1. My resolve towards you is firm, it does not waver,
And Ibn Hazm, your bond cannot be undone,

2. He chides me for blaming you,
No matter how much they increase or decrease.

3. For Allah's Messenger and his kin,
Wherever they went and settled,

4. He harbors sincere counsel and love for them,
Pure, in which no flaw appears.

5. The people of a house, upon their deniers
Is their right to guidance, that they not go astray,

6. The elect of Allah, the most high from His essence,
For them is the greatest, most honorable position.

7. No people obeyed Allah but turned away
From them, nay, they disobeyed Him and went astray,

8. And through them the darkness of misguidance was rent,
And to faith and religion they were guided.

9. And through them every transgressor was poured upon
With mighty honor, while small and vile.

10. Their rights were usurped and they deemed permissible
What was not lawful from it by the unjust.

11. And they followed regarding them what abhorrent sin enacted,
A criminal rebel opposed Allah.

12. No intimate regarded fear of Allah concerning them
Or was restrained, but let loose the reins.

13. So they are scattered slain, blood spilled
Hazardously among them sought to be shed,

14. And captives in fetters, upon them
Chains and shackles of iron causing wounds.

15. And resident humble before an enemy,
Debased between them, disgraced and humiliated,

16. Not for a crime nor from dispute,
They mounted against them, so they slipped.

17. Other than that the kingdom turned to their unjust ones,
War booty and shade turned to them.

18. And they broke faith with the purified Prophet,
Their grandfather - an infringement that does not dwindle.

19. And Allah built for them a house of glory,
The way of religion by it takes shade.

20. In beauty Allah blessed therein,
None attained what they were deprived of unjustly.

21. Inheritors of stored knowledge, upon it
Every possessor of knowledge depends and yields.

22. And over me is the one of lofty deeds, their father,
Noble, exalted, he lowering and raising.

23. He was taught the religion which whoever follows
Travels the paths of guidance, he does not stray.

24. And the Commander of the Faithful, their hope
Their superiority arousing, and humbling.

25. Extending his palms among them in justice,
And patience - its wounds gushing forth.

26. From a heaven for them each day
A shower, droplets, and downpour.

27. And Allah's flaming star in every adversity,
Allah's sword and sharp blade rising.

28. Wherever the lions meet in the shadows of death,
Every hero flees routed and retreats.

29. A body preyed on by circling birds,
And predators - in it a way made smooth.

30. Treasure in it after some time
For the crippled beasts, tender meat.

31. A hero who overwhelmed in his ease
The lances and swords, a stream and forest.

32. The heroes disdain from him the son of death,
Who does not tire of war until they tire.

33. The Yemeni weapon praises its sharpness
In the fray, and the Meccan its fineMake.

34. As if the blade called out from it
The sparks of the hot iron flipping.

35. He began harboring hatred and showing
Hatred which its roots do not cease.

36. He consulted the wicked regarding Allah through it,
Large-fanged, awake, constant.

37. Neither charms can stop it, nor one
Who touched the edge of it from it blunted.

38. An abode from the time of Luqman, Aad,
Below it peaks of grief amassed.

39. Inaccessible, neither humankind nor Jinn
Draw near it, but wear out and languish.

40. Like dry seasoned wood, unless ignited
It melts the person or wearies.

41. If the high tips of spears passed through it
The blades do not penetrate it and blunt.

42. Or if the arms of thousands reached toward it
They retreated from its breath weakened and paralyzed.

43. Whenever he extended the probe and it probed,
It found the flesh of the goat from it severed.

44. Return to praising those who over them
Is the shade of Allah - so shade!

45. The best of those whose essence was spoiled
With them eternally - from it the deepest shade.

46. Among scattered sand dunes like phantoms
Under dishevelment, who ate and languished.

47. Supporters of the Kaaba from every expanse
Whenever a person turned away, they inspired awe.