1. O Commander of the Faithful, and you are a guardian
Compassionate, not an avaricious ruler

2. Have you fed Iraq and its two rivers
So a peasant grabbed the hem of your shirt

3. And there was no shepherd of a woman in labor before him
To make him feel safe in the folds of his shirt

4. Abu Muthanna rejoiced in Iraq
And taught his people to eat porridge

5. Soon meanness will carry him for a little while
On a ramshackle saddle cloth made of tattered rags