1. By Allah, we sought no evil or injustice,
No, no, nor did we desire kingship or transgression.

2. Rather we took the just as our example when we rejected
The verses of our Creator, and the truth has been made clear.

3. Thanks be to our Creator, for we are not like those
Who have lost the way and sought tyrannical kingship.

4. Indeed God has guided us, Most High, Most High, to
The best guidance and recognition, knowingly.

5. We say by God's judgement, all of creation has witnessed
Our arbitration regarding the killing, openly.

6. We are insightful regarding our religion, and steadfast
Upon the path - the brother of transgression confronts us.

7. We urge pleasing our Creator
As a religion, and reject whoever sought disobedience.

8. We distinguish between the ally and the
Enemy, as our Master has stated.

9. He was not pleased with us placating
Their religion, nor were we pleased with hypocrisy.

10. If Adam had not repented his sin,
Blessings upon him, we'd say he died losing.

11. But we say to wretched Cain he went
The son of the pure one to the fires drunk.

12. Also Jonah, had he not repented, would have died like
Pharaoh in the darkness of the evil sea.

13. And a servant, if his religion surpasses ours
In fairness, he would become foremost among us.

14. Nobility with us is not merely inherited -
Rather, it is for the virtuous, those pleased with the Merciful.

15. This is what we worship the Lord of the Heavens with
Plainly and clearly until the Day of Resurrection.

16. God has honored us with knowledge from Him, as
He has preferred jihad and granted excellent patience.

17. We are the protectors of the religion of God when the
Sun rose and when it set, both horsemen and footmen.

18. We are the few, and the Quran praises
The few openly - ask if you are confused.

19. We are the group, and consensus is recognized
For the just, even if they were but one man.

20. We are the purchasers - so who is more worthy
To establish God's sovereignty in what we have purchased?

21. We do not frighten the path of all people, nor
Do we alarm any but the hostile trickster.

22. We do not ask people for their wealth covetously,
Nor do we betray those in command treacherously.

23. We do not offer excuse to the sinful
Whoever repents his disbelief or misdeeds - so be it.

24. We do not fight whoever seeks negotiations
Before supplication, nor whoever surrenders before us.

25. We do not prohibit what is permitted of blood
Until he returns submissively to the Owner of the Throne.

26. We do not consider permitted his wealth or child
Like the polytheists, nor clothe him in faith.

27. Whoever wishes may know what our beginnings were -
Our conduct will suffice as proof for him.

28. This Khalil, imam of the Muslims - the lights
Of his just conduct have kindled fires.

29. O you who perfected virtue and faith -
Qualities nourished and faith sustained.

30. I love you, and the Merciful knows it -
A devotional love to the Owner of Majesty, an offering.

31. Since you have become renowned in merit, you and your
Heart that loves the religion of God, whoever professes it.

32. Until you crossed the sea to me victoriously,
In days you returned with what Ghadhlan was endowed with.

33. Ask about your brother who found sleep bitter
As this saddened him, or exhausted him, or softened him.

34. Or did he betray the nullifiers' transgression thereby
From aiding his Creator if he was ungrateful?

35. No! Your brother's nobility has bloomed through justice,
By God - so there is no ingratitude to God.

36. And aid your brother, for war is brewing,
And truth is sought by its rightful pillars.

37. And know you have left a great legacy -
So raise its nobility, for the matter is made easy.

38. Indeed, he whose tyranny flooded Sanaa,
My Lord has become his urgent refuge.

39. Opposing the Yemeni land became to him
When it saw you as a fortress and supporter for it.

40. So rouse them, for they openly call their Lord
Secretly to rule them, both openly and secretly.

41. But you have before you feeble Kashsh and tired
Supporters - while you have hatred among people.

42. And Shehr - if you considered it, people fight him,
So Shehr's men have become allies for it.

43. He had sent a manifesto to our nobility,
Seeking the transgressors, wealth, and betrayal.

44. He intended aiding the Abbasids in his view -
So we forgave that concealment.

45. Until he did deeds only the treacherous do,
Envying us out of ignorance of your rights.

46. In foolishness, he betrayed those who passed
From defending your house - may God disgrace the betrayer!

47. So he is hateful - do not overlook his deed.
The hateful see kindness as humiliation.

48. Look on him with the eye of hatred, for he has
A heart that burns when you are mentioned.

49. Be angry for your Lord - God is angered
By the injustice of the unjust, and I think you angry.

50. Make him the first you greet the country with,
We hope for an army from you to cover us.

51. To God, Most High, Most Majestic, His Grandness and Exaltation!
Glory to Him! Glory to Him! Glorified!

52. Then blessings upon the unlettered prophet Ahmad - when
The clouds poured for him, the parchments humbled.