1. يا لمة ضرب الزما

    ن على معرسها خيامَهُ

    O lock of hair, Time has pitched

    his tents upon its resting place.

  2. للّه درك من خُزا

    مى روضة عادت ثَغامه

    How wondrous you are—lavender

    of a garden, now turned to white thaghām grass.

  3. فَوَرَبّه قامت به

    للدين أشراط القيامه

    So, by his Lord, through him there arose

    for the faith the portents of Resurrection.

  4. لمضرج بدم النبو

    ة ضارب بِيد الإمامه

    For one drenched in the blood of prophethood,

    striking with the hand of the Imamate;

  5. متقسم يطأ السيو

    ف مجرعاً منها حِمامه

    torn apart, he treads upon swords,

    forced to swallow his death from them.

  6. منع الورود وماؤه

    منه على طرف الثمامه

    Denied access to water, though his water

    was but a thumāma grass-tip away from him.

  7. نصب ابن هند راسه

    فوق الورى نصب العلامه

    Hind's son set his head up

    above mankind, like a marker erected.

  8. ومقبَّل كان النبي

    بلثمه يشفي غرامه

    And a mouth that the Prophet would

    kiss to soothe his longing—

  9. قرع ابن هند بالقضيـ

    ـب غراره فرط استضامه

    Hind's son struck with the rod

    its tooth-edge, in excessive cruelty.

  10. وشدا بنغمته عليـ

    ـه وصب بالفضلات جامه

    And he sang his tune over

    him, and poured out his goblet's dregs.

  11. والعدل أبلج ساطع

    والدين ذو خال وشامه

    And justice is bright and radiant,

    while the faith bears a mole and a birthmark.

  12. يا ويح من ولَّى الكتا

    ب قفاه والدنيا أمامه

    Alas for him who showed the Book

    his back, with this world before him!

  13. ليُضرِّسَنَّ يد الندا

    مة حين لا تغني الندامه

    He will surely gnaw the hand of remorse

    when remorse can no longer avail.

  14. وليدركن على الكرا

    مة سوء عاقبة الغرامه

    And he will surely learn, despite his honor,

    the dire consequence of the penalty.

  15. وحمى أباح بنو يزيـ

    ـدٍ عن طوائلهم حرامه

    And a sanctuary—the sons of Yazīd violated

    its sacred bounds, to avenge their blood-feuds,

  16. حتى اشتفوا من يوم بد

    ر واستبدوا بالزعامه

    until they took revenge for the day of Badr

    and monopolized the leadership.

  17. لعنوا أمير المؤمنيـ

    ـن بمثل إعلان الإقامه

    They cursed the Commander of the Faithful

    as publicly as the iqāma, the call to begin prayer.

  18. لِم لَمْ تَخرِّي يا سما

    ء ولم تصبّي يا غمامه

    Why did you not fall, O sky,

    and why did you not pour down, O cloud?

  19. يا لعنة صارت على

    أعناقهم طوق الحمامه

    O curse that has become, upon

    their necks, the collar of a dove!

  20. إن الإمامة لم تكن

    للئيم ما تحت العمامه

    Surely the Imamate was never

    for any base man beneath a turban.

  21. يا سبط هند وابنها

    دون البتول ولا كرامه

    O grandson of Hind, and her son,

    not al-Batūl's—and no honor to you!

  22. يا عين جودي للبقيـ

    ـع وما به تشفى رغامه

    O eye, pour forth for al-Baqīʿ

    and what lies within it, that resentment may be healed.

  23. جودي لمشهد كربلا

    ء فوفري عني ذمامه

    Pour forth for the shrine of Karbalāʾ,

    so fulfill its sacred claim on my behalf.

  24. جودي بمكنون الدمو

    ع وأرسلي بدداً تهامه

    Pour forth the hidden store of tears,

    and send them scattering across Tihāma.