1. Take it, O sons of Hashim!

    And restore its effaced signs.

  2. Take it—may he never rise in stature who

    Has come to begrudge you its sovereignty.

  3. Take it, and wear its crown;

    May you never lack among you one to wear it.

  4. God’s caliphate and His dominion,

    And an ancestral root of yours that had faded away.

  5. Rulers have governed it before you;

    It chose no knight save one from among you.

  6. Were the pulpit given a choice of its knights,

    It would choose no knight save one from among you.

  7. And were sovereignty consulted about a ruler,

    It would accept no ruler other than you.

  8. Abd Allah did not leave in Syria, of

    The house of Abu al-As, a single sneezing man.

  9. So I am not, as to your ruling it until

    Jesus’s descent, without hope in you.

Sol 6.1