1. He whom fate defends
No jinn or human can offend

2. Misfortune itself turns away in despair
While fortune smiles on his endeavors

3. His enemies attack with every cunning
But the wise leave no trace or vestige

4. No fault in what was done with glory
Fate flows with all that is ordained

5. Kings, though grand,
Are tempted by foes, however small

6. Treachery has filled the times
Impelling souls to evil from the first

7. Those who plot, when they spy a chance
Ride the steeds of resolve and take it

8. An unbeliever took aim at Al-Mustafa
To harm him or touch him with hurt

9. Mu'awiyah triumphed by cunning
At daybreak, to avenge his resentment

10. With a gang serving the moment
Led by souls' injustice and urged by evil

11. Until they thought they had succeeded
And their striving bore fruit, they failed

12. They tasted ruin - how ruinous their draught!
But still they tasted, no lesson taught

13.
Like moths that dove into flame

14. Behold what the flames do!
Abandoned, no aid against a king

15. Who still seeks victory from The Merciful
Their schemes thrown back in their throats

16. By the swords of one just, their necks struck
Their corruption was their own doing

17. While the good their victory reports
They lifted their eyes to the moon

18. So the moon bombarded them with rocks
Iron poured on them in torrents

19. As if boulders surrounded them
How strange that they lived by his grace

20. Yet by killing him they showed their faces
Their trunks withered, ripe fruit no more

21. For the wolf, how ripe that fruit before!
Every despised outcast now rises

22. On pillars whose bases elude
As if the sky, from it, were flaming

23. A flame the sun's heat feeds

24. Did they not see Yahya's glory
Where victory and triumph pause?

25. Time serves his state, destroying foes
A king whose responsibility is Islam's trust

26. A veil, a shade, his compact spares
One noble whose munificence guards from shame

27. Awe-inspiring as the unveiled sun
From which gazes retreat when shown

28. In it justice and piety combined
As if hearing and sight entwined

29. He lowers his wing, his lowering an honor
His worth above the highest star

30. Resolute, he seems to consider
Distracted, fearing sleep's loss

31. Like a sword shook in a warrior's hand
Ready to strike, mind set with power

32.
As if the scent of his praise were a meadow

33. Exhaling sweetness at dawn
His resolve grows against enemies

34. The spark that ignites its first fires
As if the pillar of his equanimity

35. Were a spring, gushing kindness entire

36. O you who visit doom on enemies forever
Wolves are destroyed by nobles

37. Thanks - good fortune is lasting for you
Your brightest days have been joined