Suleiman the Magnificent

I am the sultan of love.

I am the sultan of love.

My sheer delight, my revelry, my feast, my torch, my sunshine, my sun in heaven;/ My orange, my pomegranate, the flaming candle that lights up my pavilion.

My sheer delight, my revelry, my feast, my torch, my sunshine, my sun in heaven;/ My orange, my pomegranate, the flaming candle that lights up my pavilion.

If I die you are my killer, O merciless, infidel woman.

If I die you are my killer, O merciless, infidel woman.

The people think of wealth and power as the greatest fate, But in this world a spell of health is the best state. What men call sovereignty is a worldly strife and constant war; Worship of God is the highest throne, the happiest of all estates.

The people think of wealth and power as the greatest fate, But in this world a spell of health is the best state. What men call sovereignty is a worldly strife and constant war; Worship of God is the highest throne, the happiest of all estates.

I, the sultan of sultans, the sovereign of sovereigns, the distributor of crowns to the monarchs of the globe, the shadow of God on earth...

I am the slave of God and the ruler of the world, and in my name the Friday sermon is read in Mecca and Medina. In Baghdad I am the shah, in Byzantine realms the Caesar, and in Egypt the sultan.

The people think of wealth and power as the greatest fate, but in this world a spell of health is the best state.

I am God's slave and sultan of this world. By the grace of God I am head of Muhammad's community.

The order of the world rests on the sword, and the sword's sharpness depends on the treasury.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Let my son Mustafa be executed.

The sea is a great lord, and it does not suffer the existence of any other lords.

I have made the Ottoman Empire feared by sea as well as by land.

The world is a bridge. Pass over it, but build no house upon it.