زهورَ البلاد اليوم أبطالَها غداً
عليكم سلام اللّه يا أيها الصحبُ
The land’s flowers today, its heroes tomorrow—
O flowers of the land today, its heroes tomorrow,
God’s peace be upon you, companions!
God's peace be upon you, O companions.
سروركم بالعام بشرى بأنه
ليصحبكم لا خوف فيه ولا جدب
Your joy in the year is glad tidings that it
Your joy in the year is glad tidings that it
will attend you, free of fear and drought.
Will indeed accompany you, with neither fear nor drought in it.
رضيتم عن الأيام والصلحُ بينها
وبينكم أن لا يعود لها ذنب
You are reconciled with the days, and the pact between them
You are content with the days; the terms of peace between them
and you is that no wrong of theirs shall recur.
And you are that they shall do no wrong again.
لئن سرني أن يسقيَ النيل غرسكم
وتجمعكم آمالكم فيه والحب
If I rejoiced that the Nile should water your planting,
Though it gladdened me that the Nile waters your plantings,
and that your hopes and love should unite you there,
And your hopes in it and love unite you,
فقد ساءني أني تخلفت عنكمُ
كمن تاه في بيداء غادرها الركب
it grieved me that I remained behind, away from you,
It saddened me that I have fallen behind you,
like one lost in a wilderness from which the caravan has departed.
Like one lost in a desert the caravan has left.
وأصبحت إن أهممْ لقومي بصالح
عساني أوفِّي دينهم خفق القلب
Now, whenever I contemplate some good for my people,
And now, if I plan some good for my people,
hoping to repay my debt to them, my heart throbs.
Hoping to repay my debt to them, my heart flutters.
وتدفعني النجوى ويجذبني الأسى
فما ساقني دفعٌ ولا ردني جذب
My inmost voice drives me, while sorrow draws me back;
And inner whisperings urge me on, while sorrow pulls me back,
yet no push has driven me on, nor any pull turned me back.
Yet no push has driven me onward, nor any pull turned me back.
عتبتم ولو تدرون حال وفيِّكم
لكان على الأقدار ذلكمُ العتب
You reproached me—but if you knew your faithful friend’s plight,
You reproached me; but if you knew your faithful friend's condition,
that reproach of yours would fall upon the Fates.
That reproach would fall upon fate.
ولست بمستشف بيأسٍ من المنى
وإن عجزت عني المواساة والطب
I do not seek a cure by despairing of my hopes,
And I seek no healing by giving up my hopes,
though consolation and medicine are powerless to help me.
Even if consolation and medicine fail me.
يعزُّ على الأحرار أن لا تهزهم
بغير الشكايات الرسائل والكتب
It grieves free men that they are never stirred
It pains free men that they are stirred
by letters and books except through complaints.
By letters and books with nothing but complaints.
متى يرعوي الباغي علينا وينتهي
ويصبح حزب المخلصين هو الحزب
When will the aggressor against us come to his senses and desist,
When will our oppressor relent and desist,
and the party of the devoted become the true Party?
And the party of the sincere become the preeminent party?
قصارى جهادي أن أرى مصر حرة
ولا زلزلت أرضٌ ولا وقعت حرب
The utmost aim of my struggle is to see Egypt free,
The utmost aim of my struggle is to see Egypt free,
with no land convulsed and no war breaking out.
With no land shaken and no war breaking out.
Sol 6.1