ثِقْ بالذي صيرَ دونَ الورى

في راحتيْك البسْطَ والقَبضَا

Trust in Him who has power over all creation

In your hands lies expansion and constraint

ما أحكموا من كيدهم عقدةً

إلا وأحكمتَ لَها نَقْضَا

However tight their plots,

You make the knot's undoing

كم عرّض الكلبُ على قُبْحهِ

بالنَّبحِ لِلْبدرِ وما عَضَا

How oft the cur exposes his ugliness

By barking at the full moon, but bites it not

زيّن إبليس لهم ما أتوا

فاعتقدوا طاعتُه فَرضَا

Iblis made their sins seem fair to them

So they thought obeying him a duty

راموا بحكمِ الجهْل أن يَجْحدوا

مِن فضلِكم ما طبّق الأَرضا

In their ignorance they sought to deny

The bounty you spread over the land

وما دَروا أنّ ديونَ العُلى

بسُمْرِ أرماحك تُسْتقضىَ

Unaware that the debts owed to the Exalted

Are extracted at the point of your spears

وأن أَسيافك من غَيظِها

ما طَعمتْ أجفانها غَمْضَا

And that your swords in their wrath

Have never tasted the balm of sleep

وأنّ آراءَك إن أَعْمِلَتْ

في حادثٍ كالسيّف أو أمضَى

And that your judgments, when executed

Cut like a sword or strike as lightning

فَرّوا مِن الْخَوفِ فما قصّرتْ

خيلكَ في أَدبارها ركْضا

They fled in fear, your cavalry behind them

Not halting in their flight for a moment

كانوا مِنَ الحيرةِ في ظلمةٍ

يَلعنُ فيها بعضُهمْ بَعْضا

Bewildered in darkness, they cursed

Each other without restraint

حتى اسْتَبانوا بكَ نهجَ الهدى

واستوضحوا السنةَ والفَرْضا

Until through you the path of truth was clear

And the Law and Obligation distinct

وقَد غَدا غَايةُ مَطْلوبهمْ

أن تغفرَ الذنبَ وأنْ ترضى

And seeking your forgiveness and pleasure

Became the sum of their hopes

فاصفح بحلمٍ عنهمُ مُغضياً

فالصَّفحُ من دَأبك والإغضا

So turn from them in clemency, forgiving

For forbearance is your rule and way

وخلّهم في الأرض أَسْرى فَقَدْ

ملكتَ مِنها الطّول والعَرضا

Leave them as captives on earth, for its

Length and breadth are held in your reign