1. Does kindness still look good after your harshness
So I combine despair and wishful thinking

2. And your kindness after loss does me no good
Like a gloating enemy's pity after burial

3. Do I hope to be a martyr of love
To gain heavenly maidens through you afterwards

4. You have possessed my eyelids and heart
So you have removed sleep and rest from me

5. How much reproach other than blame my ears have borne
And how much wakefulness other than sleep my eyelids have contained

6. You were harsh and saw nothing but the excess of my passion
For you my constant pleading to excessive devotion

7. Indeed for me you have shown in every beauty
Kinds that excel every sorrow

8. So how many skills of affliction did love's description show me
As if you wanted me to take the path

9. Until you made the resemblance in the full moon and the branch
So your face dressed the moon in perfection

10. And your stature taught the boughs to bend
My eyes' ambition in love of you hoped

11. For beauty but failed in you their hopes
So how many tears have I burdened my eyes with

12. And how many regrets have I tapped my teeth with
You betrayed while seeing none but loyalty from me

13. Why did you not ransom me before my pledge in you was sealed
And if love had judged between us in fairness

14. You would have been more deserving of torment than me
You have set death in ambush for me, so I fear

15. Visiting it, even if it has not visited me
As the enemies lay in ambush each day

16. For Salah Al-Din in the plains and sorrow
They see his phantom moving like a ghost

17. So if they bedded down, it came to them in weakness
It destroyed them, their fear of him, and he spent the night

18. As their shelter, even if it gave them safety in the evening
He took over east and west around them

19. So they fell under captivity and hostage
He circled them from every side

20. Tribes came against them without gentleness
He established a garrison against the Ayyubid family

21. The Franks saw the straits of prison from it
For they are mountains for religion and life

22. Unmoving pillars never seen to shake
If they pursue a resolve and opinion

23. They suffice in war without striking and stabbing
And if he calls to battle they will not care

24. Whether their fighting is against human or Jinn
The kings hoped for peace from them to no avail

25. And did not see their efforts in valor avail
And their kings altogether feared them

26. So did not turn a cold shoulder to them
From his might they have a strong pillar

27. And if asked for help, they shelter no pillar
The horizons of their Egypt contain fortresses

28. So what if they man every fortress?
They are chivalrous, their rule is that of justice

29. It fashions their glories and makes them excellent
And how much graciousness they have surpassed

30. In it, honoring beyond any honor
From them is the whole world's Joseph

31. And he has no share but excellence
I see the idea of transmigration in Egypt as true

32. By the addition of a name to justice and goodness
And I have not seen a king so generous

33. His treasuries are empty yet he enriches
He rose like the sun one day at Nak'a

34. So light burst from him, filling the darkness
I see the infidels' disease weakened

35. By it, an illness that weakens every stronghold
They refused offspring, fearing the offspring of a girl

36. Would abandon their religion or her son kill
So by it they were infertile without infertility

37. Just as by it they were cowardly without cowardice
And the one who destroyed them with nonexistence in truth

38. With praise like when they were found enriches
He has experienced through trials wisdom

39. And turned the wheel of fate upside down
So he held back the infidels from tyranny through cunning

40. That confuses every thoughtful and reasoned mind
He brought the horses overland to the Franks

41. And reached them at sea with ships
He has brought the slave girls among the slave girls

42. Extending with each stature inclined
Their gathering increases their misery

43. So singing women weep over singing women
No gazelle is ransomed by a lion

44. Nor lion redeemed by an ostrich's wealth
Alexandria exulted the day they were led away

45. And Damietta - so what loss did it profit?
The best of them in bliss is what has come to it

46. With the king's proximity - every exalted one it makes happy
If it wore for pride a coat

47. It would trail the superiority of its train
The dew of bounty came before them from him

48. So how many singles with family spent the night?
And quickest for him is release from detainment

49. Even if he who grants it does so without gratitude
Weapons fear hoarding in his presence

50. And wealth flies without hoarding
How can the bounty of the sea retain the sea's bounty?

51. Bearing obligation to a brother and obligation
Indeed, the Victorious King, the hoped for

52. Is worthier than a living guardian who flourishes
He destroys his enemies and builds glory

53. For his family, so he destroys when he makes safe
When he meets the foe, he is fiercer than a lion

54. And if he gives bounty, he is kinder than rain
He brings you celebration, if only he survive you

55. Else the celebrator would not gain victory over the celebrated