1. How excellent is the land with abundant blessings,
And they were saved from calamities and adversities.

2. God supported the father of loyalty with His victory,
The pillar of the Caliphate, the master of princes.

3. So my heart was comforted from the burning thirst,
And the flames of passion, malady and pain.

4. The days returned to the freshness of their life,
And calamities were removed with ease.

5. His sword connected victory after victory,
Like the connection of an unwilling love to separation.

6. Every day he deals the enemies a blow,
That destroys them, by the sword of annihilation.

7. So when they saw him advancing,
They fled like frightened sheep from ferocious wolves.

8. Slain and killed were those whom ruin missed,
Becoming allies of humiliation in captivity.

9. The days smiled after their gloom through him,
And the light shone, dispelling the darkness.

10. So celebrate relief from the worries and burning thirst
That you witnessed yesterday.

11. The fierce lion who eyes his enemies has recovered
From all he complains of pains.

12. And victory came to him from a beneficent God,
Who decides for him forever in the best decree.

13. You exhausted their wits and blunted their sharpness,
Without fatigue or wearying.

14. Your swords scattered their palms in the open,
As if they were pebbles in the courtyard.

15. And you turned your horse snatching their souls,
Without delay or tardiness.

16. You are the most honored in the times, and one to whom,
The necks of eminent chieftains have bowed.

17. The emirate refused to marry other than him,
After being sought in marriage most adamantly.

18. And praise disobeyed, so it gives no obedience,
Except to him, humbly and in praise.

19. In courage, he toys with brave men,
Winning the passions, a victor of love.

20. A king whose might proved greater than kings,
And his acceptance from the master of advisers.

21. Muhammad ibn Yahya revived a state,
With sound resolve and correct views.

22. The adornment of literature and son of one to whom,
Bowed down at his feet the scribes of the caliphs.

23. After the enemies thought that he,
Would be one they wished to overpower.

24. When a deadly disease befell Islam,
That would have killed it, had it not been cured by his remedy.

25. So he shot them with his piercing views,
Aimed without a guide at the vitals.

26. And he saw the pregnant clouds of his view as partners for them,
So they plunged for his teeming thoughts, a plunging of light.

27. In matters of hope, the view of an experienced one is fruitful,
A drawn sword to root out this disease.

28. Ask him by the prince and his sword, whoever schemes against him,
Or enrages him in the heat of fury.

29. His claws, bloody from the enemies whenever,
Misfortunes spurted from the blood of foes.

30. So it is as if in his saddle on the day of battle,
He is a full moon gleaming in a propitious sky.

31. And it is as if his warriors around him,
Are clusters of stars Canopus.

32. Wearing the cloak of patience beneath which,
Is a heart like solid rock, impenetrable.

33. His fear scattered the enemies so they are like,
Tattered ostriches in a barren desert.

34. Or a flock of wild cats that were startled by an echo,
So they fell in thirst into the bowels of valleys.

35. The men turned to attack them, and they yielded,
To captivity and humiliation, acts of women.

36. And the prince came with might and awe,
Strutting between wealth and singing slave girls.

37. Baghdad flourished through him after its gloom,
And was clothed by him in garments of ease.

38. How many sincere devotions and excellent trials,
He had in the days of Bujka.

39. The hands of others would be darkened in his war,
Then he would brighten them with a shining white hand.

40. The lengths of your terrible blows on the day of battle,
Were attached to the stars on high for their height.

41. They excelled like the preference of the Prophet’s family and in-laws,
In their noble worth over the highborn.

42. You ascended in the steps of greatness, rising
Higher than the eminent and the greatest.