1. My chest has long been wounded by one my mind cannot forget
A gazelle with the face of a full moon that adorns a line of verse

2. How I have yearned for union and how much I’m inclined to estrangement
My sorrows seduce my heart, so how much wrong can it bear

3. I thought in my sleep that patience would relieve its restlessness
I tended flowers of stars that had mercy on my illness and harm

4. Having learned from an aged experience, I donned the garb of maturity
I would sacrifice myself for the sake of poetry, a strung pearl necklace

5. Were an unjust ruler to possess it, I would place it around my neck
Oh my youth, why did you pass in the evil of an era and time

6. An era of delusion and vanity, and the injustice of decadent evil
I prepared a necklace of praise, strung together in a line of verse

7. Praise that glows with a sun, praise that glows with a moon
Muhammad is an ocean of pride, and Haydar a treasure trove

8. Their progeny is the best branch, flourishing with the best harvest
They are the insight of my soul, and the wealth of my lifetime

9. They are the garden of my righteousness, and the path of my devotion
They are lions that bring salvation, without loss or harm

10. Seas of knowledge and forbearance, fierce and tawny lions
My soul is protected by Ali, who repelled the stab of censure

11. And singly led peace and war, nomads and settled folk
If you would but listen to my words, I would recount the battle of Badr

12. Yes, and I would tell of those who march, flee, and charge
And Khaybar - if I told you its hidden tales

13. You would have no doubt, concealed by a hand of secrecy
And remembering Hunain brings me joy that cannot be matched

14. And killing Amr was a miracle - the killing of Amr
Good riddance to the progeny of blasphemy, polytheism, and denial

15. How much recited scripture dispels their twisted beliefs
It has the advantage of a bird that takes wing with goodness and provision

16. Gabriel presented him, not making a public display
At Ghadir Khumm he spoke, for the witnessing of an earnest crowd

17. Casting the party of hypocrisy into depths of ignorance and scheming
Why did they deny him, despite all his merit and pride

18. Knowledge, wisdom, devotion, a lifetime of generosity and patience
His sword the best of swords - pure, made with pure iron

19. Quenching them at all times with his endless knowledge
A hand that pours forth and grows, never made bitter by scarcity

20. Why did they requite him with the treachery of deceit?
Why did they meet him with betrayal?

21. Mustering against him an army that undertakes Amr's deeds
Did you hear the news of the army of Rabba of Khidar?

22. Leave Utayra of India to the depths of scheming and repulsion
If he had not drawn near and paved the way for him in his early days

23. They would not have taught him the means of every betrayal
My chest seethes against them, like a furnace atop embers

24. My Prophet of Loua is enough for me, my angry growling lion
My praise of them is like the spell of sorcery, undoing my spell and slaughter

25. Take it, O Kufan, for I have presented a pearl from the sea
In a singular effort not afforded to any but my nature and mind

26. It is complete, omitting a letter that circulates in every mention
My miraculous eloquence persists in fortifying my prose and verse

27. So it is not permitted for any free man to compare poetry to poetry