1. If generosity's instincts are reckoned as faults
Then Sa'd al-Din is accused of indulgence.

2. With a bright face, neither frowning nor dejected,
Nor timid when the struggle looms ahead.

3. When he girds for valor and bounty intertwined
He charges the peaks and the rugged terrain.

4. His pleasure and anger toward his proteges
Are a poison and balm toward hostile men.

5. His gifts are rain pouring from the clouds,
His affection, the radiant light of dawn.

6. Pens and words are humbled before his glory,
More helpless than meadows against the spear.

7. Though slander assails him like flashes of white swords,
His eloquence scatters them in defeat.

8. Deep in my heart, with its battle-scarred walls,
Lives a passion for glory and high renown.