1. بالملكِ النَاصرِ استنارتْ

    في عصرنا أَوجهُ الفضائلْ

    Through King al-Nasir have shone

    In our age the faces of the virtues.

  2. عليَّ من حقِّهِ فروضٌ

    شكراً لما جادَ من نوافلْ

    His rightful due lays duties upon me,

    In gratitude for his freely bestowed favors.

  3. يوسفُ مصرَ الذي إليهِ

    تشدُّ آمالنا الرَّواحْ

    Yusuf of Egypt, toward whom

    Our hopes hasten on their journey.

  4. أَجريتَ نيلينِ في ثراها

    نيلَ نجيعٍ ونيلَ نائلْ

    You set two Niles flowing in her soil:

    A Nile of gore and a Nile of bounty.

  5. رأيكَ في الدَّهرِ عن رزايا

    جلا مهماته الجلائلْ

    Your judgment, amid the age's calamities,

    Has dispelled its mighty cares.

  6. كم كرمٍ من نداكَ حارٍ

    وكم دمٍ من عداك سائلْ

    How much generosity is bewildered by your bounty,

    And how much blood flows from your enemies!

  7. وكم معادٍ بلا معادٍ

    ومستطيلٍ بغيرِ طائلْ

    And how many a foe without return,

    And an overbearing man without success,

  8. وحاسدٍ كاسدِ المساعي

    وسائدٍ ناطقِ الوسائلْ

    And an envier whose endeavors fail,

    And a lord whose means speak for him!

  9. أَقررتَ عين الإسلام حتى

    لم يبقَ فيها قذىً لباطلْ

    You gladdened Islam's eye until

    No mote of falsehood remained in it.

  10. وكيف يزهى بملكِ مصر

    من يستقل ذنباً لنائلْ

    And how can one glory in ruling Egypt

    Who takes sin lightly for the sake of gain?

  11. وما نفيتَ السُّودانَ حتى

    حُكمِّتِ البيضُ في المقاتلْ

    You did not banish the Black troops until

    The white blades were made judges over their vital parts.

  12. صيرتَ رحبَ الفضاءِ ضيقاً

    عليهمُ كفة لحابلْ

    You made the broad expanse narrow

    Around them—a trapper's snare.

  13. وكلُّ رأي منهم كراءٍ

    وأرضُ مصر كلام واصلْ

    And every opinion of theirs is like the letter rāʾ,

    And Egypt's land is Wasil's speech.

  14. وقد خَلتْ منهمُ المغاني

    وأَقفرتْ منهمُ المنازلْ

    Already the haunts stand empty of them,

    And the dwellings lie deserted without them.

  15. وما أُصيبوا إلاّ بطلٍّ

    فكيف لو أُمطروا بوابلْ

    They were struck by no more than a drizzle;

    What, then, if a downpour had rained upon them?

  16. وقد تجلّى بالحقِّ ما بال

    باطل في مصر كان عاجلْ

    And through truth has come to light what, through

    Falsehood, had swiftly arisen in Egypt.

  17. والسُّودُ بالبيضِ قد أُبيحوا

    فهي بَوَازٍ بهم نوازلْ

    And the Black troops were made prey to the white blades:

    Thus they are hawks swooping down upon them.

  18. مؤتمنُ القومِ خانَ حتى

    غالتْهُ من شرِّه غوائلْ

    The people's Mu'taman betrayed his trust, until

    Deadly calamities born of his wickedness destroyed him.

  19. عاملكُمْ بالخنا فأضحى

    ورأْسُه فوقَ رأْسِ عاملْ

    He treated you with vileness, then found himself

    With his head above a spear's point.

  20. وحالف الذُّل بعد عزٍّ

    والدَّهرُ أحواله حوائلْ

    And he allied himself with humiliation after honor;

    Time's fortunes are ever changing.

  21. يا مخجلَ البحرِ بالأيادي

    قد آن أن تُفتحَ السواحلْ

    O you whose bounty puts the sea to shame,

    The time has come for the coasts to be conquered.

  22. فَقدِّس القدسَ من خباثٍ

    أرجاس كفر غُتم أراذل

    So purify Jerusalem of the vile—

    Filthy unbelievers, uncouth and base.