1. You have marched with an army whose brightness is like
Yellow tents or smooth white hills.

2. The spacious valley constricts when they descend
And widens when their backs move on from the valley's clefts.

3. Your purpose and cunning spared you their need -
With some of both, triumph and victory are attained.

4. Whenever you sought to raid a tribe,
You defeated them, while neither white nor dark were routed.

5. Humans fear you, and the day is dry,
Patience fears you when patience is depleted.

6. A protector of Allah's religion, guardian of His servants,
And rain for Allah's land when rain is withheld.

7. Dazzling as if the sun were his features -
His qualities sublime in every glory.

8. A knight whose horses race with hooves
Like she-camels, their breath expanding the desert.

9. When they churn the water of desire restlessly,
Their watering place flows as freely as veins and throat.

10. With them the renowned attacks in every fray
When mettle is tested and the eagle made to seek prey.

11. Father of conquest, smasher of skulls at dawn,
My protector in hardship when the dust storm raged.

12. On his shoulder a tenderness of glory
Exhilarating as wine though no wine was poured.

13. He disdained to appear other than compassionate,
Gentle, so neither wrong nor pride touched him.

14. May obedience to his command last, to be hoped and feared,
For his enemies, only annihilation and defeat remain.

15. Bitter in battle, time does not erode his resolve -
Rather time flows according to his enduring custom.