1. Ride the storms to glory,
And brave the perils with good fortune,

2. Give generously with open hands,
That may hold the rule of mankind and the course of fate.

3. Unsheathe the sharpened sword, wield it
With resolute might like the blade’s edge.

4. If the appointed hour spared its beauty,
It would flow with magnanimity over those thrones.

5. Renounce religion and worldly things,
They are cleared of advancing or delaying you.

6. You resembled your forefathers, hunters
Who strove with valor and generosity in deed not forgotten.

7. From every notable in every event
Soaring with pride derived from you.

8. And the noble, when you stand by his side,
Mount Sinai, and cast off the side of Al-Tour.

9. You see gold coins rushing from their palms
Largesse, and their faces like gold dinars.

10. A folk whose father if you trace their ancestry
Glory, by the life of their father, not diminished.

11. Whenever night descends I meet its darkness
With a lamp flaming from your oil well known.

12. Or dawn breaks and your features shine bright
Among its tidings and foretokens.

13. On the wing of every darkness do not equip
The murk of blindness but with eagle eyes.

14. You see the planets wandering in its gloom as
Necklaces wavered in the green goblets.

15. And every migrant's ardors seethe
As if her burning desires were those of the lovelorn,

16. Whose heated passion persists through the night
And should it subside, sees no light.

17. The cheeks guard bitterness in their depths,
As if it were rubbed on them from the jars.

18. The vine defies the canals while it is lower down
Erect in parts, trailing in others.

19. Gently, you gained in peace and leisure
What none gained in fear and illusion.

20. The plain is yours to fold and unfold
As suits each folded and outstretched state.

21. And the tumultuous sea with surging waves
You see kinship in it like strangers.

22. Fulfilling the soul's every desire
Depicting death in it in every form.

23. Say, nothing seemed but in its hidden depths
Do sublime spirits like them take form?

24. One moment it shakes from its shoulder like the mincing gait
Of a youth singing with modulation and trilling.

25. Another it imitates what the ecstatic rages
High in anguish, confusion, and reproach.

26. You rode its wave with steadfastness
Despite forbidded whims and desires.

27. When its surge grew violent or grew clamorous, you stood
With tested valor in tribulations discreet.

28. And whenever its ferocity cooled, your help warmed to it,
So it sprawled level like the leveled.

29. As a lightning flashed on the expanse of a meadow
Your friendship added to it only kindling.

30. You were Moses' staff in his grasp
Or your resolve was the first blast of the horn.

31. With your concerns, aspirations are sublime,
And for havoc there is still an unerring arrow.

32. A young virgin, an old woman,
A wonder between femininity and masculinity.

33. Pregnant with deadly young in her womb
Able against her will to disturb and stir.

34. Alas for them between her sides and themselves
Seething between ascent and descent.

35. As if between her wings and her realm
They are wandering suspicions or smothered breaths.

36. She floated and flew saying to the winds,
"Divert my course if you wish or let me soar."

37. Until she transcended the firmament to a king
Secured through you in the firmament triumphant.