1. Seeking glory through the swords,
An honorable companion to the soul of the noble one.

2. Verily, the humiliation of the dignified is most atrocious,
More so than meeting the blades between his eyes.

3. Naught but heated thrust and destructive blow,
With it pure stabbing and penetrating strike.

4. I'm of resolute blade and a generous horse,
Not of dome or ornate palace.

5. Glory is not for one who spends the night aspiring,
With effort, help, or unwilling soul.

6. Oftentimes the world promised me, but I never compromised,
Save for request and procrastination.

7. Whenever the fates stirred it,
It glanced away with averted eyes.

8. The desert taught me how to ride the night,
And the night how to traverse the peaks.

9. Verily the days of our time are foolish,
They are allies of each miserable tomorrow.

10. You are an era, O father of displacement,
With no lineages or customs.

11. An era you ascended in the heights,
Lost to adversities and changing conditions.

12. An authority you sought in the days of rule,
Is to me authority of hostile eviction.

13. An opinion you circulate is indeed,
Misguided in its script and punctuation.

14. A word you enunciate is similar,
To you in semblance and odious character.

15. Deceitful in claim, far-fetched in meaning,
Corrupt in composition, corrupt in structure.

16. You prepare not to rule a kingdom,
But to subjugate and humiliate.

17. You gained what you gained not with wise approach,
In endeavor, nor with prudent perception.

18. Leave me Ja'far, Abu Ja'far, do not
Cast him away with the unfamiliar outcast.

19. You are under the rule of the beloved to us,
So be gentle with the honored ancestor.

20. And if you gather the evils of a blamer,
Then blame one unlike his usual ways.

21. I fear none but for him, so be kind
To the most gentle and compassionate man.

22. Verily eternal paradise is the Zaab,
Where one who calls it enjoys blissful comfort.

23. How could you equate to him a full moon?
When he eclipses your like the sun.

24. How could you befriend him with the morals of a wretch,
Who is not ashamed of betrayal and dishonesty?

25. How could you compete with what in you,
Of purpose, selling ripe fruits?

26. And determination that sees matters when,
Cast to the blind watcher.

27. And betrayal, conspiring that you never,
Became for another an ally.

28. No wonder you toyed with a slumbering fate,
Whose eyes you blinded, and news you falsified.

29. Thus every roaring lion became,
Satisfied with his time with but a bone.

30. Verily the seat of the Caliphate has an illness,
That naught cures but the blades of the swords.

31. Verily in it a brigade of Marwan's progeny,
Who rebel against every feared matter.

32. Verily in Ahmed's heart for Ahmed's sons,
A heart that intrepidly plots and yearns.

33. Disinterested in either, innocent,
Of a just imam or upright religion.

34. He does not consider the likes of you separating,
The noble from the vile a grave affair.

35. O pillar of guidance, it suffices me that I,
Am for your foes an impregnable fortress.

36. And if the stars of war rise,
I will be for the spears none but an ally.

37. I always conceal a fervent heart,
And bosom vacant for your love and passion.

38. I am the eye that acknowledges grace, if
A people forget the favors I rendered.

39. I did not battle the light of guidance with vain things,
Nor letters of the Quran did I distort.

40. The likes of this commander in ignorance and idolatry,
Wandering confusedly infatuated.

41. Insult evaded me until it afflicted,
You O Ja'far with no hospitality.

42. If you hid from my eyes it matters not,
For your eyes in my fancy ever roam.