1. O Time, woe to you for what has passed and what began
You unleashed the arrows of events and aimed straight

2. You unsheathed a sharp sword, its blades
Were once detached for the sake of God

3. So do what you will with all your might, for after
The Almighty, I do not care about devastation

4. I will leave it to pass and remain after it
Oh misery of my life, how bitter and woeful

5. My longing for a full moon that set in the ground
Of Rum and a sea in a dug grave

6. You left me after his departure, O Time
With a wounded liver and blinded eyes

7. And embers stoked amid the darkness
A fire fueled by tears, burning

8. If there was a people of generosity and piety
It would last for eternity, immortalized

9. Or ripping open pockets could save from the havoc
That grieved your father’s children, distressing their livers

10. Or warding off the treacherous, attacking army
That betrayed the Washi clan, targeting them

11. Many desired to be cavaliers
From the noble Ayyubid family, sacrificing themselves

12. You wept until spotty and dusty
And grieved until feeble and exhausted

13. How many nights have passed where you saw
Only the backs of the curved ones as your bed

14. Guarding the bastion of Islam as its champion
With resolve that seeks the improbable

15. And for many an anxious one who called on him for a monumental event
His reply preceded the echo

16. And often the lightning of his palm flashed
Driving its clouds over us, unexpected

17. No lost one strayed from the path of his purpose
Except a guide to it was appointed for him

18. O ruler after I lost sight of your face
Time has oppressed me after you, trespassing

19. It angers me that your heir should visit you
One who used to sing your praises, reciting poems

20. How many straits have you entered, their taste
Bitter, though the valiant avoided those straits

21. And the dear people of luxury whose attire
You wore in humility while the tyrant rebelled

22. You mounted the rings of brown horses that
Shortened their gait after the blond chestnut ones

23. If not for your defense with swords and armaments
Of the Islamic state, it would revert as it began

24. And Egypt’s houses, if its resolutions faltered
In aiding it, tyranny would take hold there

25. The innocent white women would become
Captives there, and the slaves fully enslaved

26. The Franks’ horses would raid what lies
Between Al Baqi’ and Qudud in the morning

27. And at Damietta’s border, how many times
Was the cross worshipped there where a mosque stood

28. You saved it from the cunning plot
That would have made it plummet to the deepest pit

29. You dispelled from it the night of disbelief so it folded
And illuminated its plains with the dawn of guidance

30. I witnessed you on the day of Qaysariyya
As the sun wove a cloak of darkness for it

31. With disbelief taking refuge behind a wall with elevated
Towers, fortified with metal and built high

32. You made its heights the place of its foundations
And subdued for it the rigid timbers

33. Say to the enemies: If we lost a master
Who protected the weak, we were given a master

34. The victorious King who sacrificed the soul
Of Jerusalem in all matters, supported

35. The highest of kings in rank, the strongest in
Opinion, the bravest, with the longest arm

36. Firm in purpose, no hesitation seen in his view
On the day of tribulation, deliberating

37. Awake, the acuity of his insight nearly shows him
On his day what will come to him tomorrow