بعماد الدّين أضْحَتْ عُرْوَةُ الد

دينِ مَعصوباً بها الفتحُ المبينْ

With Imād al-Dīn the pillar of religion became

Bound with it the manifest conquest

وَاِستَزادت بِقَسيمِ الدَّولة ال

قسمُ مِن إدحاضِ كيدِ المارِقينْ

And with partner of the state it increased

A share from the frustration of the schemes of the dissenters

مَلكٌ أسْهَرَ عيناً لم تَزَلْ

هَمُّهَا تشريد هَمّ الرَّاقدين

A king that kept awake the eye that its concern

Was always to scatter the worries of those asleep

لا خَلَتْ من كَحَل النّصرِ فقد

فقأت غَيظاً عُيون الحاسدين

It did not lack kohl of victory so it

Squeezed the hatred, the eyes of the envious

كُلُّ يومٍ مَرَّ مِن أيّامِهِ

فَهوَ عيدٌ عائِد لِلمسلمينْ

Every day that passed of his days

Is a recurring feast for the Muslims

لو جرى الإنصافُ في أوصافِهِ

كَانَ أَولاها أَمير المُؤمنينْ

If justice flowed in describing him

He would be the commander of the faithful

ما رَوى الرّاوُونَ بَل ما سَطّروا

مِثلَ ما خَطَّتْ لَه أَيدي السنينْ

Neither those who transmit nor what they have transcribed

Is like what the years have inscribed for him

إِذ أَناخَ الشِّرْكُ في أَكنافِهِ

بِمئي ألْفٍ ثَناها بمئينْ

When polytheism docked in its bosoms

With a hundred thousand it doubled in two hundred thousand

وَقْعَةٌ طاحَت بِكَلبِ الرومِ من

قِطعَةِ البَيْن إلى قَطعِ الوَتينْ

An incident in which collapsed the dog of Rome from

A piece of separation to the cutting of the guy ropes

إِن حَمت مِصرٌ فَقَد قام لها

واضحُ البرهان أنَّ الصِّينَ صِينْ

If Egypt was protected then the clear proof is

That China is protected

دَرَج الدَّهْرُ عليها مُعْصِراً

لَم يُدنَّس بِمرام اللّائِمينْ

Time marched on it pressing

Not contaminated with the blame of the blamers

والرُّها لو لم تكن إِلّا الرُّها

لكَفَتْ حشْماً لشكّ المُمْتَرينْ

Even if it were only rubble

It would suffice to rebuke the doubt of the doubters

هَمَّ قسطنطينُ أن يَفّرعها

وَمَضى لم يحوِ مِنها قسطَ طينْ

Constantine thought to conquer it

And passed away not gaining from it a handful of clay

ولَكَمْ من ملِكٍ حاولها

فتحلّى الحَيْنُ وسْماً في الجبينْ

And how many kings have tried it

So the instant adorned their foreheads with a mark

هيَ أُختُ النَّجْم إِلّا أنّها

منه كالنّجم لرأي المُبْصِرينْ

It is the sister of the star except that it is

From it like the star in the view of the insightful

مُنِيَتْ منه بلَيْثٍ قائدٍ

بِعرانِ الذّلّ آسادِ العَرينْ

It was saved by a bold leader

With the handicap of humiliation, lions of the dens

زَارها يَزأرُ في أُسْدِ وَغىً

تُبدِّلُ الأُسْدَ مِن الزّأْرِ الأَنين

It was visited by one roaring with the boldness of lions

Replacing the roaring of lions with the moaning

صَولَجوا البيضَ بِضَرب نثر ال

هَامَ في ساحاتِها نَثر الكرين

They made the eggs white by striking, scattering

The brains in its plains, scattering of the potsherds

يا لها هِمَّةُ ثغرٍ أضحكتْ

من بني القُلفِ ثغور الشّامتين

Oh, what an ambition of a portal that made

The openings of Syria laugh at the gloaters

بَرنَسْتَ رأسَ بُرنس ذِلَّةً

بَعدَما جاسَت حَوايا جُوْسِلين

You cut off the head of Prince Baldwin humbling him

After residing the outskirts of Jerusalem

وسَرُوجُ مُذْ وَعَتْ أسراجَهُ

فَرَّقَتْ جُمّاعَها عنها عِضِين

And the lamps, since it ignited its lanterns

It scattered their group from it running

تِلكَ أقفالٌ رَماها اللَّه من

عَزمهِ الماضي بِخَيرِ الفاتِحين

Those are the locks Allah threw

From his passed will with the best of openers

شامَ منهُ الشّام بَرْقاً ودْقُهُ

مُؤمن الخَوفِ مُخيفَ الآمِنين

From it Syria was lit with lightning and its pounding

Terrifying the fearful, frightening the secure

كم كنيسٍ كَنَسْتَ قد رامَها

منه بعد الرُّوحِ في ظلّ السَّفين

How many a church you swept that it intended

After the soul within the shade of the ships

دَنَتِ الآجالُ مِن آجالها

فأَحَلَّتْهَا القَطا بَعدَ القَطين

The terms from its terms became closer

So the cat succeeded the two cats

ومنارٍ يجتلي صُلْبانهُ

بَينَ بِيضٍ تَتبارَى في البرين

And a minaret its crosses shine

Between whites competing in brilliance

قَرعَته البيضُ حتّى بَدّلت

قَرعةَ النّاقوسِ تَثويبَ الأذين

The eggs beat it until it changed

The toll of the bell to the prayers of the ears

بالقَسِيميّات مقسوماً لها الد

دَهر في عَلْكِ لُجينٍ أَو لجين

With the divisions it is divided for it the

Eras in an age of stillness or stillness

سَلْ بها حَرّان كم حرّى سَقَتْ

بَرَداً مِن يَوم رُدَّت ماردين

Ask Harran how much it boiled, it gave

Cold from the day it was returned forcibly

سَمَطْتَ أَمسَ سُمَيْسَاط بِها

نَظْمَ جَيشٍ مُبْهجٍ لِلنّاظرين

Yesterday you crushed the army

Of Sumaysat with it, delighting the onlookers

وَغَداً يُلْقَى على القدسِ لَها

كَلْكَلٌ يدرُسُهَا دَرْسَ الدّرين

And tomorrow Kulkal will be thrown on Jerusalem for it

To study it the study of the two darrens (homes)

هِمَّةٌ تُمسي وتضْحى عَزمةً

لَيسَ حِصنٌ إِنْ نَحَتْهُ بحَصِين

An ambition that comes to evening and morning resolved

There is no fortress if it carved it with the pickax

قُلْ لقومٍ غَرَّهُم إمهالُهُ

سَتَذوقونَ شَذاهُ بَعدَ حين

Say to a people deluded by its respite

They will taste its flavor after a time

إِنّهُ المَوتُ الَّذي يدركُ مَن

فَرَّ منه مُشحاً للغافِلين

It is death that will take whoever

Fled from it stingily to the heedless

وهو يُحْيي مُمْسكي عُرْوَته

إنّها حبلٌ لِمَنْ تابَ مَتين

And it gives life to those who hold its handhold

It is a rope for whoever repents decisively

مَنْ يُطِعْ يَنْجُ وَمَن يَعْصِ يكن

من غداةٍ عبْرَةً للآخَرين

Whoever obeys is saved and whoever disobeys you

Will be a lesson tomorrow for the others

بِكَ يا شَمسَ المعالي رُدَّتِ الر

روحُ في المَيْتَيْن من دُنيا وَدين

By you, O sun of glory, the soul was returned

To the two dead ones from world and religion

أَقسَم الجَدّ بِأَن تَبقى لِكَيْ

تَملِكَ الأَرضَ يَميناً لا يَمين

The grandfather swore that you will remain

To rule the land as a right hand not oath

وتُفيضُ العَدلَ في أَقطارِها

مُنْسِياً مُؤْلِمَ عسفِ الجائرين

And the justice overflows in its regions

Forgetting the painful injustice of the unjust

لا تَزَلْ دارُكَ كَيفَ اِنتَقَلتْ

كعبةً محفوفةً بالطّائفين

Your house will never cease, however it moves

A Kaaba surrounded by the circumambulators

كُلُّ يَومٍ يَتَحلَّى جيدُهَا

مِن نَظيمِ المَدحِ بالدُّرَّ الثّمين

Every day its neck is adorned

With the prose of praise with the precious pearl

كُلّما أَخلَصَ فيها دَعوَةً

لَكَ قالَت أَلْسُنُ الخَلْقِ آمين

Whenever a prayer sincerely concludes in it

The tongues of creation say "Amen"