1. O you who persists in futile argument!
We have what we have, so cease your vexation.

2. Do you see what we say, you who are aged?
On you is a cloak of piety as your raiment.

3. Behold! The Imams are of Quraysh,
Righteous leaders, four in number.

4. Ali and his three blessed sons,
His branches and successors.

5. Whence comes your doubt and dispute
Regarding his bequest to them?

6. He entrusted them and called all people to them,
Had the call been heard by all creation!

7. A grandson of perfect faith and forbearance,
And a grandson hidden by Karbala's sands.

8. He quenched a thirst from a sun-scorched field,
Thunder applauding from swollen clouds.

9. A shade covers him in lonely exile,
While another son seethes with rage.

10. And a grandson who tastes not death
Until he leads the steeds with banner held high.

11. From the veiled house in Surra man Ra'a,
Bonds of brotherhood encompass them.

12. Champions without peer, the noblest lineage
Culminating in Mecca's guardian.