1. The eyes of the children of Prophet Muhammad rejoiced
At the capable Ahmad, resolute of will

2. With Mufawwadh, whose fathers bore witness for him
That the caliphate will encompass him tomorrow

3. It came to him but did not burden his chest
With worries or leanings, and he did not extend his hand to it

4. Its imaginings had reached him, and the most generous
Of fortunes was rising before the appointed time

5. And I knew that it would not settle
Except like the subsiding of a faded flood

6. When suspicions prowled in it and widened
Ambitions that wander with the enemy and transgress

7. And they competed for roads to it, rugged
It came to him along the straightest path

8. It clung to the most capable arm in supporting it
And the brightest of its lamps was protected

9. A hero who adds the valor of the victorious
To the subjugation of the enemy, to the devotion of the guided

10. Like a fire, lofty of rays, though
Its flames may be obscured by cinderous ashes

11. Awake, closing his eyelids and worries
From all corners of the country with observatories

12. Pride of the Abbasids, your ancientness
Refuses days other than renewal

13. A nobility that withers and crumples
And loftiness that settled alongside detached stars

14. It is the caliphate, a place never missed
By its pillars, and an undying spark

15. If you attain it, how many steps has your glory taken there
And how much, in attaining it, you have been helped

16. They weighed you, and you were the finest among them
In lineage, and farthest in purpose and resolve

17. And they called you to the majestic affair, but you were not
The insignificant pottery, or the scarce dwarf palm

18. O son of those who, when prideful in glory
Swept away every darkened dominion

19. Assailants of the throats of men, and to them
The Muslim is one who retreats, depraved

20. And if invited to a confrontation, it is as if
The driving away of thunderous clouds were ruptured for it

21. He whose gaze is veiled by your brilliance redeems you
From every crashing thunder of the verdant gardens

22. Haughty, so if he looks to your fortune
The corners of his mouth cling to the ice

23. God bless you, and al-`Ujaj soars
And the horses stumble at the targeted streams

24. And today the sun deceptively rises upon the horizons
So it rises upon the world with a blackened face

25. You see only a wounded man bending over
Bloodied shirt upon a targeted victim

26. And the whites know that they were stripped
By your hands only from an aggressive bandit

27. And I whose loyalty grows for you
Everlastingly like my birthplace grows for you

28. I want nothing but your wellbeing
Raising my status and nearing my field

29. And when I come close to the porch, in submission
You receive me among the jealous gazes

30. And clothe my position there in superior merit
Remaining after me like the lasting legacy

31. In a time filled with every greeting
Flowing from the mouths of bowing people

32. And standings where majesty fills their horizons
So beauty in them has scattered presence

33. The eye cannot take their glances
Except by glancing indirectly, like the squint of the blind

34. And most deserving to wear honesty without fault
Is one whose affection was never marred by fawning

35. I praise you while between us disdains
One difficult to please among resolute men

36. And if the light of your face hides from me a while
Take them turning between expressions the reciters'

37. Speech never inclined to, and meanings beyond match
Brilliant, capturing acceptance as if they

38. Came heralding a watering place for the thirsty traveler
And surrender, Commander of the Faithful, supplied

39. With abundant graces of immortalized life
Centuries pass while the pillar of your rule remains firm

40. In the best position and most noble seat