Sol 6.1

  1. What you do has exalted the realm and kingship,

    for those who are followed and those who follow.

  2. You journeyed and rendered the Caliph his due,

    and returned with the people's hopes in the vanguard.

  3. And you entrusted your two stars, who had equipped themselves

    with the provisions of greatness, where entrusted charges are tended.

  4. You prepare them for the East, that they may reclaim it,

    and its means and resources are now complete.

  5. You gave the sons of Uthman, your kin, support

    that has a place in Muslim hearts.

  6. It reminds them of your grandfather's kindness among them,

    and none challenges him in what he wills.

  7. You send them host after host,

    driving foes from their pool and defending it.

  8. And your army is better entitled to march, well supplied,

    to that battlefield, were it not for the hindrances.

  9. Peace be upon Egypt's independence, and surely it

    will return to Egypt in your bright days.

  10. Am I to remain shackled, imprisoned, bound,

    while fierce battles rage around the Commander of the Faithful?

  11. And who will bring me certain tidings of the battle?

    For ears have wearied of the reporters' malice.

  12. And if sorrows could carry one who cries out

    about them, the wondrous rhymes would have borne me.

  13. Nor would I fear meeting my death there,

    while every day in Egypt holds deaths for me.

  14. And my blood is better suited to slaking my thirst,

    when I spend the night and tears do not quench my burning thirst.

  15. And the states have turned hostile, while justice among them

    is a stranger, lost if might does not protect it.

  16. Diverse are their aims; manifold are their snares;

    they wrestle with it at times, and at times practice deceit.

  17. If an ordeal or a grudge unites them

    against the East one day, covetous ambitions divide them.

  18. And I warn the West—the West is guilty—

    of an abyss, should a unifier unite the East.

  19. The sword must restrain the spiteful when they transgress,

    but it is not its task to erase their natures.

  20. May you be safe, Prince of the Nile, guarding its honor,

    with your throne raised high and your time obedient.

Sol 6.1