1. O son of Abd al-Aziz, if eyes shed tears
For an Umayyad youth, I would weep for you.

2. But I say you are blessed,
Even if your house is not blessed or pure.

3. You saved us from insult and abuse -
If I could repay you, I would.

4. If I saw your grave, I would be shy
To look on you, though you lived.

5. It would be little if I shed my blood
In sorrow for those in the tombs, and watered you.

6. Deir Sam'an does not miss you when absent -
Better a dead man from the Marwanids than your dead.

7. You are in my thoughts and heart
Whether I draw near or keep far from you.

8. When something stirs my mind of you
I imagine I have seen you.

9. And strange that I hate the Marwanids
As birds, when I did not hate you,

10. Justice was close to you when they withdrew -
I drew near to it and chose you.

11. If I could avert what befell you
From the nightcomer of returning, I would ransom you.