1. You are the fingers that aid this age
You imprint and validate royal decree

2. And in every kingdom one who steers its helm
Yet only the future makes light of the past

3. In the sublime celestial sphere are clustered stars
Whence can match the sun's rising in the horizon?

4. O light of the age's eye - and the age sees clear
And hearing of the age's body - and the age hears

5. You unlocked the highest heavens and folded them
Else you glow in the firmament, don't you?

6. You came not with glory but glory came to you
For you held it high as it fell into your clasp

7. No breath comes but to its fated place
Yet a branch will to its origin return

8. What perfection can a perfect being seek?
What seriousness can people wish to gain?

9. A youth who sowed benevolence and clouds that poured generosity
He stood up and generosity's utterance loudly hailed

10. So he raised in the horizons lasting praise
And glory that disciples hand down through generations

11. What killed miserliness, munificence and its people?
Their heavy-lidded eyes are now wide open

12. Just as the arrogance of an envier wore you down
And now his hide is thick and your renown flies high

13. Moreover beyond the heavens lies one prostrate before you
And all in it save you bow down kneeling

14. No enemy envied a thing he saw
And how many a foe contends for truth

15. For rule, strong resolutions rose in you
We know luck shines on the unlucky

16. And who leads them in religion made your rising star
Ascendant - for you unite and bind all

17. So God looked with his heart's eye
And saw what will happen as it will

18. He saw reform had traits in you
So matched you - none contends or rivals you

19. Expected that an Amir's judgment hits
The core - obedient to knowledge, bowing before reason's breast

20. For branch originates in origin - so everywhere
A man's origin perfects, the man a sequent flows

21. You rose ascending on fortune's face
Your essence from the caliphate's neck shining