1. Your jihad is the judgment of Allah, who can repel it?
And your resolve is the command of Allah, who can deter it?

2. And your bird of good omen is the felicity you bring,
And your horoscope is the bliss that attends you.

3. The oath of allegiance to Ridwan - may Allah preserve its sanctity! -
For whom is the oath of good pleasure when his grandfather is gone,

4. And in the morning the crown of leadership adorns his head,
And the collar of the caliphate is strung around his neck.

5. His delight shelters the lonely stranger and his pleasure succors the destitute wanderer.
In the stance of peril his armies are his meadow,

6. And in the arena of death his standards are his resort.
He frolics with the steeds of heroes, gifts for which he has no need,

7. While his pleasures are but the zealous chargers and his couch their trappings.
The glad tidings he evokes in the hearts of the excellent are matched by that which enraptures his own,

8. For he has drawn us nigh unto the mercy of Allah through his guidance,
And enticed us to obey Allah through his asceticism.

9. The outpour from his bounteous hand that nurtures its guest has taught us to sacrifice lives for his cause.
Were visitors not to throng his abode, his emissaries would be the stars in the firmament.

10. His unbroken fasts are long as the nights he hallows with reciting the Koran therein.
From Qahtan your glory illuminates, your kingdom thrives through you, and by your aid comes triumph.

11. In your cause stalwarts of the lance redouble their efforts, and in defense of your claim the disputants of the sword increase their fervor.
For you the creed of the pious believer whose conviction it is that you will come to the aid of the true religion of Islam.

12. Whatever worldly fortune time accords you involuntarily shall not seduce you, unless you strip for the fray that demands your protection.
In your presence hearing is awed and sight strays,

13. While your high-mindedness spurns the hopes the craven place in you,
And your resolution drives them back to the stagnant pools of servility.

14. How often has the grip of the righteous weakened only for the bond of your pact to restore its clasp!
Should the death of despair cast its shadow thanks to you, the breath of hope will blow it away.

15. You called out to Islam, "Arise!" when once it wavered,
A cry that parched souls rejoiced to hear,

16. So you entrusted with a sword him who would drive your foes before him,
Either to abase the Indians or visit the Greeks with ravage.

17. If the Indians have not witnessed the iron resolve with which you were created,
Who shall then deny that of the Arabs your origin and descent are purest?

18. If the ancestry derives from the glorious tribe of Yemen,
Then the obedience rendered to you came from Abd Shams and his friendship.

19. Be it Azd conceived you and Tujib gave you birth,
It was Adnan who refined you and Ma'ad who made you whole.

20. Time cloaked your scabbard with the mantle of our rule,
For a kingdom nurtured by Abdelmalik its sovereigns are beholden.

21. It thrives through every just imam aiding it,
It waxes through every vanquishing prince abetting it.

22. You trace your birth to the house of prophecy, and it pronounced you singular in your nobility.
So pride yourself in him whose noble deeds even the prophets extol,

23. And glory in him whose triumphs are those the Orthodox caliphs acclaim,
He who personifies every right to the caliphate, and every imam in Islam claims as forebear.

24. Be he whose mother is the illustrious Hind, while the sanctuary nurtured him and the Heat its cradle rocked,
Unto whom the holy place of Mecca and its hidden passages belong,

25. The course for the pilgrim to pursue, Nejd his country's heart,
Where the voice of the Talbiya resounds and the pilgrims don their sequined vestments.

26. Nobilities subtle meaning would daunt mankind's minds to comprehend,
And boasts that, were I to call all of creation to recount, would exceed what any number could reckon.

27. Not even Mundhir's line of fathers attained such heights as he
The first of them - but his pride surpasses that of the first..

28. They conferred on Merwan the choice of their souls,
Whereby the ages were ennobled, and the best of grandfathers exalted.

29. Your sword, perfectly aimed, increases glory the further flung -
With it you shot the horizons of the Romans' realm, and in it drag their leading lights captives.

30. Many a mulish lord of ill-repute
Rules his far-flung state by leave of your whims.

31. Deeming himself immune to the blows of fate he yet reckons not their suddenness,
Though when the buffets of adversity strike they catch him unawares.

32. The son of Yahya saw that you were astray and made clear to you that uprightness should be your rule,
So you did not hesitate when an envious hand reached for what fortune had granted you,

33. Nor were your faithful scions far from Rome to be found wanting
When the craven-hearted crew cried out, dismayed at the approach of your lions.

34. Battalions - had they been cast at fate itself they would have left The Zodiac's Twin Peaks tottering.
As if the vastness of earth were clad

35. In an impregnable coat of mail,
With a glance you would break their ranks, laying their squadrons low.

36. Thus your enemies behold naught but a calamity
Which the Compassionate drives, and wherein His servant rides.

37. Until you reach the promised day, bright shall be its light for you,
And the foretold appointment, wherein His word to you shall be fulfilled,

38. Through the All-Bountiful this boon was bestowed complete,
And the Caliphate's scion is he who should justly receive your praise.

39. He stands ever to my right hand, enduring through days nonesuch,
A marvel spanning ages, bound to abide unending.

40. No eloquence of any foreign tongue could attain its limit
Were I to strive harnessing the epochs to prolong their stretches.

41. Knowing that whoever whets his soul against you
Shall reap but the fangs and claws of wolves for his pains.

42. He who the horizons scours, bent on confronting you,
Shall leave his bones where the steeds clash, deserted, scattered.

43. And whoso seeks a stream not found in your expanse,
Shall discover naught but the sandal-prints of your mount marking his cheek.

44. For there is no aspiration that does not end with you,
No sovereign whose affairs do not depend on your command.