قُضُبُ الهِنْدِ والقَنا أخدانُك

قُضُبُ الهِنْدِ والقَنا أخدانُك

والمقاديرُ في العِدا أعوانُكْ

والمقاديرُ في العِدا أعوانُكْ

The blades of India and the spears are your close companions.

The staffs of India and cane are your brothers,

And the fates are your helpers against your foes.

And measures in fairness are your aides,

والمعالي رياضُ طَرْفِكَ والحم

والمعالي رياضُ طَرْفِكَ والحم

دُ إذا راقَ زَهرُه رَيحانُكْ

دُ إذا راقَ زَهرُه رَيحانُكْ

And lofty achievements are gardens for your gaze, and praise—

And the heights are gardens of your glance, and praise

when its blossoms delight—is your fragrant basil.

When its flower blows is your basil.

ضَحِكَ المجدُ في زَمانِكَ عِلْماً

ضَحِكَ المجدُ في زَمانِكَ عِلْماً

أنْ سَيُوطِيه ما أحبَّ زمانُك

أنْ سَيُوطِيه ما أحبَّ زمانُك

Glory laughed in your age, knowing

Glory laughed in your time knowledgeably

that your age would lay at its feet all it loved.

That it will destroy what your time loved.

أيُّها ذا الأميرُ ما رَمِدَتْ عي

أيُّها ذا الأميرُ ما رَمِدَتْ عي

ناكَ حاشا لها ولا أجفانُك

ناكَ حاشا لها ولا أجفانُك

O prince, no inflammation has afflicted your

O you of the Emir, your eyes have not gone blind,

eyes—far be it from them—nor your eyelids.

Far from it, and not your eyelids,

بل حَكَتْ فِعْلَك الكَريمَ ليُضحي

بل حَكَتْ فِعْلَك الكَريمَ ليُضحي

شأنُها في العُلى سواءً وشانُك

شأنُها في العُلى سواءً وشانُك

Rather, they have mirrored your noble conduct, so that

But your noble deed depicted it, to make

their standing in greatness might equal your own.

Its status equal, and your status, in the Highest,

فهي تَحمَرُّ مثلَ سَيفِكَ في الرَّوْ

فهي تَحمَرُّ مثلَ سَيفِكَ في الرَّوْ

عِ وتَصْفُو كما صَفا إحسانُك

عِ وتَصْفُو كما صَفا إحسانُك

For they redden like your sword amid

So it blushes like your sword in battling

terror, and grow clear as your beneficence is pure.

And clears like your kindness cleared.