1. يَا مصرُ ما دُرتِ في وهْمِي ولا خَلَدي

    ولا أجَالَتْكِ خَلْواتِي بأفكاري

    O Egypt, you never passed through my imagination or my mind,

    nor did my hours of solitude bring you into my thoughts.

  2. ما أنتِ أوّلُ أرضٍ مسَّ تُربَتَها

    جسمي ولا فيكِ أوطانِي وأوطارِي

    You are not the first land whose soil was touched

    by my body, nor are my homelands and my desires in you.

  3. لكن إذا حُمَّتِ الأقدارُ كان لها

    قُوَىً تُؤلِّفُ بين الماءِ والنّارِ

    But when fate is decreed, it has

    powers that bring water and fire together.