1. يقين البلاد وإيمانَها

    ملكتَ فأيَّدت سلطانَها

    The country's confidence and its faith—

    you won them, and strengthened its sovereignty.

  2. بنيت لها الدار ميمونة

    وقد جئت تختار سكانها

    You built it an auspicious house,

    and came to choose its inhabitants,

  3. معزاً كراسيها بعد ما

    جعلت الكفايات أثمانها

    ennobling its seats, after

    making competence their price.

  4. وآثرت للأمة المصلحين

    يقيمون في الأرض ميزانها

    And you chose reformers for the nation,

    who uphold its scales of justice on earth.

  5. وبلغك الملك المفتدى

    برضوانه عنك رضوانها

    And the king, for whom lives would be given, conveyed to you

    the nation's approval through his own approval of you.

  6. وسرت برحلته في الصعيد

    تبشر مصر وسودانها

    And you traveled on his tour through Upper Egypt,

    bringing glad tidings to Egypt and its Sudan.

  7. وزاد المطاف بتلك البقا

    عِ رغد البقاع وعمرانها

    And the tour through those regions increased

    the lands' prosperity and their development.

  8. فإن أعجبته احتفالاتها

    فقد نالها منك ما زانها

    So if its celebrations delighted him,

    it had received from you what adorned it.

  9. ضمنت لحزبك في الدولة ال

    مآل وعالجت غضبانها

    You secured for your party, within the state, its

    future, and dealt with its angry one.

  10. خلت يده في مقاليدها

    فعاد عدواً لمن صانها

    His hand had no hold on its reins,

    so he became an enemy of the one who guarded it.

  11. أمانة قومك أديتها

    وجاء يصدُّك من خانها

    You discharged the trust of your people,

    and the one who betrayed it came to bar your way.

  12. وما يستطيع عصى أو أطاع

    زيادة حال ونقصانها

    And, whether he disobeys or obeys, he cannot

    improve a situation or worsen it.

  13. فما للعشيرة بعد الودا

    د باتت تقاطع إخوانها

    What ails the clan, that after affection

    it now severs ties with its brothers?

  14. وعاتبتها وهي تشكو إلى

    عداها جواها وأشجانها

    And you reproached it, while it poured out to

    its enemies its heartache and its sorrows.

  15. وتأسى على الأمر وهي التي

    أرادت من الأمر حرمانها

    And it grieves over power, though it was the one

    that wanted its own exclusion from power.

  16. ومن عجب أن تهون النسور

    فتتبع في مصر غربانها

    And how strange that eagles should sink so low

    as to follow Egypt's crows.

  17. ويلقى المساءة من لم يسئ

    فيسألها اليوم غفرانها

    And one who did no wrong meets ill-treatment,

    then today he asks its forgiveness.

  18. وينسى الذي عده أمسه

    عليها ويطلب نسيانها

    And he forgets what his yesterday reckoned

    against it, and asks it to forget.

  19. وأنت القدير على شيعة

    تزيد أناتُك عدوانها

    And you have power over a faction

    whose aggression your forbearance increases.

  20. وتحصي عليك خطوب الزمان

    وإن لقيت منك معوانها

    And it counts against you the calamities of time,

    even though it has found in you its ready helper.

  21. تولت بقربانها للغريم

    نفاقاً فلم يرض قربانها

    It turned to the adversary with its offering

    in hypocrisy, but he would not accept its offering.

  22. ولما صبرت على شيبها

    مضوا بك يغرون شبانها

    And when you bore patiently with its graybeards,

    they went on inciting its young men against you.

  23. فإن ذهب اليوم ميدانها

    فقد خسرت أمس فرسانها

    So if its arena is gone today,

    then it had already lost its horsemen yesterday.

  24. ولم يبق إلا أراجيفها

    تفسر للناس أضغانها

    And nothing remains but its false rumors,

    revealing its grudges to the people.

  25. وما هي إلا ذئاب البلا

    د صارت ببأسك قطعانها

    And they are only the wolves of the land,

    turned by your might into its flocks.

  26. وما أنت إلا رسول الزمان

    إلى مصر تهدم أوثانها

    And you are only time's messenger

    to Egypt, demolishing its idols.

  27. غزوت عقائدها فانثنت

    إليك وغيرت أذهانها

    You assailed its beliefs, and it turned

    toward you; and you changed its minds.

  28. وأكبر من فاتح الحصن من

    يعيد إلى النفس وجدانها

    And greater than the conqueror of a fortress is one

    who restores to the soul its inner awareness.

  29. ولا بد للرهط من رجعة

    إليك وإن خاف إعلانها

    And the band has no choice but to return

    to you, even if it fears announcing it.

  30. حكمت وللحكم شجعانه

    كما أن للحرب شجعانها

    You have governed; governance has its brave men,

    just as war has its brave men.

  31. وألزمت عهدك في الأمتي

    نِ عدل السماء وإحسانها

    And you bound your rule in the two nations

    to heaven's justice and its beneficence.

  32. سترسو السفينة معتزة

    وقد حمد الركب ربانها

    The ship will anchor proudly,

    its passengers having praised its captain.

  33. وإن القضية موكولةٌ

    لمن ملك اليوم برهانها

    And the cause is indeed entrusted

    to the one who holds its proof today.