1. You have the long night after they are gone,
And a delegation of sorrows that did not want to leave,

2. And tears, if you restrain them from their path,
They gently return to the eyelids pouring down.

3. I wish the flocks of tears that flowed
Could extinguish my burning thirst or heal my sickness,

4. I pretend to be healthy every night and day,
Yet my inner self refuses except to be sick.

5. It is as if I and my love are forbidden loves,
And I hope for an ungenerous union.

6. So say to the one who cries softly and grievously
And mourns an image in the bare land:

7. "Let my blood be lawful to me if I see
A complaint that makes me cry for long.

8. If I face its strangeness with patience,
I will find many to console me a little.

9. And blame I carried whose heaviness was as if
I had borne no other burden as heavy as it all my life.

10. And you found the enemies of the faith after Mohammed
A way to hurt him through his nearest kin.

11. It is as if you never bowed down humbly
Openly in the world, feeling weak and submissive,

12. And which of you gained honor through his faith,
When before that he lived an age in disgrace?

13. So say to the tribes of Harb and Banu Umayya,
If you wish I call you despicable.

14. You stole against the household of the Prophet, swords
Filled with smoothness in the scabbards and remnants.

15. And you were led to the one who led you from your misguidance
And brought you out from its two valleys, horses.

16. You only betrayed the one whose grandfather
Was to you, so you might gain deliverance, a messenger.

17. And you are pleased to oppose wisdom if your rule
Be lasting, and you make the lasting frail.

18. The wives of the Messenger of God, your homes
Were sacrilegious, and they return from you bitterly wailing

19. For them in Bouqaa' of Taff griefs
They were given death to drink, children and adults.

20. It was as if they were lamps in a garden demolished
By winds blowing from south or north,

21. And stars of night that did not rise high
Until for our eyes they set into their decline.

22. What moons were there not darkened by eclipse?
And what branches were there that did not wither?

23. After you gave him your covenants swiftly,
Did you not hastily break those covenants,

24. And turn back deliberately from the clear path,
And swerve from the shining truth, deviating?

25. You clattered his doors, deceiving him,
And whoever did not want deceit met foolishness.

26. You did not cease until he answered your call,
And which generous man does not answer a questioner?

27. So when he came near, he found you in battalions
Stretching, the horses' buttocks elongated.

28. When did you hear from them the clatter or like the clatter
Of a small horse, doubled clamor and neighing?

29. But he saw only those who break vows or who flee,
Or the cut off, the vile, arrivals,

30. Or holding back from the banners, failing to help them,
Or cowardly, betraying and weak.

31. And snoring from sleepers waking,
And breasts filled flowing with madness,

32. And white slender-lipped mares, sleek,
And brown, long-bodied, docile.

33. Neither did you make way for him to you
Nor when he wanted to return.

34. Dearer to the settler in Tayba was Azra’s son,
Abandoned on the ground of Taff, ripped apart.

35. Every generous person is not touched by any shame.
If he is attributed evil words, he says good.

36. They are prevented from the Euphrates' water and made
To drink the cup of martyrdom instead of Euphrates' water.

37. They threw them into death where they did not fear it
And they were deluded - how often is the deluded deluded!

38. Oh day of Ashura, how many calamities
Against the Prophet's family you brought down!

39. You entered upon their homes with their disaster.
Yes, miserable is that entering, that entry!

40. You took away from us the martyr of God, but
You only took away our right hand or little.

41. We found after him the religion of Ahmed
Shackled, and the honor of the Muslims slain.

42. So do not diminish with injustice the one whose Lord
Is pledged to return what you disputed with him.

43. I love the Prophet's family, and I do not see,
Even if they wrong me, any replacement for my love.

44. And I said to the one who turns me from passion for them,
'How many who lack good advice are turned away!'

45. Restrain yourselves, do not lead me to your misguidance,
For you will not make me in the morning humiliated.

46. Upon you is the peace of God, living and dead,
Traveling, obeying the resolve and halting.

47. So my heart has not swerved from passion for you,
Nor has my step swerved from what you approve.