يا دارُ حَلَّت فيك كلُّ سعادةٍ

طولَ الزمانِ على نظامٍ واحدِ

O home where all happiness has settled

For ages on the same system

وَحَويْتِ كل مَسَرَّةٍ وكُفيتِ ك

لَّ مَضَرَّةٍ وعَلَوْتِ كلَّ مُعانِد

And you have contained all joy and sufficed every

Affliction, and towered over all opponents

وغَدتْ ببابك للنجاح بَشائر

من صادِرٍ يَلْقَى عزيمةَ وارد

And at your door good omens for success have become

Apparent, from a determined arrival

وتَنافستْ في مدِح ساكِنك الوَرى

من بينِ مُثْنٍ لا يَمَلُّ وحامد

And the people have competed in praising your inhabitant

Among continuous, unwearied praise

فلقد سَما فوقَ النجومِ بمثِلها

مِن زُهْرِ أفعالٍ وجَدٍّ صاعد

For he has risen above the stars with the like of it

From the blossoms of deeds and ascending righteousness

فإذا ابتغيْنا الفضلَ كان مَقرُّه

بيدَيْ أبى عبد الإله القائد

So if we seek virtue, its abode is

In the hands of Abu Abdullah the leader

لم يُعْلِ شاهِنْشاهُ رتبةَ قَدْرِه

في العز إلا وهْو أَخْبَرُ ناقد

No king of kings has exalted his merit

In glory except that he is the most knowing critic

اللهُ يرفعُ في المعالي قَدْرَه

أَبدا على رغم العدو الحاسد

God raises his merit in the heights

Forever despite the envious enemy