1. O you whose auspicious arrival
Dispelled the distress in my eyes

2. And restored the days of joy
When you returned, as you began them

3. My eyelids were thirsty for the radiance of your face
So let them drink their fill, quenched by its glow

4. Since you left, I’ve known no comfort
In sleep, nor heard music’s tones

5. And Baghdad grew desolate without you
When you went far from it

6. Its joy left, vegetation withered
And its brightness turned to gloom

7. Until its mornings were indistinguishable
From its evenings without you

8. You bid it farewell in emptiness
And it lost all its adornments

9. Its horizons grew dark when you were gone
But you returned and illuminated them

10. Like a splendid night when darkness
Prevails over its brightness

11. Today it dawned, scented with you
Its air is fragrant, its meadows verdant

12. Your blessings stretched over its groves
And settled in its gardens

13. The withered boughs grew green again
At your call, and the plains donned green

14. The dates were nearly destroyed
By your long absence

15. But the splendor of the faith revived them
And strengthened their resources

16. It held calamity back from its dwellers
And protected them with its might

17. It gave governance its due right
When caring for the flock

18. A fitting one, when critical affairs
Are entrusted to him, manages them

19. You made him wrathful when misfortune
Touched it, to fend it off

20. And he followed the exemplary path you set out
Never straying into error

21. With resolute determination like the stars
Never wavering from their course

22. Humbly yielding to you, his face
Ever turned to you in devotion

23. Never deviating from the righteous path
To your supremacy, nor transgressing it

24. O pinnacle of glory which the victorious
Strive to attain

25. O band of kingship which the Caliph
Chose and approved

26. Charging the breach of injustice
When war spins its cycle

27. The swords complain of shortness to them
So they make their blades longer

28. With Muhammad its foundations of glory were laid
And the height of its edifice constructed

29. A king who, when eras deteriorate,
Adorns them with his vitality

30. He spent his wealth’s treasuries
And acquired glory, making it his own

31. He tamed affairs, so they submitted
To his firm handling, bending to his will

32. No issue was too hard for him
Except that he found its solution

33. He spends the miles, riding, when
The steeds exhaust their distances

34. O you whose palm the clouds
Learned generosity from its openness

35. Pouring abundant rains on the needy
Watering life's pasture

36. In hearts you have a love
That remains constant, its bond unbroken

37. As though you were created from their conscience
And their deepest affections

38. And as if their loving you
Was the nature He imbued them with