1. To aid you until you possess the West through conquest
The flowers of stars in the West have gathered

2. And gathered only to aid an army
With your fortune, need no aid of shooting stars

3. With your name, enemy hordes are routed before the fray
With your name, before war you're aided with dread

4. But it wished to win through a service
That despite its distance honors it through nearness

5. And take haven in the party of the victorious - verily
He who takes haven in that party is made victorious

6. And expends therein what its nature required
So its sun reveals for it the darkness of calamity

7. And the shining moon makes smooth for it paths
So it finds easy every rugged difficult pass

8. And Regulus makes it prosperous in peace as
Mars aids it in the fervor of war

9. And Cancer hastens the doom of its enemy's lands
And hurries it to strip them bare and plunder them

10. And Mercury opens the register of heaven
To draft tidings of glad news and epistles

11. And the Zahrah star is but an angel
Bringing the joy of victory to soul and heart

12. And this is the true word, not that
Which astrologers distort with lies

13. They say the wind comes and verily
It devastates the land between East and West

14. While you, if your dignity desired could flow
To it and restrain its devastating perturbations

15. And you, if you wished, could dam its flames
With an army that holds the wind from the path of blowing

16. Your munificence is security for existence from evil
Your munificence is security for countries from drought

17. Yours are the mighty regiments, the whites and the spears
That trace the lines of victory even in the dust

18. With them every steadfast knight rides unto death dauntless
And who can make the lion turn from its leaping nature?

19. They disdain war spoils in the fray
For they have no gain but the horsemen's gain

20. And capturing lions distracts them from cattle
And seizing souls distracts them from plunder

21. They have a miracle in thrusting and striking, wondrous
No thrust like their thrust, no blow like their blow

22. And their swords strike terror before unsheathing
How many a sword that severed while still in the scabbard!

23. So enemy cities have no secure sanctuary from them
And their villages no safe refuge

24. And how many a king binding his head with the crown
They came to, and won that crown by wresting it

25. They revolve around you in service
As you remain for them the axis, ever as the axis

26. And you, by the grace of might, clemency and uprightness
Need no partisans, soldiers or comrades

27. But you saw the troops as a king's ornament
As God adorned the virgin's cheeks with moles

28. Congratulations on the kingship which you are its Lord
By exerting your soul in obedience to the Lord

29. And sending destroyers of strength against unbelievers
Driving to the crucifixes, breaking the crosses

30. And spreading a palm the clouds witness
It truly poured showers from the clouds

31. And bringing the thirsty near to generosity and fresh rain
From the abundant overflowing spring and sweet creek

32. And admitting the wronged to you without veil
Though you are veiled in the light of majesty

33. And your traveling among us in the manner of Umar
To give rest to hearts and relief from distress

34. And your restoring among us traditions from your ancestor
Thereby manifesting that duty from that precedent

35. So O Egypt! lose yourself in his reign and revel in it
And say to him: your reign suffices me, suffices me!

36. No wonder that it wanders bewildered by your reign
No surprise that it lavishes you with marvel

37. And you were gladdened by a month that came to it
Heralding your lasting, guarding it with your angry sword

38. That you therein have lasting kingship and strength
That you therein have firmness of fortress and cliff

39. I love you for the merit you possess
And none but the loving are excused from loving you

40. And my praise of you distracts my heart from passion
Though I was enamored with the beautiful that enamors

41. For your person is dearer to me than my soul and sight
And praising you is sweeter in my tongue and heart