1. بصحتك الدهر والعافيهْ

    تجد لدولتك الراجيهْ

    May health be yours forever, and well-being

    be renewed for your hopeful state.

  2. تلقيت في مرض زائل

    حنواً هو الحجة الباقيه

    During a passing illness you received

    a tenderness that is the enduring proof.

  3. وما تشتكي بعدها علة

    فقد كانت العلة الشافيه

    After that you will suffer no ailment,

    for the illness itself was the cure.

  4. ولو لم يداوِك طب الأساة

    لنجتك نيتك الصافيه

    And had the physicians’ medicine not healed you,

    your pure intention would have saved you.

  5. سلمت لنفسك والأمتين

    ومملكة رحبة ناميه

    May you remain safe for yourself and the two nations,

    and a spacious, growing kingdom.

  6. وأصبح رأيك ملء البلاد

    ورأي المكابر في ناحيه

    Your view has come to fill the land,

    while the obstinate man’s view lies in a corner.

  7. تناولت طائفة سهلة

    لتمتلك الصعبة العاصيه

    You took an easy portion,

    to possess the difficult, defiant one.

  8. وإن لأسبابك المحكمات

    نتائجها النضرة الآتيه

    And indeed, your firmly wrought measures

    have their fresh results yet to come.

  9. ومن ملك الأنفس الطيبات

    فقد أمن الأنفس الباغيه

    Whoever wins good souls

    is safe from rebellious souls.

  10. ومن شك في الحق بعد العيان

    فقد شك في عينه الرائيه

    Whoever doubts the truth after witnessing it

    has doubted his own seeing eye.

  11. جزعت من الخلف بين الرجا

    ل في مصر والمحنة الفاشيه

    I was dismayed by the discord among the men

    in Egypt, and by the spreading ordeal.

  12. أفي حقلهم يتركون السباع

    ويقتتلون على الساقيه

    Do they leave beasts of prey in their field,

    and fight one another over the waterwheel?

  13. يعيب وزارتك الناقمو

    ن وهي على ما قضوا قاضيه

    The resentful men disparage your ministry,

    though its judgments follow what they decreed.

  14. وما هم عليها بمستنكرين

    سوى أنها منهمُ خاليه

    They find nothing objectionable in it

    except that it contains none of them.

  15. لسلطانهم أم لدستورها

    يثيرون أمتك الراضيه

    Is it for their power, or for its constitution,

    that they stir up your contented nation?

  16. وما طلبوا الحكم باسم الجها

    د إلا لدنياهم الفانيه

    They sought rule in the name of struggle

    only for their fleeting worldly ends.

  17. رعيت نصيبهمُ بينما

    يضيعون دعواهم الواهيه

    You safeguarded their share, while

    they squander their feeble claim.

  18. تولوا لأنفسهم هادمين

    غضاباً على يدك البانيه

    They took charge for themselves, tearing down,

    angry at your hand that builds.

  19. إذا ناوءوك وأنت المعين

    فماذا أعدوه للطاغيه

    If they oppose you while you are their helper,

    what, then, have they prepared for the tyrant?

  20. يقاضونك الآن ما صنته

    رتاء غريمهم الداهيه

    They now sue you over what you safeguarded,

    [Unclear word] of their wily adversary.

  21. وعاد الرسول فكيف انتهت

    إلى القوم رحلته الشاكيه

    And the envoy returned—how did

    his journey of complaint turn out for the people?

  22. إباء على الخصم أم رجعة

    إلى أنه الدولة الحاميه

    Defiance of the adversary, or a return

    to regarding it as the protecting power?

  23. سعِ المرجفين وما أولوا

    وصابرهمُ مرة ثانيه

    Be forbearing toward the alarmists and what they have dealt out,

    and bear patiently with them once again.

  24. فإنهمُ صحبك الأولون

    وإن جاوزوك إلى الهاويه

    For they are your earliest companions,

    even if they go beyond you into the abyss.

  25. وإنك منهم لهم راحم

    وإن أصبحوا الفئة الجافيه

    And you, one of them, are merciful toward them,

    even if they have become the unfeeling faction.

  26. وأنت على حالة مكره

    هي العظة المُرَّة القاسيه

    And you are forced into a situation

    that is a bitter, harsh lesson.

  27. وأولى بعزمك في الواديي

    نِ حمل جبالهما الراسيه

    And more fitting for your resolve in the two valleys

    would be bearing their firmly rooted mountains.

  28. عساه دلال عليك الذي

    ترى أو مساومة خافيه

    Perhaps it is coyness toward you, this thing

    you see—or covert bargaining.

  29. أؤيد حزبك فيما أفاد

    وأنصر شيعتك الهاديه

    I support your party in the good it does,

    and champion your rightly guiding followers.

  30. وما كنت أحسب أن السلا

    م حرب على الصحف الهاجيه

    And I never thought that peace

    was war upon the satirical newspapers.

  31. فلا وجد العيش في قومه

    فتى بجراحهمُ الداميه

    So may no young man find a living among his people

    through their bleeding wounds.

  32. جمعت من الدهر في قريتي

    حياة الحضارة والباديه

    In my village I gathered from time

    the life of civilization and the desert.

  33. أطل من الكون في موضعي

    على كل رائحة غاديه

    From my place within the universe I look out

    upon all that goes at evening and sets out at dawn.

  34. وأشهد في الأرض حكم السماء

    وألقى مقاديرها الجاريه

    And I witness on earth the decree of heaven,

    and encounter its destinies as they run their course.

  35. وما مبدئي في مهب الريا

    ح سوق ولا أدبي عاريه

    My principle, amid the blowing winds,

    is no marketplace, nor is my writing borrowed.

  36. وما أنا مستقبل في غد

    جوائز أياميَ الماضيه

    Nor shall I receive tomorrow

    rewards for my bygone days.

  37. ولو أنني أستغل الهوى

    لكان وسيلتيَ الوافيه

    And if I were to exploit desire,

    it would be my all-sufficient means.

  38. ولو أنني أتقاضى الجزاء

    لكنت أميراً ولي حاشيه

    And if I were to claim recompense,

    I would be a prince, with a retinue.

  39. وإن لم أكن علماً في الحمى

    فإني ضحيته الفاديه

    And though I may not be a banner in the homeland,

    yet I am its redeeming sacrifice.

  40. فمن لي بعون على ما أريد

    من الدعوة الحرة الداويه

    Who, then, will help me achieve what I seek

    through the free, resounding call?

  41. لعلي أرى ألفة تجمع ال

    قلوب على الغاية القاصيه

    Perhaps I shall see a concord that unites

    hearts around the distant goal.

  42. وحسبيَ حرية الأمتي

    نِ وهي المقدسة الغاليه

    And enough for me is the freedom of the two nations,

    sacred and precious as it is.