1. What ails the flowing stream of your falling tears?
Is it from an ember that settled, holding fast?

2. Or from a passion you have, sleepless for it,
Pouring from your restless heart?

3. I have resolved not to praise one who gains
From a people other than Hashim's clan.

4. I place them first, by the hand of Mustafa,
The blessed, of bounty and grace, Abu Al-Qasim.

5. For it is white, praiseworthy,
Its reward being thanks from all the world.

6. Its reward being safeguarding Abu Ja'far,
Caliph of the Merciful, the Riser.

7. And obeying Al-Mahdi, then his son
Musa, resolute, a clamp on disorder.

8. And for Al-Rashid the fourth, the Chosen,
What he claims is binding duty.

9. Their rule lasts fifty counted years
Despite the spleen of hostile blamers.

10. We have no rulers in this nation but them,
Until one returns, descended from them,

11. Upon whom ‘Isa will descend from Heaven.