1. Islam donned its youth with you
Though its years had passed and gone

2. The kingdom shook its shoulders mightily
Taking its affairs into its own hands

3. And since the world wore its finest garments
Your beauty made it radiant like stars

4. The necks of time were never free
Except adorned with your peerless gems

5. If only the nights would sing gently
Layla would yearn and the lutes would play

6. And I imagine its stars to be cups
With the galaxies as their drink

7. What garment can the sun wear
To dazzle those who gaze upon it?

8. If it were to greet the morn with light
Darkness would not veil it

9. A morn that fills the horizon with light
That remains as the dawn fades away

10. A rain that willingly ruins the abode
And a lion that seizes its prey

11. A Saad from the clan of Saad appeared
Making armor seem like clouds

12. No tumultuous sea overflowed
Onto his coats of mail before him

13. It landed as a swollen sea and rose like a full moon
And roamed like a shooting star

14. Tamed by clemency, lofty in battle
Whether pardoned or punished

15. The sky of war was not struck
Except to quench its heroes' thirst

16. How many gardens of blood did it sing to
As its swords buzzed around them like flies

17. Drinking from the cup of might in gulps
Avoiding revelry and frivolity

18. Shunning the soft and fragrant women
And drawing near the rugged nomads

19. They said he had the longest reach in battle
I said yes, and the highest position

20. The most eloquent tongue when he spoke
The most generous when asked

21. They had heard his soft voice and tested it
So their cunning flowed not like pebbles

22. His clemency does not fool them
For many a sweetness bore punishment

23. Ask the clan of Ruzzik when
He brought war and dispute upon them

24. And approached them like an angry lion
As they fled like frightened jackals

25. If their armies lasted in the plains
They would have left their lands in ruins

26. Fear silenced their tongues
As he gave them rest from fear

27. Their suspicions gave them false hopes
How often does a faulty view seem right?

28. If they take the darkness as their steeds
Then he takes the stars as his mounts

29. Those who survived fleeing cannot grieve
If they returned the rule would remain

30. If his sharp swords wished
They would erect a wall and door before them

31. He unleashed not his young lion's fangs
Except the crowns of kings responded

32. Else the torrent of war would surround them
And their skulls would be its pebbles

33. He brought them horror and fear
Calling it the regiment and the book

34. He cracked their mountain with resolute lightning
Watering the valley with their blood

35. How many conquests has Abu al-Fath claimed
With domes raised on the heights as his answer

36. When Ruzzik found no refuge from him
Except flight, he came to him

37. He and his comrades in humiliation
Having lost their honor and clothes

38. They led the horses in submission
Brought low to degradation

39. How often they wore armor to no avail
When their hearts brimmed with terror

40. How often they rode swelling with pride
To meet misfortune and defeat

41. How often they planted their spears in the ground
Deceitfully claiming absence

42. Thinking their respite was a cloud
While their hopes had deserted them like mist

43. He generously gave them rule
One who joins heads severs tails

44. He improved a position they saw as vile
Though the crown seemed lost

45. It does not shame rule that it remains protected
On the eve its glory was struck

46. For God honored him with a kingdom
That humbled the haughty lions