1. May you and Shams al-Din remain, for glory and exalted rank,

    both mighty, so long as a songbird alights in the arak tree.

  2. For he who kept you both alive and nurtured you has not died.

    May a vast pardon from God enfold him—

  3. Copiously raining clouds—your two rain-bringers, your two abiding supports—are his bounty,

    which has never ceased since the cleaving blades carried him away from us.

  4. Najm al-Din’s stand in every glorious exploit

    is renowned; battles and assemblies alike praise him for it.

  5. And if he patiently endures, patience is his innate disposition,

    when thrusting lances splinter among the mail-clad warriors.

Sol 5.6