1. Congratulations, for God's work has granted you good tidings,
And His radiant smile conveyed eloquence and joy.

2. And what else could it be but His work that gave you a sign,
Which became atop your wishes a great sign?

3. It is destined and auspicious; guidance prospers through it.
So away with any difficulty that follows ease and bounty!

4. You have come to the abode of kingdom, and happiness requires
That your rule be adorned with might and triumph.

5. And that face shone under the dome whose wonders
Are narrated and whose boons are seen.

6. For that we kissed its threshold sincerely,
And if its bounty were not sweet, it would become a sea.

7. For Granada you set out, like Nasir,
Shaking your sleeves to champion the faith.

8. You extended your palm, like a bestower,
We praised and thanked the kissing of it.

9. So to God belong the banners of jihad, as if they are
Clouds, and your rising sun the red dawn.

10. You will rouse raiding steeds that make long campaigns
And scarcely taste wine before charging again.

11. And that is only because you rule,
Subduing their forts and vanquishing their infidels.

12. You unleash upon them in the heat of war a piercing sword,
Quenching them with it from thirst with a river.

13. And you open the lands of the enemy with resolve,
Subjugating the rebellious and shaming the insolent.

14. So to God belong your days which Islam has,
Comforting its eye just as they gladdened the chest.

15. How many citadels adorned themselves like maidens,
As the manifest conquest made them smile!

16. O rider of the steed who traverses the desert,
Seeking by the fleet one to remove poverty:

17. If you seek the spring of generosity, hold fast
To one at whose hands kingdoms gain the flooding rain.

18. The highest of earth’s kings in selfhood and intelligence,
Noblest in merit and most famed in mention,

19. Most generous of those who don robes, their hems overflowing,
Most honorable of those the bejeweled saddle bears.

20. How many a hopeful has stretched his hand in munificence,
Facilitating ease and heralding good tidings!

21. When the Nile of generosity overflows from Joseph's palm,
Its flooding suffices the prosperous to alight in Egypt.

22. And when the dawn gleams from Joseph's face,
You see the stars of the horizon trembling in dread.

23. He will bare his weapons in the dark of night,
As stars, and his resolve will usher in the dawn.

24. For your sake, my lord, forget not the pact of one
Who converses privately with his master in thought.

25. How he tosses and turns in the embers of passion,
Your memory kindling a flame in his innermost being!

26. Until he saw your cheerful smile, and the spirit
Of verse began to gladden heart and chest.

27. So inspire it as a garden conveying bliss,
Scented, bearing clusters, blossoming and lush.

28. And the hue of ink beautifully graces its whiteness,
As the mole's hue graces the cheek of a fair maiden.

29. From the thought of my lord and the pen of his right hand,
This servant weaves pearls in the necklace of verse.

30. May your mercy therein build a creation as if
It came to you in shyness, complaining of fate.

31. Its purpose from you is acceptance, so grant freely
To a loving servant who was true in secret and open.

32. Wonders of poetry came to praise in profusion,
Taking as their course only its gardens.

33. A prose that rivals the dawn's dispersion in splendor,
And verse that equals poetry's beauties.

34. And God, how much subtlety His hands created,
Putting the white and red anemones to shame!

35. He watered them from ink’s wine until He bent them over;
Did they bow in thanks or lean from intoxication?

36. This slave has vowed to recite it for you,
Yet has not fulfilled a vow or oath.

37. But my satisfaction is your slightest gesture,
Raising my mention in a glance of the eye.

38. You remain, defending God's religion, aiding its people,
Obeyed when you execute a ban or command.