1. With your resolve, destiny itself takes cue,
So govern, for the turns of fate cannot subdue,

2. On you is prudence and command decisive, while
On the twists of fate acquiescence and consent due,

3. For you is glory over enemies realized,
And by your sword the paths of fearutilized,

4. You see the fighter ansars and oft one who
To death's command their hearing has sensitized,

5. Kings - their might and numbers - if opposed you stand,
Then humbled and lowly by your rule they're manned,

6. If they envy you - Abu'l 'Abbas - it for you
A joyous fame, while for enviers a vengeance fanned,

7. No shame the sun lacks luster for those whose sight
By blindness is marred, its radiance to slight,

8. Success your armada fitted out and sailed
On your command, though it embodied but one knight,

9. Muhammad we've enough of one whose nights
Old age approached, yet vigor still incites,

10. When a branch thrived in your lofty palm's shade
Lost were the lines of verse that called them lights,

11. The horse troops' leader curbs them in place,
As if still housed they are in the camp's space,

12. The hurler of white blades 'gainst heads, as if
Above each a royal crown they still embrace,

13. Yearning for glory, wonder! - she pines,
That a love for home in her heart entwines,

14. Protector of repute! - flames of war blaze,
Keen your sword, glowing your visage shines,

15. The wounded he makes laugh, the thirsty makes drunk,
He sees blood as fragrance, tumult is joy; for him

16. So war is but leisure and comfort it plies,
The ocean hurls him to ships you launch, whose timber

17. For them bodies integrated from planks comprise,
As if the ocean a riddle that by them is solved -

18. Your foes realizing that myriad deaths comprise,
Greens, reds and blacks appeared - by them were solved

19. Your foes realizing that myriad deaths comprise,
The greens are twigs whose flags are of leaves that

20. If earlier fruiting, clusters of twigs comprise,
The reds are tossed by the rumbling wave as

21. Mounds of roseblossoms in dance supersize,
The blacks arrest gazes, their scheme appears

22. As steeds on water, trooping and wise,
As if their foe by them like the hunted is traced

23. A dance, when Indian anklets their music comprise,
With a band roused for death, entrusted they are,

24. Never betraying or falling from the prize,
Their resolve like what they shook is inclined,

25. Their faces like what they drew are stained red dyes,
Prudence has given them oaths inviolate,

26. That misguidance, wherever, is abject in guise,
If you wished, with them you'd course misery's land,

27. Yet no pillars of the feeble would you comprise,
Before you lies what to Moses his signs revealed

28. In Egypt, yet from Pharaoh didn't comprise,
Can one whose will is vain ever rival your might?

29. Like the wind unrestrained by Solomon-wise,
But for you, not the Euphrates would envy the salt,

30. Nor would Baghdad on the day of pride comprise,
Fragrant is your repute, even discarded honey,

31. Musk and ambergris aroma comprise,
Though varied the people in creeds they profess,

32. Today for your love they are one and comprise,
Seeking your shade, protected and outcast both come

33. As do roebuck and deer the same grove comprise,
The wealthy and destitute equally yearn for your grace

34. As do sober and drunk for wine comprise,
A firm hero, mature in wisdom, refined,

35. Lofty in ambition, generous is your guise,
None more foolishly craves glory than he;

36. His speech plumbs the truth - some glory implies -
As if people are but phrases, which by him

37. Are declined and inflected, stopped and comprise,
From every word an apposite meaning he draws,

38. And for every deed, with justice, its balance implies,
Every time a spring for him from your creatures,

39. And every garden through you a fresh paradise,
Trustworthiness comes easily to his nature,

40. Can coarseness in it find any comprise?
When he speaks, time listens rapt,

41. As the thirsty hearken water's wellspring-cries,
The mantles of his dignity, like those of

42. Khosrow's, wisdom from Luqman implies,
Returned evil with good, forgiveness on call,

43. So that sin appeared to him an offering-prize,
O Time! Grasp him with miserly palm, for of blessings

44. Rare bestowal itself is a fair compromise,
While you are accused, except of him - behold! -

45. Through him may you joy gain and find paradise,
Attach yourself to him and prosper for ages,