1. In all that Destiny impels occur
God's gentleness makes reason stunned and thought demur.

2. He whom the days' injustice made complain
Bedouin and sedentary to him complain,

3. Though they are many in their semblance vain;
I say, while their complaint fills me with pain:

4. "Gently, for in our state God's eyes remain!"
God's most subtle to leave His Creation free

5. Of aiding reason and right-mindedness, maybe,
And naught we saw or hearsay makes us see

6. Save the Imam God's religion victorie,
Abdulaziz, whose rule vivified

7. The Moslems after they were mortified.
Purity and light he has and healthfulness,

8. While from his foes calamity is dialed.
So praise be God with praise that will extend

9. From God to him the spites of time amend
And in it good of religion and world lies,

10. As for Islam's foes, chastening it supplies.
A hero who glory and piety furled,

11. And Kahlan or Mudar in his glory curled,
I say when woe at his decease was hurled

12. Among the folk: Gently! In our state God's eyes furled!
None but he for religion and world we pin

13. On, hoping, as events uncertain spin.
Could we have shared his glory, a bargain 'twould win,

14. Profit, where men loss incur!
Thou whom God guided this community to tend

15. Bare, straight, its drinking-cups the wrist adorn
Of every knight like a lord strict and stern,

16. Veiled with the polish of grit and the sheen of pearl,
Almost informing thee what the writ of passion says

17. When it flows - "No! Flat and rugged is my way!"
Thou urgest on a mettlesome steed the neighs

18. Of its longing for war's ardors and affray!
On how many battlefields hast slain and thrust

19. Where polished blade and lance the market crust!
Bay steeds whose towering necks and croups adjust

20. And the shoulder-breadths make slight the foe unjust!
By them religion's probation all adjusted,

21. After its barrenness shook now fruits are clustered.
Lances complain of thine undeviating twisted,

22. And the baysteeds after war-clouds scattered and flustered!
In a strait that augments the bereaved's repining

23. For traitor or foeman Fortune is designing.
How oft a folk believing, when their spite designing

24. Hurt thee, from thee some dreadful risk combining,
Discovered thee regardful of plain-dealing,

25. When thou didst bounty and they plotting and stealing!
Thou hast clad with pardon, the negligent way concealing,

26. Their shoulders thick with fortune's perfect healing,
Wherefore excuse they made, or if thou hadst taken vengeance,

27. Unheard of we or our forebears' cognizance
Is any clemency equal to thy grievance.

28. Thy view regarding wealth to hoard abstinence
Not as the miser hides it with his gluttonous insistence,

29. But for fair deeds thou spendest it in beneficence.
Far be it thou shouldst ally with vain extravagance!

30. Thy virtues shall be told of to our descendants,
And after us be scriptures' word and sentence!

31. A folk who see no merit save in opulence,
To them the Koran's vicegerents are offense;

32. For heavenly degrees they have nor recompense.
Kings seek but worldly aims for recompense,

33. While thou art zealous only good deeds recommence.
Reward thee Heaven's rewards sent down from Providence

34. To spread justice among the confluence!
My loyalty to thee no lapse of time convince

35. To change, though far and journey make pretense.
How forget thee who lived in thy safe precincts

36. While people thy beneficence and bounty mince?
Take it, thought's daughter, whose eloquence convinces,

37. Praise on thee show'ring muskiers' redolence,
Yet how should eulogy of thee attain eminence,

38. When loftier than all encomiasts' eloquence
Thou stand'st? God bless (as He did prophets' eloquence)

39. The Intercessor, if excuse the penitence
Of prophets, and his Household's innocence,

40. And Companions sun and moon and radiance!