1. Its echoes resound, it instills fear,
A refuge for the tails of fierce winds.

2. O Commander of the Faithful, to you we were led,
Traversing the barren desolate wilderness.

3. When the guide calls to them, up they leap,
With outstretched necks and pleading hands.

4. A land vessel prepared for salvation,
From the terrors that shake trembling hearts.

5. A boat that folds its sail,
From the nightly traveling camels.

6. As if cotton wadding clothes its snout,
With the strings of a sturdy bow.

7. I called upon Allah's trustee on earth with a plea,
To relieve my legs, best of successors.

8. O best of people, if you could but see,
On my legs, traces of heavy shackles.

9. Then I would hope for your pardon and mercy,
And the justice of an imam caring for his flock.

10. Hisham, son of the best of people except Muhammad,
And his companions, I swear I committed no wrong.

11. No dishonesty by Him to whom Quraish
Offered gifts, every glorious chieftain.

12. Did Marwan not suffice when I came to him
As an exile, though resentment burned within?

13. And deny a neighbor, should he tether his mount
At his well, while Ibn Marwan forbids.

14. All honor belongs to the clan of Marwan,
And any mere pebble of an arrogant tyrant.

15. They are the noblest, the greatest, nor will
The denier of the right, to the ignoble, ever know.

16. Your father, disobeyer, whose neighbor
Was nobler than the loftiest summit.