1. Be patient, O sons of war with fortitude
For who is this who hopes for immortality

2. The days have made their homes in the belly of evil
You have prepared a dead man, a loss

3. Your hearts have been filled with eloquence
And dreams no equal existence can match

4. We found him hateful to the enemies
Beloved to his people, praiseworthy

5. A trustee, a true believer, he did not decide a matter
Except his absence was only wise

6. An imam who does not oppress, as if among us
Was As-Siddiq or Umar the martyr

7. He gives them generously what his hands possess
And forgives their sins except the penal codes

8. He gives them generously what his hands possess
And forgives their sins except the penal codes

9. So the enemy has become submissive
And the righteous through him became a pillar

10. So may Allah make the people of religion among you prevail
And restore your caliphate to be new

11. Keep company with good omens and prosperity
And avoid bad omens and ill fate

12. Protect the caliphate of your Lord
When the evildoers plot against the blessed

13. Teach it to the elders and the youth alike
So that the weak and the strong may adhere to it

14. If one with confidence arises, he will be met
By a brother with confidence, performing glorious deeds

15. Taken by Yazid from his father
And take it, O Mu'awiya, from Yazid

16. So if you recognize it for yourselves, then take it
And do not cast the purpose far away

17. For your world through you has settled
Then treat its people with guidance

18. And if it wearies you, then gather it
With a bond that can control the severe