Nur ad-Din realized that he had created a dangerous opponent in Saladin, and the two rulers assembled their armies for what seemed to be the inevitable war.
== Smrt in nasledstvo ==Nur ad-Din je med vojno v Egiptu na severu porazil Ortokide in leta 1170 reševal spor med svojima nečakoma, ki je nastal po smrti brata Qutb ad-Dina.