ختمت بك العجم الملوك وراجعت

ختمت بك العجم الملوك وراجعت

بك تاجُ ملكهم القديم المنهجِ

بك تاجُ ملكهم القديم المنهجِ

With you the Persians completed their line of kings and regained

With you the Persian kings have reached their end, and

through you the crown of their kingship, ancient in its ways.

Through you their ancient crown has been restored.

لم يفقدوا بك أردشير وإنما

لم يفقدوا بك أردشير وإنما

فقدوا نقيصة دينه المستسمجِ

فقدوا نقيصة دينه المستسمجِ

In you they did not lose Ardashir, but only

It was not Ardashir they lost in losing you,

lost the blemish of his repugnant religion.

But the flaw in his unsound religion.