1. What is the use of vain efforts in the fate of mankind?
That is why we think our wakefulness is a slumber.

2. It shows our eyes merits not seen
in both worlds, nor does one see.

3. Your supreme merits have become evident,
unquestioned in truthfulness and praise unexaggerated.

4. You had asked about its secrets,
so I became since you brought me near, informed.

5. I wished my days with you be years
and my short hours be months,

6. to see and hear each glance
that pleases a listener and stuns a beholder.

7. O you whose fame when people spread,
fills the world with a fragrance surpassing ambergris.

8. When it spreads in the farthest countries, then
Syria has been, through your presence, perfumed.

9. Until we found its scent and soil
aloes wood and yellow musk.

10. You who carried red banners as
the daring of wars used to carry them forward.

11. And the clothes of glorification befit one
who wearies if he wears coats of mail.

12. Were it not for your justice and events plentiful,
guidance would have perished from those who abandoned its reins.

13. Through you the Beneficent supported the externals of His religion,
and by the edge of your sword aids one requesting aid.

14. And whenever bands terrify, you divide them
between death and life, rending them asunder.

15. You subdued those who used to tuck up
their garments in wars - now relaxing.

16. And brought them poverty until they resembled
Ma'n in little wealth.

17. Had other than you attempted frightening their herds,
even deaf rocks would have been frightened.

18. Until when the darkness of turmoil turned from them
and he of insight saw your guidance,

19. they sought refuge in your rule submissively, to be safe
from evil, imploring you for forgiveness that you may forgive.

20. You refused until you found none to replace
and forgave until you left none asking forgiveness.

21. They turned back, having cast off the trappings of their steeds
and they came, deprived of their embroidered gowns.

22. And whenever they plucked the fruits of your promise and transgressed,
they found your threat like your promise, bearing fruit.

23. Therefore, let the wolves fear in their deserts
a lion whose anger has flared, the lion of evil.

24. And a victorious one whose determination
guaranteed he won't bring forward one who lags behind.

25. Son of Jarrah called you while turning away
from that which he fears other than your pardon.

26. So respond to the call of the eminent father - for long
another called him submissively but he disdained.

27. And favor him, fulfilling his hopes,
as a generosity, for all game is in the belly of the hunter.

28. No belt of his would be heavier, had he
foreseen from his affair what transpired.

29. He left countries after entering them
and soon you will praise, if you pardon, the source.

30. Since he saw the courtyards of all the kingdoms
as dust, he remembered the radiant presence.

31. So he cried and your hope made him laugh, and none
saw other than him crying yet smiling.

32. The steeds rested since you stopped them
seeking the enemy, galloping and neighing.

33. So the one who does not rest his steeds rested them,
until they stirred the ground of every land.

34. Until they were girded though they were girded
for a day of battle, they would be resolute.

35. Of every chestnut that had not been
covered with it before, biting the tongue.

36. Followed by a bay that was for a time
clad in what the bright fire enkindles.

37. Black in the darkness, shining in its shadows,
so its beholder deems it a moonlit night.

38. And behind them are horses as though their skins
were woven in Constantinople or Ctesiphon.

39. You have presented to your Prophet platforms
that exhaust kings preceding and succeeding.

40. From some of what your spear took from the foe -
this is not of what is sold and bought.

41. And the whole of ignorance used to see
slitting the throat of a prisoner as munificence when a tribe was dishonored.

42. For in their time, even if they witnessed yours,
they would not have deemed gambling licit.

43. And it sufficed them to slit the throat of a prisoner -
a bestowal with precious pearls most generous.

44. And you spread from exposing injustices a death
that no aspirant hoped would be exposed.

45. So by your rule the wrist of justice prevailed
and by fear of you the wrist of tyranny bent.

46. And you terminated the injustice of the unjust, so one who
used to walk with pride now walks groveling.

47. So injustice - one who did not eliminate it, eliminated it.
And right - one who denied it, confessed to it.

48. The victorious was created with virtues and continence,
glory, goodly mention - ever triumphant.

49. A grandfather who aids him in possessing the heights -
a father, when the difficult is sought, it is facilitated.

50. And it is the heights - your father does not possess except
one whose origin is fragrant and whose lineage is noble.

51. The Turks are a people except that they
are stronger and firmer in adversity, crushing it.

52. And a spring is like an artery except that this one
gushes from the meadows while that one gushes from the ground.

53. Your peer seeking his goal is successful,
but when the lesser clashes with the great!

54. You are the feast of the Muslims, for they did not see
from you a single day deprived of the heights' meadows.

55. Calling you watered the meadow of my poetry, flourishing,
until it became, as you see it, illuminated.

56. So may your glory make every defective meadow thrive,
which your favors guaranteed against barrenness.

57. You do not see the meadow fresh and vibrant
unless where you see the writhing serpent.

58. I found you the crown of every ruler
so I clothed this crown with this gem.

59. And even if I, though I do not, let flow
a pen in praise of other than you it would not flow.

60. Or if I plunged outside your sea I would not be
a extractor of this carefully selected pearl.