Sol 5.6

  1. The star of good fortune has appeared to you, and success has risen into view;

    so seek victory in God’s name—for triumph has come to you.

  2. Mighty victory has already sent its standard on ahead,

    and dawn breaks before the sun has risen.

  3. So lead, in the path of God, an army as though it were

    a mass of night covering the earth—or night’s outspread wing:

  4. battalions whose bold advance embodies truth and guidance,

    and standards whose very knots hold blessing and success.

  5. The day of conquest has come, and hopes thrill with joy;

    the sword’s expectation has proved true, and the spear exults.

  6. Swift coursers have yearned for the day of encounter;

    theirs is a course through seas of death toward the foe.

  7. Upon them you mounted every bearer of a boon

    from your right hand, accompanied by loyalty and sincere counsel.

  8. Their wares in the marketplace of war are their lives;

    your favor is their profit in every battle.

  9. O you whose soul is the most precious among kings—and yet

    in God’s path, on the day of battle, lavish with that soul!

  10. O you enamored of valor and open-handed bounty,

    while praise and acclaim remain enamored of you;

  11. your sea is brimful, its shores thronged by those who come to drink,

    yet your servant is near death from tormenting thirst.

Sol 5.6