1. What has turned my noble land to learning of arts one day,
Yet to you the seekers it's become an eye of disobedience?

2. Is this for my diminished fortune or for your rejection
Of those rights without crime or cause?

3. Or has ignorance made me abandon positions in
The love of knowledge and attain high ranks?

4. Or my avoidance of what discourse has declined
You've associated with flesh and origin?

5. I've no defect but that in your lands I'm
A sun and you've not known in it except comets.

6. While you're like bats of darkness and the
Bat remains in misery under sunlight.

7. Die if you wish for the words I've inscribed in books
Have taken flight in defending truth.

8. And I hope my call rouses a group
Who strive for religion, not for glory.

9. They don't equate God's word to a lad's
Nor the sunna of the best messenger to a fool's.

10. They don't turn from the right guidance nor
Flatter for encouragement or intimidation.

11. I share with them my doctrines' pearls
I've veiled from those of taqlid and doubt.

12. O group who foolishly lost their banners
And made heads of scholars like tails.

13. No teacher of knowledge rose in your lands
Except you made him drink cups of sorrows.

14. Traits have quenched you with their foul water
Wicked ancestors who were yours in past eras.

15. One who said the Prophet said among you
Became with this among your idols.

16. If the shaykhs of secondary law say thus
You say he's correct though he erred in reality.

17. You've made the Zaydi doctrine, in its majesty,
Among you a wonder of wonders.

18. You've turned the essence of the Family's knowledge turbid
Until it became a game among you one day.

19. You've opposed the radiant Sunna so this
Became grounds for your opponents' charges.

20. How did the ignorant think harm beneficial in calamity
And kept hoping for salvation from hands of loss?

21. You've blackened an ignorant generation with knowledge and this
An opinion dragging the tail of woe and war.

22. And ijtihad in your jurisprudence books
Became limited to the Imam, transgress it's not right.

23. And the condition for bearers of judiciary burdens, though
Issuing fatwas, you don't know what's inscribed in books.

24. So judge between us, you flowers, though
You meet it, if you understand it, with freedom of doubt.

25. Didn't he specify as a condition for a lad's ijtihad
A rising to the highest position of ranks?

26. And review the latest of his books as well
The chapter on judiciary and rest from harm of fatigue.

27. And he said whoever obtains the knowledge of ijtihad and doesn't
Remove the burden of taqlid has not succeeded.

28. And I obtained multiples of what they conditioned
Before thirty years of my age without lying.

29. Didn't I stain the sanctuaries' patios by
Teaching every discipline to the seekers?

30. Didn't I author in the prime of my youth what
Becomes firmly established to the gnostics in pleasure?

31. Had my sun risen over other than your lands
No obstacles would've halted its radiance.

32. Nor would it become for gazers at it
As if it rose in the darkness of veils.