1. You own a heart not penetrated by blame,
So mention of other than you, whenever it passes, is not sweet.

2. Every free person blames me for loving you,
But your love distracts me from their blame.

3. What good can blame do in love,
For one whose heart and mind are not present in love?

4. If they consider my devotion to be ignorance,
Then my love for you to me is obligation and tradition.

5. Shall I renounce while the marks of old age decorate my cheeks?
While the marks of youth have not faded?

6. And if it were love for the people of your house, O Muhammad,
Equity to me would be to love them.

7. I carried my love for you in the days of my youth,
When I was a child, and love for you was a child.

8. So, O you who blame me for loving Muhammad's family!
Gently! I never renounce them.

9. Shall I renounce a love for people God selected
And preferred over all mankind in reason and scripture?

10. They are the structure of the Prophet Muhammad.
So say what you will about them, for you cannot go too far.

11. Branches rising up high, their origin the Master of mankind,
An esteemed trunk! How excellent are the branch and origin!

12. They sacrificed themselves to establish the religion of their father,
Generously, with no cowardice or stinginess among them.

13. To God I complain of a group who attacked
Them wrongfully and clung to falsehood.

14. They seek to extinguish the lights of their merit,
But the lights of their merit never cease rising.

15. After Ahmad, they rejected ordainments concerning him
No intellect would deny were prescribed.

16. The Chosen One, Taha, noted him,
Saying he was the successor and family.

17. At Ghadir, he gave him leadership
Over mankind, eternally unremovable.

18. He prescribed him the Imamate, excluding them,
And if it were not prescribed, merit would have given precedence.

19. Is he not his brother and comforter,
When men and steeds meet on the day of calamity?

20. Was he not closest to him in kinship
And greatest in knowledge when ignorance was abundant?

21. Was he not truest to his word when he swore protection
And most forbearing when sandals slipped?

22. And most eloquent in discourse and best
In character, when his asker was serious?

23. They argue, O Helpers of God, that our
Relationship with him was by marriage, not blood.

24. Were the Companions closer or more directly related,
If you reason, O Family?

25. After the Prophet Muhammad, they took
From his two daughters what they did not deserve before.

26. They wrongfully usurped her rights, saying
"God forbid that messengers be inherited from."

27. Their judgment in that was certainly false.
How can the branch remain when the origin is distorted?

28. Is it not the Commander of the Faithful to whom
The contract and dissolution belonged, not them?

29. They killed the chiefs of Ahmad's house,
Noblemen, by whom harm and eternity are averted.

30. They shed their blood and their followers'
Until sorrow and the plains were saturated.

31. So patience, O Family of the Chosen! Our path
Leads to a day of justice where merit falls.

32. For those hostile to you, I have a piercing sword,
When it brandishes, swords will fear it.