يا أيها الملك الذي آلاؤه

تنمي وتهمى ما لها تحديدُ

O king, whose benefactions

ever grow and pour down, knowing no bound,

قسم الزمانُ جهادَهُ وسماحَه

فيذودُ عَن دينِ الهُدى ويجودُ

his striving and generosity divide all time between them:

he defends the faith of true guidance and gives freely.

ذو عزمةٍ لو للعيونِ تمثَّلت

فضرامُ نارٍ شبَّ منه وقودُ

Endowed with a resolve which, if embodied before the eyes,

would be a raging fire, its fuel blazing from it;

ذو همة لو قد تَجَلَّى شَخصُهَا

لغدا له فوق السِّمَاكِ صُعودُ

endowed with an aspiration which, if its form appeared,

would rise for him above al-Simāk.

لأقلتَ دينَ اللهش من عَثَرَاتِهِ

فجزاؤُكَ التَّمكِينُ والتمهِيدُ

You have surely helped God’s religion recover from its stumbles;

therefore your reward is empowerment and firm establishment.

وَكَفَيتَ حالَ المعتدي والمجتدي

ها ذاك محدودٌ وذا مجدودُ

You have dealt with both aggressor and petitioner:

there—the former is restrained, the latter favored by fortune.

والمجتدي برجائه لَكَ مُصفَدٌ

والمعتدي بعناده مصفودُ

The petitioner is bound to you by his hope,

and the aggressor is fettered by his own obstinacy.