1. When the emigrant extends his hand,
The offspring of the luxuriant, long of mighty arm,

2. A leader if the notables show humility,
Exalted above the seed with ancestral nobility ascending,

3. O son of branches nourished by the goodness of soil,
And son of horsemen and captain and guide,

4. Zealous in warding off from sanctities and preserves,
May you never lack support against any transgressor,

5. You have ruled and your rule was satisfactory,
Created to adorn platforms and mosques,

6. When disputants crowded your doors,
You did not neglect for a witness their absent adversary,

7. And the aggressive, when they saw you, were humbled,
Fearing the onslaught of a furious warring lion,

8. I praise you when you alight in their land,
And when you depart, with the praise of a praising neighbor,

9. My Lord has given you from His abounding bounty,
Until you were pleased and the envy of enviers prolonged,

10. Your chosen forebears, intimate with the Divine,
And their spear points glistened in the hands of the glorious,

11. Who left the disobedient abased in His religion,
And the aggressors, and every unruly rebel,

12. Discerning in it the religion of guidance,
Receive tidings of the station of the enduring settler,

13. Who wore out his coat of mail feared for havoc,
In days of ordeal and struggle and combat,

14. How often you have shown clemency and honored me
And warded off from me many a warring adversary,

15. Were they able with other than what you endured them,
You would have had to drink poison of serpents and dragons,

16. O killer of the wintry nights, whenever
The evening grows cold from the biting north wind,