ديار الهوى حيا معالمك

ديار الهوى حيا معالمك

وجادك النور الناصر الغدق الهمر

وجادك النور الناصر الغدق الهمر

Abodes of love, may your landmarks be greeted,

The abodes of love, your landmarks are alive

and may the Light, the Helper, shower you with copious, pouring bounty.

And your generosity brightens you, oh splendid Egypt

به رجعت في عنفوان شبابها

به رجعت في عنفوان شبابها

ونضرتها من بعد ما هرمت مصر

ونضرتها من بعد ما هرمت مصر

Through him she returned to the prime of her youth

With it you returned in your youthful prime

and her bloom, after Egypt had grown old.

And it revived you after Egypt grew old

وكم خاطب ردته لم يك كفأها

وكم خاطب ردته لم يك كفأها

إلى أن أتاها خاطب سيفه المهر

إلى أن أتاها خاطب سيفه المهر

Many a suitor she rejected, for he was not her equal,

And how many suitors you rejected for not matching you

until a suitor came to her whose sword was the bridal dower.

Until the suitor with the sharp sword came to you

حماها حمى الليث العرين وصانها

حماها حمى الليث العرين وصانها

كما صان عينا من ملم القذى شفر

كما صان عينا من ملم القذى شفر

He guarded her as a lion guards its lair, and shielded her,

He protected it like a lion protects its den and guarded it

as an eyelid’s rim shields an eye from the intrusion of grit.

As an eyelid guards the eye from specks of dust

وكان بها بحر أجاج فأصبحت

وكان بها بحر أجاج فأصبحت

ومن جوده العذب النمير بها بحر

ومن جوده العذب النمير بها بحر

Within her lay a bitter, briny sea; now she has

It was a turbulent sea, but it became

a sea within her drawn from his sweet, pure bounty.

From his sweet generosity, a placid sea