Sol 6.1

  1. God's good pleasure is the highest thing His servants have hoped for.

    And reverence for Him is the worthiest accomplishment you can gain.

  2. And in companionship with the Lord lies all companionship,

    when the one who seeks Him perfects silent remembrance.

  3. And indeed, the sons of this world and their world alike

    are prey to the causes of death, and its harvest.

  4. When a person's heart withdraws from all but his Lord,

    then his Lord is his witness in that absence.

  5. May God indeed preserve the one who lends his ear,

    when His promise or His threat reaches him.

  6. And whoever makes remembrance a conversation for his soul,

    repeating it, savoring its sweetness, and saying it again,

  7. finds renunciation in the abode of passing away; no delight reaches

    his eyes from the scant share of what comes to him.

  8. And he knows for certain that all will return to God,

    so his preparation and his retinue spring from his longing.

  9. And he does good to created beings, honoring the Creator,

    who grants him success in what he intends and gives him more.

  10. And he accepts no trait among people but justice,

    through worldly bounty he gives in full and faith he imparts.

  11. He is the spreading banner above every canopy,

    and its protector against whatever befalls it, and its mainstay.

  12. An imam whose two hands hold, in faith and worldly life,

    glorious deeds his servants have never attained.

  13. Thus the tongue of the former is lofty and eloquent in speech,

    and the latter's sword has keen-edged steel.

  14. And indeed, the Commander of the Faithful is a master

    of all upon the earth, and the world's peerless one.

  15. He has processions of Muslims' prayers,

    which fate's decrees direct toward what he desires.

  16. Therefore conquests come to him in succession,

    and every matter he takes up again comes within his reach.

  17. Peerless among mankind, their very essence—and for its sake

    his neck has donned the Indian blade of the caliphate.

  18. So may he ever keep reaching toward what spurs him on,

    and may he ever be granted victory over whoever plots against him.

Sol 6.1