1. The heights of glory are forbidden to all but you,
And all praise of others is deplored.

2. There is no glory but what you have comprehended,
No merit but you are foremost in it.

3. Whoever believes other than what His scripture dictates,
You have no doubt they sin.

4. Have you not followed the path of Muhammad?
Though it has nearly faded and perished and crumbled.

5. The martyred infant will come on Judgement Day
As a witness, by this stone, this station, and Zamzam.

6. Tomorrow you adorned the House of God, as
The true, revered, mighty faith ascended its stones.

7. No shrine or path to polytheism remains
But it is erased and demolished.

8. What great deeds, when mentioned, humble
The glories of passed or future kings!

9. There is no glory but fearing God and piety,
No pride but the Law wherein you excel.

10. So take comfort, Abd al-Aziz ibn Faysal,
In spoils called and which in reward are a prize.

11. When a misguided soul rends the Muslims,
You are death, ruin, his destined doom.

12. You rode out to meet him at dawn with regiments
In which death's arrows were randomly loosed.

13. You gave them a lethal, bitter drink mixed
With death and venom in their mouths.

14. Their corpses became food for wild beasts,
And their bones piles for vultures.

15. As it was with the people of Hail one day,
When they strayed from the path of righteousness, or were blind,

16. Thinking the name Hail meant estrangement -
Aloof from wives, hostile, unbending.

17. So you married them to the deaf spears, and they awoke
Brides revealing, far from conception, evil conforming.

18. How a maiden's face was marred by slaps!
Another rends her clothes in bitter lamentation.

19. How much they were advised, had advice been heard!
How much they were forewarned, had any been reasonable!

20. But they insisted on dissent, so they had
No tools but swords and daggers.

21. Their leader said "No! Worse than them,
Send to Ibn Talal - he is most wise."

22. But when he came, he increased their madness
And they reaped the fruits of their misdeeds, regretting naught.

23. They thought God would break His promise -
Never! The promise of the Truthful is most binding.

24. A conquering soldier said "It is inevitable -
My judgement in the wilderness is decided."

25. Alone in his perfection he approached them,
But in war an army, intrepid and ruthless.

26. With sincere youths in battle most honoured,
Of a lineage never tainted by non-Arabs.

27. Pressing on firmly between steadfast and pursuer,
Racing what the swift camels and she-camels outpaced.

28. Those are the sons of Islam - hail to them!
Most honoured wherever they gather!

29. They knew the right of God and His messengers,
And the right of the Muslim leaders they revered.

30. They saw obedience was the only religion
To the one upright in the true Hanifi creed.

31. That is the Commander of the Faithful ibn Faysal,
Leader of guidance, perfecter of glorious deeds.

32. When they saw the party of God led by
The fearless lion amidst terror approaching,

33. They fled quickly, swords bared,
And the Hindu swords decapitating.

34. Who survived of them, when he hears a call,
Cowers, and dreams of the dead in the night.

35. To you, Leader of the Muslims, Dummar came bounding,
Her sorrows folded, stumbling in gloom.

36. She sails when the winds blow strong as if
With the downpour, red canyons churning.

37. Remembering chicks in the wasteland of Hardah
With bleating winds and pouring rain.

38. She remained conversing with herself - where is relief?
No guide shows the way and the night is dark.

39. She sends you the devotion of a true friend,
Yours loyally, never discontent.

40. For love of you is closeness to the Guardian,
And advising you an obligation we fulfill.

41. Who does not see this is either heedless
Or puts lies before the revelation.

42. I will not forget praise for Faysal ibn Sultan -
What remains of my eulogy will perpetuate his name.

43. Brother of war - if war bites him he will not waver
Or feel any pain from its bite.

44. Minister of the Leader of the Muslims, who for him
Oppressors in it are subjugated and muzzled.

45. If a traitor or apostate renounces
His religion for wickedness sown,

46. Faysal heads with flames kindled to his abode,
Sailing a sea part raging blood.

47. By order of the Leader of the Muslims, by his opinion -
There is no might but by the Imamate protected.

48. And his brothers in God - do not forget their merit!
They are the aid of Islam, and God knows best.

49. Tribes among whom are Utayba's men -
Lions, when the fray intensifies they plunge in.

50. They risk precious souls in the fray,
But by dying for God they are honoured.

51. In war, they are ferocious, relentless warriors,
Harsher on transgressors for God, compassionate.

52. I did not omit the rest out of ignorance of their right,
Nor inability to articulate their merit.

53. But the names distracted me,
And I had none to clarify them.

54. The Leader of the Muslims' soldiers, who have
The means for every good and righteous deed.

55. And pray, my God, whenever dawn gleams
And a sun rises or a constellation appears,

56. Upon the Master of Masters, my soul his ransom,
I pray for him perpetually and submit,

57. And so his family, of such high station, and his companions -
The elect of the Merciful - they, they!