1. You have ruled with wisdom beyond measure
Fate's decrees cannot be reversed

2. Punishment from the Forgiving is kindness
To a slave without sin or fault

3. Estrangement after affection gives no hurt
To one whose love was never real

4. It is not intended but destined
Fate's command allows no appeal

5. Is not my state strange and isolated?
Water everywhere but none I can drink

6. Withhold your hand though able to give
And let me suffer thirst all night

7. For this denial hides wisdom and care
A mystery which cannot be known

8. Do not fear life will be too long for one
Whom the Generous does not abandon

9. If the stubborn disobeys the call
His nature compels him to resist

10. Close off the water, do all you can
Then leave him to shiver in darkness and mist

11. After hardship comes ease
Sorrows have their limit and end

12. How often deliverance comes
When by your judgment remote without end

13. Seek knowledge but do not despair
If not yours now, it will come in time

14. Submit to fate and cease striving
Against what is willed and designed

15. Sustenance is apportioned to each
Given the share that was meant to be ours

16. Days of ease alternate with straitness
A door closes, none opens for hours

17. Accept your Lord's decree for you
Set aside protest and be His faithful slave

18. Count His favors, so many they be
Beyond limit, beyond number they wave

19. For blessing on us, King Abdullah
How can we thank him enough?

20. A king whom good deeds support
Whose promises to faith he keeps

21. Strong, unshaken in his creed
Worshipping no god but the One

22. No good are riches if not spent
To please God by the owner scattering gifts

23. Happy the law and the nation
When a king cares for both, as he does

24. Defending the true faith, affirming
His slavehood to God in all that he was

25. The name signifies the named
Tell the theologian he erred in his thinking

26. No excuse has the Muslim who does not
Love him with a love pure and unblinking

27. Can he who opposes him really expect
That he should be pleased with such men?

28. When his armies suffice to defend
No need to unsheathe swords again

29. While enemies quake with fear or beg for truce
Prostrate like foxes though lions before

30. Gone are days of war and strife
No blades flash, no stallions stampede

31. See the steeds idle in their stalls
No more raids upon roads where the brigands flee

32. On the lids of white antelopes, sleep has fallen
No swords are drawn glittering from the sheath

33. But look how palms are outstretched
In supplication for him till the dawn

34. Your era is a meadow revived by the breath
Of life; the soul nourished anew

35. True guidance lives again and has caused
False doctrines to wither from the dew

36. By my life, you kept your promise steadfast
Unlike others who vow but fail to fulfill

37. Your intent alone was helpful indeed
But loyalty is action and will

38. Your Lord's promised victory will come from your aid
Rewarding your effort as He willed

39. This is a day of joy and good tidings
Of blessings approaching, your cup He will fill

40. Announcing favors about to arrive
Though now they are still far from you

41. Rejoice in them; but more in deeds
Done in wisdom and righteousness true