1. You adorned the kingdoms with your minarets as long as you erected them,
And made Murhafah's lips whisper its secrets,

2. And you are more deserving to rule the country and its people,
Your justice has spread through its regions,

3. From the year you carried the standards and protected them,
You have blessed us and increased love, so you have singled out our farm,

4. You are born with chivalry, and even if
A Persian knight circles its walls,

5. You give comfort to the subjects while they are ignorant of their comfort,
You relieve their plight and they dislike their homes,

6. So you stabilized their beds and sprouted their saplings,
And eased their throats and secured their arms,

7. A king whose father named it, so he presided over it,
And gave it refuge, so Suhail acted as its neighbor,

8. He paved the path for him, so he illuminated behind him,
And extended the banners of glory, so he shone upon it,

9. O Mahmud, you spread the religion of Ahmad
After afflictions had touched its tidings,

10. If justice of authority tilts its balance
Or softens, the sword will be its compeller,

11. You have restrained the strongholds since they have become
These resolves, you captured them and imprisoned them,

12. And you took upon yourself, plans you have hatched
To protect it, before it recovers its concealment,

13. You have exhausted its burdens, and repelled its contagion,
However much it deployed, you have clipped its wings,

14. How often it pounced with its two claws vainly,
The lions overpowered it, so you cut its nails,

15. Where is its guardian, that if it traveled
To the sky, it would disrupt its orbit?

16. In each of your victories, there is a chapter
For the religion, its contents illuminate its leaves,

17. And eulogies, the pulpits are too short, if
Orators strew them, their chains are insufficient,

18. Ambitions the kings shy away from,
With the blood of the fallen, and they did not follow its path,

19. And resolves the lions shy away from,
Lest they sense its dens, and hear its howls,

20. The balcony of glory is forever dwarfed
By the exalted no matter how much its shortness is extended,

21. An Abyssinian bared its teeth, so you subdued it,
Like a camel brought down by stab wounds in its sides,

22. You have burdened your opinion above its opinion,
So you have lowered its banners from its glories,

23. You have taken your revenge on the rebels, and you were, O
Chosen one of Ahmad's nation, its chosen one,

24. Bare of time's changes, you restored its markings,
The one who alters, so it recovered its honour,

25. The misguided snarled, so you shackled its supporters,
The era of misguidance, and you captured its eras,

26. Your stars shone above it, and sometimes
Its stars stayed up conversing in secrets,

27. It spent the night rising with Suhail, and woke up
As poets who excel the stallions in their prime,

28. And how often you have struck the like of it with your fists,
Forever, and collared the planets with its bracelets,

29. Until when its Sura embraced you, its dawn shone,
With honor, and your brilliance adorned its wrist,

30. The cross has fallen, though its tunes were high,
And its prayers repeated its refrain,

31. When Antioch heard the stamp of your steeds,
The dignity flowed, and it uncovered its secrets,

32. So today it dislikes its protector,
And has come to dislike its neighbor,

33. It knows it will taste the drink of its sister,
If it visits the armpits of the coats, and frequents it,

34. Whenever the stirrups clamor in a town,
It casts off its garments before the clamor,

35. And when its swords flash, they bow to the mighty,
Prostrating like a wall, without resistance,

36. You have filled the country with gifts and reverence,
Until its signs stole its free men,

37. You give life to its pillar of peace for its aid,
Forever, and you let loose its mountain goats,

38. Did you not restore its ruined moisture and give it life,
And aspire to the precedence of purpose, so you helped it?

39. Prophetic is your resemblance of openings, as though
Its supporters returned to reinforce it,

40. You revived its Salman, for the edifice of its peace,
And killed its Umar beneath its construction,

41. If he marched, his approaching army marched,
Quaking, splitting open the plateaus,

42. Or he camped, out of love for the ruins, with reverence,
Plundering the bedouins of their dwellings,

43. And when the kings compete for the heights of glory,
He nurtures himself with a soul that branches its best,

44. And forbids evil when it swells,
And admonishes it when it rebels against its compeller,

45. The gifts are presented to Mahmud like his name,
Even if applied to them, it would choose it,

46. The Doer of actions composes among the darkness,
Between the stars, the envious their trademarks,

47. A diligent one who has diligently worked, and the precedents behind him
Are necks, so he ruffled their groomed forelocks,

48. Like the buzzard, when it descends screeching,
The frogs fall silent, and their burrows are deserted,

49. The light of religion was recognized for its light and events,
That overwhelm when eyes paint themselves with it,

50. Well known, it roared, though the
Destinies attempted it in vain, unable to pierce its dust,

51. To God is your face, and the faces are as though
The dignities of Hit have descended upon them in their dignity,

52. And the whites shy away in the chests, amazed,
As the lips paint themselves with kohl,

53. And the horses stomp under the canopies of the spears,
Pulling the tent pegs, disturbing their wells,

54. So you remained, gathering the conquests as brides,
Adorning your chest with the plateau and its chest,

55. In a state above its banner for victory,
Talons glistening in the mud, sketching its lines,

56. For religion is a sanctuary you have raised with it,
And a garden you have guaranteed with your hand its pillars,