1. Are you not pleading with us, may we be cursed?
We see the camel-sites or traces of encampments

2. So they said: If you do so, spare us
Tears other than shedding blood

3. How can it be when I see the abodes of my people
And our neighbors who were generous to us

4. I hold back the tears from my eyes
And after tears there is no speech

5. Revelation will convey it to them
And lower its head under the bridge

6. I lead by day one wearing rags
Among the scavengers, monkeys of archers

7. So they said to him, we will date you, fresh dates
And that is too high to reach

8. The singing girls saw me and said: "Here is
Our father who came from below peace

9. If they laugh or mock me
I was once a dancer of servants

10. If their grandmothers asked about me
They would return double the greetings to me

11. They saw me wearing torn garments
And a grin that revealed the decaying teeth

12. She says: My son, can there be a real man
For a people among you who are not lowly

13. Who would rise for your children in a way
That would enrich them without the Syrian King

14. So I said to them: But how can I walk
On my feet or control my affairs

15. And what means do I have to help you
When my legs have surrendered standing

16. The eighty nights have thrown me down
And the arrow of fate is a stronger shooter than an archer

17. It has changed the color of my she-camel and my color
My emaciation and gloominess increasing

18. The approach of destiny everyday
From mid-Gemini blazing hot

19. And my being engulfed when darkness descends
Expelling daylight, the gloom of night

20. I say to my camel when she slackens her pace
With a hand that is clad handling the reins

21. Does any spring survive behind you
Before you unleashed by Hisham's hands?

22. The hands of the best of those who lived and died
As Imam and son of great kingdoms

23. Through him the country and those who are in it live
With animal blessings and greenery

24. An emaciated camel led by a one-eyed man
Driving the harvest of heaped junk

25. If you reach the four, those
Through whom I return to you every year

26. You would be like a dead woman revived
Who has endured being ripped by arrows

27. I missed a she-camel accustomed and tamed
And anxiety about her really worried me

28. I say to her when she turns around and pulls
The nose-rein along with the halter

29. Why do you keep turning while you are my mount
And the best people are all ahead of me?

30. When will we reach al-Rusafah to rest
From roaming and endless travelling

31. Where the luggage will be unloaded off you and you will scream
For help from the King of all kings

32. It is as if spider webs spend the night building
On the nostrils from the mucus of snot

33. I fear every twittering sound and thunder
From sheep that protects its sleepers

34. It is as if the barn owls when hatched in exile
Have piercing stares that observe me

35. They provoke the anklets to jingle when
Chests that rest meet the slumbering strides

36. As if the tips of Yathrib's spears fell upon it
From the feathers of doves

37. I have turned to you, best of people, alive
So you can revive me or be my support

38. To the King of Kings I carry my burden
Piled up on the pack-saddles

39. From the year that left nothing
Of cattle, worn out by droughts

40. Your pledge is God's pledge, he takes hold of it
So no bond can detach from it

41. I carry my mount and my mount carries me
Not lightly with my huge body

42. On top ships sailing the arid land
War spoils paired with male swords

43. Your hands, spring of people, in one of them
In the other, the holy months

44. If not for you, people would be
Scattered beads fallen from a string

45. People do not gather unless
To feud and quarrel bitterly

46. The sky gave good tidings to the land when
We talked about the coming of the Imam

47. To the people of Iraq, though they are
Remnants, like body parts and lumps

48. He came visiting us, his visit was
One of the greatest blessings to us

49. The Commander of the Faithful, through him we live
The robes of sins have been cut off

50. He came with the Sunnah of the two Caliphs in which
Is a healing for chests of sickness

51. God saw you most worthy of all people
Of the authority of the Caliphate and peace

52. When he travels through a land he sees
Shaded for him with clouds

53. I saw you filling the earth with justice
And light while it is clad in darkness

54. I saw oppression, when you stood up, lose
Its covering by the two sharp blades of your holy one

55. You are not going to attain what you intend
With the forearms of the flexible bow

56. You will be disgraced if you meet in Najd's expanse
‘Aṭiyyah between Zamzam and the Station

57. ‘Aṭiyyah, the horseman of al-Qasa' when
It settled down breaking its fast

58. If you meet him there returning
Then which of the two conceals destruction