1. Is there a gathering after the parting of companions?
Or is there a time that has passed that can be regained?

2. The desert bears their traveling party,
And the heart bears within them more than it can contain.

3. They are exiled, and have become accustomed to the sun
Not setting anywhere they rise.

4. With eyelids and hearts complaining of separation from loved ones,
Aggrieved by the likes of what aggrieved them.

5. Listless camels plod on in their misery,
Their necks bent under the compulsion of determination.

6. Nu'man longs for pastureland he is not content without,
Even if Musatafa is pleasant and populous.

7. Self-sacrificing women walk with them,
Tears, blood, ferociously in their tracks are cut off.

8. The night after them is like dawn, unceasing,
However it desires, and sleep is like connection, interrupted.

9. If only those who cried out when the caller of fate summoned them
Had rebelled, fallen silent, as they heard.

10. Or if only what leave-taking took from my body
Had finished me off, so torture has nothing left.

11. And a reproacher insisted I disobey him and ordered me
Regarding them, but I flee him and he pursues me,

12. Saying, "Preserve yourself," for it has
A right, though the ties of passion are deceptive.

13. Comfort your longing with the coolness of despair, find peace in it,
Beyond what is said of love except that it is vain hope.

14. Time's two faces, and the world constantly shifting-
Now a heart knows how to hold back.

15. The causes of Allah's Messenger are neglected,
Treacherously, and the cloak of Allah's Messenger is torn.

16. The people are true to the covenant they encountered and drew near,
And true to the treachery when they were absent and transgressed.

17. His family-they are the family of God, and they
Are the guardians of this religion, wronged after him, dutiful.

18. His covenant discarded while with them,
And his community with those who hated and opposed them loyal.

19. His allegiance on the Day of Ghadeer was binding to them
After acceptance, and Romans and those who pledge allegiance surrounded.

20. Divided by oaths they were pulled
By selling them, and by their swords stamped.

21. Between one who destroys a rope formed yesterday,
Considering innovation after it permissible.

22. And one who cunningly seizes, deceiving him
From a deferred inevitable, a prompt sweetness, so he is deceived.

23. And saying to me, "'Ali was clearly his inheritor
By his designation, so did they give or deprive him?"

24. I said there were passions I do not mention
May God reward a people for what they did.

25. Tell men, if you name them they are recognized
They have faces flushed with rancor.

26. They agreed and the course of religion inclined,
So when it stood straight they scrambled and cast lots for it.

27. The first of them obeyed in betrayal, the second
Came following his footsteps.

28. Take a position regarding the truth we presume,
Reason judges and the deceived recoils.

29. By what ruling are his sons to follow you
When your pride is that you kept company and followed him?

30. How has his burial place narrowed for his family
While for strangers a place is cleared next to him?

31. And in what have you made consensus your proof
When the people never agreed voluntarily or gathered?

32. A matter, 'Ali is far from his consultation,
Disfavored among them, and al-'Abbas refuses.

33. And Quraysh claims it based on kinship while
The Helpers have no high rank or station in it.

34. What reversal is like the reversal among you
If accounts were not fabricated and doctored?

35. And ask them, on the day doubt crept after they tied
To him the succession, why they betrayed and deposed him?

36. True words but intentions wherein is deceit
Will not avail the sword its sharpening beneath the sheath.

37. Their denial, O Commander of the Faithful, of it
After their admission, a disgrace covering them.

38. And their breaking with you, turning from their testament,
Lawful for you thereafter a second law they legislated.

39. You abandoned a matter, and had you pursued it palms
Would peel in rebellion however calloused.

40. You were patient, upholding God's command-they did not
Cast lies against religion, so you awoke when they slept.

41. The bitter day will shine with the sweetness of tomorrow
When you reap for them in the Gathering what they sowed.

42. I struggle for you with my words the day
Heroes contend, when my sword in the fray failed me.

43. Verily the tongue attains paths
In the heart reason cannot find though probing.

44. My fathers are in Persia and the religion is yours-
Rightfully, pure stock and abode were wholesome for me.

45. Since my youth I have taken refuge in you
Until the rights you possess and my doubts subside.

46. Times have passed-if you obligate me for them
I would scatter the enmity they gathered against my records.

47. Salman is my intercessor in them, and he, if not
Fathers with you on behalf of their sons interceded,

48. Then be through them my rescuer from the terror of
Tomorrow, as you on the Heights are witness.

49. I seduced myself with delusion that if I guaranteed it
An advantage other than loving you I'd obtain.