1. The kings have lost their awe and glory,
Their ways and morals and decency,

2. Their eloquence, poise, and articulacy,
Radiance, generosity, and hospitality.

3. You have shamed the finest of this age
In grace, patronage, speech, and deed.

4. Praising you has become a truth indeed,
While for others it's become hyperbole.

5. You are the paragon for nations that
Lacked peers and equivalents for you.

6. After your glory no hopes remained
Except you would create hopes anew.

7. If the embodiment of glory appeared,
You'd be its right hand, and people its left.

8. Or if your glorious virtues were made manifest
They would only be perfect grace and awe.

9. As if time's page were tarnished and then
Your era came to scour time anew.

10. Abu Shaja' the guarantor's nights were never
Devoid of chastity and bounty.

11. The most generous king, who perfected
Branches, ennobled clans, blessed progeny.

12. Of progeny like yours, who have assumed
A glory spanning time with shade.

13. They ruled, and ruled them a crescent-crowned
Who came to perfect what people lacked.

14. Al-Nasir son of Al-Salah the guided one
Whose nights were filled with grace and beauty.

15. I prayed, when your father appeared, and his deeds
Remained for you a qiblah and exemplar.

16. You lightened the burden of glory in his presence
And bore the heaviest load in his absence.

17. You spread abundant favors as if
People were your dependents for aid.

18. You spread justice - had it blamed the youth,
Grey hairs would not have shamed the young.

19. You drew us near with joy and kindness
And remained aloof, exalted and sublime.

20. So fortune's happy era and state arrived
Assisted and favored by the divine.

21. Filled with magnificent rule, time's eye
Saw in such glory no decline.