1. You have lasting honor throughout time
And sublime nobility atop the eagle's summit

2. Thus should the striving of kings be when
Lofty ambitions aspire to the glory of renown

3. You took on the burdens of authority with dedication
Lessening them so feet would not stumble

4. You unveiled the gloom over the region
As you unveiled with the lights of wealth the darkness of poverty

5. You protected the flock of the Caliphate from the Franks
Leading it safely from panic

6. And when the Prophet's son sought your aid
While the circle of supporters was tighter than a handspan

7. You brought him victory in crowds from Aus and Khazraj
For victory derives its name from the word "support"

8. Legions from Jurjan, the latecomers among them
At the frontier from the banks of Egypt

9. You rose up, rising with you stars of victory
Illuminating while religion was a moonless night

10. Stars that outshine the celestial bodies for
The night of worries passes over them without effect

11. And to you, O Ayyubid, the state inclined
Sending you missives daily along with envoys

12. Our eyes now rest on you, and hearts
Once frozen from estrangement now melt with the warmth of reunion

13. Your titles in religion match your deeds
As fame thereby conveys your generosity

14. You have among you a lion, a star, and
Salah ad-Din - truly the zenith of dawn

15. God protected the lionhearted resolve among you
Which undid Islam's shackling by unbelief

16. If they erected a bridge across the land
You crossed a sea of iron over that bridge

17. A path you battled the enemy over
Victorious, though rock clashes against rock

18. You seized from the Franks every mountain pass
Saying to the hooves of horses: "Go from pasture to pasture!"

19. His fear convulsed and drove him from Egypt
As the routed are convulsed by dawn from night

20. How many virgin battles, whose seals
Were broken by your sword, leaving no other the privilege

21. You warded off the heart of one whose days
Hatched the egg of betrayal against the sheepfolds

22. Legions that banish sorrow from its abode
And writings that banish sorrow from the mind's home

23. When they unfurl their banners and standards
They bend the hopes of the arrogant utterly

24. Becoming like lions in resolve and earnest
So cease this talk of crocodiles and tigers!

25. Vices seem trivial by your power
Whose clarity of forbearance delights the breast

26. If enmities should die one day through your forbearance
Then they have no recourse but pardon from the grave

27. Your hands crush the enemy with might
Yet heal the broken with kindness

28. Your father who was the stockpile of your glory
While you are the best of treasures and riches

29. If you granted someone favor, yet he is ungrateful
Then how can he be blamed, being pushed beyond limit?

30. For how, when you have become the flint's fire
Can he be other than the moon's treasure at its fullest?

31. You honor him amidst companions with courtesy
And carry what would trouble him of etiquette

32. You make him your deputy in peace and war
Reconciling opposites of water and ember

33. How often you stood by resolve, munificence, and rank
Pleasing him with words, in gifts, and with your countenance

34. If God granted speech to inanimate things
They could not thank you enough for your bounty

35. A hand the Muslims can never thank enough
O Ayyubids, until the end of time

36. You who are the greatest security from Merciful God
And security for the pillars of construction and stone

37. If Egypt returned to unbelief, the carpet of guidance
Would be folded from its shores and seas

38. But you bolstered its pillars with rule
Where uttering its name derives from "burden-bearing"

39. Nothing of polytheism remains but remnants
To perfect them with eggs and marble columns

40. And upon the conquest's completion I will come
Congratulating and collecting my earnings from soothsaying and warning

41. And composing for you the gazelles of poems
That are fragrant ambergris or wafts of perfume

42. Poems without any padding words
Rather, their stuffing is your fragrant mention

43. I learned beneficence from your virtues
Where one of them equals ten

44. If I were not your servant, and the weak among your bondmaids
My thoughts would claim the sanctity of kinship

45. If I did not believe praising you is an act of devotion
Through which I hope to gain reward and recompense

46. I would not have spoken poetry after setting my mind free
When I have years since repenting from poetry

47. My reward is your smoothing my course
And your meeting me with amiability and glad tidings