1. The day of the Franks was not easy for you,
Its count cannot be confined by lines of calculation,

2. Wednesday brought them a bloody Thursday,
With distant, billowing seas.

3. You held their reins fast for them,
And made the command to attack bitter.

4. They marched together towards a cross
That clanks with the foolish clamor of crucifixion.

5. Death wraps them in its folds,
And the mountain peoples rush out at them from the crevices.

6. Their arrow swerved from its prey,
So you were a plague on the swarming swarm.

7. You stripped the crown from him and stripped for yourself a crown,
In place of the braided crown of braids.

8. With the discipline of slavery, yet it was more beautiful
And brilliant than it in the shade of discipline.

9. He climbed up while barred from climbing
And ascended while he was the utmost contender.

10. Misfortunes assail him while he is unyielding,
His resolve silenced from making any response.

11. Far from defeat or being defeated,
He turns to the final day of return.

12. How many lashes of your horses they faced,
Yet they were lashes of torment upon their chests.

13. You left them in the Levant distracted
From gaining a victory or from returning.

14. You tore away his veil while the sun withdrew,
With a sun that is not veiled by any covering.

15. In your pure Indian white fabric,
Of protected interior and cheap trim.

16. He has the mark of elders, purity of white hair,
And in his expressions, the sprightliness of youth.

17. Oh you who look upon the world with an eye
That saw its ornaments as the deception of mirage.

18. You masked it then divorced it thrice
At the height of fawning and deceit.

19. So he inclines not to any bright opinion,
Nor turns to any hope laid waste.

20. He rose above gratifying desires,
And soared above socializing with the pretentious.

21. May the prayers of Allah be upon all
The dwellings of your father, made of dust.

22. For he brought wrath unto Islam,
That in calamities, does not waver.

23. Valiant men surge to him, like surging seas,
With eyelids that stretch out like answering each other.