1. I stood upon two verses of the heaviest poetry
The disbeliever saw good in them, the Muslim saw oppression

2. And he openly declared in them his return
To disbelief without shame or cover

3. I saw my silence on them contains guidance
And for the religion what contains of wrong and fracture

4. And glory is only for God and His party
As for His enemies, theirs is humiliation and smallness

5. And we have asserted the lie of who warned creation
Worship other than God like the sun and the full moon

6. And said the certainty of disbelief covers who prohibited
And warned from it while it is imagined disbelief

7. And who chose the All-Dominant as his Lord
Over others, does not know confusion from purity

8. Do you, having likened creation to Creator
Distinguish between purity and confusion alone?

9. Indeed the blind sees, the seeing becomes blind
And testifies to his rising, the first of the month

10. Two honored me complain of the "haa" that came to them
From one who articulated "dhaad" and "thaa", acting coy

11. Oppression said by my light it is guided
And darkness said to the sun, "You have led astray who walks straight"

12. Had you not repented yesterday while the sword was unsheathed
And your eyes spun from fright's intensity?

13. It was a day great and an occasion
In which scholars unanimously and rulers gathered

14. And they unanimously decreed that killing you is obligatory
And leaving you misguide people a great sin

15. You were declared openly from pulpits an unbeliever
Before all witnesses with loud proclamation

16. You submitted unwillingly fearing the sword so what
Gave you security such that you returned to disbelief?

17. And you came to us striving with your opinion
And crept seeking only betrayal and deception

18. You thought the religion has no supporter
So you came so by it your chest's ailment may be healed

19. You lie while Ismail's clothes are filled
So if you do not know, you must come to know

20. The King of the land whose only concern
Is to defend the religion of the All-Dominant and give victory

21. By God, I have not been wronged or followed whims
And I seek only the Exalted Creator and His pure Messenger

22. You have tempted and pained creation with what
No man can endure with patience

23. And you likened Him to creation in ignorance and said
Worship of Him is like worship of a boulder

24. And you said God, Most High is His Majesty
Is in a state needful of creation, compelled

25. And you belittled the esteem God gave Himself
And esteemed what God made low in esteem

26. Like your saying Moses is a calf-worshipper and describing
Pharaoh as of sound opinion and prestige

27. And the vision of Abraham sacrificing you said in your enmity
For his vision is interpretation, though we do not know

28. And you said each that came from God's Messenger
Of prohibitions and commands is a dream inside a dream

29. Why should a man abundanty curse you after this
For the Lord of the Heavens from excuse?

30. Consensus has been reached among all Muslims
On your disbelief, so let all the deluded know

31. Whoever doubts among those who know not the proof
With which scholars give religious rulings, let him inquire

32. Your evil from it is abundantly evident and its indications
Have become like the sun, clear of doubt

33. Indeed the Sultan of the land Ahmad when he prayed
No sea or land could repel him

34. If he intended a distant matter he easily attained it
Brought to him by power and might

35. The people of fortresses bared to him their fortresses
When he led in procession of victory and aid

36. Ask Numaan and ask our poets
And Dumat and the land's edges to the desert valley

37. And ask Khawlan and the Makhlaf about him and Mecca
And how its people feared him, both Bedouin and sedentary

38. And the earthquake of Sanaa, their fear of him
And the hearts of its inhabitants fled in fright

39. The world submitted to him and its people were humbled
And rightfully so, those in the sea and on land

40. He commanded a fortress and in one assault took it
Their siege of it until the month's end

41. When they saw him, the protectors of it fled
Abandoning the provisions they had stored within

42. Men fled many fortresses
As has been related, close to ten

43. He conquered all and seized them entirely
From mid-day to afternoon

44. Until a cursed devil crept into his court
And opposed the experts of Sacred Law with deception

45. And insulted the God of the Throne among them and insulted them
Proclaiming clearly the wicked and offensive speech

46. And equated him and them equally, so
Men recoiled thinking it was by order

47. And he deceived the Sultan about him by attributing to him
Adornment while the deceiver works subtly

48. The decree of God will be carried out on him, following
Who deluded him while the truth is bitter

49. Noble, and the noble is beloved
He suffers for what would detract from mandatory punishment

50. Signs came to him making them clear to him
So he may know the wicked one's disbelief

51. The first evil portent appeared to him
The story of al-Shawafi, latest news of the age

52. And a lad not yet mature was murdered
Who was celebrated, throngs from many lands sang his praise

53. And he fought a fortress in Kawnab Humayr
None has planned this, ever, in a breast

54. And he was showing him sign after sign
Reminding him of the matter, following up the matter

55. So fortresses were lost whose loss he cares not for
And what he missed was returned, subduer of spines

56. Like the loss of Zabid, then it returned, and like it
He saw the great sign in Yafi' and al-Thuqb

57. And two fortresses in Ta'iz after that and after them
The story of al-Habishi and the raid on the land

58. And the late one spoke truth until events happened to him
That prove true, among the most truthful warnings

59. They transgressed upon him though the fortresses were in his grip
And besieged them those who know not caution or piety

60. And spent much money beyond counting
And God inspired him subtly through the secret holders

61. And he called on the people of God and favored some of them
And was generous to them in the end of his life

62. And called on the Shaykh of the Muslims Muhammad
Abu Talhah al-Ghazali, the righteous Muslim

63. So he mentioned what happened from some of your evil
And he said "Yes, this and more in my memory"

64. And he did not die until he disavowed you
And kept you far from him like keeping dogs from tents

65. And he died, praise God, the best death
That one granted bounty in the grave dies upon

66. On the Greatest Statement that made incumbent for him
Reward from his Lord of green gardens

67. Disavowing all you said, all of it
Praising the God of all worlds and thanking

68. You tricked Ahmad ibn Ismail a while
And made him drink terrible evil with patience

69. And you came to Ismail seeking to trick him
Can two sultans exist? Woe to you from rocks!

70. So fear his evil, O Ahmad's son, it is
Tremendous evil, so be on your guard against it

71. For his matter is not slight to God, he is
An enemy to Him, tempting about His religion