1. It was adorned by the noblest place on earth,
Bringing together for it glory and pride.

2. You clothed it with awe from Your majesty,
Filling gazes with its dignity.

3. Your light made the evening into morning in it,
And the night into daytime.

4. You made it such that mountains
Seemed to surround its outskirts and seas.

5. The full moon loses its way
In its resident's glory and pride.

6. In it there is a full moon that never wanes in gifts,
And a rising moon that does not fear darkness.

7. You ordained it with the gentlest governance,
Excelled in what You ordained in choice.

8. And You created it as a sanctuary for benevolence,
Clarifying a path and raising a minaret.

9. You see pilgrims of bounty circling it,
Circling its pillars and venerating.

10. The sky almost pelted it with stars
When it winked at it.

11. It became the protected domain of a King
Who cannot be challenged, an ocean of bounty that has no rival.

12. A Leader whom the face of time shone brightly
With the face of his caliphate and illumination.

13. Our days used to see betrayal,
But he taught it how to shepherd the herd.

14. And he tasked time to never attain
Its purposes from it except through force.

15. He became in the morning backed by God,
Giving it extension and capability.

16. A generous plant from Hashim
Protecting the enemy and pardoning sin.

17. He narrows in his generosity the excuse of sinners
And widens in sin the repentance of the evildoer.

18. A generous man - if he did not initiate giving you
Before you asked, he would see generosity as shameful.

19. He ended asking and revived granting,
Satisfied the eager and mixed with the cautious.

20. Happy arrival, so abundant,
Drawing near harvest and ripening fruits.

21. War and generosity are his twin pens,
One day fresh and one day in full blossom.

22. As if he challenged in the sky's rein,
The fire and flood carry water and fire.

23. He protected the realm of religion with bitterness,
Time was too weak to challenge him.

24. And he repelled the hyenas of injustice humiliated,
And the hands of events from us short.

25. When the swords removed their sheaths,
His horses covered the air struck and astir.

26. From his people, their judgement shines,
As the dawn shone then blazed.

27. They are God's elite of creation,
And his most honoured on the day of pride and glory.

28. When some faces frowned and poverty stricken,
Theirs shone like the morning and hands heavy flowing.

29. I will fill across the countries
Praise when the sun travels.

30. And I will keep for the passage of time,
For it a crown and on its wrists bangles.

31. Witty words, as if with it
I turned to the listeners a brew of aloewood,

32. Imbibing musk as if praise
Sprouted in it jasmine and caves.

33. Bursting with virtues like gardens
Its laughing blossoms flame red.

34. Beauty, so if I have enlisted them
As support, then meanings are virgins.

35. And I thank what it has given my hand
Thanks that rival the gardens flowery spring.

36. And it makes me hope to attain a lofty place
And great command.

37. So it removes for me from the days of youth
Nights I spent waiting.

38. Not ceasing to erode time's clothes
And age what ran for us and abode.

39. Pilgrims of greetings circle its protection
As campers faced a flood's stillness.