1. Your forefathers disdained glory to be debased
People became gentle birds to you out of awe

2. Opinion supported you, it does not weaken
Resolve backed you, it does not fail

3. So you left no share of praise humiliated
Nor an opportunity to be debased

4. You surpassed people in her path
So you attained a rank never reached before

5. It is no ordinary rank in the world
Can any stars for you from it be eclipsed?

6. A hand guaranteed you richness and piety
A hand that touched dew and was ready to strike

7. Whenever it unsheathed sharp swords
Hope for it said: no weakness

8. You see it gives generously when asked little
And it refrains from stabbing with sharp blades

9. When people kiss the feet of kings
The soil protected your feet from kisses

10. The right of Majesty belongs to the Lord of Grandeur
Zeal fed it and shortcomings opposed it

11. So its path of justice does not tilt
And its attributes heard do not bore

12. He forgives those who pardoned or sufficed
And fulfils those who fulfilled or were just

13. He loves pardoning despite ability
And hates swords preceding Spears

14. Impregnable if fate becomes hostile
Quick to respond if swords are unsheathed

15. With extensive shadows and eloquent words
Firm, far-reaching, and elevated

16. An elevated position that protects the elevated from him
Alive is its glory since it descended

17. So glory never departed since it lodged
And praise never disconnected since connected

18. Nor did blame about him exceed limits
Nor did hopes of people flee from him

19. The Lord of the Throne chose for Muslims
A rescuer, the faith sufficed to be debased

20. They embraced him with dark hearts
Stingy towards his dark mind

21. He cared for them with a gentle gaze
And a heart from God, deterring calamity

22. So since he stayed up guarding them, he did not sleep
And since he protected them he did not neglect

23. Forbearing, though his gifts never ceased
Created in hast, though glorious

24. Had virtues not been permitted by you
They would have remained prohibitions, never permitted

25. And when you bestowed them upon petitioners
They returned, even asking who did not ask

26. The easiest of them is like the incoming clouds
And the quickest of them is like lightning that descended

27. Their love came to you ahead of aloes
So you did not want to change course from it

28. And you connected it like one of high ambition
Of strong determination and tireless perseverance

29. So O you whose goals cannot be attained
And O you whose efforts cannot be emulated

30. And O flag of glory, judge of judges
And O the greatest of the revered ministers

31. You are indeed of good origin grown
More guiding than every fair witness

32. And you never stopped treading the roads of the lofty
Guiding towards them, never guided

33. Trickery sufficed you in time of cunning
A resolve leading when fury gathered

34. You were known through it and so were the valiant
Through prowess not through cunning

35. You overpowered fate when it transgressed
Though it had a tendency, so you made it just

36. So your fear rests in its breast
And your order is implemented when directed

37. You armed your opinion before the swords
So its implications sufficed unsheathed

38. And you implemented it, and cast aside spears
Due to the defects latent within them

39. When the steps of the climbers grew short
You possess the longest steps

40. And the Leader saw you as the best prepared
For a momentous command, so he assigned it to you

41. So he delegated authority to you in his kingdom
As the Brave was assigned the standard

42. So who was fit to carry your load independently?
And who was able to bear your burden?

43. And you endowed him with the sword of conquests
So it exposed what garments it drew

44. Conquests came and spears had not yet cast
At their positions, while horses were in ravines

45. You destroyed the elite substitutes with a raid
So their leader missed what he hoped for

46. You thus untied bonds the wars had tied
And erased traces the ravages had erased

47. And one who was named Mighty since you challenged him
Became known as Humiliated instead

48. So your fleeing victim has no hope of relief
Wherever he settles, scared and confused

49. If fear left him he would be guided
But instead his terror intensified and remained

50. And fear of Hudhayfah blinded him
With cowardice, as long as he did not carry a burden

51. Had he sought protection at your door
He would have protected his kingdom from what he lost

52. The kingdoms willingly surrendered to their Lord
So they remained like scattered wool

53. Every fearsome lion snatched them
And every ancient hearing submitted to you

54. When the heels of the brave desired
No female hyena with cubs could deter them

55. The Bedouins since you became their protection
Saw all injustices against the truth vanish

56. And when you feared discord upon it
And glory only shifts with discord

57. You refused to shackle their necks
And safeguarded their spoils from being plundered

58. And you sent among them a trustee, sufficient for you
Who distributed with justice that bounty

59. And he answered until he answered the call
With determination, whoever was misguided in them

60. A desolate land, if the hardy warrior traveled it
Relying on his knowledge of the trails, he would not succeed

61. He went announcing the banner of the Leader
And his flags in their rightful places

62. Your sharp sacred limit supports him
And your glorious ancestors help him

63. Until he reached the Qayrawan
From its onion peel every unjust one darkening it

64. So he accomplished the affairs that neither
A protector or failure had accomplished

65. And he particularly gifted with the best endowments
Those who were steadfast in their conquest and shackling

66. So whoever fate did not return
From the turnover of his days was not returned

67. He took possession of the realms of this time
With what he wasted upon its previous kings

68. Who only used deceit, which availed them naught
And thought, which did not help them

69. They only paraded the Nile, which in turn flooded
And they only feigned words, which they implemented

70. If they hastened, their destruction was with deliberation
And if they slowed down, their ruin was swift

71. While they are a pasture in the eyes of the sublime
You and your sons are its kohl

72. Your resemblance in ancestry will not alter
Nor will your lineage ever be undone

73. Will you allow after excellence for me to count
Among those deficient, the blemished?

74. If the utmost you enabled me with proves too immense
Then grace for me is greater

75. So increase the chagrin of enviers through it
And keep harming those who plot and scheme

76. And limit praise, if you mention others, it appears
Falsehoods on the faces of states

77. Praise that circles the furthest lands
And is found residing wherever it settles

78. Do not deny the pride of wishes
For you enabled their lengthening

79. I did not make my worth while so it does not
Become one of endless hopes until it withers away

80. The fast left in anticipation of your
Most excellent words and most pure deeds

81. And the feast returned to praise you
So may you remain its adornment forever

82. And God has heard sincere prayers for you
From those who beseech and implore

83. No community was deprived asking it
That called the Magnificent for long life

84. May God suffice the perfection of your glory
For whoever attained the fullness of his goal, perfected