1. I sought good omens in her, her light being the sun
It illuminated the gloom of days, so confusion departed

2. And I bandaged with a singer from Dawlat al-Nasiriyyah
Good fortune, victory and intimacy enveloped her

3. The best leader undertook her administration
Abundant in caution, his traits being generosity and valor

4. And whoever is Sword of the Faith, his deputy
While the eyelids of time sleep from his kingdom, drowsy

5. A wise commander, with fury and politics
In his loftiness, softness and hardness intermingled

6. As though the creation is a body, its cure being through you
And your governance of it being the soul and breath

7. To him belonged all honorable deeds and they ended
So through his person his breed and genus pride themselves

8. Deadly to souls if they disobey, beneficial to them
If they obey, so he either wounds or repairs

9. Every describer falls short of grasping him
Even if he strains and his helper tugged