1. لِلَهِ يوسُفَ كَم أَغاثَ وَغاثا

    وَأَبادَ مَن عَبَدَ الصَليبَ وَعاثا

    God bless Yusuf! How often he has brought succor and rain,

    and annihilated those who worshipped the cross and wrought havoc.

  2. يا أَيُّها المَلِكُ الَّذي عَزَماتُهُ

    جَعَلَت بُزاةَ المُشرِكينَ بُغاثا

    O king, whose firm resolves

    have turned the polytheists’ hawks into feeble birds!

  3. لَمّا سَبَيتَ نِساءَهُم وَقَتَلتَهُم

    وَدَّ الذُكورُ بِأَن تَكونَ إِناثا

    When you took their women captive and killed their men,

    the males wished that they were females.

  4. أَهداهُمُ التَثليثُ لِلتَوحيدِ يَو

    مَ لَقيتَهُم فَقَسَمتَهُم أَثلاثا

    The Trinity offered them to monotheism on the

    day you met them and divided them into thirds:

  5. لِلسَّبي وَالبيضِ الرِقاقِ وَلِلقَنا

    فَلَكَ المَمالِكُ لا تَزالُ تُراثا

    for captivity, the slender white swords, and the spears.

    So the kingdoms remain forever your inheritance.

  6. غَزَلتهُمُ أَطماعُهُم حَتّى إِذا

    ما اِستَيئَسوا نَقَضتُهُم أَنكاثا

    Their greedy hopes spun them into yarn until, when

    they utterly despaired, I unraveled them into loose strands.

  7. حَثَّتهُمُ آجالُهُم فَسَقَتهُمُ

    بِسُطاكَ كاساتِ المَنونِ حِثاثا

    Their appointed deaths urged them on, then made them drink,

    through your onslaughts, the cups of death in swift succession.

  8. لَم يَحفِروا تِلكَ الخَنادِقَ حَولَهُم

    إِلّا لِتَجعَلَها لَهُم أَجداثا

    They dug those trenches around themselves

    only for you to turn them into their graves.