1. If he had known they were the most beautiful eyes,
The day we met, the longing one would not have risked it,

2. He was ignorant of love until he became its captive,
And for a captive of love there is no release.

3. My friend, a companion is not a true friend,
If he lacks empathy and compassion.

4. This is the day when souls are laid bare,
Intellects are robbed and blood is shed,

5. Where does are commodities in the market of passion,
Creating hypocrisy in the minds of men.

6. So take the right way, avoid its dens,
For beyond the dens, necks are prone to be struck.

7. And beware of those does, for they have
No loyalty or covenant in love.

8. For sharing my love I was blamed,
And we were equal in our fervor.

9. He is like the full moon, only he fears no
Defects may mar his perfection.

10. He is like a branch, but his beauty is intrinsic,
While the branch is adorned only by leaves.

11. No matter how much I complain of his aloofness, he says:
Love is nothing but aloofness and separation.

12. Or if I lament my sleepless nights for him, he says:
When did the one bearing passion ever sleep?

13. Or if I say his love made my eyes overflow with tears,
He says it is in the nature of the new moon to shine.

14. Before him I did not know that love
Is a smitten heart or blood shed in torrents.

15. I was sober till the day we met, when eyes
And cheeks enticed me.

16. And from dallying in love - thus is the intoxication
Of youth, it allows no sobriety.

17. I use the word "met" to mean something else,
I say Damascus but I mean Iraq.

18. I have no desire for drinking or taverns,
My fervor is not for feverishness.

19. My utmost aspiration is the lightning of Nu'man,
If only I were aided by friends and comrades.

20. O lightning flash of Nu'man, awaken! How long
Will there be rumblings and flashes?

21. Tell me of my loved ones, does my covenant still stand?
Is my pact still binding?

22. Oh, how I wish I knew! If only and her sister
Were tranquility for the one tormented by passions!

23. Will affection return after rejections?
Will embraces resume after estrangement?

24. I say to a band of Zaidis journeying
Towards Iraq with camel litters:

25. By my father, my mother, my tresses and my land,
Who will blame me, and who brought me to him

26. Whose heart settled in the land of expatriation
While his spirit flutters anxiously?

27.
I heard them mention the expatriate, and the wine

28. Of intimacy intoxicated their minds and they awakened,
Yearning for one who will give water to mankind tomorrow,

29. And by the dust of whose shoes aching eyes are cured,
One whose religion stood straight by him,

30. And by him stalls in the lofty markets thrived,
One to whom the discourse of every virtue is linked

31. After the best of Messengers, may it always endure,
The smasher of fortresses and spears, who became

32. A haven above spears for the prodded,
A man whose silence and awe in greeting him

33. Are from visitors, so great is his glory,
The son-in-law and helper of the Prophet - excellent

34. The two helpers whom lineages have exalted,
The father of preferment - they surpassed and excelled,

35. And the preferred - by their praise pages are adorned,
Consider the goals of every dominion,

36. The swiftest of them were their steeds.
So praise him without inhibition, for there is no

37. Exaggeration or excess in his praise.
God endowed him after the Event of the Pond with guardianship,

38. Encircling necks thereby.
Until when he directed his gaze towards it,

39. They turned him away from the path and opposed him.
How quick they forgot his covenant, wrongfully,

40. And donned those shackles!
They testified to it for Haydar on the day of the Event,

41. When its lights shone forth.
Until when the oppressed one passed away,

42. And layers of earth covered him,
Oh, how I wish I knew what their response will be

43. When mankind is brought for judgement!
When the adversary is Muhammad and his witnesses

44. The people of the heavens, and the Judge is the Creator.
Their tongues will then be tied for violating

45. Their oaths - and they can't be untied.
Their mouths will drip blood in misery endlessly,

46. As their suffering has no relief.
They sought the intercession of Ahmed after

47. Spilling the blood of his progeny and shedding it.
So there he will say: What were in you

48. Those covenants and that pact?
Now when you broke your covenant with me

49. And my kin tasted from your oppression what they tasted,
And for my brother vipers set upon by your betrayal

50. Slithered, their venom lethal,
And what cannot be endured of your deceit and cruelty

51. Befell my daughter,
And in oppressing a people you instituted a practice

52. Emulated by villains,
And by your doing Al-Husayn and his family

53. Were slain by regiments filling the horizons,
So their corpses were there preyed upon by beasts

54. Whose abdomens were gorged and bodies lean.
And likewise was Zaid burned by a horde

55. Who will have no escape on Judgement Day,
From that firewood you gathered on the day

56. Of the ordeal, for that inferno.
How much blood of the Children of the Prophet

57. Did you make me responsible for, shedding it in the noble sanctuary!
How many captives of theirs, men and women,

58. Cry "Deliverance! Deliverance! Liberation!"
Are my reward for my counsel that my kin

59. Regain their rights after extermination and slaying?
Now you come seeking my intercession

60. When misery has intensified and throats are choked.
After what you have done, do you hope for

61. Everlasting salvation, or bonds to be loosened?
After what you have done, do you hope for

62. Everlasting salvation, or bonds to be loosened?
O Lord, make them drink from the cup of Your justice