1. Deliver for me, O messenger, a missive to Husain,
For you have already severed another bond between us.

2. You saw a time when people severed the ties of truth among them,
So you followed their example in that.

3. Had I known, when told of you, that you were an agent
Who gave people unjustly, not from your own wealth,

4. I would have asked you or proposed affection between us -
Indeed, some of that would have been rightly obligatory.

5. And he whom I had sent informed me that indeed
You took my letter, turning away with your left hand.

6. You looked at its address and discarded it
As you would discard a sandal repaired from your sandals.

7. When my letter came to you, turned away,
I thought your disregard did not bode well.

8. Nu'aym ibn Mas'ud is right in what he came with,
And you are right in what you do - that is the truth.