1. I saw Nouwar making excuses
And blaming me more and more

2. Though your love for the maidens is new
If their pursuer is a youth

3. I cannot make the gray hair go from me
Nor with old age, hope for youth

4. If only grayness on the morrow
Until the Day of Resurrection had been absent

5. It would have been the most longed for awaited thing for us
And the most hated absent thing hoped for

6. For I did not see the like of youth's wares in the world
Nor the like of its raiment as clothing

7. And if youth one day were melted
By it a rock from the two mountains melted

8. Then I, O Nouwar, would refuse my affliction
And stand firmly, not blaming

9. They raised their hands, but touching me
Were neither hands of distinction nor fingers of blame

10. I endured from the hundred and was tried
By a stretch that finished the race out of greed

11. At the beginning of the wager, when it slackened
It persisted with it and wrapped around

12. O Commander of the Faithful, and we have tested
All your affairs, righteousness and probity

13. Know that al-Hajjaj is merely a sword
With which skulls and necks are harvested

14. It is the sword which helped the son of Arwa
With it, Marwan killed Othman, the stricken one

15. When their eyes mention the son of Arwa
And the day of the house, they flow with tears

16. In the evening they enter without permission
Upon Mutawakkil and gave consent and seemed good

17. Friend of Muhammad, and leader of truth
And fourth of the best that trod upon dust

18. From them in war a flame does not cease
That they extinguish with a flame

19. With it their glories are built and cherished
When their pearls are guarded

20. You made the beard of a traitor that betrayed and lied
Its blood its dye

21. And a battle witnessed, you testified to a day of calamity
That adds to one nearing the term, drawing nearer

22. You see the Qal'i and Ma'di in it
Aflame with fervor over the heroes

23. You split the heads of its chiefs so they leaked out
And who hoped for it saw and repented

24. I saw you when deaths clash together
And the terrified flee to the floods

25. Hypocrisy disgraced him and from it
The pocket of his heart tore away the veil

26. Your soul is easy for you though it is the nearest
To its reward with its Creator

27. So whoever claims to grant you victory is lying
Besides God who raised up the clouds

28. A Lord singled you out with affliction
If a desperate one calls upon Him, He answers

29. And if what you unveiled in them
Of terrible trials and torment

30. Their souls rewarded you with it, and they added
For you wealth, reaching the reward

31. For I, by Him to whom Quraysh
Slaughtered at Mina, devising the mounts

32. To Him yearning, and they are humbled
To receive the peg and veil

33. I have in the morning gained from you a favor
Like the favor of rain benefiting whom it hits

34. And if I were in a China of my family
Having locked the two doors of estrangement

35. I would see behind me from you claws and fangs
Upon me

36. So your pardon, O son of Yusuf, is the best pardon
Though you are the harshest punisher

37. I saw the people so fear you
They dreaded your hands or cancelled the account