1. Your branches drew the shape of the abode
Or did the slopes of high Ramah rend you asunder

2. Wherever you pass through the winding valley
You have a crossing Hebrew and an aching heart

3. Rather, your branches were torn on the day of Karbala
The terrible seven shook and made tremble

4. The day in which the son of Haydar was distraught among the enemies
And the whites were striking the whites, the lances ringing

5. He charges at the army with a band of youth
Girded for battle and armed for war

6. Al-Ghālib leads them when the fighting waxes hot
The firm minded from the Family of the Victor shine

7. He whose advent terrified the timid when he strode
Toward the battalions and the infantry unfurled

8. He charges and spends the day such that when
The sword savages the skulls it is gory

9. Until they lie dead, the deserted hamlets pleased with them
With the shedding of honorable blood their pact fulfilled

10. And the son of Umm al-Mawt remained alone, unseen
No supporter to guard his defender and protect

11. He attacked with such resolve, drawing his sword
The mountains nearly burst and split

12. Billowing smoke met him, sparks emanating
From his shining, glowing, flaming face

13. He captured souls with a lightning-like sword
That flashed while striking the spark that shone

14. Despite honorable acts, he barely escaped
From lofty places, an impregnable mountain

15. They tore him apart with swords and spears
And raised his head atop a lance

16. And the sun mourned after him
The horizon gloomy, the outskirts bleaker

17. My burning yearning for Zainab as she laments
Her overflowing tears raining like clouds

18. She called from an aching heart
Her passion almost splitting the rocks

19. She called: O my brother Hussein, refuge of mankind
In adversities, all took refuge in you

20. O Hussein, who will shelter the hapless ones,
Bereaved, after you who will rejoin the kinship

21. The enemies robed them in whips upon their backs
My yearning for the Family of God so robed

22. The enemies disrobed them of their coverings
It would be forgivable if with their hands they now take cover