1. Stop at the ruins and whisper to them,
"You were once dwellings."

2. Water the faded traces with flowing tears.
Zainab and Nawar used to live here,

3. So nourish, my God, Zainab and Nawar.
Say to the one hostile to the heir of Muhammad,

4. Whose words betrayed his rejection,
"The one with knowledge of the Book and its wisdom,

5. A witness reciting warnings to him,
Knows of misfortunes and death,

6. So the debate has ripened for him, grown.
He has the witnessed battle of Badr,

7. Which brought ruin to the wretched,
Where he made Shaybah and Al-Walid taste death

8. When they attacked him at dawn insistently.
And likewise 'Utbah when he inclined toward it

9. With sharpened, unsheathed, wrathful blade.
And he has the ordeal on the day of Uhud when help was cut off

10. And they fled from al-Musharrafiyyah.
When Gabriel came calling out the announcement

11. To the Muslims, informing the pious,
'No sword but Dhu'l-Faqar, no warrior but Ali,

12. If you enumerate the valorous!'
The one who patched the Prophet Muhammad's sandal,

13. Pleasing thereby the All-Forgiving God.
He says of him, making a public announcement,

14. Aloud, and what he confided secretly:
'This is my heir among you and my caliph;

15. Do not be ignorant and turn apostates.'
And he has a supreme sermon on the Day of the Camel

16. Whereby he conveyed the revelation of God openly.
And he has the Path of God before His servants.

17. Whoever He guides will be granted piety and dignity.
It is recorded in the Books, illustrated with his name

18. And attributes, so ask those informed.
Who was his neighbor with a dwelling in the mosque,

19. Related to him, sharing his vicinity?
God took him in and brought his people out

20. And chose him above all mankind as a neighbor.
Who was it Gabriel stood by on the right

21. And Michael on the left?
Who was helped by the angels of heaven,

22. Coming to his aid as supporters?
Who affirmed the One God before every other affirmer,

23. Calling upon the One, Omnipotent God?
Who prayed to both qiblas while his tribe

24. Were towering obstacles taking journeys?
Who was called a believer in the Qur'an

25. In ten verses, made of the elect?
Who said to the water, 'Burst forth!' and it burst forth

26. Without being tasked with picks and shovels
Until his soldiers quenched their thirst from it

27. When it flowed down the valley copiously?
And at Karbala there were other signs before,

28. Whereby he revived cattle and trees.
And the monk of that place came to him and submitted

29. Willingly, praising the intrepid knight.
Or who made the sun reverse course after it had set,

30. And darkness had clothed it in a garment,
Until it met up with midday at its appointed time,

31. As God favored him with it, preferring him?
Then it disappeared hastily behind the veil

32. As God ordained the measure of its course?
Who disavowed them with disavowal,

33. Warning the unbelievers,
'We disavow you all, so wander the earth

34. Dispersed, all of you fleeing!'
And purchased love from Gabriel, purified

35. In a garden from which rivers were not forbidden.
Gabriel pledged allegiance to him and praised his guest -