1. O Salah al-Din, take heed
From making peace with Iraq

2. For he has met you with stubbornness
And hypocrisy and faction

3. Let not his sweet words deceive you
Underneath lies all sorts of lies and deceit

4. Do not draw near, for nothing prospers
Except separation from him

5. He is clever in his subtle meanings
And skilled in his fine debates

6. Quench him with cups of your bitter wrath
Before he bears what cannot be borne

7. Do not keep company, those who intercede for him
Are mixed with the riffraff

8. He is a disease in the guts
With an infected wound between the ribs

9. The greatest liar when he swears
A solemn oath of divorce

10. A smooth talker who brings them together
With his agreement and consensus

11. He divides and fragments any alliance
With his sowing of discord and disunity

12. A viper whose mouth spews
Poison into the veins

13. May God protect you from the snake
With the colored stripes

14. How many has he wronged with falsehoods
Whose tears are shedding in torrents

15. And wounds too deep for consolers
And agonizing laments

16. Eyes whose lids are rubbed raw
That look to him without yearning

17. God has led him to our wealth
Along the worst course

18. He has swallowed it with deceit
Hypocrisy and betrayal

19. With words smoother than white silk
And his hands toy with it

20. Now by force, now by agreement and consent
And he escaped while the winds don't catch up

21. Fleeing the lame she-camels
Filling his arms with naked disgrace

22. Seeking your protection, do not let him attain
The market of hypocrisy

23. So fear God and do not leave
The slave of wickedness

24. Prepare, our Master, against him
And prepare him for captivity

25. Do not relieve the anguish
Of the tight noose around the neck of the worthless

26. And seek refuge from faces with
Wickedness, betrayal and corruption

27. That he not see beneath your shade
Or in your hall

28. For the likes of you are not suited
To the ropes of hypocrisy