1. The supremacy of the sword and counsel,
Its prowess lethal, its gains bountiful.

2. Its rain is gracious,
Its resolve resolute.

3. A cloud whose glad tidings the meadows hail,
Flirting in the club, its glances playful.

4. When its radiance shines,
It surges, pours down, its rain copious.

5. Impregnable ally of the neighbor,
Free with bounty, its hand generous.

6. Its virtues successful,
Its morals exemplary.

7. Prolific its outpourings,
Manifest its merits.

8. It is bounteous to the birds of the air,
Offering sanctuary, its wings sheltering.

9. Its battles nourish them,
Its hearths nourish them.

10. Wretched is he who contends with it,
As wretched as his dwellings.

11. Satisfying its judgments,
Agreeable its dealings.

12. It volunteers its bounty to the obstinate transgressor,
Numerous its kind acts, but few its petitioners.

13. An eminent minister, abhorrent that
Any disliked act should stain its reputation.

14. Rather, it assaults at dawn
Those whose aggression exhausts patience.

15. What glory for Allah’s religion!
The Lord of the Throne guarantees it.

16. And praise to Ahmad in all praiseworthiness,
Its bastion his piety.

17. To those whose aspirations are pure
As were its beginnings.

18. You remain for every good
Its speaker and its doer

19. For as long as days sprout
In the garden of sorrow, its rain pouring down.

20. For as long as the barefoot circle
His House, extolling His oneness.