1. O mourner of the son of Allah's Messenger among mankind
And announcer of his name among nomads and settled folk

2. You have mourned a man at whose death
The pillars of religion and world were endangered

3. You have mourned a man, no glory was attained
Except through him, and through him it progressed to the grave

4. You have mourned a man I never thought
Would be mourned except by the swooner of sun and moon

5. Had anything of his appointed term been missed
The flowers of stars would have faded, all faded

6. O mourner of Allah’s Messenger’s son, rejoice
You have uttered the greatest of the great

7. Hear it though our hearing rejects it
Hearing is for mourners and bearers of good news

8. Do not gloat and remember your freed ally
Your faces, O Abbasids, are dust-ridden

9. Swords are the death of every determined one
Who meets death with determination, unwavering

10. To Allah belongs Yahya’s determination, where did he aim it?
Had it escorted him the length of his life

11. O Prophet’s sons, does not a tyrant cease
Leaving you as islands upon islands?

12. O Banu Utaylah, may Allah fold your throne
How much blood of the Prophet you have shed

13. O Banu Utaylah, restrain your ignorant zeal
Let not the sword be unapologetic amongst you

14. If you make us grieve with an arrow from our quivers
You have amongst you one best informed

15. Or if fate ordained against us regarding him, you remain
Vilified, defamed, upon defamation

16. He still strikes you with the sword for honor
Until you submit with humiliation and smallness

17. He left you as morsels for all people
Debased, never losing your debasedness

18. And each day for you is like its dawn
For us and a willing sword, undeterred

19. Thus no full-moon of kingdom beamed for us
Except that its like followed, unexpected

20. Our protection is ready, swords bared
Its edges are scarcity of the mighty lion

21. When the tyrant snarls, our clemency
Is the healing of his snarling, of that ridge

22. With our swords and us you attained your positions
Not with the freed ally of weakness and vileness

23. Verily the swords that destroyed your ancestors
Are our swords, and with them we destroy the tyrants

24. Prepared for you whenever their blades were bared
For we are the sons of that forbearing clan

25. Allah has purified us of the days of ignorance from
Your fathers, so they saw clearly the place of sight

26. And this is a second pretentious ignorance
Through us the obvious sins are exposed

27. To you belong idleness and death of renown, not ours
Have you not heard of us in all pursuits?

28. Our infant has a stand that appalls the elders
And his sword amongst them is firmer than fate

29. No sheath concealed a sword of ours nor did
Its lightening cease from foes and neighbors

30. We seek the house of glory none can rival
The highest ramparts fortified with ramparts

31. The Prophet extended his ties to us, so they became
Like the Pleiades hanging with brilliant stars

32. From those who cling to the banner of knowledge he has
A group that does not stray for an instant

33. Whoever visits us, Allah presents his present to him
Let alone one present with him and on deathbed

34. Whoever one day holds fast to our probity
Grasps a strong rope without any doubt

35. For us is intercession and the running cistern, for us
And we are those exclusively sanctified and purified

36. O day of Yahya, you have given life to one veiled
Whose loss is greatest for people till end of time

37. You breathed life on the living of Yemen
And Rabi'ah and the living of Mudar

38. Your loss encompassed all people of earth
Leaving none with breath untouched

39. Save those whose corruption mends people
Like dogs, revived by the rain

40. By Allah, had his Master been tied to it
This creation would not have prospered

41. O martyr of Allah's Messenger in Rajab
O most generous of people, examined and testing

42. The sword did not fail you though its support failed you
And through it one day a victor for the victor

43. If the enemies judged you, indeed
You judged them, prey of the docktailed hyena

44. You disturbed the tranquil slumber of their tyrant
Frightening him with fear and caution

45. You plunged into the intestines of enemies
A sharp, piercing glance from every blue-eyed one

46. O killer of Ali's son and Fatima's son
Perishment for your efforts in plotting and repelling

47. O killer of Ali's son, verily your killing him
Will reap you ample bitterness of fruit

48. With what face do you meet Allah, excusing?
Your monstrous sin surpasses excuse

49. Allah is your adversary, so see how you argue with Him
But you, the most futile arguer, are fuel for stone

50. Had the daughters of Eve shared in his blood with you
You would have tumbled, O Ibn Bintunnar, into Hellfire

51. None after you exceeds Yazid in enmity
To the Prophet’s family and killing the noble lights

52. Upon you is the curse of the Merciful, befalling
Secretly and openly, in periods and Virginity

53. And whoever inclines toward him or gestures to him
And whoever intends that, be it female or male

54. And whoever saw him but did not sharpen his guts for him
And whoever held back from him, unable

55. Damned are people who foolishly upheld their religion
In one who increases loss in sale, contemptible

56. And confronted Allah in the Prophet’s kinship and did not
Regard for him the sanctity of kinship or family ties

57. They made lawful the contemptible and disobeyed Allah
Seeking refuge through a frail, fragile rope

58. Allah's enemies set out to him, so they tore open
Assailing them with the skin of a tiger

59. Waging war with bared swords
As though they sought the Romans and Khazars

60. O party of polytheists, how lofty were your ancestors!
You have won, by the Lord of victory and gain

61. You have won against one who never drew his sword
Except to arbitrate over resolve and palaces

62. You have won against one whose fingers
Would suffice us like sustenance suffices mankind

63. Refined of ancestry, his lineage from Allah’s Messenger
Between the successor and his two grandsons, to Omar

64. I anxiously long for the best of the dead after his father
And the best of those who associate and pride

65. I exonerate myself for living, now that
Mourning has stood with him, intense and sinister

66. I will spend all I have praising him
Openly defying the enemies, not hiding

67. And I will grant affection to the Prophet's Household, they are
The best of creation, nay the choicest of the choicest

68. Oh would that I had been among those who witnessed him
Alive, I would have stood when he stood in his place