1. بِالبشر وَالحَظ تَبدو غرّة العامِ

    وَطالع السَعد في إِقباله السامي

    With joy and good fortune appear the year's bright brow

    And fortune's rising star at its exalted advent.

  2. وَبالمسرّات وَافانا مبشِّرُهُ

    إِن العَزيز لفي عز وَإِقدام

    And with joys its herald has come to us:

    Indeed, al-Aziz stands in might and bold resolve.

  3. مليكنا من بِهِ الأَيّام آمنة

    مِن كُل جُور بعدلٍ غَيثُه هامي

    Our king, through whom the days are safe

    From all oppression, through justice whose rain pours down.

  4. وَالقطر في بَهجة يُبدي تمدّنه

    شكراً لما عَمَّه مِن بَحره الطامي

    And the land, rejoicing, displays its civilization,

    In gratitude for all that has flooded it from his overflowing sea.

  5. فَكَم لسدّته العَلياء مِن منن

    عَلى الأَنام وَإِحسان وَإِكرام

    And how many favors his exalted throne has bestowed

    Upon mankind—what kindness and honor!

  6. مازالَ يُسدي البَرايا بحرُه درراً

    حَتّى غَدا وَاسمه علم لإنعام

    His sea has ever bestowed pearls upon mankind,

    Until it and his name became a byword for bounty.

  7. يا بَيت ملكٍ أَعز اللَه دَولتَه

    وَظل يَسمو بإِتقان وَإحكام

    O royal house—may God exalt its dominion,

    And may it keep rising through mastery and precision.

  8. ما حلّ إِسمك في الأَرجا يعطرها

    إِلا وقامَت عَلى سوق وَأقدام

    Never does your name alight in the lands, perfuming them,

    But they rise upon their legs and feet.

  9. بَيت سَما قَدره وَالسَعد خادِمُه

    وَالنَصر يَسعى بِراياتٍ وَأَعلام

    A house whose rank has soared, with good fortune its servant,

    And victory hastens with banners and standards.

  10. عَزيزنا البَدر وَالأَنجال أَنجمُه

    ما مِنهُمُ غَير معطاء وَمقدام

    Our Aziz is the full moon, and his sons are its stars;

    None among them is anything but generous and intrepid.

  11. سُلالة الملك مَن أَمسى يُضارعهم

    أَصلاً تَحلّى بِإِجلال وَإِعظام

    Royal scions—who has ever rivaled them

    In lineage adorned with reverence and veneration?

  12. أَيامنا بِمضا أَحكامهم سعدت

    أَوقاتُها فَغَدَت مِن خَير أَيام

    Our days, through the enforcement of their decrees, were blessed

    In their hours, and so became among the finest days.

  13. يَهنا المَليكُ بِهم في أُنسِ عزته

    وَيبلغ القَصد في تَنفيذ أَحكام

    May the king delight in them, in the comfort of his glory,

    And attain his aim in the enforcement of decrees,

  14. ما غرّة الدَهر تشدونا مؤرّخةً

    عام بيمن خديوي مصره سامي

    As long as time's bright brow sings to us, recording the date:

    A year exalted by the good fortune of the Khedive of his Egypt.