1. With my soul between Zamzam and Al-Hajar
Time has turned upon it, while it knows not

2. Souls that have passed, inspired passing, and left
Souls of the world intoxicated without wine

3. I wonder at a heart not cracked with grief
If it were rock or harder than rock

4. Peace upon the brothers of righteousness since their brotherhood passed
We said, "Peace upon righteousness"

5. They came cutting across the desert and the city eagerly
To the best of houses that settled the desert and the city

6. They walked on and the hands of doom stretched to them
So they won, they won reward upon reward

7. They saw their pilgrimage as a pilgrimage and raid, and their souls did not wish
To earn any provision except provision in the hereafter

8. Rather, they stood to face blows and stabbings
As if they, in it, stood upon embers

9. Tears streamed down their faces in humility and fear
Tomorrow's blood, terror made it flow like a sea

10. So honor them as death looms over their heads
Seeking refuge from the fear of death at the door and veil

11. Their pilgrim-dress refused any garment
Except the garment of patience they put on

12. Marvel at them as they are slaughtered as though
Their sacrifice those days sacrificed at Minā

13. Comrades who pitched their tents never to be taken down
A caravan and delegation that will not return to Hashr

14. Their pilgrim garments turned white for them
And they went to the graves in red garments

15. They were not washed with water, but with their blood
And were not embalmed, except with dust, no perfume

16. So magnify the provisions for them, even if it were a tenth of what
We provided for them, of furniture and seeds

17. Most of them the same grave in the earth embraced
Blessed are they, the best beloved, in the best grave

18. Thousands of youths and old men, it brought them together
A tomb, its sides close to the bottom

19. I have not seen buried more plentifully than them
And they have no grave but one grave

20. They did not plummet into a pit, but raced
To a green meadow between green meadows

21. To a blossoming garden which became more flowery
From their shining faces it encountered

22. Our pilgrims, why do I see travel coming
And I do not see you coming with travel

23. You dwelled by the Ancient House, so excellent
Was your eternal dwelling until the end of time

24. A dwelling of pilgrims about whom there is no circumambulation
Nor saʿī during the station of night or dawn

25. And they said grief is what will console you about them
But where is grief so it may console or beguile

26. They were startled in a place where birds are safe
And where beasts do not fear being startled

27. O children of Islam, how much bliss
Snatched by the hands of the wretched disbelievers

28. By the hands of those of betrayal and enmity, it is as if
Their souls are in the grip of betrayal and enmity

29. Beasts whose foreheads never prostrated
Nor were their palms accustomed to spreading in purity

30. The mention of fasting never passed between their homes
Nor threaded through a hearing or meandered in a chest

31. Pilgrimage to the House was not what they wore
The fringes and robe for sternness and desert

32. Rather, we performed pilgrimage, so woe unto them!
Indeed they carried a heavy burden of sins

33. They saw the plunder as war booty for themselves
Yet it is only loss without any profit

34. And they thought what they gained was wealth
By God, they gained nothing but poverty

35. My Lord, do not delay punishing Your enemy, pelt him
With the pelting that breaks necks and backs

36. Take vengeance for Your religion from them
For they have deprecated it, scorning the oaths

37. My God, bring upon them the days of Aad
And a day like the day of Thamud and Al-Hijr

38. And aid the Commander of the Faithful and his sword
With a victory just as You, Creator of Victory, made customary