1. I visited her while the night spread its wings
Yet she was not dressed in the garb of wings

2. On a night when the stars were my companions for her
Fluttering locks above the hair parting

3. And beauty had gathered all its aspects
A bending branch above the slope of a hill

4. The dawn guard fell asleep during my night
And all that was protected became permitted for me

5. I gathered from wine and from a smiling mouth
The redness of a rose, the whiteness of lightning

6. I attained from saliva and from speech
A suggestion and a glancing of glances

7. I swayed from the pleasures of youth
So I slept happy with the pleasures of one who awoke

8. And there wafted from the tresses of darkness ambergris
Scorched by dawn with the embers of the morning

9. They blamed me, once my hearing was impassioned
Like relief after feeling distressed

10. Al-Nasir, protector of the guideposts of righteousness
And stronghold of polytheism whose sanctity he violates

11. If he ties down his opinions as a banner
God will guarantee it success

12. He divides, between dew and harm
Permitted wealth and intense heat

13. The horizon cannot encompass the extent of his army
And the horizon folds the earth with its gaze

14. No trace of creation can be guided if it travels
Among it, nor do winds escape

15. If it melted and the Nile reached on the day of turmoil
It would water the hilltops and the inner regions of valleys

16. Or if the night concealed the stars of darkness
It would travel guided by the stars of spears

17. As if its swords were a meadow
Due to the leaflets upon it

18. His enemies have testified that they
Are the horsemen of war and the lions of battle

19. Saladin ruled, so its ropes were not eroded
The kingdom of piety and rectitude

20. An policy of justice that was good in our eyes
What had been an aspect of ugly nights

21. He travelled the land and its regions
A mention tomorrow beautifully composed and at peace

22. The days have become submissive
To his hands after his boldness

23. And it hears him listening to everything
He says of purpose and suggestion

24. Time has yoked with its days
Since he appeared promoting calamity, trial and dispersing

25. So if the firmity of his authority threw
Javelins, it would collapse and fall

26. Say to the son of Ayyub - and how many counselors
Are more beneficial than those who polish weapons?

27. Fight the stars of heaven over Egypt
So you may rule Egypt without objection

28. And time gambled to strike grain stones
Without it, if the dice did not help you

29. Without its edge, the sword would not return
To what was felled by the swords of Judah

30. The kingdom - its address does not fall silent
If the wounds of gashes do not address it

31. Charge against it the forelock of the survivor - he cultivated
Gaza or what surrounds it from sympathies

32. Leave in it like its traditions
The harvest of corpses and the weeping of bereaved women

33. Say to one whose determination is wanting
Return to resolve and leave playfulness

34. And Jerusalem has announced its closure
At the hands of Yusuf with opening

35. A king - if you mention his heroism
Dew would say - and mention the hadith of beneficence

36. I have been enriched through it over the attainment
Of stretching envious hands

37. And I chose it from among them as a blessing
Spittle is not like sincere advice

38. Whoever settles in the protection of his kindness
Then he is not a seeker of travel provisions

39. You tell me - blessings whenever
I intended travel, stay, do not rest

40. And the companion whose praise I sang
Cried - Give me more pure enunciation

41. The results of its fertility
What produce was not from pollination?

42. Its words have been scented with your name
So it is known to blow with praise

43. Scents I did not know from their sweetness
Which intoxicated the reciter - or did musk blow?

44. I congratulated it on the year made fortunate
By fulfilling against your enemies

45. Its days have pledged that they
Are servants relaxing your chest