1. O two messengers of the flashing lightning, draw near and inquire
Which road, which land did he take?

2. Ask the breezes if they have wafted
Pearls from the sand or the darkness has cleared at dawn,

3. Or if the darkness of night has sparked and kindled,
Or if the guide star has gone astray and it has illuminated.

4. A traveller as if the turbulence of yearning had unsettled him
So no shedding tear comforts him.

5. And a rising sun that gives life to the world generously
Rather, a bird heralding demise took wing.

6. It glittered in a house giving us good news
Its advent by receiving a rover who camped.

7. They are meteors for Al-Mansur that have spoken
Of his nearing while the obscurity of fate has gone.

8. Perhaps its herald of good news will inform us
Of an ardent desire in the soul that has succeeded.

9. A lightning that glittered in the pleasant, bent cloud as if
Brilliance appeared from its face or generosity from its palm.

10. And the wind trails the train of rain in a meadow
And benzoin as if the remembrance of him has emanated aroma.

11. Behold, the night’s stars with the earth’s armies have shone
And the atmosphere from the neighing of the steeds is filled.

12. Every embracer of his peers is anxious
If the pillars of strongholds shake they do not settle

13. Good omen from God a soul whose obedience you gained
So you won this life and the Hereafter from what you gained

14. As if he is a valiant lion in the battlefield of horses
And at the crammed cavaliers the axis of the mill.

15. The soul almost wheezes from ecstasy
Whenever the vocalist sings to it the composed.

16. O swimmer of glory, only the audacious plunged its guide
In the sea of annihilation, otherwise it recoiled or swam.

17. A gaze that makes the others’ glance follow it
When it elevates glorious or inclines playful.

18. A blue soaring over its carrier
Ember of a throw to the far target he coveted.

19. And a fine steed that bends, satiated, drinking
Of what it has harvested of souls and earned.

20. Behold the wings of the fluttering standards
To the auspicious one from vast space wings took off.

21. The King glanced about the horizons expectantly
A gaze to the most sublime summit aspiring.

22. The land has worn its gown of flowers
And the garden was adorned with its blooms and aromas.

23. The bush croons with the breaths of the morning breeze
Articulated, making its well-tuned strings eloquent.

24. O you towards whom our souls’ fervor has soared
Keeping apart, and they briskly took off joyfully towards it.

25. You have given it a wink and stood for it
And you have thanked the Giver for it.

26. A star whose supremacy the world has raised high
And a signpost for guidance and religion made clear.

27. You made it for protection of Islam avenging
Whoever transgressed in God’s cause or oppressed.

28. Crowned with glory of rule, invested
With wisdom, clad with might, mantled.

29. Seeking God’s help against enemies, giving victory for Him
And opening with God openings making.

30. Our refuge from fate’s changing states when it darkens
And our resort in calamities when it expands.

31. Poetry best beholds it confessing
Disability regarding what as his eulogy vies.

32. Pens penetrate but the pens are inept
Of inscribing what enemies he uprooted and erased.

33. Then live long, and stay well and remain, and rule!
And be adorned with happiness and rid of hated, mottled!

34. Delight an eye with the cubs of Humayr decades long
Fulfilling through them your copious hopes.