1. How can we fear poverty, O virtuous one, after
Victory has come to us from the decrees of fate?

2. And if victory comes to us from the Turks unharmed,
Then, after this absent victory, I am its awaiter.

3. I awaited victory while the Two Seas - which of them
Would rain down victory upon me from its clouds?

4. It passed like the flash of a sword in a resolute hand
When its means were straitened against us.

5. If victory refuses, so does Khindif refuse it,
And he whose victory fears grows mighty.

6. When Ibn Sayyar called on Khindif, whose
Bracelets were the proudest of the Two Easts,

7. She came to him on the barren hills, over them
Were Solomon’s coats of mail and their forgiveness.

8. I see people taking us for their Lord when
The riders of Najd and its ravines meet at Zamzam.

9. Each of us, when he stands, none else stands
Of the people except he who commands him.

10. He is the King, the Mahdi, and the foremost
To whom belongs the first and last glory.

11. I awaited victory in hopes it would come, and if it comes
Then I am like one fortune’s bird has passed over.

12. I hoped for the dew of victory, and below its right side
Are the Euphrates and Tigris flowing through Balkh.

13. I have become the most generous of people to goodness and towns
With hospitality to guests and neighborly friendship.

14. Have you not seen that he who chooses victory finds
The good fortune of bliss chase its bird over him?