1. Your Excellency came from a faraway place
Seeking what power you were given

2. Rising above most animals
She gathered beauty in herself, and adorned herself

3. With a neck towering over others
And was colored with wonders in her dye

4. She blossoms the garden's flowers in April
With white, black, yellow and red

5. And glanced coquettishly with her eyelash
And swayed like a cheek among the branches

6. Tame and wild, none could lead her
Except the Syrian kings with crowns

7. It's as if she preferred those of high status
Who fetched the spring's water from Zaghwan

8. I mean the Banu Hafs, and that is enough for you
No one else, when she saw you again

9. The one who drove the fresh Euphrates to Tunis
And the sweet provider to the thirsty

10. She left the smoke of palm trees in her homeland
Seeking out one who entertains without smoke

11. And she came to you in peace and pleasant affection
And asked about the animals in the enclosure

12. The one who gathered opposites, a lion with serenity
And the varied birds and whales

13. And wonders of the Merciful's creation, that
Were not gathered for the founder of the enclosure

14. No, by the Lord of Sadir and its lightning
And the honored castle from Ghumdan

15. Reserved by kings, when they wanted to spread it
Through the tongues of architecture

16. Indeed, when a building's prestige grows
It denotes the grandeur of status

17. O Bey, advisor, chosen one
The honest in promise, brother of benevolence

18. Congratulations on what none were given before you
In past eras and times

19. So receive the countries' voluntary submission
And their souls, let alone their bodies

20. And have good fortune in eternal, extending kingship
In glory that grows and reaches safety

21. And God protects your glory and increases
Your merit, by the station of the Criterion