1. With you, the side of religion shuddered in the garments of victory,
And the nation of unbelief was pushed back on its heels.

2. So praise be to God, it has become a blessing,
Beyond the ability of praise and thanks to encompass.

3. With it, the offering of souls decreased as good news,
And everything became small next to it from vows.

4. So let whoever wishes to say whatever they want say,
And this is the place for prose and poetry about you.

5. I found an occasion for speech receptive,
So what fault is it of yours if I fall short in that from excuse?

6. For you, God is a generous guardian when He is generous,
So cease from familiarity and cease from estrangement.

7. The days don their garb of youth through it,
And from it they are adorned in their green splendor.

8. His hands are white in creation, Mosaic,
But they hasten at the pace of al-Khidhr.

9. And through him the fragmented one became towering,
Rivaling even Mount Sinai in esteem.

10. The angels are indebted to him willingly and unwillingly,
And the celestial spheres serve him in prohibition and command.

11. So O king exalted above the angels in rank,
In the highest company, his mention is the sweetest.

12. May it delight you what your Lord has given you, they are
Stations, they are the pride in the Station of the Gathering.

13. And not only Egypt rejoiced at this opening,
Baghdad rejoiced even more than Egypt.

14. For had he not stood for God as befits His standing,
The Abode of Peace would not have been safe from terror.

15. And I swear, were it not for a perfect ambition,
Men would have feared the sanctuary and the stones.

16. Three years you stayed, and months,
Waging jihad in them, not with Zayd or ‘Amr.

17. You were patient until God sent down His victory,
For that, you praised the outcome of patience.

18. And the night of invading the enemy was as if
It was by the number of those you struck down, the Night of Immolation.

19. So what a night God ennobled in its ordainment!
And no wonder if I name it the Night of Value.

20. You blocked their path by land and sea
With ships sunk and ships burning.

21. Fleets not in the legends of those gone by,
With every crow that swooped to snatch away like a falcon.

22. And an army like the night in its awesomeness and dread,
Though it was adorned by the stars among it shining bright.

23. And every steed the like of which was never
For the Family of Zuheyr, nor for the Clan of Badr.

24. And God's soldiers spent the night atop the ridges
With their torches providing light for the scouts instead of dawn.

25. You did not stop until God supported His party,
And the face of the earth smiled, radiant with victory.

26. You sated from them the thirsty swords and spears,
And satisfied from them the gaping wolves and eagles.

27. And the kings of Rome came to you submissive,
Dragging the tails of humiliation and smallness.

28. They came to a king whose place is above the clouds,
So from his generosity is that cloud which flows.

29. He bestowed safety upon them graciously
Despite the white flashes of swords and reddened spears.

30. God sufficed Damietta of tribulations, it is
From the direction of Islam's prayers in the place of ritual slaughter.

31. And the Nile's water was not sweet except that it
Took the place of saliva from that gaping mouth.

32. So to God belongs the day of the Opening, the day it entered,
With standards flying above it in domination.

33. It surpassed all the days of time in their entirety,
And made forget the tales of Hunayn and Badr.

34. O happy people who attained in it their fortune!
They combined the spoils of war and reward.

35. And I am comforted by every newcomer
If he is of those conquests in his telling.

36. That discourse excites me, its goodness,
And does for me what power lies not in wine.

37. And I listen to him, retelling his account,
As if I were venerable, though I am not venerable.

38. It takes the place of cool fresh water in thirst
And suffices over provisions in the barren land.

39. How many a day when I heard him
My hearing acknowledged it, and my mind remembered it.

40. And here I am, even till today sometimes
I deny the truth of the matter from him.

41. For you, may God reward whoever praises you, for he only
From killing, you saved him, or from capture.

42. Eulogy falls short of you from every praiser
Even if he came with the shining sun and the full moon.