1. Why do I see you put aside your worries
As if their hatreds have found peace

2. And their opposites, attraction?
Were it not for piety, they would pull you down.

3. Their glory fades before yours
And their archers fall short of you.

4. If they envy your superiority,
It is proof of the merit that earned their envy.

5. O nation that rejected faith! In their mouths
Is the Quran that shows the way to their ruin and salvation.

6. At the height of minbars you curse his kin
Though by his sword your pulpits stand.

7. Those young girls show no respite
In their hatred since al-Husayn’s martyrdom.

8. By God! But for the Taym and ‘Adi
Dissension would tear your leader Ziyad apart.

9. In Karbala swords struck you down
When on Saqifa day their sheaths were ripped.

10. The greed of idolators still plagues you
Their cowls have sunk and their pillars crumbled,