1. أَضحى هلال العَهد قَد

    أَقمَر بِالمُنتَصِر

    The crescent of the succession has already

    become a full moon through al-Muntasir,

  2. وَليّ عهدِ البَشَر

    وَاِبنِ إِمامِ البَشَر

    mankind’s heir apparent,

    and son of mankind’s imam,

  3. وَجائِزِ العَهد بِحَقّ ال

    أَوصيِاء الزُّهُر

    and rightfully entitled to the succession, by the right of the

    radiant appointed successors,

  4. وَحقَّ خير الخُلفا

    ءِ الرَّاشِدين جَعفَر

    and by the right of the best of the caliphs,

    the rightly guided—Jaʿfar.

  5. ما لَيلَة نعتدّها

    كَليلَة من صَفَر

    No night we reckon

    is like a night in Safar:

  6. أَبدَت هِلالا وَانجَلَت

    وَفجرها في قَمَر

    it revealed a crescent and cleared away,

    with a full moon at its dawn.