1. From the hardship and evil of days
And its insistent grief and tyranny

2. Curses for these fleeting times
And for those who scheme with schemes

3. Warriors, evaders and abstainers
Triflers, castigators in hardship

4. Disputers, deceivers and wrestlers
Combatants, racers in harm's way

5. Whose nature is breaking covenants
And promises, even if suffering ensues

6. That never stays firmly in one place
Rather, a man's prime never rests

7. How often he presented a full glass
Bitterness, making me drink grief

8. Unceasingly striking me with arrows of misfortune
And showing me fear striking in haste

9. How often did I seek to kiss the hand
Of one excessive in righteousness

10. And my soul was delighted when my eyes fell
Upon the prince, Egypt's dear one

11. That star who shamed the dawn
And the horizon when his full moon rose

12. A hero, your deeds show you ‘Antara’s peer
Some days are seen shrouded in his chest

13. Riding the steeds of doom so fast
Lightening measured his pace's speed

14. That’s why none saw you but flee
Wounded in the back by your blow

15. Yours the sacrifice, from the noble swordsman
And victor whom God called to victory

16. The one who left in these times
A noble, sung by people's tales

17. Who graced leadership by his excellence
He is the most able commander

18. He whom the Turks' tongues never cease to praise
In prose and verse, for all his days

19. He shows gratitude and praise always
Publicly and privately, for as long as he prays

20. Saying, my Lord, may you ever aid
and establish the singular in his time

21. As long as the sun rises and sets
Illuminating dawn and glowing dusk