1. If you are just, O clan of Marwan, we will come near,
Otherwise, bid us farewell and depart.

2. For we have, because of you, a refuge and home
With Jesus, in the winds of the open desert.

3. And on earth, away from the abode of disgrace, there is a course,
And every land where I have camped is my homeland.

4. So what can al-Hajjaj accomplish with all his effort
When we have gone beyond the trench of Ziyad?

5. Curse the father of al-Hajjaj and curse his old woman,
Whose son grazes in pastures.

6. Were it not for the clan of Marwan, Ibn Yusuf
Would be as he was, a slave from the slaves of Iyad,

7. At a time when he was a slave admitting disgrace,
Flattering the boys of the villages as he wandered.