1. Youth was lost in the vanity of words,
While old age appeared praising the wicked.

2. Is there no repentance, O soul, so that
You may succeed in attaining satisfaction before the end?

3. How many faces have I blackened with lies,
Faces that shine with the lamp that lights up the darkness -

4. Muhammad who raised his career
Above the full moon and the shining moon,

5. A pure, cleansing Messenger of noble lineage,
Kind to His servants, merciful to them,

6. Intercessor for them on the Day of Reckoning.
So my praise of him - by Allah - is not enough,

7. I greet him with peace and prayers,
And I will support and aid him with clear victory,

8. With tongues and swords.
Did anyone else ascend like Taha

9. As the Guardian shaded him with clouds?
Does anyone else have a basin like the basin

10. Of the Prophet of Hashim, the best of mankind?
And did anyone else lead the messengers and angels in prayer

11. Other than Ahmad our most resolute leader?
Do other nations boast though we

12. Have eternal pride?
We have good tidings - we have attained

13. Through him the utmost wishes from our Lord.
And Allah has favored us over many

14. And granted us Zamzam and the Ancient House.
We are the proudest nation, whom the Most High

15. Has favored over the angels and great messengers.
By as-Siddiq - O treasure of the righteous -

16. Abu Bakr, the imam caliph,
By al-Farooq the bravest warrior

17. Who repelled the misguided with arrows,
By the owner of two lights who attained the heights

18. By sacrificing himself on the day of the great battle,
By your son-in-law, my beloved,

19. Ali the brave knight of war,
By Fatima, and the two grandsons - be

20. My intercessor, O my hope, on the Day of Resurrection,
And watch over me, for I am an evil slave

21. Who wasted life in the vanity of words,
But I regretted my sins

22. That appeared from me, though blaming did not benefit me,
And I came to You repenting, O Lord, so accept

23. A sinner who hopes for a good end.