1. Your praise is beyond the capability of humans,
When the Quranic chapters were revealed about you.

2. The seven oft-repeated verses have spared you
The need for praise, O Ya Seen and Az-Zumar.

3. So poetry tries to praise your loftiness with
Whatever is within its capacity, and apologizes.

4. You have governed the subjects with a tradition
That none among the people emulated except Omar.

5. You are the rightly-guided Imam, we have no
True Imam deserving to be awaited but you.

6. You appear before our eyes, contrary to the claim
That the Imam is absent and awaited.

7. You remain for the duration of days, your impacts
And conduct characterized by justice linger on.

8. It has spread justice over the lands, thus injustice
Has no eyes or traces left in them.

9. So rule the ages omnipotently, by your will
Decree and destiny unfold.

10. You were a mercy to us when even city dwellers
And Bedouins had despaired of the lack of rain.

11. You commanded justice so the clouds poured forth
And rain cascaded from their trails.

12. The mercy of God is evident through signs like
The justice of the ruler and the rainfall.

13. O master of the times, in your hands lie
Benefit and harm after this.

14. To you belong the day and night and
The sun and moon that continue to orbit.

15. And the land and sea, the towering mountains,
The valleys' depths, the stars and the trees.

16. Lord of the fluttering banner, advancement
And triumph carry it against the enemies.

17. Vanquisher of the white swords and blades,
You leave no betrayer remaining or spared.

18. Charger of the battle, whom the specter
Of death with all its breasts cannot deter.

19. Captain of the army, like scorpions
Whose sting the eyes cannot follow or detect.

20. Its attack each day is a fierce battle,
Its resolve and determination like spears.

21. Rushing ahead to thrust as the wild doves
Once they flock eagerly to their drinking spot.

22. The brave youths surrounding it avoidTagName
Being ransomed for the price of causingTagName harm.

23. The awesomeness of their beauty guarantees
None shall miss or lose an opportunity.

24. You see heads you've vanquished, for them
Their long hair flows beautifully like poetry.

25. From each archer, over his frown glimmers
A blade whose sharp edge is the lovely wild cow.

26. Feminine in raiment, yet in his alluring eyes
Lurks a penetrating masculinity.

27. Bearing in stance a cultivated poise that nearly
Buckles as he rises fully armored.

28. Flexible but firm in clutching to the saddle pommel,
Its accustomed role being obedience.

29. Brighter than white stallions except for
Modesty and light armor they wear.

30. Dune sand in traveling-dress, but when
The flames of war blaze, a fierce tiger.

31. In armor a lion in its den, and in the radiance
Of his face, a moon shines from his fair complexion.

32. His beauty and the eyes that behold him
Are free plunder, and his mouth a harvested field.

33. They walk with pride to war, indifferent to fate,
As if souls reckon endangerment is dishonor.

34. Young stars in the horizon at dawn, their souls
Deem the glories of heroism to be insignificant.

35. When they ready themselves like blooming flowers
And don armor as if clad in darkness.

36. You see a blazing fire suspended in air, the sparks
Of their violence exude flames for it.

37. The equipment of a king with a terrifying roar
Nearly making the mountains crumble from its shake.

38. A storeroom of wisdom and valor, extinguishing
The flames of turmoil, setting wisdom ablaze.

39. He shows clemency from a position of capability, and excellent
Is the brother of forbearance though able to punish.

40. He has accustomed the temper of fate such that no
Ill will to his people is harbored in its thoughts.

41. And stopped its injustices, so fate holds no
Fangs or victories in this time.

42. Thus with the victorious Imam, when the epochs
Of time unfold, we shall be triumphant.

43. May Allah support his caliphate until commanded
For his kingdom are docile horses.

44. He attained it peacefully and granted it in pristine form
Unsullied by any turbidity.

45. He assumed the authority without supporters,
Though numerous, a grace from Allah

46. None can share with him in taking his right
From a people whose foreheads bow to them

47. And whose skin prickles in awe when they are named
Lions of darkness, victorious when they ride

48. Full moons in the horizon when they draw forth
They are Allah's trustees, noblest of people

49. Through them burdens fall from us, so if any
Affliction befalls, they carry our burdens

50. Every evildoer in the Gathering on Judgment Day
Will be in need of their intercession.

51. When faced with crises, their ambitions kindle
Fires whose flashes and embers radiate valor.

52. They fulfill covenants and pacts, while nights raid
The homes of their tribes without precaution.

53. By Allah's decree they must be obeyed, no act
Of disobedience occurs if they issue a command.

54. With them Hashim gained supremacy over
Ancient epochs, and through Hashim, Mudar gained it.

55. I am true to you in loyalty, O Family of Abbas
For Judgment Day have I stored my reward

56. And praising you in my scroll is a deed through which
I pride myself on the Day of Reckoning.

57. Loving you is my doctrine, obeying you
Is for me an absolution for what I committed.

58. You are my partisans, through you I prevail
If fate denounces me, and I gain victory.

59. You are guides for us to the path of truth
While the night of misguidance remains concealed.

60. You inherited knowledge and the caliphate from the
Best Prophet, you are his elite supporters.

61. Forever until the Resurrection shall remain for you
The banner of sovereignty across the land outstretched

62. By your efforts and assuming the honor of the Sanctum
Long ago, and through you the Stone was exalted.

63. With his grace the Imam Abu Al-Abbas restored
Their days though they have passed.

64. O you through whom existence is pleasant
And life in your time tastes sweet.

65. From your names are derived lofty attributes
In which fancies and thoughts go astray.

66. To you, many of your praises which neither
Censure diminishes nor limits contain.

67. As if it were a garden of bramble in which
The dew sways the blossoms.

68. I spread from it over hearings seas of eulogy
Like ink though it flows long.

69. None reproaches its length, but only strain
And wakefulness befall those seeking its extent.

70. None who dares vie with it merits anything
Except long toil and sleeplessness.

71. So remain for us a sanctuary to which hopes
Make pilgrimage, alight at your door.

72. Each sin, if you remain apologizing it
In times of scarcity, is forgivable.

73. And live for a world whose youth and beauty
Your time has restored more vividly.

74. The life of a verdant, gentle kingdom
In which lasts what endures of the green.

75. At your gates settle joy and passions guide to it
Contentment and innocence at dawn.

76. The eyes have not fully adored its sorcery
Nor the turtledoves' love stirred the trees.