1. Arise and ask Islam about its affliction,
Was the Prophet afflicted or his book?

2. Or did the convoy of death depart from him,
Carried by the soul upon its mounts?

3. Nay, the soul of the chosen Prophet expired,
And he was shrouded this night in his robes.

4. He passed away choking on anguish,
The ages choked on his anguish throughout its eras.

5. He lived a stranger amongst them and had passed away,
By the sword that severed them for their unruliness.

6. They had spilled the blood on the night of Al-Qadr,
Its blood spilled with its outpouring.

7. The soul descended and met his soul,
Ascending in yearning towards its reward.

8. So the angels clamored with clamor therein,
The universe shuddered in its dread.

9. And peace turned to the dawn through it,
Yearning over its affliction.

10. Allah's soul was more worthy of the soul of Ahmad,
Than the soul of each believer or non-believer.

11. Ibn Muljam - may his face be covered in blood,
Assassinated him while he was in his shrine.

12. A face - may Allah disfigure it,
In a masjid that was built from its soil.

13. So the face of the faith turned yellow due to grief,
And the faith was dyed red from its wounds.

14. And they claim - wherever they sought his blood -
That their fasts have increased in reward.

15. Yet the fast calls out every year crying,
"They spilled my blood on their clothes!"

16. Obedience that killed those who would not have had,
The obedience of mortals accepted except through him.

17. You killed the prayer in its sanctuary,
O you who killed him while he was in his shrine.

18. And the head of justice was split by your tyranny,
Ever since you split his head during his prayers.

19. So let Jibril weep for him and lament,
In the highest assembly over his affliction.

20. Verily he wept and the rain from his weeping,
Laments while the thunder wails over his loss.

21. Dispatching with a screech, and nothing but,
Calling out the Mahdi in his mourning.

22. O you who are veiled from his supporters,
And the remover of blindness over their covering.

23. How long will the sword remain sheathed
While the necks of the people of truth are outstretched?

24. So rise for them, for none but you remain for them,
The patient have tired from drinking their cup.

25. And seek out your father Al-Murtaza from those who,
Turned away from him upon their heels.

26. For he is the Book of Allah, lost between them,
So ask by Allah's command about His Book.

27. And say - but with an eloquent tongue -
And make the blood of the people your answer.

28. O group of atheists! Where is the one who passed away
Aspiring, while you were in your heedlessness?

29. Where is the Leader of the Faithful? Or have you not,
Had your fill after stealing him?

30. By Allah! However much anger you drank,
After the Prophet from his companions!

31. And if it were distributed over the world,
It would illuminate the world with its drinking.

32. So convey to Ahmad the weight of Ahmad's loss,
And say: "O best of those called Ahmad!"

33. "Verily the misguided have turned away to hypocrisy,
Revealing after you their masks.

34. And they made the pasture of guidance easy prey,
For the wolves between the lurking places.

35. And they abandoned the right of your brother as fodder,
For falsehood to gnaw in its fangs."

36. "While the shepherd of their slander milks
The udder of tyranny's milk in its teats."

37. "So this nation has fallen into ignorance,
Losing the path of truth in its valleys."

38. "They have returned it after you to pre-Islamic ignorance,
Since they killed the Guide by whom it is guided."

39. "No lineage in Quraish branched out,
Except it entered into the purest of its seed."

40. "Until you came, so the revelation entered,
Into its account and reckoning."

41. "So what an immense misguidance after it,
Wherein the ages are not praised for their probity!"

42. "It went with them to successors, so its heads,
Now follow what used to be their tails."

43. "It was not enough that he showed us misguidance,
With his guidance rising above the hills."

44. "Until he showed us its wolf preying upon us,
Between the pitch dark night and its forest."

45. "This is the Leader of the Faithful after he had,
Forced them towards the faith with his strikes."

46. "And guided the formidable of their elite,
With his swords that the youths kindly faced."

47. "He endured the komriyya (type of thorn trees) until their nights,
Became intimate to him despite their strangeness."

48. "He walked towards them while going,
More passionate than when returning."

49. "Like a lion cub in its pounce, or a sword in its slash,
Or kin in its compassion."

50. "One who - if his eyes glanced upon -
In peril, would flee from its intimidation."

51. "And he passed through the crowds fleeing,
Wishing to exit from its awe."

52. "By my life! If he wished, he would not have attained,
What the most wretched of people attained in their shelter."

53. "But he went submitting and aspiring,
And all good lies in aspiration."

54. "May Allah send prayers upon him from an oppressor,
Who has angered The Most Merciful by his theft."