1. After meeting you, there is no hope for the healed
King of kings, this is the state of states

2. None like Hatim has sufficed you as a grantor
So he became an example, needless of the like

3. No cattle are slaughtered for one who hosts
Not even ten camels

4. Who releases a thousand in divorce
How far between the hanging dew and pouring rain

5. Leave the swords in their sheaths, for indeed
I have protected them from the zealous blood in the melee

6. And cast aside the spears, for their carriers have abstained
For with your smiles, they make arms dispensable

7. Had it not been for Salah al-Din's efforts
The kingdoms would not have recovered from deviance and tilt

8. Nor would the elevated sun again speak eloquently
After having been captive to deafness and confusion

9. A king who sees the brown sun has become
Skillful in generosity, derived from the generous sun

10. From his generosity and mediation in calamity and peace
They differ between sustenance and death

11. Eulogies shake him like generosity shakes its asker
First and foremost, unlike drink shakes the drunk

12. I set my sights so high my requests reached
And I attained what I never hoped to attain

13. And he stood before harms I feared
The clanking of swords and worn out spears

14. None but the esteemed Khalid ever matched him
Beside you he is feeble, useless in cunning

15. It drew near and bowed to the command of the sword in submission
Dye of shyness apparent on its cheeks

16. It rose high, did great deeds, and lost its way
To the Governor of the two rivers, fear and awe

17. You have not feared anyone but God
Thus even sleep fears you in rest

18. If you sought to tear down the dam wholeheartedly
It would crumble in fear of your mere word to demolish

19. So march unto Aleppo in every early start
Whose lit torches suffice every hill

20. Your lions prowl around you, forest lions
Who can withstand meeting a lion in the forest

21. A people, if they speak during battle
Speak to them the scar of the courageous horseman hero

22. Charge them with the tribes within, attacking tribes
You are the helmet of the people of plain and hill

23. It is virtuous and time is infatuated with it
A hopeless romantic, not a flirt

24. Slender of stature, no hand dares reach
Smooth of cheek, no lips dare approach

25. How many eyelids have lost sleep, eyelids weeping
Having not put on kohl, yearning for kohl

26. Dawn of fortresses, so court it boldly
With all my pain, stoic, composed

27. None but you is fit to be its husband, though it abandoned
So make it your own, to replace its abandonment

28. A sun, so rain upon it the atmosphere like rain
That appeared white, shooting stars from its origin

29. With every gentle, upright, not crooked
Polished, not ragged, sword

30. And every disheveled, distinguished in raids, when
Meeting the refined, is not prone to losing

31. None opened it but the key to kingdoms, father
Calling all people and faiths to you

32. It never rebelled, but it is anger
Why did you neglect it, o neglectful one?

33. Jealous of it, your right upon its peer
What is with him that he rebels without celebration?

34. No man brings together the highs of glory
Unless he brings together word and deed

35. Let Jerusalem know the victory is expected
Seek it, and announce it across horizons

36. Joseph has come to you, o House of the Friend
Do not despair, in him you have true hope

37. The coasts are but like the Euphrates, when
It comes, if you do not know, ask

38. Do not let it go, for the pure Religion is not
Upon any but you, detached from this world

39. And favor with complete traits, pouring over
Swaying between jewelry and garments

40. Your praise made mentioning lineage superfluous
I did not stop upon a quarter or third in it

41. I spent the night praising Ahmad Isa, and if
News reaches you, I have not faulted the walk of the caravan

42. I sniffed your face in the pulling up of tents, and did not
Sniff the faces that walked beautifully in the wrappings

43. And the spilling of my tears inscribed praise
Did not flow between excuse and proof

44. Your traits contained, no need for flirtation
Within your traits what suffices flirtation

45. So one who seeks the Most High station
Should approach its doors through clearest paths