قُل لِلمَنازِلِ بِالكَثيبِ الأَعفَرِ

أُسقيتِ غادِيَةَ السَحابِ المُمطِرِ

Tell the dwellings in the yellow sand dunes

Say to the dwellings by the reddish-white dune,

I watered the passing rain clouds

May you be watered by the early rain-laden clouds.

قَد وَفَّقَ اللَهُ الخَليفَةَ إِذ بَنى

بَيتَ الخَليفَةِ لِلهِجانِ الأَزهَرِ

God has guided the Caliph when he built

God has surely guided the Caliph when he built

The house of the Caliph for the most eloquent orator

The House of the Caliphate for the noble, the radiant.

فَهُوَ الخَليفَةُ عَن أَبيهِ وَجَدِّهِ

شَهِدا عَلَيهِ بِمَنظَرٍ وَبِمَخبَرِ

He is the Caliph representing his father and grandfather

For he is the Caliph, heir to his father and grandfather,

They testified for him openly and secretly

Who testified to his worth in both appearance and essence.

قَد بايَعَ الثَقلانِ في مَهدي الهُدى

لِمُحَمَّدِ بنِ زُبَيدَةَ اِبنَةِ جَعفَرِ

The two authorities have pledged allegiance in Mahdi the rightly guided

Mankind and Jinn have pledged allegiance in the cradle of guidance

To Muhammad the son of Zubaydah the daughter of Ja'far

To Muhammad, son of Zubaydah, the daughter of Ja'far.

وَلَّيتَهُ عَهدَ الأَنامِ وَأَمرَهُم

فَدَمَغَتَ بِالمَعروفِ رَأسَ المُنكَرِ

He assumed responsibility over the affairs of the people

You entrusted him with the covenant of the people and their command,

So it stamped the head of evil with good

And thus you smashed, with righteousness, the head of iniquity.