1. A thousand tongues have come to thank you
For the kindness you have shown, but who can fully appreciate it?

2. You devised a plan to restore things from ruin
And lifted your hands from it, removing all that had oppressed

3. May God reward you for restoring a widow's son
And providing for him a husband who was nearly buried

4. So the orphans through your generosity have fathers again
May the Father who ransomed them reward you, treasure and jewel

5. I walk with the rising sun shining on my brow
So my prayer rises - you have shaded me in God's protection

6. Are you not the one who revived though your people had rebelled,
So they shouted "God is great" in joy for Him?

7. The wounded Christ rose from his bed
Walking on a leg, running and leaping

8. You charged ahead though death and years
Moaned and thousands of demons hissed

9. It was but a stroke of vengeance and the
Darkness of affliction cleared, and Baghdad watched

10. So whoever sees Baghdad which you are its light
Says, "Harun has returned," though Ja'far died

11. You avenged the poets and rained on their composer
What had wet the grave which almost buried him

12. And you silenced the racket, climbing over Qasim
For you are like your name, a splitter

13. The Euphrates longs for the Nile beyond it
While deserts spread, though they told us that was Kauthar

14. Thousands of victims overwhelmed by sinking and harm -
Gloom, rags, Bakhsh, and Kanbar

15. Without you the Communist would not rule again
As he desired, nor would the Communist slaughter

16. You were the hoped-for answer to his prayer
You were for us the light by which we see

17. So O army, harm came not to you though we
Descended into depths where seas were gushing

18. With the people's wealth he gave support to the incapable
And from the sickness of injustice that consumed him

19. He starved until hunger shattered his body
And was exiled until he could no longer walk

20. Praise to you for watering our land with vengeance
So we marched on the path that almost buried us