1. You have blamed the lover much and chided him,
Yet you have found your heart devoid of his preoccupation.

2. You have pretended indifference to the people of al-‘Uqayq,
But who can truly turn away from al-‘Uqayq and its people?

3. Its water does not please you when with me,
Nor does its sand allure you in the land as his sand does.

4. The images of the departing ones are more precious to me
Than if they sought my life with it, I would not hold it back.

5. They open up to me the talk of passion,
Thus they unlock a heart that had been locked.

6. They said passion is easy, but they did not know passion -
Alas! Its rugged parts are far from its smoothness.

7. In the plain of Banu ‘Alam, the oryx
Still has its crown glistening in its rubbing place.

8. Shall I betray the covenant of al-Husayn regarding his sons?
Shall I forfeit the right of Muhammad regarding his progeny?

9. The camel-litter cries when its sister is prodded,
And the dog barks about the dwellings of its people.

10. But ‘Ali - he is the pillar of Muhammad
In what I know, and his origin is from his origin.

11. If Abu Bakr had wanted the imamate,
His father would have been your imam before him.

12. This group - the secret of them is from the origin of prophethood,
From before that, and their merit is from His merit.

13. They are a group the people take shade under their shade,
Rather, clouds the people are watered from their rain.

14. But an oasis - lofty, holy -
Lengthened over Najd, the lands and their plains,

15. Protecting their elders over their children,
As the forest protects its lion over its cub.

16. Chosen from all those who come after him
To see for the universe as he sees before him.

17. And the most honorable death of every one noble,
Every one of merit and glory, is to kiss the sole of his foot.

18. Behind the Prophet, their graves are of his light,
Evident marks, and their merits are of his merits.

19. Time has sworn for every pure one among them
That it will never bring one equal to him.

20. In the sight of God, there is no difference between them together
And between the prophets from among His messengers.

21. Their youngest surrounds and protects his neighbor,
His herd, his people, and his progeny.

22. Their branches are wholesome from the wholesomeness of their roots,
And the branch, its wholesomeness is from the wholesomeness of its origin.

23. If one of them speaks a word, he fulfills it in his speech,
And the words of a master suffice over his action.

24. I attack with my palms the most churlish of them,
With dew that moistens through the sleeve.

25. Time has worn out the newness of everything lasting,
Yet their newness with them, it has not worn it out.

26. Do not seek the eye of perfection, for it
Will preoccupy what comes between the intelligent and his mind.