1. O sons of Othman, rejoice, for great favor has your Lord bestowed
You have attained the goal which mighty men before you failed to reach

2. Good fortune came upon you suddenly, dispersing woeful plights
God's promise was fulfilled, ease succeeding hardship in its flight

3. Despair's veil had stood between, but now is torn away
How many a corpse will the Judge raise from its slumbering clay!

4. How far astray were your imaginings! "We are doomed," you would say
Yet without any pact, God changed your state, night transmuted into day

5. So you might find compassion in the morn, and thanks in memory's ray
Knowing none but Allah is Lord, beside Whom none can hurt or profit one

6. He willed the Orient's stumbling should by His mantle be o'errun
And inspired our Caliph, whose name is "Shadow," though dust-bound flesh may tire

7. To scatter largesse on mankind, as rain the thirsting earth entire
By his grace you have found new life, while in some breasts envy rankles

8. His peace and safety came to you, while neighbors fled with bloodied ankles
For you they feared the worst, but in other lands how cheap the captive throng!

9. Can one so gracious, fatherly, mean us any harm or wrong?
A leader each day showing the East his noble obligation

10. An age of troubles found in him a rock against temptation
He tamed authority's caprice, curbing it with discretion wise

11. Through governance his clouds pour down as rain in distant skies
Had he achieved naught else, the Road by which the nations thrive

12. Would have sufficed, though gloried by Abu'l-Zahra's voice alive
He who showered such boons on men, like hottest summer rain impearling

13. A people sunk in darkened night by him saw bright days unfurling
Glad tidings in a people's ears! Once drunk, now intoxication past

14. Lightning brought us the great news and poured the clouds in joy at last
Blest the time, blest the day when such great fortune came to bless us

15. Life renewed, forget now the grievous past's distress and hopelessness
Thanks, our brothers steadfast! In those grim hours firm and dutiful

16. Value their nobility, reward their loyalty bountiful!
Long you stood, long you gazed out helpless from the river's edge

17. Do not dwell on days now gone, for sweeter draughts today we pledge
Long was night's oblivious gloom, but dawn has lit the revels anew

18. No excuses left for failing, like one who fasted not when due
Give your lives for the Commander of the Faithful and your pride

19. Kinship with Uthman will lift you ever to glory's side
A new golden age will come through his munificence sublime

20. hands outstretched to bless your brows through all advancing time
Prepare for the coming days - the future is here, fresh and green!

21. He has sanctioned consultation - take counsel, should you lead