode.

  2. يجثم الفكر خاشعا حول مثوا

    ك وتروى أمجادك الأقلام

    Thought crouches reverently around your resting place,

    and pens recount your glories.

  3. ويقولون عنك متّ وآثا

    رك نورٌ لا يعتريه ظلام

    They say of you, 'You died,' yet your legacy

    is a light no darkness overtakes.

  4. أيها الميت كم من الناس حي

    هو ميت لولا الخطا والكلام

    O dead one, how many a living person

    is dead, but for footsteps and speech!

  5. عبقبريّ له على الشعر حق

    فمراقى نبوغه لا ترام

    A genius to whom poetry owes its due,

    for the heights of his genius cannot be reached.

  6. الزعامات كالحياة فنون

    فهي بعث أو ثورة أو سلام

    Leadership, like life, takes many forms:

    revival, or revolution, or peace.

  7. وهو فنّ من الزعامة مختا

    رٌ وخلق من الزعيم جسام

    He is a chosen art of leadership,

    and a leader's mighty qualities.

  8. جاء في أمةٍ من الشرق حيرى

    مزّقتها الأغراض والالام

    He came among a bewildered nation of the East,

    torn apart by interests and sorrows,

  9. باعثا في الوجود وثبة روح

    آبد لا تحدّه الآطام

    rousing in existence the leap of a spirit,

    everlasting, which no strongholds can confine,

  10. خافقا كالحياة يقظان كالنو

    ر طليقا كأنه الأنسام

    pulsing like life, wakeful like light,

    unfettered, as though it were the breezes.

  11. السياسات حوله عصبة

    تبنى وأخرى رجاؤُها الأنهدام

    Political factions surround him: one band

    builds, while another hopes for collapse.

  12. وهو ماض كأنه آية الفج

    ر إذا حف جانبيه القتام

    Yet he presses on, like a sign of dawn

    when dusty gloom envelops it on either side,

  13. حاملا ملء ذاته فكرة البع

    ث لشعب تقوده الأوهام

    bearing throughout his being the idea of revival

    for a people led by delusions,

  14. جاهليّ يحيا وقد نقد الده

    ر كما عاش في المتاهات سام

    benighted, living on though time has worn away,

    as Sam lived in the labyrinths.

  15. ويروحون يبحثون وخلف الليل

    دوح بها البناء يقام

    And they go searching, while beyond the night

    are great trees with which the edifice is built.

  16. جهلوا أمرها وحجبها عنهم ضباب

    من صنعهم وغمام

    They knew not its nature; it was hidden from them by mist

    of their own making, and clouds.

  17. وانتهى سرها إليه فما أغفى

    ومن حوله الكسالى نيام

    Its secret reached him, and he did not doze,

    while the idlers around him lay asleep.

  18. شاءها صيحة ففكّت قيود

    وارتقت أمّة وتم نظام

    He willed it a cry, and fetters were undone;

    a nation rose, and an order was completed.

  19. أيها الثائر المحرر ماذا

    من معانيك تدرك الأفهام

    O revolutionary liberator, what

    of your meanings can minds grasp?

  20. لم يزل صوتك الندى كما كا

    ن وإن غاب وجهك البسام

    Your sweet voice remains as it was,

    though your ever-smiling face is gone.

  21. آه لو تستطاع رجعة ميت

    قبلما يؤذن الحياة الختام

    Ah, if only the dead could return

    before the end gives notice to life!

  22. لرأيت الذي غرست وقدآ

    تى ثمارا كأنها الأحلام

    You would see what you planted, now yielding

    fruits that seem like dreams.

  23. بلغت مرفأ الأمانيّ يا قا

    سم حواء والرياح جهام

    The harbor of hopes has been reached, O Qasim,

    by Eve, though the winds are rainless clouds.

  24. بلغته وحقّقت ما أرادت

    رغم ما أرصدت لها الأيام

    She reached it and achieved what she desired,

    despite what the days had readied for her.

  25. إنها أيها الحبيب كما شئ

    ت كفاح ويقظة واعتزام

    She is, beloved, as you wished:

    struggle, awakening, and resolve.

  26. باركتها هدى العظيمة حتى

    لقيت ربها عليها السلام

    Great Huda blessed her until

    she met her Lord—peace be upon her.

  27. ولدينا من روحها نفحات

    هن للنّيل صبوة وغرام

    And we have breaths of her spirit:

    they are yearning and passion for the Nile.

  28. لم يزل سيرها على وجهها الأه

    دى ومن حولها الصخور فئام

    Her progress still follows its best-guided course,

    while rocks crowd around her in throngs.

  29. حاربوها وما يزالون والمو

    كب يجرى وروحه الإقدام

    They fought her, and still do, while the procession

    moves on, its spirit daring.

  30. لست أدرى وليس غيري أدرى

    ما مدى ما يريده الأقوام

    I do not know, and none other knows better,

    how far the peoples' desires extend.

  31. أقيودا والكائنات انطلاق

    أم ركودا والعالمون اضطرام

    Fetters, while all beings break free?

    Or stagnation, while the worlds blaze?

  32. أم يقولون إن للدين حدّاً

    تحمد الحرب دونه والخصام

    Or do they say religion has a boundary

    in whose defense war and strife are praised?

  33. وهو الدين حجة الجهل إن خا

    ر وأعيا بيانه الإفحام

    And religion is ignorance's plea when it falters

    and refutation leaves it at a loss for words.

  34. أيها المرجفون قد ذهب الأم

    س وهل الضحى ومات الظلام

    O fearmongers, yesterday has passed,

    the morning has dawned, and darkness died.

  35. ولها حقّها الذي يدفع التا

    ريخ عنه والعقل والإسلام

    And she has her right, which history defends,

    along with reason and Islam.

  36. وغدٌ بيننا ومنه سندرى

    أحلال تحريرها أم حرام

    And tomorrow stands between us; from it we shall learn

    whether her liberation is lawful or forbidden.

  37. والأتيّ العالي من السيل لا يم

    نع تهداره حصى أو رجام

    And the towering, oncoming flood—neither

    pebbles nor great stones can stop its roar.