Sol 6.1

  1. Be early in bringing glad tidings to the land and her people

    of the great, auspicious one among her hopes,

  2. of the dutiful one among her sons, of the pure one among

    her branches, of the noble one among her lion cubs,

  3. of her prince, for whom lives are offered, of the star that

    Egypt watches over in the sky of her majesty.

  4. In every gathering is a festival brimming

    with her loyalty and the outward proofs she offers.

  5. Farouk, you came to her bearing the sacred title,

    amid the glory of her banner and the good fortune of her crescent.

  6. Throughout her lands, she hopes for and awaits from you

    what her heroes of old made everlasting.

  7. In the cradle, you are now acquainted with

    her current affairs and every aspect of her condition.

  8. Noble traits have appeared in your promising features, which

    entice those with hopes to hasten their fulfillment.

  9. You have arrived, and the days fulfill their promise, as

    your father and Egypt hope amid her prosperity.

  10. Through you his world became complete, and a pledge was made

    by the fates for its continuance after its completion.

  11. He receives messages from every kingdom, and stands among

    her proud ones, radiant, among those who glory in her.

  12. His palaces are fragrant with congratulations,

    and his pools overflow with their bounty.

  13. His mercies embraced the prisoner, in generosity

    and in your honor, and the anguished stranger.

  14. And peace lies beneath his splendor, and the people share

    the enjoyment he grants through his shade and hers.

  15. With your birth, hopes were born for his nation,

    and his throne beheld its great fulfillment.

  16. So on her pulpits sounds the salute of her fortresses,

    and on her minarets, the acclaim of her mountains.

  17. The gracious fatherhood you enjoy has been kind to Egypt

    from its beginning; to you falls its happy outcome.

  18. In the gladness of your face is the dawn of hopes for

    the freedom of the homelands and their independence.

  19. To the sons of Ali belong her crown and her banner,

    and they guarantee her existence and her beauty.

  20. The terrors of this land continue, and in

    your blessed tomorrow lies the end of her terrors.

  21. People are sick in their morals, and nothing

    cures them of these but replacing those morals.

  22. And the guardianship of destinies brings her to ruin,

    as long as the guards are among her ghouls.

  23. Nations do not exalt a man of wealth or a man of

    rank unless he remains among their servants,

  24. for the just decrees of their judgments

    and the long yet bounded span of their lives.

  25. So preserve Egypt's noble virtues among her neighbors,

    and safeguard Egypt's interests among her peers.

Sol 6.1