The Maker of all creation has granted us a victory made manifest⦗1⦘,
endowing us with favor and with an everlasting glory⦗2⦘.

The face of time beamed after its long-drawn frown,
while the visage of idolatry, through its own injustice, turned black.

When the vast, surging sea brimmed over with its tyrannous crew
and foamed white beneath the weight of their ships,

He raised up for this religion one who unsheathed his polished resolve⦗3⦘—
bright as a drawn sword, gleaming and bare.

None escaped⦗4⦘ save the corpses that lay strewn upon the field,
or those whom you now behold in shackles.

Then the tongue of creation called out across the earth,
raising its voice to the two horizons and chanting:

“O worshippers of Jesus! Indeed, Jesus and his followers,
and Moses as well, all stand in service to Muhammad⦗5⦘.”

Abū Shāma⦗6⦘ said: I have been informed that at this verse the poet gestured toward al-Muʿaẓẓam ʿĪsā, al-Ashraf Mūsā, and al-Kāmil Muḥammad, adding, “This was one of the finest coincidences ever to occur.”

The event took place on Wednesday, the nineteenth of Rajab of that same year.

The Franks then withdrew to Acre and other towns; al-Muʿaẓẓam returned to Syria, and al-Ashraf and al-Kāmil made peace with⦗7⦘ their brother al-Muʿaẓẓam.

In that year as well, al-Malik al-Muʿaẓẓam appointed Jamāl al-Dīn al-Miṣrī⦗8⦘—formerly the administrator of the treasury—as chief judge of Damascus. A man of outstanding learning, he would sit every Friday in the ʿĀdiliyya madrasa before the congregational prayer, and once the service was finished he would record legal documents. All the witnesses from every district gathered there so that people could have their deeds certified within a single hour. May Allah reward him well.

Among the notable figures who died that year was Yāqūt the scribe of Mosul⦗9⦘—may Allah have mercy on him—Amīn al-Dīn, famed for his adherence to the calligraphic method of Ibn al-Bawwāb.