1. Through you, religion fulfilled an obligation that was already due
And God fulfilled a promise that was hoped for

2. So barrenness returned to fertility, and forbidden to sanctuary
And security settled, while fear was exiled

3. Your view illuminated, though days were gloomy
So it shone, and your effect dispersed sorrows

4. You combined light and influence at a rank
That cannot be surpassed, so you gained the seven planets

5. You repelled the misfortunes that conquered kingdoms and seized
What they deemed long foregone through the edges of spears

6. Arrogants who spy on heroes you scattered
From what they wanted - a horseman who spies on news

7. Indeed, you protected a land whose forest covers were impenetrable
So what do enemies reckon if it sprang forth?

8. It severed necks without even unsheathing its blade
And brought down misfortunes subdued, though mounted

9. And secured people from the discord they feared
Though time was too narrow for its least portion

10. In it, wealth did not avail the wealthy
Rather, the owner of a single garment envied the barefoot

11. So how did you reveal its obscured fortresses
When even the full moon does not reveal a concealed darkness?

12. Had they been equals, you would have marched out to them
With the vigor of your grandfather when he inverted the crucifixes

13. But you sat back, tempting misfortunes to befall them
Humiliating the twists of fate however difficult

14. On which day of battle did they fight you and not
Cups of death revolved among them in multitudes?

15. Until their king passed away complaining of an affliction that
Pleased you, though did not please him in the least

16. It is the complaint of a wounded man whose health is exhausted
Not like what a submerged drowned man complains of

17. And Turkoman was not saved when you mobilized against him
From Amer a group by which you strengthened groups

18. Had his disregarder slowed down, they would have brought him to you
Like the jinn of Solomon brought his throne from Sheba

19. He came to your country deluded by its ruler
Ignorantly, so he met destruction before it

20. The Turks were ignorant of the Bedouins
Until you allowed them to know the Arabs

21. They met them with spears long broken
And the Indian canes succeeded them against foes

22. And they did not refrain, though their scabbards were created
Swords adorned with scabbards of gold

23. Regiments whom God destined defeat for
Whoever turns from the truth in His rulings, stumbled

24. And none of them escaped except some cavalry
That saved those near them carrying litters

25. Lamenting to the people the one they thought would arrive
But the purpose of the wicked is to rule Aleppo

26. Like the croaking raven of Bani Asad, silent before his death
Until when his time came, he croaked

27. They had high hopes through him, so no wonder
That after him, their staff became entangled in branches

28. As if their own souls were followers of his inclination
And the sincerity of their determination was part of what was taken

29. And a fire smolders when its kindler is absent
And the spark dies down unless the strike ignites it

30. So let violence be left to its rightful people
Violence, no doubt, is noble when attributed

31. If they lost composure when they approached Aleppo
They did reach it when they resolved to flee

32. On the morrow, they turned reinforcements into a burden to them
While they fancied in fear it fortified them

33. From an awe of you - its risks were endless
Had they been in fresh sweet water, it would not be drunk

34. Without the spoils, there are horrors that embitter it
And in defeat, there is salvation - so why did they flee?

35. It is a gift of glory constantly blowing with
The winds of your determination until it made it blow away

36. They ascended to a difficult pinnacle, but their effort disappointed them
They saw their own effort as play next to it

37. A star is not illuminating like its companion star
Unless it is supported by determination that breaks through the veils

38. A group that lost this world and the next -
Not all who were ill-fated in life were ill-fated in destiny

39. And wherever it descended, it does not cease to overshadow them
With an army of fear, though it is not audible

40. You sufficed in sparing them, though had you wished to conquer them
You would have left no head or tail among them

41. Did you intend deliberately to spare a nation that witnessed
The decisiveness of your ferocity, so as to warn the unseen?

42. If days relent with dislike
After exercising more patience than is wondrous

43. They did not raid the Levant except after gathering
Among the clan those chosen and those seized

44. Plots that deluded them into plotting with it
What were devices for their lions during battles

45. And a fire of war they kindled, in which they inflamed the land for a time
So when you confronted them, they became its fuel

46. For what reason do you fear their happiness
When it has vanished into what vanished?

47. With the swords you unsheathed their strikers
Or with the hearts in which you resided fear?

48. Had it not been for dogs, their armies would not have raided
These countries nor extended in them their poles

49. They wanted affability from the most hostile of their enemies
That view strayed far from correctness

50. So they met an opponent whose rains were widespread
And they headed for the shine of lightning long proven to lie

51. Like a herdsman whose camels are well fed on fertile land
Yet he hopes for pasturage where there is herbage

52. Until when their assumptions proved false about them
They turned to you with an assumption far from lying

53. So your nearness returned a glory that had parted from them
And revealed a star that had set

54. With it, they attained the highest pinnacle, which foiled them
With brightness from prophethood and the lofty dunes

55. And they met a dutiful son with their old age
And for the adolescent among them, an elderly father

56. One who is generous when they hope for it out of greed
And pardons when they fear him out of awe

57. When resentment and animosity inspire what they perpetrated
He wipes away overlooking, and pardon does not record

58. If he is harsh, death is but one of his arrows
And if he forgives, his wrath knows no fury

59. One who returned the dead nation alive and its factions
Angry and blamed the rebellious people so they split

60. Lord of resolves - if only they were materialized
Every onlooking eye would fancy them meteors

61. In length they grow if the sinner falls short of intention
And flow if the edge of the swords drips

62. He put on the wrap but its amulets did not leave
His neck, loving the safe since loving

63. If he decides, nights are hampered against their will
Conquering, and if he speaks, tongues flow long

64. He encompassed knowledge innately without fatigue
Multiples of what wearied students working

65. He listened to it until it became his abode
So if he surpasses it - but he will not - he will not part

66. It manifested the ambiguous meaning in its lucidity
So it escaped who exhausted thoughts in conciseness

67. Behind you people in grace and in generosity
So tell your effort to slow down and profit from fatigue

68. Stop for this greatest period, for you are one who
Fell in glory magnitudes of what was sought

69. Glory you alone among kings attained
Seeking praise, avoiding blame

70. God granted you kingship benevolently
From Him, and God will not take back what He gave

71. If your mention is enjoyed in nomad camps and settlements
Their practice is to lower sights and profess love

72. So time yielded until whatever you did not do, did not
Even if your enemies' course was reprehensible

73. I soften my saddlecloth in the land of a king
Who left me no discomfort in God's land

74. His favor was unmarred by innuendo or number
That drags reluctance - had it not been for people, no blinking

75. Eloquence flows when you visit his gathering
You won highness, wealth, status, and courtesy

76. He kept hearing my poems and praising them
Until I counted his great gifts as interest

77. I do not ask you for more favor after describing to me
My sufficiency in reaching this extent is enough

78. You have spread favor and benefaction, so you did not cease
To adorn your traits in poems and speeches

79. So it remains for eulogies to be gifted to you
As it remains for virtues to be attributed to them as originator