1. O you who stand weeping for the bereaved while reciting elegies
By God you went astray; the guide is lost to you

2. How much sorrow do you pretend while you are heedless?
If you were grieved why then do you slumber?

3. Why did you not weep for Husayn and his household?
Why did you not weep for the one wept for by Muhammad?

4. The angels wept for him in the heavens
Choice ones bowing and prostrating

5. And Islam was shaken on the day of his affliction
So religion laments his loss and the devout weep

6. Have you forgotten when legions came against him
Among them the son of Sa`d and the tyrannous deniers

7. Who did not respect the right of the Prophet Muhammad
When they made him drink scalding water that does not cool

8. They killed Husayn and orphaned him through his grandson
So separation after Husayn is scattered

9. How can you be settled when among the captives is Zaynab
Crying with intense heat: O Ahmad!

10. This is Husayn ripped open by swords
While his blood stains the martyred one

11. Bare and slain on the ground
Between hooves and lances abased

12. And your good sons slain around him
Above the dust, far-flung, unburied

13. The shining sun and moon both
Wept around the stars bitterly and blinked

14. Have you forgotten the killing of the two grandsons at Karbala
Slaughtered around Husayn, unburied

15. They made him drink from the cup of death openly
While the foe against him multiplied and the fortunate few waned

16. Then they deemed the pure women fair game
So the kin after Husayn is scattered

17. Among the children - orphaned brothers - gather me
Deprived in humiliation, stripped bare

18. O grandfather, they were denied the Euphrates and killed
Thirsty, so for them there is no watering place

19. O grandfather, while the dog drinks safely
Gulping, we are barred from the Euphrates

20. O grandfather, your grandson Zayd now
Of what befell me I rise and sit

21. O grandfather, if you could see me and behold me
With my cheek streaming blood, gashed

22. O grandfather, this is the bloodied neck of Husayn
While the noble body is denuded

23. O grandfather, this is the chest of Husayn gouged
As the cavalry tramples up and down on it

24. O grandfather, this is the chained son of Husayn
Shackled in his bonds, fettered

25. Yearning for his father and his state
While the sons of Umayya in blindness did not guide

26. O grandfather, here is Shimr striving
To slaughter Husayn; so which eye will slumber?

27. To gain the prize of the damned;
Cursed by the Overseer be what he strives for!

28. When he brought down his sword upon him
He called in the softest voice: O Only Son!

29. O my Creator You watch over them
In their act of wrong while You witness

30. You shall swiftly reckon with the Prophet
O father mine, O giver to `Ali al-Murtada

31. The foe has secured from us what they schemed
O mother mine, O Fatima the Radiant, rise and count

32. My possessions in the heavens will assist you
This is your beloved ripped limb from limb

33. None has been afflicted with the like of his affliction
Ever among all mankind except

34. From your Household, and unto you
Some prosody, hopefully in it to delight

35. God bless you, O Household, for as long
As birds in the sky sing their trills