1. When they raise up, you will hear from them clamor,
The clamor of a lad carrier of favors and tender youth,

2. And He who ceiled the sky for Him it stood,
And subjected the north wind to the son of David,

3. And He who saved Noah from the deluges
And anchored in their places the mountains,

4. If you grant me well-being and look upon my forbearance,
I will surely exclaim: surely calamities befell!

5. To You I fled from You and from Ziyad,
And I did not reckon my blood to you both lawful,

6. But I lampooned while they lampooned me,
A band I had contended with in wrangles,

7. So if lampooning sanctions my murder,
We have said to their poet and he said,

8. And if you mean by lampooning to seek my murder,
You have not attained for a victor words,

9. You see the chiefs of Quraysh,
When the command in the two arbitrators rose high,

10. The Prophet's paternal cousins and Umar's comrades
And Uthman whose actions rose so high,

11. Standing looking at Sa'id
As though they see in him a new moon,

12. Assailers of lanterns without steady aim
Whenever they moved, marked with the brand.