1. Consult your party about what you do.

    And unite opinion around what you hope to achieve.

  2. And hear the counsel, whether born of conviction or desire.

    The judgment is yours: to affirm what is right or wrong.

  3. Your party is the nation, embodied in its free people.

    And on its free people you rely.

  4. The state approves what they approve, and

    The state rejects what they reject.

  5. The hour of decision—how momentous it is!

    Egypt has reached it among the things it must face.

  6. For it awaits what it chooses,

    And a momentous destiny awaits it.

  7. The mighty one came to you, laying down his charge.

    And you bore that charge among all you bore,

  8. Leaving fifty years behind him,

    Whose grudges and rancor fade away.

  9. And he upheld the right that

    God’s books insisted on and the messengers proclaimed.

  10. So great was it that even

    All time, let alone eternity, could not encompass its breadth.

  11. And you took up what

    The first martyrs had prepared for your hands.

  12. You preserved for the worker what he had contributed,

    And readied yourself to complete it for him.

  13. And you overlooked what you yourself had given,

    While remembering what your companions had given.

  14. And you were gracious, leaving no one who

    Complains an excuse to claim.

  15. Let an objector say what he wishes,

    And let a supporter say what he wishes.

  16. Nothing happens except what you will, and

    All paths lead only to you.

  17. What doubt is there about the one you dismissed,

    After the nations had praised him?

  18. The throne welcomed it with delight,

    And the people went on celebrating it.

  19. Your sound resolve left a greater mark

    In the matter where stratagems had failed you.

  20. You know best, in what you have undertaken,

    How afflictions arise and how they are treated.

  21. Even one who opposed you unjustly nearly found guidance,

    And one who had turned away in error began to understand.

  22. And you have the authority to protect a hope

    That you, its wise and heroic builder, have raised.

Sol 6