1. To you our mounts hastened, O son of Al-Walid
And their riders are most keen to reach you and most steadfast

2. Towards a life we approached full of reliance
Hastening, and what a good band of riders and well-determined!

3. You raced not except that you came first to the horses
And you did not return except that you were the most praiseworthy in returning

4. To the son of the two Imams whose father was
An Imam, if not for prophethood, would be prostrated to

5. When he grants today, his granting surpasses
What he previously gave when tomorrow dawns

6. By the right of a man whose loyalty is between Al-Walid and
Kinda above the heights ascending

7. I say to a letter whose saddle did not leave it a
Saddlecloth and the stirring of war when it was excited

8. Upon you O gem of mankind, whoever you reach
Then none after is more deserving in the eligible

9. And he has two fires, both of which have
An eternal abode in front of his house kindled

10. This one is for the whims of the satiated women when they please
And this one a hand in which is the sharpened sword

11. If glory immortalized a man during his life
You are immortalized, and none after the Prophet is immortalized

12. And you are a man accustomed to glory as a habit
Does a doer act except with what he is accustomed?

13. You ask me, why am I aloof from your side
More preoccupied with aloofness or my eye diseased?

14. So I said to her, no but it is because of children I see
And they have naught in which the rain has a basin