1. O you who are guided by the Imamate, how can you
Be tranquil while your tribe is being wronged?

2. Will you one day renounce your fatherhood
And kinship and womb relations awaken?

3. If you do not protect the cub of a gazelle
Will you protect the ostriches in the wilderness?

4. And none but you has God entrusted with this
So do not feel secure in a feeding ground.

5. Islam complained of a people who struck it
With nonsense and claimed leadership over it.

6. And it said may God not reward their leader well
Or let him see his bones after death.

7. Saying that worshipping idols is right
And that each idol has prestige.

8. And that God is known through men
And they have no mark by which to know Him.

9. And it said whoever wishes among us
Can make for himself a god if he wishes

10. And know it though the building knows not
Its builder, how mighty is its defiance!

11. It pronounces unashamedly the nullification
That makes lawful for you to destroy it.

12. So beware of it and curse it to please
The Creator for its protective covering has torn.

13. By God, none praises it
Except a fool or a cursed villain

14. Who vilifies - so it rides whatever is in front of it.
Will you praise one who says I have made my God

15. Upon him be God's eternal curse.
For by praising him you invite

16. Others to worship idols.
For worshipping idols is a thing

17. You see as the best path of righteousness.
Did you not see how it responded to the words of Noah

18. So how much blame did it attract from the lamenter.
And as for the people of Hud, it said they succeeded

19. In what they knew in the house of eternity.
And it denied the curse which followed them

20. In the world and on Judgement Day.
So men rose for their Lord against it

21. And they had truth and steadfastness.
Grant victory for His religion over its enemies

22. And they took a stand in its misguidance.
So we said to be fair ask about this

23. The people of knowledge and examine its words.
The righteous did not hesitate

24. Or say we fear blame.
And they issued the judgement they knew and feared

25. A threat that reached the one pleased with its concealment.
As for others they shepherded matters

26. And preferred them over Judgement Day.
And Sheikh Ahmad said to me my friend

27. And everyone who neglects peace with him.
So I said God is more deserving than your friend

28. Of precedence and honor.
Will you please him by angering God in ignorance

29. And feel safe from your Lord's cunning and vengeance?
Your friend may die while you live

30. Or live but deprive you of his care.
The day is not equal in weight

31. To an atom of disgrace and sin.
What principles will remain if you are stripped

32. Of religion and its people - what mark will remain?
Over a world too distant for you to see it

33. And if attained it is not worth a wound.
You have been excessive in wronging yourself

34. Unless you correct the darkness.
A people will laugh at you when you weep

35. And regret when regret will not avail.
You heard the protected's every depravity

36. And shared in that smile.
And your selves did not disdain in God's cause

37. Nor did any man of you grieve his protector.
No by God I will not claim victory

38. For my religion or see my day as a battlefield.
Even if I were alone amongst enemies

39. The fingers can protect against wounds.