1. He is the opener, the West being the limit of his conquests
Wrongdoing is suppressed through him, and justice established

2. Water and soil compete in offering tribute
To both friend and foe in plenty and dearth

3. He gives drink and pasture to people through favors
Too numerous to count or reckon

4. He exposes himself to hopes like visions
Perfect, complete, brooking no diminution

5. Abundant, beyond reason or reckoning
The guidance of Yahya the Chosen revived guidance

6. Destroying the structures of misguidance consolidated
His call humbled the lowly in obedience

7. So one traveling from sea to Holy Sanctuary
Greetings to the blessed ones through their rectitude

8. And the truth to which they guide when ways seem short
They wronged not their charges yet did no injustice

9. By aggression and enmity he was marked and distinguished
Announcing deposition of the transgressor eloquently

10. When his scrutiny found no virtue to praise
His name she casts down and away from her pulpits

11. A miscreant in his habits or description
Banishing him, estranged from her minions

12. Worthy of banishment, fitting to be disobeyed
So if the Trinity suffers privation

13. The oneness is cured of what pained it
The religion's foe allies with paganism

14. Abandoned, so aids himself through idolatry
Traducing Ahmad’s community to aid Jesus’ worshippers

15. Belittling their wares and spying their chastity
So if he comes defeated, failed and vanquished

16. He had hoped to gain but is himself gained
The Arab Hassan knew facing him

17. Was the Arab Ansari, resembling him in valor
He wished to disobey his passion defiantly

18. When he saw safety lying in disobedience
He fled Fes in escape, leaving it to your horses

19. While Fes fears cavalry and cavalryman
He has in Marrakesh no peace

20. Where or how when it resists staunchly?
It will strike him with strange blows

21. Denied drink there, debarred from sweetness
It makes brotherhood with the crucifers like itself

22. Surrendering them to its smiter, its piercer
No wonder that compared to them are these

23. What comparisons shall tomorrow bring to pass?
Woe to the progeny of foreigners! Whenever

24. Afflicted and herded to it, hemmed about
Woe to the dumb idols he enacted for them

25. Forsaking the eloquent who stated what he related
For glad tidings of guidance its meteor shining

26. Seeks by its gift the essence of guidance
Hail to Chefchaouen, the isle, hail to them

27. Meknes, and Qasr of dear independence
It found the rule of bliss to be its garb

28. Never moving during its wretchedness to dance
It roused prayer to its Lord to suffice anxiety and doubt

29. Did it not buy great victory with an oath
Firm, neither retracting nor drawing back?

30. It persisted on the straight path, proceeding
To an imam protecting it from attacks and gaps

31. Of the people some loved the prayer niche and war sincerely
Elite in effort and sublimity, a chosen essence

32. They built only four mosques
And fired no passion save shields of calamity as armor

33. Fine youth equal in perfection, glorious
In the scions’ disposition to describe the exemplar

34. His serenity made leaders despair of attaining it
Far from the lofty peak to resemble the lowland

35. He roams bearing the burden of holy war, sword bared
Each nationality bearing spear and burden

36. His feats of valor conversed mouth to mouth
This one cheek to cheek, and that one closely

37. He refused while striding mightily to advance cowardice
In fortunes of his palm deeming ease cowardice

38. Nor left for past or future in knowledge, forbearance and bounty
Share or diminution

39. This is the Mahdist call, deriving for itself
Injunctions of the Riser, the Guide - thereby sincerity

40. In declaring it Abu Hafs ar-Rida exhorted
His sons, fulfilling what he enjoined them

41. The heir apparent's guardian reinforced its apparatus
As the trait of mischief to injure the flanks

42. The full moon of guidance made truth shine
Plunging into the fray with the sun obscured entirely

43. Eager for the religion’s victory, not coveting
Worldly possessions with dissimulation and greed

44. With his red standard provoking the enemies
To his white faith, enraged and resolute

45. The deluded hoped in vain for his five towers
So their steeds met the wastes' expanse

46. His shade suffices you seeking bounty
In shade lies what suffices you to await high noon

47. O state of letters and knowledge, forgive
One eloquent, surpassing in those sweets when eloquent

48. Endure in splendor for the age and adornment
Your plenty does not please us to withhold remotely

49. No perfection is safe from loss
But this perfect being secures against loss