1. O visitor traveling to Kufa
My soul is enamored with the people of the cloak

2. I have been tempted by the love of the lovely one for a long time
And my soul is preoccupied from what it desires

3. Convey my greetings to her, Ar-Ridha, and say
My doctrine of loyalty is concealed

4. I stayed in a town whose people
Their origins with the Jews are well known

5. The people of Najaf have become disbelievers
Repugnant to all that is ugly and disdained

6. I defend the family whose beauty
Is like the blossoming of the stars, halted

7. You are the ropes of certainty that I clung to
Clear proofs of loyalty and devotion

8. The son of Hind and his people are not nobler
Than the sea foam with its wool

9. His nation is the worst nation known
Never ceasing to be laden with punishment

10. I hope the owner of Heaven will portion me
Homes between which are described

11. He will let his Shia drink from the cup of the Prophet
While the faction of disbelievers is blinded

12. I sacrifice him, a sun whose light nations
Have been cleansed never to be eclipsed

13. I have praise in you, its brides
To you they are always ushered

14. How they concealed hatred of his superior merits
Yet they appeared at dawn uncovered

15. And they turned away in sorrow and grief
With souls that are always anguished

16. How they reviled him yet he repelled their hands
Fettered by pettiness and stinginess

17. They are cattle, say yes, and yes they are
Made to be slaughtered by swords

18. Say to those who tried to destroy me while tears
Of sorrow never cease flowing

19. That the son of Abbad sought refuge in Him
Who keeps worries away from him

20. In the son of Abu Talib, and that is enough
Of a seeker whose high stature is known

21. O Lord, make easy the visit to his tomb
And let me not die in longing for Kufa