1. Your hand gleams with the radiance of your face,
And your mantle is enhanced by your majesty.

2. No sooner did it see a palm like it than
The black flags fluttered over your standards.

3. It cooed with the tenderness of its breast, and you can see
In it a yearning and desire for you.

4. Today its face shone, though long
We sensed it was downcast with melancholy.

5. It was in a wasteland where jackals and ravens
Preyed upon its pasture.

6. It turned back to you, so its origin with you is firm,
Its building lofty and its branch verdant with you.

7. You, though the enemy and his kin resisted,
Are its pillar and the others mere followers.

8. Its setting suns regained their glory through you
And through you its scattered union came together.

9. The garments of its pride were sewn
For your glory – without your grace, it has no fragrance.

10. The Al Mozaffar, sovereignty resides in you,
A nature, while others merely feign it.

11. One after another seizes power contracted
When one of you holds it expanded.

12. Since the minister Mohammed
Became its buttress, the reins of power are slackened.

13. Through you, Islam is fortified
With a rampart of your making and a trench.

14. You routed the rebels when they massed
And saw their plot, how scattered they became.

15. On the day of meeting, their fancies belied them
When they desired what no notion can verify.

16. They slipped from the true faith by their rebellion
Like an arrow slipping from the bowstring.

17. When they saw you, more steadfast than them,
In terror, with the hearts of horsemen fluttering,

18. They turned and fled not knowing
They raced toward the watering place of death.

19. You made them drink from red cups of death
While the foe enjoyed the drink and became intoxicated.

20. So he was rescued, his breast expansive,
While the heart of his rival was anguished.

21. The regions of the land cast him off, becoming
Too narrow, with vastness within them.

22. Until the earth was like a ring on his finger
And the sky a dome covering it.

23. He starts at the mention of you, should it occur to him,
And sees you in a dream and awakes terrified.

24. His soul almost expired from bearing disgrace –
If only a soul in adversity could expire!

25. So may he find in you a father when the Muslims
Have no humpbacked friend to show compassion for them.

26. You are the rain cloud pregnant with lightning bolts
To smite the foe, and heavy with pouring rain.

27. Your palm is like a constant, flowing spring,
And the light of your face its flashing lightning.

28. Alas! For your stature is a slick precipice,
Unattainable, and a goal that cannot be reached.

29. No petitioner finds his plea made worthless in your presence;
No, and no hopeful finds his efforts dashed.

30. Our goods were spent in your service, else
The throats of merit would not be open.

31. So listen to praise composed about you as if
It were a unique pearl, and all else counterfeit.

32. Draw the surplus of a happiness whose days
Will not run out, and whose newness creates no boredom.