1. The best of people to their enemies are resolute
Those who with swords execute commandments

2. None sleeps on down but the victorious
While others make miserable the afflicted

3. You made the Book into battalions against the foe
Revealing to them in place of talk, talk

4. And you made the swords speak knowledge
Rendering it needless for you to speak to pens

5. You are hoped for and feared out of greed and fear
He who gives bounty and compulsion abundantly

6. O subduer of foes with a bitter soul
That refuses darkness and reveals gloom

7. Your fear robbed the nights of their tyranny
And your bounties enslaved the days

8. And for many a realm whose men disobeyed you
You at times left the women widowed

9. You shook the land of Rome with the tribulations
They still see occurring today

10. They denied the favor you bestowed upon them while one
Scornful of praise was ungrateful for generosity

11. And long has the healthy been ungrateful for health
Only for thanklessness to turn it into sickness

12. You overwhelmed them while alert with fears
As you did formerly in their dreams

13. Never did they encounter threatening lightning as a deceptive mirage
Nor the clouds of threat as delusive ghosts

14. You gave them a sense of security and caught them unawares
That they might experience calm and feel at ease

15. If most of them are fodder, predators
Destroy the few but eschew fodder

16. With vanguards routed, what will be their state tomorrow
Should the valiant visit their land voraciously?

17. In brave lads whom the blaze of battle
Made its fuel forever, though they were honorable before you

18. They forfeit only the souls that sufficed them
Bodies they gathered as booty from you, O mighty one

19. The refinement of your kingdom - indeed it is the kingdom that
Facilitates victories and teaches valor

20. A mixed horde of city dwellers and nomads whom you
Long made encounter agony in your presence

21. Of them not one harbored in his heart a passion
To cause kindred hearts to grow apart

22. Horses you dispatched that outstripped warners
With resolves more wondrous than fantasies

23. They clad the open desert with iron brightening it
While the atmosphere because of their coats of mail grew dark

24. On a day of al-Artah after you had watered them
With a death that prevailed over souls fiercely

25. You captured their leader there and left
Their grandees in the depths of caves as bones

26. They cast aside their bows and surrendered them
For passions had flared and the arrows were aflame

27. And so their heads came carried
They did wrong and destruction was not darkness

28. Your squadrons sowed orphans
Throughout the land of Antioch

29. And they marched decisively, undissuaded
Though they pitched tents on the coast of the gulf

30. The garrison at Demos should remain confined
Abstaining from war, for abstinence it will praise

31. Were it to leave the ramparts it would become
Among the remnants of al-Washij a ruin

32. And it knows that among the firmest in resolve there
When battle flares, and the fiercest in contest

33. Not far is it from the day of ruin if it intends
What it intends in decisive confrontation

34.
You subjugated the kingdom of the Arabs in their domains

35. While the Byzantines are easier if you desire
How can the protected lands oppose you

36. When they see the lion of glory who forestalls places of refuge?
And if you sought the presence of their king tomorrow

37. He would come to you in surrender or submission
So let them respond with obedience, for one unlike

38. The nobility of high glories pardons sins
By my life, they experienced his pleasure and anger

39. And saw sweet life and affliction
And he gave them the water of life when they spurned

40. Until when they yielded it turned to poison
Misguided is he who deems the stellar orbit

41. A meadow grazed, with the stars as cattle
The impregnability of capitals rests on the fact that you are their

42. Most honorable protector against every invader
If enemies ignite a fire, you return it cold

43. Upon its people, and peace
With his decisiveness, judgment, and bounty

44. He brings loss and injustice and tyranny to naught
His mention in his absence brings security though often

45. The absent one was confused and confusion manifest
You grant security to the sleepless and before him

46. Fear, by your life, kept the tranquil awake
So remain, for your command prevails, and you are equal

47. To one who, like you, travels or stays
And know that the realms of the countries belong each

48. To a king who takes Damascus as his haunt
If an affair is risky, its sword is for him

49. Or if it battles champions, is its sword
The high-minded stag becomes a doormat if eminent

50. But when granted glory takes wing like a dove
Distinctions have specially exposed you to great danger

51. Which monopolize veneration and esteem
You remain indefatigable in every grand

52. Endeavor until you leave none unattempted
The latter takes the virtues from the former

53. Yet you refused that, monopolizing them by inspiration
You left them a successor while deeming them

54. To have preceded - so your time seeks the foremost
Generosity and valor, O encompasser of both

55. Have deferred from your path the steps
You would have removed from the seat of the Caliphate its sword

56. A weight that a dignified, respected one can barely carry
And when does a passing state ever object

57. To you annulling or deciding a matter?
So let one whom you strove to aid tirelessly

58. Until he rests while you stay up and he sleeps praise you
How good is the world with your compelling glory

59. With your gifts pouring down - so persist and last!
And you have flooded the sinful with deeds

60. That rise above praise - and ample bounty
If only they fulfilled its slightest obligation

61. They would for a time you fast perpetually equal you
So take the oath of allegiance - for how many a stance of yours, renowned,

62. Pleases God and Islam!
Why do souls not incline toward your staying

63. When, were it not for you, bodies would lack residence?
But how could thoughts not praise you

64. When you are the one who broadened their awareness?
A king surpassing kings in ardor and reverence

65. Whose resolves flowed freely and he carried them out
He commanded the battalions to wage jihad while he strove

66. To facilitate the paths of pilgrims, then fasted
So may the month whose role as successor

67. You made rejoice in what came before and after praise you
A month you made holy war the opening of

68. While the caring for pilgrims and their return its seal
You ascertained and protected a people you enriched

69. And your fine deeds covered its blemishes
You improved its life and afterlife so live long,

70. Passing months and expiring years
A man who outdid kings in zeal and consciousness

71. A king whose resolves surged and he executed them
He commanded the squadrons to wage jihad and exerted himself

72. In facilitating the paths of Hajj, then observed the fast
So may the month whose role as successor

73. You made rejoice in what preceded and followed praise you!
A month whose opening you made holy war

74. And whose seal was caring for pilgrims and their return
It scrutinized a people you enriched

75. And your virtues covered its sins
You beautified its world and hereafter so persist