1. She who said: God does not keep harm from one
If spears cannot be found to match it. 
١. وقائِلَة لا يُبْعِدُ اللّهُ ضابئاً
 إِذا القِرْنُ لَمْ يُوجَدْ له مَنْ يُنازلُهْ
2. I was determined but did not act, I plotted but would that 
I had left Uthman's women weeping for their jewels. 
٢. هَمَمْتُ ولمْ أَفعلْ وكِدْتُ وليتَني
 تركْتُ على عُثْمانَ تَبْكي حَلائِلُهْ
3. So let no man after me oppress a marked forehead,
Beware the encounter of death, and death is his encounter. 
٣. فلا يُعْطِيَنْ بَعْدِي امْرُوءٌ ضَيْمَ خُطَّة
 حِذارَ لِقاءِ المَوْتِ والموتُ قاتِلُهْ
4. I did not know you as one I had ordered in this
Or whom I had heard you had done it. 
٤. وما ألفيتك ما أمرت فيه ولا الذي
 تحدث من لاقيت أنك فاعله
5. Murder is only for a man of resolve
When cares do not thunder within him. 
٥. وما الفتك إلا لامرئ ذي حفيظة
 إذا هم لم ترعد عليه خصائله