1. Such severity I see from you, or nobility?
You give your soul and lives are ransomed.

2. O you who smiles when giving soul and wealth -
Does not death or non-existence frighten you?

3. I thought you’d see, between the two armies
That safety from the spears cannot be guaranteed.

4. I implore you by God, do not be reckless with your exalted soul
A leader’s life gives life to the nations.

5. True courage, except going too far
And all your excess has no purpose or resolve.

6. If you meet the slender white blades alone
Under the turban, maidens won’t be too many.

7. You ransom with your soul people you’ve created
When it was their right to give their souls for you.

8. And who fights those you went to fight
Without cavalry or armies excelling over you?

9. You’re stingy with war on our behalf, stingy like a miser
While your nobility is known in every situation.

10. Do not be miserly to a people, when they are killed
While the sons of Hayjaa extol you, not them.

11. You were dressed in what they wore, rode what they rode
Learned what they learned, taught what they were taught

12. As you were shown with whites you granted
Through your horses they rode the bloody sea.

13. They're the horsemen, in their hands are blades -
For if they saw you a lion, and the spears a thicket.

14. They said, "March!" so the spear shook its implement
And the stubborn eyelid rested in its socket.

15. And a hand that vexed the enemies asked me
What I've taught it the wolf and wild beasts desire.

16. Indeed, an issue that saddened me was mentioned
If not for parting from you, it would not have pained me.

17. Do not distract me with the issue of Damascus, I’ll protect it
Indeed, Damascus is forbidden to whoever wrongs it.

18. For the land has a wall from its awe
Its strongholds are its people's enemies' skulls.

19. Let not the Sword of the Faith deprive me of his company
It's the life by which breath lives.

20. I did not object to his orders
But asked, and generosity is among his qualities.