Sol 5.6

  1. O exemplar of scholars, O you whose knowledge

    is an ocean, and the wellspring of whose bounty is thronged;

  2. Congratulations, our master, upon your office, through which

    the loyal friend prospered and the envious one was thwarted.

  3. For God has indeed endowed you with the excellence that

    rises despite your foes and reigns supreme—

  4. in both states: possessing knowledge and dispensing noble gifts;

    in either state, you bring benefit.

  5. And the favors of the vizier Ali Rida have graced you—

    he whose name is praised throughout East and West:

  6. a sovereign whose clemency is venerable

    and ample, while his might is fierce.

  7. He appointed you to issue fatwas for mankind—how admirable

    a judgment! By my life, it is truly sound.

  8. Indeed, the Sacred Law has in you a wearer of its crown—

    a noble lord—and a bearer of its sword, a valiant champion.

  9. You tower above in every science; so inscribe the date:

    “You have towered in the issuing of fatwas, O Mahmud.”

Sol 5.6