1. We ransomed you with a sword whose strikes never failed,
And an ocean of generosity whose gifts never ebbed,

2. And a full moon that shone in a leadership sky,
Its stars are its traces and virtues.

3. You took up the sword of Allah and donned the dew,
Securing those who hoped in you and excusing those who fled from you.

4. So here he is, embodied in every heart,
And there his ranks are at the two lofty abodes.

5. No path has swerved from it for one who seeks it,
Nor has any land been spacious for one who seeks it.

6. Creatures are from the water of life, and it often
Chokes on a day of hatred its drinker.

7. Shall we be clothed in bliss? Nay, many a garment,
Aged crown for the eminent, you have stripped.

8. And a night, like the prime of youth, you have cast
Into the tumult of fates, until its pleasures have grayed.

9. And you have linked him one day, seducing his company
As a lad, until his drinking mate roams at night.

10. With every disgrace his ancestors have honored him
And every paucity has proven his experiences.

11. And Yemeni ginger you have recognized its right
Even if its claimant appeals to you as a relative.

12. And stallions for mares you have led them
As stars for a day with the enemies wandering astray.

13. You have prayed and the fire of war kindles its blaze
And you have plunged while the wave of death foams its ships.

14. And there is no day like the day of Lunah you have famed,
When the sun of day has masked its clouds.

15. You have raised for it in the cheek of firmness a flashing
Whose drippings wipe away the clouds of death.

16. And a maiden time has not brought her equal
Nor has a husband coveted her, though her aspect is dear.

17. Protected, no suitors have asked for her land
Nor has she known through time how his calamities twist and turn.

18. She has set firm between the entrails of misguidance
And its tongues, apart from her, chatter and prate.

19. And you have become, O servant of King al-Mu'ayyad her king,
And most successful of men came asking her hand in marriage with sword as matchmaker.

20. And you have presented to her the truth of meeting hastily
As a dowry if the striking of the blades speaks falsely.

21. And an army whose spears have illuminated the horizons
And its battalions have overflowed the land in width.

22. And it has fortified her in the blowing wind's stronghold,
Impregnable to the eyes of spies are its watchers.

23. You have sent to it from you the call of the confident,
Pure in loyalty to him present and absent.

24. So swiftly the fairest of them brought out its lions,
And the freest of them released from the heat of battle its beauties.

25. Three thousand in number and the like of them
When companies retreat and the counter flees.

26. Would that Qutuz had seen when he built his structure,
Its sides have crumbled before you.

27. Would that when he named it Badr, revered,
He had seen it and in the darkness of dust its setting.

28. He would know that truth repels his plot,
And you are God's party; no doubt you are its victor.

29. So neither has the religion you are its sword been abandoned,
Nor the kingdom you are its chamberlain been frightened.