1. On a day like this, eyebrows are bent
And bags are folded with favor in which they are contained

2. We loved it and desired it, so our homes
Have always been said to have the protectors

3. The wings of creation flew with what we attained
And the traveling camels went with it between the two deserts

4. And people who were astonished by what they saw for us said
Indeed, thus do men get unexpected talents

5. You got what we did not get lightly
And drinks were sweet for you apart from people

6. And your messenger called upon the people who live
With a command incumbent upon people

7. So when the one who had commanded us to you passed
The strange injustices came to us as fate willed

8. So say to the people who accused us of misguidance
While they are strangers of pottery, foreigners

9. When were you like us and when were
Ranks equal between us and you on a day of pride

10. So do not mention the Prophet's kin to refute
Your opponents one day, for we are the closest

11. And after the day of Al-Taff, we have no womb
That will guarantee safety or a clan that a fugitive hopes for

12. And we were all together, so we separated because of what happened
And how many adherents were separated by denominations

13. And we are the chiefs, and you are supporters for us
And below us are our followers and companions

14. For us over you are our Abbas and our Ali
And whoever is a star piercing the darkness

15. And had we not been prohibited from you,
Hordes with us hastily would have come, squadrons

16. And people who plunge into havoc, and the palms of their hands
Are marked with white which battle did not betray

17. When sought, they do not cower out of valor
And those who sought them, ways became constrained for them

18. So there is no peace between us, and whoever his time
Conceals a grudge in his gut is a warrior

19. And it was said to us that for truth there is an appointed time
In which a striver wins and a seeker succeeds

20. So do not seek what its time has not yet come
For the seeker of what Allah did not decree fails

21. For if a state among you walked boastfully
For a time, the young camels yearning may walk

22. And if they rode the litters of every gentlewoman
How many riders have been brought down from on high

23. So do not feel safe from one who slept out of necessity
For a lurker lies in ambush until the leaping leaper leaps

24. It is as if I see them like prey stirred up by the morning breeze
Now here, now there are the ribs

25. Scraping the edges of the spearheads with their jugulars
As the black hyena scraped the fetal sacs

26. Rebels who did not remove themselves far from highway robbery
And they have nothing but rags and brooms

27. And how many of them in the darkness of war are despoilers
And how many of them in famine's aridity are donors

28. And I hope that I live to see that
Of which guesses speak truly

29. So debts that dragged on are repaid and confusion
Is uncovered from our sights and darkness

30. And waters flow that were yesterday blocked up
And rain upon us as we wished, the clouds

31. And dues are taken and amends made
And hopes succeed and goals reached