1. Your auspicious sword is like an image of a sword,
But the edge of a sword is water in a scabbard.

2. If water speaks of gentleness and tenderness,
Then how many distinguished men has that water drowned?

3. An edge - if jinn passed it at night
The intimate would see it from afar in darkness.

4. Your slaves are tailors in war, they have seen
For it bodies with the arm of a spear enfeebled.

5. And they have cut them with swords and sewn
With their arrows rent asunder the resistant corpses.

6. And a sea of blood the boat of sun sunken
In it and stars like bubbles in a wine-skin.

7. If a wind took the dust of your flanks
To the fire, it would become water of a garden in paradise.

8. And if the smoke of your tribulations came to Egypt
Then it would reach the pyramids like a mosquito.

9. And if a king wanted to kiss your feet
While you have trodden underfoot the highest station,

10. The nine celestial spheres would not attain
Kissing them except in flights of thought.

11. A king most high in sovereignty and glory
All loftiness falls short of fathoming him.

12. Muhammad in the spheres is a sun and they
Are stars: when his glory shows they are eclipsed.

13. He established the beacon of the law, the law of Muhammad,
And stood for the victory of the Hanifite faith.

14. He made a call in Egypt: O for Muhammad!
So all the kings of East obeyed and yielded.

15. When my eyes behold your sublime glory,
They have attained from time what they yearned for.

16. And I have become like an old man whose youth returned,
Or a dead man living in bliss and fortune.