1. O you who weep for the oppressed and persecuted,
Either weep for the Prophet's family or desist.

2. What you have witnessed of their afflictions
Should suffice you from crying over ruins with no dwellers.

3. My heart loves them but cries for others -
You are pretentious in what you have said.

4. Do you not know that excessive grief over them
Is a sign of extremism in partisanship?

5. I have composed verses in eulogy of them, for eulogies
Are more deserving than the Valley of Al-Ghadha.

6. Oh, if only I knew who of them it is
For whom my streaming tears flow.

7. Is it for the Trustee when in his prayer niche
Swords covered him and he could not bow down?

8. Or is it for the one whose flowing locks
Were on that day poisoned with a poisoned drink?

9. My sadness is like the martyr of Karbala -
It does not cease as long as life continues.

10. When I remember his day, my tears
Flow down my cheeks in streams.

11. O you riding to Iraq determined,
Heading for the Carpenter's grandson.

12. When you reach Nineveh, stop there
Halting with a grieving, aching heart.

13. And don garments of sorrow when you arrive
Casting off all other clothes.

14. For it holds amazing tragedies
The likes of which have never been heard of before.

15. So spill your tears there, not stinting
In grief for them. Vent your anguish and despair

16. For every tear of yours that is wasted
On other than the neglected, outcast Chosen One

17. By God, a day in Tufoof like no other
Leaving no Muslim any pleasure in life.

18. A day when the lamps of darkness were lit
With a calamitous trial so horrifying.

19. A day when no pillar remained
Propping up the religion without being shaken.

20. A day when no caller remained
Summoning to Satan without being an innovator.

21. A day when no cloud remained
To give life to the land of Islam without being bade farewell.

22. A day when no standard remained
Leading to misguidance without being raised.

23. A day when no stubborn ox remained
Braying at the truth without splitting its snout.

24. A day when no means remained
Rightfully for Muhammad’s family without being severed.

25. A day when the vicious dog transgressed
Upon the lion of the jungle fully armed.

26. A day when the Prophet's grandson
Was preyed upon by snarling beasts.

27. My soul yearns for him as the slanderer calls to him
Voicing the prayer of the fleeing coward.

28. He says, "O worst of mankind, you are
More disbelieving than Aad and Thamud."

29. “You wrote to me to march towards you
And said, ‘Come or stay behind.’

30. We are obedient to you. We have not forgotten
Our covenant to you, nor violated it,

31. Until when I came to restore for you
My grandfather’s inheritance with my family,

32. You met me with swords in the fray -
Bared, with readied spears."

33. "Was this in your records,
O worst sight for all creation?"

34. "Can you violate your oath to me,
Allow me to withdraw from you safely?"

35. They said to him, "Never! You have
No safety from our greed."

36. "Pledge allegiance to Yazeed or you will see
Our swords befalling you from every side."

37. Whereupon he drew a sword whose edge
He did not return to its sheath again.

38. And he wreaked havoc among their heroes
Till the cautious one in armor feared his might.

39. Around him, each fearless knight
Protected the Valiant One’s flank.

40. How many deserters he left lying dead
As the horses trampled and the swords clashed!

41. Till the despicable one shot him, paralyzing his hand
From the excellent archer of steady grip.

42. So he fell as if shackled and bound
After none of his supporters remained but

43. Carrion-eating beasts and hyenas.
Then they inclined to the tents, leaning

44. And saying to the pillar of faith, "Woe!"
Striking, looting, violating sanctity

45. Slaughtering infants, robbing the armless.
Truly they saw in their minds misery for them -

46. Qadar's view; their view split skulls.
Where is slitting the she-camel's throat compared

47. To their crimes, O what an appalling deed!
Never in time was seen the like of it -

48. Surpassing all horrific matters.
Muhammad's offspring were taken captive,

49. Pleasing the despicable, base wretch.
Oh how my soul yearns for Al-Husayn in Iraq

50. With his family left in Al-Ji'iran.
My soul yearns for my slain Master, thirsty

51. Defending the banks of the Euphrates.
They did not let him drink a single draft

52. Till he met his death, his thirst unquenched.
My soul yearns for him with Shimr atop his chest

53. When raging, he shattered his ribs.
My soul yearns for him with his head on a spear

54. Like the full moon shining at its brightest.
My soul yearns as the lips of the Trustee were split

55. By one trying to best him with his strike.
Oh how my soul yearns for Ahmad's daughters

56. Amongst thirst and hunger in the open desert.
Herded in humiliation’s disgrace to Syria

57. Above camels’ saddles, ribs broken.
Their heads presented in front of him

58. As gifts to the worshipper of idols.
They lament, "O grandfather, if only you could see us

59. Robbed of all possessions, even fabrics!"
"We are gifted to the tyrant Yazeed disheveled -

60. In the worst state, so very distressed."
"A rough rider drives us whose journey

61. Knows no gentleness, will not be reined."
"Travel wearies us, so he hurries us

62. If we lag, with painful blows."
"And if you could see the jailer in his aggression

63. Striking like a freed animal."
"Unbearable for you is our state

64. And an end in childhood - which end?"
"They slaughtered our men and were not satisfied

65. With capturing women and slaughtering infants."
"Then they cry, ‘O Husayn, is there no

66. Reunion after this day of separation?'"
"You left us behind you broken,

67. Yearning, lamenting, despairing."
Amazing that the earth did not split

68. And the sky did not collapse!
So may the curse of the Merciful be upon the hordes

69. Who attacked them and the hordes who did not defend.
O family of Taha, you are my means

70. To Allah and my refuge at the final horror.
My loyalty to you will make me

71. Under safety's banner on the Day of Fear.
If I am banned from none but you

72. At the Pool tomorrow, I will not be banned.
To you a streaming of my inner thoughts has come

73. From a crammed mind to the horizons.
An Arab, my nature, though my plumage

74. Is Non-Arab; I bear no arms.
I profess my longing for the Omayyad house -

75. The greatest, most elevated house.
God’s blessings and bounty upon you,

76. The greatest, most elevated house.