1. God willed that you be supported and aided
And be granted victory, so they titled you “the Victorious”

2. And you become a sword, as your name suggests, cutting
Adorned with varieties of gems made radiant

3. They see you as the finest Indian steel
Of the greatest effects and most precious origin

4. Whenever you accompany the swords to battle
And send them into it, though they fall short

5. You have contended with the enemies in ways
That, if matters escalated, you’d be most apt to address

6. Behind him you see an army of leaders
Before him sincere warriors in multitudes

7. The light of courage denies him cowardice
And his wisdom suffices for his valiance and temerity

8. It was enough for the enemies yesterday’s battle
Where God ordained time would forget yet you’d recall

9. You approached the Sa’eed, and if you wished
There to forbid the Nile from flowing onward

10. Battalions that shake the ground as they march
And stir it up until the land fills with dust

11. Marwan al-Himar’s day was not like it
Being far greater than the donkey’s famed day

12. Ibn Masal tomorrow will be devastating to the swords
As you dressed him in blood-drenched mail

13. He thought the fray a preserve for hunting prey
With the swords as hawks trained to strike

14. So ignorantly, not courageously, he approached
And providence hastened what he’d put off

15. If Najm al-Deen is truly as he claimed
Then you are the sun, dimming him from sight