There are five main components to the national emblem: the flag, the royal parasol (ceremonial umbrella), the wings, the hands, and the crescent.

[1] Below the crescent is a banner; both are inscribed with yellow lettering in Arabic: All elements on the emblem are red.

It is made of precious metal, decorated with pendilia and a sarpech consisting of a crescent-and-ten-pointed star and topped with a seven-pointed ornament.

An excerpt from the Quran in Arabic text is inscribed upon the crescent, the opening verse of the surah Al-Mulk: تَبَارَكَ الَّذِي بِيَدِهِ الْمُلْكُ‎; Tabāraka al-ladhī bi-yadihi al-mulku, meaning "Blessed is the One in Whose Hands rests all authority".

It maintained the inscribed crescent, since that time vert, and the winged umbrella as core elements but the Sultan's crown was added over them.