1. توالت فتوحات وأدرك ثارُ

    وقرَّ لأمر المسلمين قرارُ

    Conquests followed one another, and vengeance was attained.

    And the affairs of the Muslims settled firmly.

  2. وجرد سيف الله ناصرُ دينه

    فصال به حَدَّ له وغِرارُ

    And the defender of His faith unsheathed God's sword;

    then charged with it, its edge and blade at his command.

  3. ودانت له الحرب العوان وأنها

    وإن لئن أنساً به لَنوار

    And seasoned war submitted to him; yet she,

    even if indeed familiar with him, is still skittish.

  4. يُرَدّ إليه أمرها وهي شامسٌ

    لها مسحل من قهره وعرار

    Her affairs are referred to him, though she is unruly;

    his mastery gives her a wild-ass stallion and its bray.

  5. كأنّ مطاف الحادثات بشاهق

    منيف الذري للفتح فيه مطارُ

    As though calamities circled a towering peak,

    lofty in its summits, where conquest takes wing.

  6. تزلّ خطوب الدهر عن صفحاته

    كما زلّ عن صفح الحسام غبار

    The calamities of time slide off its flanks,

    as dust slips off the flat of a sword.

  7. فيا ناصرَ الدين الذي فخرت به

    بناةُ المعالي يعربُ ونزارُ

    So, O Nāṣir al-Dīn, in whom take pride

    the builders of greatness, Yaʿrub and Nizār.

  8. لقد علم الأعداء إنك منتضٍ

    حساماً لهم هُلكُ به ودمار

    The enemies know full well that you draw

    a sword that brings them ruin and destruction.

  9. وإنك حزب الله تسعى بهديه

    وتغضب في مرضاته وتغار

    And you are God's party, striving by His guidance,

    and grow angry for His pleasure, and burn with zeal.

  10. بكفك سيف الله تضربهم به

    وهل يحتمي من ذي الفقار فقار

    In your palm is God's sword, with which you strike them;

    and can any backbone find shelter from Dhū al-Fiqār?

  11. تَسُلُّهُمُ خيل الإلَه عوابسآ

    كما طرد الليلَ البهيم نهارٌ

    God's grim-faced steeds sweep them away,

    as daylight drives out pitch-black night.

  12. كتائب في ذات الإله مشيحةٌ

    لها بغياث المسلمين شعار

    Battalions resolute in God's cause,

    with 'Ghiyāth al-Muslimīn!' as their battle cry.

  13. فولّوا فِراراً والرماحُ تنوشهم

    لهم حَيَدٌ عن وقعها ونِفارُ

    So they turned in flight, while spears assailed them;

    they swerved from their blows and recoiled.

  14. وجاؤوك في دوح قناك غصونه

    فليس لها إلاّ الرؤوس ثمارُ

    And they came to you in a grove whose branches were your spears;

    those branches bore no fruit but heads.

  15. أضفتهم حتى إذا ما تمردوا

    أضفت بهم تبآ لهم وخسار

    You hosted them until, when they rebelled,

    you made ruin and loss their guests.

  16. وأروع بسام عليه سكينة

    من الله بادٍ نورها ووقارُ

    And a gallant, smiling man bears serenity

    from God, its light manifest, and dignity.

  17. عمرت به جيد المعالي قلائداً

    يطول بها الإمتاع وهي قصار

    With him you adorned the neck of greatness with necklaces,

    whose enjoyment lasts long, although they are short.

  18. فيا علم المجد الذي طرزت به

    حلاه واضحى في ذراه منار

    So, O banner of glory, with whom were embroidered

    its ornaments, and a beacon rose upon its heights!

  19. تنام الرعايا ملء أجفانها كرىً

    ونومُك تسهادٌ له وغرارُ

    The subjects sleep, their eyelids filled with slumber,

    while your sleep is wakefulness and scant rest.

  20. فلا عُطِّلَت منك الوزارة أنها

    هي المعصم الحالي وأنت سوار

    May the vizierate never be bereft of you, for it

    is the adorned wrist, and you its bracelet.

  21. وعش يا غياث المسلمين فإنما

    حياتك عزٌ للورى وفخار

    And live on, O Ghiyāth al-Muslimīn, for

    your life is honor and pride for humankind.

  22. ودم مَلِكاً ما ساوت العين أختها

    وما صحبت بمنى اليدين يسارُ

    And remain a king as long as one eye matches its sister,

    and as long as the left hand keeps company with the right.