عبد الحميد وما سواك لملة

كثرت أعاديها وقل نصيرها

Abd al-Hamid, there is none but you for a community of faith

Whose enemies have grown many and whose champions have grown few.

ما زال يذهب حكمها عن دولة

بادت إلى أخرى تغيّب نورها

Her rule kept passing from a dynasty

That had perished, to another whose light had faded,

حتى استقر على فروق بعد ما

حرصت عليه جبالها وبحورها

Until it settled in Faruq, after

Her mountains and seas had zealously cared for it.

أم العواصم دونها شرك الردى

للطامعين يمده بسفورها

Mother of capitals, before her lies death's snare,

Which her Bosphorus spreads for the covetous.

إن الذي أبقى الخلافة في بني

عثمان صيرها إليك تجيرها

Indeed, He who preserved the caliphate among the sons of

Osman has entrusted her to you, for you to shelter her.

فاعتز بعد وقائع بك تاجها

وحسامها ولواؤها وسريرها

So, after battles, her crown gained strength through you,

And her sword, her banner, and her throne.

فلأنت معقلها وقائدها وعس

كرها وعدة حربها ووزيرها

For you are her stronghold, her commander, and

Her army, her equipment for war, and her minister.

عشت الغنيّ عن المشير وطالما

أغنى الملوك عن الأمور مشيرها

You have lived needing no adviser; many a time

Their adviser has spared kings the business of rule.

ما قام قيصر منك يشفي غلة

بمكيدة إلا وزاد سعيرها

Never has Caesar risen to quench his burning resentment toward you

With a stratagem without intensifying its blaze.

إني لمنذره بكرب عاجل

من أمة أنا بالنجاح بشيرها

Indeed, I warn him of imminent anguish

From a nation to which I bring glad tidings of success.