طوالع السعد قد وافتك بالبشر

وبالهنا بك سرت سائر البشر

The rising stars of good fortune have brought you glad tidings,

and through you all humankind has rejoiced in happiness.

وشكل سعدك وافى بيت عاشره

وذاك بيت العلا والنصر والظفر

And the configuration of your fortune has reached its tenth house,

and that is the house of eminence, victory, and triumph.

وحفك الله بالنصر العزيز وبال

فتح المبين وبالآيات والسور

And God has surrounded you with mighty victory, and with

manifest conquest, and with the verses and surahs.

ومن يكن ربه الفتاح ناصره

ففي الاقامة محمود وفي السفر

And whoever has his Lord, the Opener, as his helper

is praised both at home and on his travels.

لله مسراك والرايات خافقة

والنصر في السر يقفوها على الاثر

How wondrous your night march, with banners fluttering,

and victory secretly follows close upon their trail.

في بتية للجبال الصم لو صدمت

لم يتركوا حجرا منها على حجر

Amid [young warriors] who, were they to strike the solid mountains,

would leave not one stone of them upon another.

اسد لها الحرب غاب والقنا اجم

بالهام تلعب مثل اللعب بالاكر

Lions whose forest is war and whose thickets are lances,

they play with skulls as one plays with balls.

سيوفهم ذكرها في السلم لو خطرت

يوما على خاطر امسى على خطر

Their swords—should the thought of them in peacetime cross

a mind one day, it would end that day in peril.

لا يرهبون اذا خاضوا لهيب وغا

مشيا على اللحم او سعيا على الشعر

They fear nothing when they plunge into the blaze of battle,

walking over flesh or running over hair.

لو جادلوا حرب كسرى ملكه انتزعوا

ترغو السهام على رغم من الوتر

Were they to challenge Kisra in war, they would wrest away his kingdom;

the arrows bellow in defiance of the bowstring.

لكن عفوت واهل الحلم ان قدروا

يوما عفوا وعظيم العفو مقتدر

Yet you pardoned; the forbearing, if they gain power

one day, forgive; and he who is great in pardon is powerful.

مت يا حسود اسى هذي اوامره

تجري على وفق ما يأتي على القدر

Die of grief, O envious one! These are his commands,

which run in accord with whatever fate brings.

قصروه يا واحد الدنيا ومن خضعت

له الممالك من بدو ومن حضر

Qasruh, O peerless one of this world, to whom have bowed

the kingdoms of nomads and townspeople alike.

قصروه يا من اذا شادت عساكره

يضيق رحب الفلا بالبيض والسمر

Qasruh, O you whose armies, when they build,

crowd the broad desert with bright blades and dusky spears.

قصروه يا فارس الإسلام يوم وغى

وباتر الكفر بالهندية البتر

Qasruh, O knight of Islam on the day of battle,

and hewer of unbelief with keen Indian blades.

قصروه يا من إذا لاحت بوارقه

يسيل منها دما الأبطال كالمطر

Qasruh, O you whose lightning flashes, when they gleam,

make heroes pour out blood like rain.

قصروه يا من به الأمثال قد ضربت

وحسن سيرته تغني عن السير

Qasruh, O you about whom proverbs have been coined,

and whose noble conduct makes chronicles needless.

قصروه يا بحر جود ورد نائله

حلا وقد طاب في ورد وفي صدر

Qasruh, O sea of generosity, the draught of whose bounty

is sweet and pleasant, at arrival and departure alike.

قصروه يا من به جبر لمنكسر

قصروه يا من به عز لمنتصر

Qasruh, O you through whom the broken find restoration,

Qasruh, O you through whom the victorious find glory.

أنت الذي أشرقت أيامه وزهت

حسنا وفي الدهر أضحت غرة الغرر

You are he whose days have shone and blossomed

in beauty, becoming the brightest blaze on the brow of time.

وسرّت الأرض والدنيا بمقدمه

وعاد عيش الورى صفوا بلا كدر

And the earth and the world rejoiced at his arrival,

and humankind's life grew clear again, free of murk.

وقرت العين بالبشرى وجاد بها

لنا الزمان ووافى الدهر بالنذر

The eye was comforted by glad tidings, lavished

on us by time; and the age came bearing warnings.

وجلّقٌ طربا هزت معاطفها

وبالغدائر قد مالت على الغدر

And Jilliq swayed her sides in rapture,

and, with her tresses, bent over the pools.