1. A conquest motivated by victory and empowerment
Its purpose is triumph, its beginning success

2. There is no doubt in what its signs have made clear
That good fortune readies happiness for him

3. And dawn, when its light becomes visible to eyes
The wing of obscurity cannot hide it

4. Its beginning gives you the substance of its end
For its describer truthfully prophesies it

5. The hand traced it, making plain
Its title for people's eyes to read

6. The command is your command, you give and withhold it
And the rule is your rule, you execute and postpone it

7. You were angry for God, demanding His ordinances
So you came shooting an arrow that does not miss

8. And I stood for the religion, expressing its victory
Whereupon the world rejoiced, congratulating it

9. The body of guidance had been violated, sick
While you are its soul, ceaselessly healing it

10. Your army and navy have secured
For the guided leader an appeasing course

11. Proceeding together in God's path, competing
Until victory was attained, delayed and hastened

12. One courses the dusty desert, crossing it
The other fills the verdant meadows, overflowing them

13. Each marked forever with your brand
The zeal of religion and fortune shading it

14. O excellent one of the daughters of water swimming
That boil those of hellfire, extinguishing them

15. The wind blows them like crows with wings
Not esteemed by the white doves for partnership

16. From every dusky one not masked by leprosy
His rider is not gladdened by the bells ringing

17. He is called a crow though his speed
Shows him the son of water and the shrike his shriek

18. If his swim is from the east sea
The shore of the west sea is his harbor

19. The Imam turned kindly to his homelands
His tent on earth warms them, its partitions sheltering

20. He headed westward to empower it
And turned to the highest dwelling, lodging it

21. He clove towards the rising place of the Mahdi
Dispersing the darkness and gloom veiling its brilliance

22. He called out to Yahya ibn Abd al-Wahid ibn Abi
Hafs, who promptly responded, rewarding and sufficing him

23. When he saw the trinity's brothers trying to destroy him
He answered with the monotheists' sons, reconstituting him

24. With an army bearing good fortune's banner
With which the exalted celestial sphere is purified

25. Its vengeance grows among the Romans, whom you have set
To ache with wounds and gashes lacerating them

26. How many thirsty for the morning draught among them
Sate themselves on the spears cutting them down

27. An imam of justice seeing by God's light what
Tomorrow he should hasten or gently prepare

28. His pavilion pitched over the stars
Reaches the sun's zenith with its footing

29. He smells no sweetness when deploying troops for strife
Unless it is with the infidels' blood wetting them

30. And his sword's edge probed each artery
With none to shield them, clasping and embracing them

31. With his daring he makes Amr and Mudhij forget
Hatim's hands and hospitality sheltering them

32. Whoever fears injustice or enmity from time
He is their refuge and shelter saving them

33. O sea of limitless knowledge and bounty
Your coral fills our hands, your pearls adorning them

34. For your sake the fierce cubs risked themselves
Each undertakes the duty of tearing them

35. Passing Tlemcen victoriously, adding
To curb the blessings of the ungrateful, stopping them

36. Head to Marrakesh, made prosperous by your grace
None like you neglects or forgets them

37. Malice deceived the enemy, accusations were cast
So fate frowned severely, surprising them

38. Give good tidings to the Zanata of calamity bare
Of any power to repel it thwarting them

39. Advancing against death, swords held high
Who sees life as worth living, tasting and savoring it?

40. When a brave one attacks, he remains felled
While the appointed lot eludes, missing him

41. Woe to he who is beset by war while leaning
On his staff of disobedience, unsuccessful in straightening it

42. The veil of misguidance called to the wretched, making him hear
Bending his head in humiliation, bowing it

43. He turned for support to the weakest pillars
While the starlings shatter them, clamoring over him

44. Like one who sleeps exposed on barren ground
Incessantly troubled, his squalor covering him

45. If his misery is prolonged by his travails
He has despaired of his hopes, disavowing them

46. The fortunate were not roused by its frenzy
Only the wretched, whom it addles, maddening them

47. You rose early while he was the slave of his master
So the swords will rise against the craven, tearing him

48. The disaster of error called to disasters, making them hear him
He is laid low by humiliation humbling him

49. He resorted for support to the feeblest pillar
While the starlings there cry over him

50. Like one who spends the night exposed on arid soil
Inextricably troubled, his anguish splitting him