1. تمضي بميثاق السلام وترجعُ

    ومصيرها فيما تريد وتصنعُ

    You go forth with a covenant of peace and return,

    and her destiny lies in what you wish and do.

  2. هذا لواؤك والعوالي شرَّع

    تلقي التحية والمواضي لمَّعُ

    This is your banner, and the lances stand raised;

    you offer your greeting, while keen swords gleam.

  3. ويكاد جيشك أن يطير حماسة

    لو لم ترضْه بلابل لك تسجع

    Your army would almost take wing with ardor,

    were it not tamed by nightingales warbling to you.

  4. الأرض ممرعة لعودك نضرة

    والجو مؤتلق به متضوّع

    The earth is lush and fresh for your return,

    and the air is radiant with it, breathing fragrance.

  5. مدت مواكبَها إليك مدائنٌ

    كانت تبث حنينها وترجِّع

    Cities have stretched their processions out toward you,

    having poured forth and echoed their longing.

  6. عيد الجهاد إلى إيابك غانماً

    زلفى تقرُّ بها البلاد وترفع

    The festival of struggle, alongside your return with gains,

    is a tribute that gladdens and exalts the land.

  7. وأجل ما تلقى قلوب خشّعٌ

    لجلال ذاتك لا رقاب خضّع

    And the noblest welcome you receive is reverent hearts,

    before the majesty of your person, not submissive necks.

  8. زرت الممالك حافلات تقتني

    منها حضارتها لمصر وتجمع

    You visited bustling kingdoms, acquiring

    their civilization for Egypt and gathering it.

  9. وأمد ركبك في الرحيل مباركاً

    قدرٌ لأمرك مثل شعبك طيِّع

    And your caravan was aided on its journey, with blessings,

    by fate, as obedient to your command as your people.

  10. صحبته حولك مصر في تاريخها

    واستقبل القوم الزمان وشيعوا

    Egypt, with her history, accompanied it around you;

    and the people welcomed Time and bade it farewell.

  11. إن كرَّموك فقد أتم جزاءهم

    مما ملكت تفضُّلٌ وتبرُّع

    If they honored you, their recompense was paid in full

    by gracious bounty and gifts from what you possessed.

  12. وأتى الرواة بما أراح ضمائراً

    كانت تحن إلى الرواة وتفزع

    The news-bearers brought what eased hearts

    that had yearned for them and turned to them for reassurance.

  13. يطرون رفقك بالأحبة والعدى

    والحرب أمس تهدُّهم وتصدع

    They praise your gentleness toward loved ones and enemies,

    while war yesterday was crushing and shattering them.

  14. صدقت نوى فيها امتحنت سرائراً

    لمشوِّقين أبيت أن يتوجعوا

    Separation proved true; through it you tested the inmost feelings

    of those who stir longing, whom you refused to let suffer.

  15. جددت فيها صحة هي صحة

    للشعب وارتاح الفؤاد المولع

    There you restored your health—the very health

    of the people—and the devoted heart found rest.

  16. وكأنما شهد الذي شاهدته

    من كان يقرأ عنك أمس ويسمع

    It was as though what you witnessed had been seen

    by whoever read and heard about you yesterday.

  17. مثلتَ كل الشرق فيك فأذعن ال

    باغي له وتواضع المترفع

    You embodied all the East in yourself; so bowed the

    aggressor before it, and the haughty one humbled himself.

  18. وبلغت من دنياك خير متاعها

    وأخذت تدرك أمَّتيك وتمتع

    You attained the finest enjoyment of your worldly life,

    and set about aiding your two nations and bringing them joy.

  19. حق عليك لمصر كان قضاؤه

    سبباً لما تنوي لمصر وتزمع

    It was a duty you owed Egypt; its fulfillment

    prepared the way for what you intend and plan for Egypt.

  20. أي الملوك ترى له العز الذي

    لك منه تعطي ما تشاء وتمنع

    Which king, do you think, possesses the glory

    that is yours, from which you give and withhold as you will?

  21. واديك وهو المدرك استقلاله

    بسوى مدى آماله لا يقنع

    Your valley, having attained its independence,

    is content with nothing short of the full reach of its hopes.

  22. وإذا القلوب على الرجاء تألفت

    قويت على حمل الجبال الأذرع

    When hearts unite in hope,

    arms grow strong enough to bear mountains.

  23. والعهد ليس على اللسان سجلُّه

    لكنه ما تحتويه الأضلع

    A covenant's record is not upon the tongue,

    but is what the ribs hold within.

  24. وكفالة الإنسان عند زمانه

    ما يصنع الإنسان فيه ويزرع

    A person's surety before his age

    is what he does and sows within it.

  25. والمستعد لحقه المحتوم لا

    يمضي على مهل ولا يتزعزع

    One prepared to claim his assured right does not

    proceed at leisure or waver.

  26. إن الذي أعيا القلوب مراسه

    متأهبٌ للقاء ما يتوقع

    He whose tenacity has wearied hearts

    stands ready to face what he expects.

  27. هل ينثني جبروته بعد الذي

    وصلت إليه دماؤه والأدمع

    Will his might bend after all that

    his blood and tears have attained?

  28. ولع بذكرى أمسه مستوثق

    باليوم فهو إلى غد متطلع

    Enamored of yesterday's memory, confident

    in today, he looks toward tomorrow.

  29. سقت اليقين إلى نواحي أمة

    لم يبق فيها من مريب موضع

    You brought certainty to the quarters of a nation

    in which no room remained for anything doubtful.

  30. أنت المعيد إلى الغضاب صوابهم

    من بعد ما فقدوا الصواب وضيعوا

    You restore good sense to the angry,

    after they had lost and squandered their sense.

  31. ود النظير إلى النظير فلم يكن

    للقوم إلا في جميلك مطمع

    A peer's affection for a peer; the people had

    no hope except in your gracious favor.

  32. ما حمَّلوك العهد وهو ممكن

    إلا وأنت به الأعز الأرفع

    They entrusted you with the covenant, attainable as it was,

    only with you made mightiest and most exalted by it.

  33. وإذا همُ حرصوا عليك فإنما

    حرصوا على ملك يضر وينفع

    If they have cherished you, they have only

    cherished a king who can harm and help.

  34. ومن التجاريب التي لهمُ إلى

    أجل على مصر الشروط الأربع

    Among their trials, imposed until

    a set term upon Egypt, are the four conditions.

  35. فإذا احترست لها فتلك سلامة

    وإذا استهان الشعب فهي المصرع

    If you guard against them, therein lies safety;

    if the people take them lightly, they spell destruction.

  36. إنْ أكبر الوادي رزيئته التي

    وقعت ففي يدك العزاء الأوقع

    If the valley finds grievous the bereavement that

    befell it, in your hand lies the most moving consolation.

  37. وإن اختفت شمس عن الوادي ضحَى

    يومٍ فأنت لكل شمس يوشع

    If a sun vanished from the valley in the forenoon

    of one day, you are a Joshua to every sun.

  38. ولئن مضى بطل فكل من اقتدى

    فيها بذكراه أشد وأشجع

    Though a hero has passed, whoever follows

    his remembered example there is stronger and braver.

  39. أوصى إليك بحب مصر وشعبها

    إرث الأبرِّ تزيده وتوسع

    He bequeathed you love of Egypt and her people,

    the most dutiful man's legacy, which you increase and enlarge.

  40. أهلاً بود غريمها إن لم يكن

    بخفيَّةٍ يصل الوداد ويقطع

    Welcome her adversary's affection, provided he does not

    secretly bind and sever the bonds of friendship.

  41. ترك العتاب ولج في أعذاره

    وكأنه بك عائذ مستشفع

    He abandoned reproach and persisted in his excuses,

    as though seeking refuge and intercession with you.

  42. لم تأب يوماً مصر من ذي قوة

    عهد الحليف وأنها لا تخدع

    Egypt has never refused from any mighty power

    an ally's covenant—and she is not deceived.

  43. ما نقضه يوماً ولا إبرامه

    في الأرض بالقَدر الذي لا يدفع

    Neither its breaking nor its ratification, at any time,

    is, on earth, a fate that cannot be averted.

  44. ما للبحيرة لا تجاوب سائلاً

    عما رواه الخصم والمتشيع

    Why does the lake not answer the questioner

    about what the adversary and partisan have reported?

  45. نبأ تهدد طامعاً في غنمه

    وتناول السمع البريء يروع

    News that threatened one who coveted its spoils,

    and reached the innocent ear, terrifying it.

  46. أننازع الجار القديم الأمر أم

    نشكو إلى الجار الجديد ونضرع

    Shall we dispute the matter with the old neighbor, or

    complain to the new neighbor and plead?

  47. ولعلها إحدى الأراجيف التي

    أوحى الوشاة بخلقها وتذرعوا

    Perhaps it is one of those false rumors

    whose fabrication the slanderers prompted and used as a pretext.

  48. لا النيل عن مجراه منصرف ولا

    ذاك المصب مُحوَّل والمنبع

    The Nile will not turn away from its course, nor

    will that mouth or the source be moved.

  49. لو لم يقدره لمصر محيطه

    ما كان للأنواء فيه موقع

    Had its surroundings not destined it for Egypt,

    the rainstorms would have had no part in it.

  50. فيض السماء فما يباع ويُشترَى

    يوماً وأنت تكيله وتوزع

    Heaven's outpouring—it is neither sold nor bought

    on any day, while you measure it out and distribute it.

  51. أحكمته خلف السدود خزائناً

    وعدلت وهو جداول تتفرع

    You secured it behind the dams as reserves,

    and dealt justly as it branched into channels.

  52. وضمنت للعمران منه نصيبه

    والقفر يرقب قسطه والبلقع

    You guaranteed settled land its share of it,

    while desert and barren waste await their portion.

  53. لك أن توفي أمّتيك رعاية

    ولحكمك الملك الذي لا ينزع

    It is yours to give your two nations full care,

    and to your rule belongs dominion that cannot be wrested away.

  54. هل تستريح من العناء ممالِكٌ

    يوماً ويعصي مطلقيه المدفع

    Will kingdoms find respite from suffering

    one day, and will the cannon defy those who fire it?

  55. ما ضاقت الأرض العريضة بالذي

    حملت وفي الأرض المروِّي المُشبِع

    The wide earth has not grown too cramped for what

    it has borne; the earth holds what quenches thirst and stills hunger.

  56. إرث العباد المصلحين وخلدهم

    وهي المجال الرحب وهي المرتع

    The inheritance and eternal home of those who set things right,

    it is the spacious arena, it is the pasture.

  57. عرفوا الحياة فأمعنوا فيها ولو

    وجدوا سوى الدنيا إليه أسرعوا

    They knew life and plunged into it; had they

    found anything beyond this world, they would have hastened to it.

  58. من فضل ما هم فيه من حرية

    ما حصلوه من الوجود وأبدعوا

    Among the blessings of the freedom they enjoy

    is all they have gained from existence and created.

  59. لولا اقتداء الشعب منك بصالح

    ما قومته شريعة ومشرِّع

    Were it not that the people follow your righteous example,

    neither law nor lawgiver could have set them right.

  60. المجد مكفول إليه تقوده

    والجد تجبله عليه وتطبع

    Glory is assured; you lead them toward it,

    and mold and shape them for earnest endeavor.

  61. اليوم ساجل جودك الفياض في

    واديك نيلك وهو طلق مترع

    Today your overflowing generosity was rivaled, in

    your valley, by your Nile, free-flowing and brimful.

  62. طابت بعاصمتيك نفسك واستوى

    لك فيهما المصطاف والمتربع

    Your heart was at ease in your two capitals, and equally pleasant

    were summer and spring retreats for you in them.

  63. والشرق يرقب أن تزور ربوعه

    والشرق أقرب من سواه وأتبع

    The East awaits your visit to its lands,

    and the East is nearer than all else, and readier to follow.

  64. وكأنما جدواك وهي دعاية

    في كل ناحية خطيب مصقع

    It is as though your bounty, itself a proclamation,

    were an eloquent orator in every quarter.

  65. ملأ البلادَ العاملون وإنني

    في العاملين الزاهد المتورع

    Workers have filled the land, and I,

    among the workers, am the self-denying, scrupulous one.

  66. حسب الحمى والنيل أني فدية

    لهما وحسبي منه ما أتجرع

    Enough for the homeland and the Nile that I am a sacrifice

    for them both; what I sip from it is enough for me.