1. The tearful eye of a sorrowful one wept long, extending its flow.
And the nights of misfortune lengthened, not allowing it to sleep.

2. Misfortunes from the night of afflictions hit me,
So their arrows struck the best of us.

3. It was as though death sought our souls
With resolute determination, once its ardour kindled.

4. If we weep, we do not weep for the misfortunes when they came -
Time and days brought them fiercely arguing.

5. But we weep for your violation of sacred laws regarding Khalid -
Sanctities of ours that are forbidden to violate.

6. So tell the Banu Marwan: What's wrong with a covenant
And the sanctity of a permitted thing they do not respect?

7. Indeed shedding our blood in God's cause
Is no sin on our part - its legitimacy is evident.

8. We extended a breast whose gift we were not reciprocated,
And an arm that rose up and completed its work.

9. And Khalid rose up to avenge Ibn al-Muhallab's murder -
The remnants of right guidance and its imam still in us.

10. I see the helpers of Egypt, their victory is humbled,
But Qays - Syria's protection - will not be disgraced.

11. So who will convey to Qays and Khindif in Syria
News that cannot be remedied unless treated?

12. News we complain of to them,
And injustice that covers faces in darkness.

13. For if one who rejects injustice is among them,
He will be angered by it, both their elder and youth.

14. The likes of it, he promises the likes of them, so they break
And the people of injustice know how vengeance is taken -

15. By the stalwarts among their Mudari multitudes
Whose arms in it offset the tribes completely.

16. And whites whom the deluder made as if
They were stars unveiled by a departing darkness.

17. Ibn Yazid's blood was made permissible for Khalid.
Does an ardent soul not appease its thirst?

18. So change the Commander of the Faithful, for it
Is a Yemeni imbecile - Hisham is its protector.

19. By Ibn Yazid and Ibn Zahr's blood, Tamim's
Sanctities were violated and its people slain.

20. Am I to be killed among you when I killed your enemy
For your religion while war clothed all in darkness?

21. And remote from you, we faced it as the echo faces
Clear words, though it garbles their articulation.

22. Indeed, if you appreciated our affliction
And our days that count among grave calamities,

23. We would have among you support and means of bounty
When the dark, murky discord kindled its flames.

24. The reins of those feared from Ma'add and others
When their zeal refused to be straightened.

25. We were angry for your sake, O Banu Marwan, so be angry.
Perhaps souls will be allowed to taste food.

26. And do not sever ties with us, for they
Are sins of deeds, feared for their burden.

27. The living in every land have known
That when the living are counted, we are its nobles,

28. And that when the helpers of war don their armor,
We confront it when the heat of war intensifies.

29. The pillar of Islam and the command, all of it,
And is there any obedience but by Tamim, its pillar?

30. But my soul is ransomed for Tamim from that
Feared for anarchy and terror of its blame.

31. Our might - the land above complains of it to God,
And knows we are its heaviness and burden.

32. It complained of us to mighty God, so it heard -
Soon and clearly - none but Him listens to its words.

33. We ferociously advance, God willing, in every matter
When a split is feared whose mending cannot be hoped.

34. Was there not in Islam, both us and you,
Barriers of a mighty pillar, revered in station?

35. So let Quraysh observe kinship with Tamim
And reciprocate days of a noble abode.

36. The sons of Khindif knew we are their household,
Their might and protection, their lofty sign.

37. While you are God's governors, and that which to you
He entrusted, by which uprightness was established.

38. So keep good ties with Tamim of what Tamim you find
When the ropes of religion fray and unravel.