آن امیر دیگر آمد از کمین ** دعوی او در خلافت بد همین‌‌

Another amír came forth from ambush: his pretension regarding the vicegerency was the same;

از بغل او نیز طوماری نمود ** تا بر آمد هر دو را خشم جهود 700

He too produced a scroll from under his arm, so that in both (amírs) there arose the Jewish anger.

آن امیران دگر یک یک قطار ** بر کشیده تیغهای آب دار

The rest of the amírs, one after another, drawing swords of keen mettle,

هر یکی را تیغ و طوماری به دست ** درهم‌‌افتادند چون پیلان مست‌‌

Each with a sword and a scroll in his hand, fell to combat like raging elephants.

صد هزاران مرد ترسا کشته شد ** تا ز سرهای بریده پشته شد

Hundreds of thousands of Christians were slain, so that there were mounds of severed heads;

خون روان شد همچو سیل از چپ و راست ** کوه کوه اندر هوا زین گرد خاست‌‌

Blood flowed, on left and right, like a torrent; mountains of this dust (of battle) rose in the air.

تخمهای فتنه‌‌ها کاو کشته بود ** آفت سرهای ایشان گشته بود 705

The seeds of dissension which he (the vizier) had sown had become a calamity (cause of destruction) to their heads.

جوزها بشکست و آن کان مغز داشت ** بعد کشتن روح پاک نغز داشت‌‌

The walnuts (bodies) were broken, and those which had the kernel had, after being slain, a spirit pure and fair.

کشتن و مردن که بر نقش تن است ** چون انار و سیب را بشکستن است‌‌

Slaughter and death which befalls the bodily frame is like breaking pomegranates and apples:

آن چه شیرین است او شد ناردانگ ** و آن که پوسیده ست نبود غیر بانگ‌‌

That which is sweet becomes pomegranate-syrup, and that which is rotten is naught but noise: