1. لحظها لحظها رويدا رويدا

    كم إلى كم تكيد للروح كيدا

    Her glance, her glance—gently, gently!

    How long, how long will you plot against the soul?

  2. هذه مصر جاءها الدهر يسعى

    وهو يا طالما جفاها وصدّا

    This is Egypt: Time has come hastening to her,

    Though, oh, how often it shunned her and turned away!

  3. ليس للدهر من وفاء ولكن

    هاب فيها العباس أن يستبدّا

    Time has no loyalty, yet

    Within her it feared Abbas and dared not tyrannize.

  4. صاحب النيل في البرية إيه

    حرّر النيل للبرية وردا

    Master of the Nile among mankind, go on!

    Free the Nile as a watering place for mankind.

  5. وارفع الصوت إن عصرك حر

    لن يرى من سماع صوتك بدّا

    And raise your voice: your age is free;

    It will have no choice but to hear your voice.

  6. إنما الملك أن تكون بلاد

    وتصيب البلاد بالملك مجدا

    Kingship means that there be a country,

    And that the country gain glory through kingship.

  7. فتول الذي سننت ونجِّح

    لرعاياك في المعارف قصدا

    So oversee what you have instituted, and fulfill

    For your subjects an aim in learning.

  8. ومر العلم أن يزور بلادا

    عهدتها له الخلائق مهدا

    And bid science visit a land

    That mankind has known as its cradle.

  9. واقدح الكهرباء فيه لتهدى

    وأقمها على البخار لتندى

    And kindle electricity within it, so she may be guided;

    And set her upon steam, so she may be watered.

  10. وأجلُ بأس الحديد فيها وجدّد

    عهد بنّائها الذي كان عهدا

    And display the might of iron within her, and renew

    The age of her builder, which was an age indeed.

  11. وأدع سودانها إليك يلبى

    إنه كان للأعزة عبدا

    And call her Sudan to you: it will answer.

    Indeed, it was a slave to the mighty.

  12. حسبه حسبه كفاه كفاه

    ما يراه العزيز عظما وجلدا

    Enough for it, enough! It has had enough, enough,

    Of the mighty one seeing it as bone and skin.

  13. قل لراج أن يسترق يراعى

    أنا لا أشترى بذا التاج قيدا

    Tell one who hopes to enslave my reed pen:

    I do not buy a shackle with this crown.

  14. نومة السيف قد تكون حياة

    ورأيت اليراع إن نام أردى

    The sword's sleep may mean life;

    And I have seen that the reed pen, if it sleeps, brings death.