1. Do not blame me, my neighbor, for blaming you,
Neither heated argument nor majesty avails.

2. One of the calamities befell the abode of Banu
Imran. It has no sister nor peer.

3. A day on which their diadems were bent,
Misfortune weighed heavy and Saturn was baleful.

4. It bent them while they were filled with spears
In equal ranks with inclined necks.

5. He who had no defect in his inspired speech
For the non-Arabs and no flaw in his guidance.

6. He by whom the vicissitudes of Time were feared,
When the fangs of Time were bared.

7. Time settled us in a plain that flows easily
When you, O mountain, were shaken from it.

8. How good was the state of the Ash'aris, O
Yahya ibn Imran, had not the term been fixed for you.

9. Which man among you was the most distinguished, on
The scattered dusty ground or its drifted sands?

10. He who does not turn from good he has initiated,
Nor slacken from accustomed virtuous deeds.

11. His word, when people reject the truth of his saying,
Is prolonged, while their acts fall short.

12. O Death, it was enough when you aimed your blow at his forehead,
While for others, no reckoning or term.

13. What is our state, O Abu al-'Abbas, after you?
Do branches grow when their origin perishes?

14. O Death, had you witnessed him in battle, you would have
Poured tears over him instead of taking his life.

15. The kindler of extinguished war, the despoiler of protected
Sanctuaries, while war blazes.

16. With each battle the swords clash against his hands
And the white blades drink and the curved blades sip.

17. Covered in spears and scowling steeds,
Among the horses without weakling or dependant.

18. The dispeller of the darkness of confusing matters
That overwhelms the lands spreading its shadows.

19. With an aspect that no slipping diverts him,
And speech that no stumbling inhibits him;

20. Bringing together without idle delay resolving its knot,
Without rushing to convey and bore.

21. Where none places opinions in their proper places
Except So-and-so when called upon.

22. When men saw him do what doing exhausted them,
They said: "Such is the man!"

23. Either death turns you from oppression, but with
What has passed over them without death is your eternity.

24. The days of your sword notorious, your sea overflowing,
Your spearhead limited only by its length.

25. As you cut relations with the disgraced weakling
And joined ties with those you brought together.

26. Fate made you drink the cup of patience in deep
Seas where mountains drown in its injuries.

27. Death and killing as if Time thirsted for those
Who lived and enjoyed those who died and were killed.

28. O you whose adventures preoccupied Time from us
Since misfortune lodged in you except through us no preoccupations.

29. O adornment of glory! Glory is revealed as squalor
After you and its adornment henceforth is loss.

30. O haven! The refuge of adversities when
Calamities crowd with their misfortunes.

31. What dependent now can prosper? What expectation live?
But Husayn and the like of Husayn, when

32. People are lacking defenders, are few.
Situations proclaim about him that he is a support;

33. And awe proclaims about him that he is a hero.
He gives so he is generous, or is called so he answers,

34. Or is resorted to with heavy burdens so he bears them.
You would think him bent with age were it not

35. For his youth, and vegetation sprouts then thickens.
He has become for us a replacement, bending under it.

36. But the cub is never a substitute for the vanished lion.