1. The crescent looked upon the universe and people to see
A crescent the Muslims saw and exclaimed God is Great

2. It appeared to them in a form whose beauty
Surpassed the beauty of time for it recurs

3. It brought them good tidings in its face and forehead
And brilliance with its onlookers harbinger of good news

4. It reminded them of a day in which the one cloaked in glory migrated
On it history is crowned and fortune smiles

5. On it the best caller to guidance migrated
Protected by God's power an army surrounds him

6. Gabriel walks with him and angels hasten behind him
Treading in his footsteps and fluttering all around

7. In his right hand clear proof from God radiant
Guidance, and in his left the purified scripture

8. His mount was at Makkah's gates
And its lights burst forth in Yathrib

9. The blessed year of months passed blessed
Where traces of it are written and recorded

10. It passed without blame, though they mention lapses
Creation's nature is to alternate purity and murk

11. If it was said it claimed thousands, the answer came
A replier said it brought millions to life so look

12. When the benevolence of one is weighed against his errors
And it outweighs them then the errors are pardoned

13. In it the sleepers awoke as if they were
People of the cave who slept for centuries

14. In the world of Islam in every spot
It has a lasting trace and fragrant mention

15. Ask the Turks about the days they attained wishes
And what they changed in both easts and altered

16. If none stood but Niyazi and Anwar
Then Niyazi and Anwar filled the earth

17. They were patient then unsheathed swords
They found their ancestors and deliberated

18. They counseled and for the crescent erected dwellings
On their pinnacles the planets' luck scatters

19. In them Abdulhamid appeared with his visage
To his people while the Shah stares amazed

20. Greetings to Abdulhamid and his army
And nation, as long as platforms stand in the east

21. Ask the Persians about his days in their minds
For in them the Persians were blind but now see

22. The face of life was revealed so it split them
And they spent the night at its gates clamoring

23. They cry grant us just one glance
And bring to life hearts ready to crumble

24. We yearn while the way is paved
To union if not for that tyrant

25. Look upon us do not shy for we
Keep your secret more loyal and able

26. Greetings O Persian nation, you deserve
To live with honor and pride yourselves

27. But I will not convey greetings to the Shah
For he sheds reformers' blood and wastes

28. In it, Abdul Aziz and his throne declined
And time betrayed him as matters unraveled

29. No wonder the throne of appointed kings
Rots its poles cane and tambourine rattle

30. So he cast his crown to Abdul Hafiz
And stumbled over steps and faltered

31. And the successful one managed the Muslims' affairs
As Morocco prepares and makes ready

32. In the state of Afghanistan, its months
And days thrived with fortune and prosperity

33. He entered it while the sapling was moist and green
And left it while the sapling bore fruit

34. He invoked God's protection from the evil
Of an ambitious one if ruby or Caesar encroached

35. In it knowledge's renaissance grew in India
I see beneath it a hidden secret soon manifest

36. It will complete its strides to glory and honor
Every barren place in it will be fertile and verdant

37. In Java's horizon, a glimmer appeared
That illuminated the path so its people hurried

38. If only it favored the islands by removing
Those shackles so they may shatter

39. If only in green Tunisia it built
A mention in time's tablet remembered

40. In it, a new spirit flowed in Egypt
Blessed, from a fervor blazing

41. It lay dormant for a time until I imagined
It shunned inspiration if not for Cromer

42. He confronted it and how can one expect to see
A way to subdue it while it flares

43. The days of inertness are over, O Nile, and gone
For in Egypt there is wakefulness over Egypt keeping guard

44. Murphy of wit was drugged
But is now in our nerves thrashing

45. We felt life's needs so if our resolves
Fall short of attaining them how can we excuse?

46. We felt and sensed and our souls passed the night
Scornful of life save atop glory's peaks

47. When God revives a nation, no despot
Or tyrant can return it to death

48. Men of the hoped-for tomorrow, we need
Leaders who build and a people who prosper

49. Men of the hoped-for tomorrow, we need
A scholar who calls and a propagator reminds

50. Men of the hoped-for tomorrow, we need
A scholar who knows and knowledge codifies

51. Men of the hoped-for tomorrow, we need
Wisdom that dictates and a hand that authors

52. Men of the hoped-for tomorrow, we need
You to fill our deficiencies and roll up your sleeves

53. Men of the hoped-for tomorrow, let no tomorrow
Pass like the past with life in dust

54. Men of the hoped-for tomorrow, your homelands
Implore you by God to remember

55. You have rights to the homelands, greatest of which
Is tending the garden of knowledge, so the garden prospers

56. The ultimate hope of your homelands is to see
A hand building glory and a head that thinks

57. So be hard working men, dignified
And safeguard the sanctity of your homelands and gain independence

58. O you who desire the constitution, be not still
Nor sleep in despair or grow weary

59. Prepare it a place in the heart for I see it
Knocking on your doors and shuffling about

60. So speak only right, for I fear
It will be said of you, they rushed

61. No right was lost whose people neglected it
Nor in both worlds did the negligent attain it

62. The Turks won justice by asking
And we on track, no doubt we will attain

63. For them, days of old are destined
And we on track, no doubt we will attain

64. Trust in the standing Prince today, he
Knows you and what you hope for better and more

65. He still sits guarded on the throne
Atop the Nile's valley commanding and decreeing