1. How can you be content with disgrace as your abode
And sleep brings you degradation as your gift?

2. How could you be patient when spears were in your eyes?
How can drink and food nourish you?

3. What free soul have you subjugated
To ruin - for the world is but ruin

4. You satisfy yourself with the lowest living
In lands whose people are all despicable

5. This life is a bitter life
Unacceptable to the proud father

6. In a time whose people are evildoers
Clothed in shame, fault and blame

7. People of betrayal, amongst whom
No pact is kept protected, no covenant fulfilled

8. The party of truth is disgraced among them
While the party of hypocrisy sleeps comfortably

9. How long will we overlook what has befallen us
Amongst them - great disgrace and humiliation?

10. How can you accept degradation amongst them?
Where is that free soul, tell me, O resolute one?

11. We have been worn down like
A slave or servant who has won good fortune

12. How many arrows have they shot at us!
Above the soft target follow arrows

13. How many free souls have they disgraced!
They are chaff while the others are bran

14. Hold fast to God's bond - it will not break
Trust in Him in all circumstances - do not be

15. Concerned for your livelihood or pay it heed
Do not put your hope in other than He

16. When distress calls to be relieved
How much distress seemedDLLLETRak did the darkness conceal!

17. The world is but a slumber, and death
A dream - man in the world is sleeping

18. If their land grew strait for us
My master, Egypt and Syria did not

19. This is Kholan - for her you are
Above all people ecstasy and passion

20. She longs for a glance from you
To ease her burning longing

21. When will my eyes see her and gladden her
With good news and smiles and joy?

22. Go to her and make her your homeland
A refuge of resilience and steadfastness

23. Kholan is an impregnable fortress
A sanctuary - he who enters is unassailable

24. Below mountains that have become
A place from which the clouds draw water

25. Oh, how sublime, donning
The highest finery, and she is unwavering

26. Those are battle-tested lions
Passionate and crazed in the white meadows

27. Every veteran of the heart gathers his troops at his call
A fearsome army in the fray

28. And so too the tribe - know that they
Are a people who when called to victory rise up

29. The bright swords when the battle was joined
The swinging swords, the generous ones

30. Through them the resolute warriors'
Charge breaks through death's gloom

31. What supporters can match them
As Kholan's horsemen and foot-soldiers?

32. I am right to extol them at length
For they are the exemplary people

33. Would that I knew, would that I knew, will we
The party of truth gain vengeance for tyranny?

34. Will we have a day of brilliant victory
On which falsehood is frustrated and confounded?

35. Shall we have raids in the fray
On the enemies, from which spears emerge?

36. Shall we unsheathe the white swords from their scabbards
And see the scabbards bereft of them, distraught?

37. Shall we see the brown blade baring its tongue
Whose breath in battle is lethal calamity?

38. Shall we lead the horses stepping proudly
The darkness bedecking their ankles?

39. Shall we one day cleave through the armour
As the clouds split before meteors?

40. Shall we see religion held dear after it
Has been valued as little as a trifle?

41. Can the rightly-guided regain
What misguidance had completely undone?

42. Shall we see the doctrine of Zayd manifest
After its long concealment and oblivion?

43. Arise, O grandson of Mustafa the chosen one
We seek truth - the time for action has come

44. Be resolute and strive - do not fear any critic
None blames one calling to truth

45. Cast off any hesitation - one who hesitates
Will not be helped by his wishes

46. Do not be awed by their threats
Can you see the clouds heavy with rain?

47. Through you, my master Yahya, is revived
What your noble forebears built on high

48. You are the formidable lion, fearsome when enraged
The feeble man or blunt sword is of no consequence

49. You rose up when the exalted sat down
And were alert when the people slept

50. So if you do not take a stand now
Farewell to the religion and its people!