1. Weak in passion and opinion is he who renewed the glad tidings,
And the Commander of the Faithful's lute string has snapped.

2. It is not right that He should be disparaged with one,
But rather with thousands and tens of thousands.

3. So how can I congratulate with a single one?
When He has sired exile and the full moon and the sea?

4. Even had I not sprung from Him nor lived after Him,
I would have sent congratulations in His wake, of one piece seamless.

5. Because were I to give Him congratulations,
I would be, in the act of congratulating Him, thanking myself.

6. But I congratulate Him so He may know my need -
That my conscience toward Him resembles frank speech.

7. And that my affection's purity for Him, and my counsel to Him,
Surpass what human strength can express as glad tidings.

8. You came with Him, bowing your brow opposite,
A kinsman, close companion, never once ungenerous.

9. You returned through Him life to new birth,
Barren though it was. You made Time forget its betrayals through Him.

10. It was as if you were dawn light married to its sun,
So you spent the night as mate to it and fathered it a full moon.

11. Thus did the world become, through His advent,
A bride, while before His birth it had been a chaste virgin.

12. So how will it be when He grows up, matures, reaches manhood,
And God reveals in Him His signs, sublime?

13. When you delegate to Him mastery of the Caliphate and legacy,
And He disposes, in His rule, of prohibition and command?

14. And sets out against His enemies every legion -
Their unyielding minds will soften under its feet as if they were rock.

15. There shall He excel in the Caliphate with a nobility
That leads glory, fortune, and triumph to bow down before Him.

16. He shall give the world length of days, to be feared and hoped for;
Islam, in His time, shall subjugate unbelief.

17. He will waken Indian swords from their dormancy,
And shatter in stabbing the foe the slender waists.

18. God's faith will revive with joy in Him,
And Fatemah's flowers ransom Him with sons.