1. May Allah shower blessings on
A cloud whose rain has washed me

2. Though I saw naught and smelled naught
He watered me while my father suffered drought unstolen from me

3. So I patch rhymes, each mismatched
As thanks for blessings, a gleaming sign

4. That cloud was but the palm of Ibn Munqidh
A man of high ambitions, envied among the Jawan

5. Hilal, goodness itself, and days have witnessed
Hilal oathbound to valor and magnanimity

6. Smasher of idols on the day of panic in weakness
Scabbard of India and softness in harshness

7. Slayer of evils with glory when the fires
Of home died down and life grew cold

8. Who irrigates the land when its edges
Are dusty, in drought and war, a copious rain

9. Who hosts guest and neighbor staying with him
Till they rest secure from fear in a sanctuary

10. If enlightened by faith they cry out, he comes to them
A shelter, preventing injustice and destruction

11. He takes no captive when victorious
Nor chases heads in the heels of fugitives

12. Nor crosses swords with an absent ally
But befriends both near kin and far relation

13. The Merciful protected Abu al-Mujahid whom
The morning breeze played with the boughs of the straying and peaceful myrtle

14. A yearning man's prayer for the magnificent ones but
No love of his like love of generous stock and trait.