1. غَدَرَ القَومُ وَقَد ما رَغِبوا

    عَن ثَوابِ اللَهِ رَبِّ الثَقَلَين

    The people betrayed, and indeed had not turned away

    from the reward of God, Lord of humankind and jinn.

  2. قَتَلوا قَدَما عَلِيّاً وَاِبنَهُ

    حَسَنُ الخَيرِ كَريمِ الأَبَوَين

    They killed Ali long ago, and his son,

    Hasan the good, of noble parentage on both sides.

  3. حَنقاً مِنهُم وَقالوا أَجمِعوا

    نَفتِكُ الآنَ جَميعاً بِالحُسَين

    Out of their rancor, they said, “Resolve together:

    let us now all murder Husayn.”

  4. يا لقَومٍ لأُناسٍ رُذَّلٍ

    جَمَعوا الجَمعَ لِأَهلِ الحَرَمَين

    Oh, what a people—what vile folk!

    They mustered the host against the people of the two sanctuaries.

  5. ثُمَّ ساروا وَتَواصَوا كُلُّهُم

    بِاِجتِياحي لِلرِضا بِالمُلحدين

    Then they marched, all urging one another

    to annihilate me, out of satisfaction with the godless.

  6. لَم يَخافوا اللَهَ في سَفكِ دَمي

    لِعُبَيدِ اللَهِ نَسلُ الفاجِرَين

    They did not fear God in shedding my blood

    for Ubayd Allah, offspring of the two wicked ones.

  7. وَاِبنُ سَعدٍ قَد رَماني عنوَةً

    بِجُنودٍ كَوُكوفُ الهاطِلَين

    And Ibn Sa'd indeed assailed me by force

    with troops like the streaming of the two rain clouds.

  8. لا لِشَيءٍ كانَ مِنّي قَبلَ ذا

    غَيرَ فَخري بِضِياءِ الفَرقَدَين

    Not for anything I had done before this,

    save my pride in the radiance of the two Farqad stars:

  9. بِعَلِيِّ الخَيرِ مِن بَعدِ النَبِيّ

    وَالنَبِيِّ القُرَشِيِّ الوالِدَين

    in Ali the good, after the Prophet,

    and the Prophet of Quraysh—my two forebears.

  10. خيرَةُ اللَهِ مِنَ الخَلقِ أَبي

    ثُمَّ أَمّي فَأَنا اِبنُ الخيرَتَين

    My father is God's chosen one among creation,

    then my mother; so I am the son of the two chosen ones.

  11. فِضَّةٌ قَد خَلُصَت مِن ذَهَبٍ

    فَأَنا الفِضَّةُ وَاِبنُ الذَهَبَين

    Silver has been purified from gold;

    so I am the silver, and the son of the two golden ones.

  12. مَن لَهُ جَدٌّ كَجَدّي في الوَرى

    أَو كَشَيخي فَأَنا اِبنُ القَمَرَين

    Who among humankind has a grandfather like mine,

    or a father like mine? I am the son of the two moons.

  13. فاطِمُ الزَهراء أُمّي وَأَبي

    قاصِمُ الكُفرِ بِبَدرٍ وَحُنَين

    Fatimah al-Zahra is my mother, and my father

    the breaker of unbelief at Badr and Hunayn.

  14. وَلَهُ في يَومِ أُحدٍ وَقعَةٌ

    شَفَتِ الغُلَّ بِفَضِّ العَسكَرَين

    And on the day of Uhud, he fought a battle

    that soothed rancor by scattering the two armies.

  15. ثُمَّ بِالأَحزابِ وَالفَتحِ مَعاً

    كانَ فيها حَتفُ أَهلِ القِبلَتَين

    Then at al-Ahzab and the Conquest alike,

    there lay the doom of the people of the two qiblas.

  16. في سَبيلِ اللَهِ ماذا صَنَعَت

    أُمَّةُ السوءِ مَعاً بِالعِترَتَين

    In God's cause, what did

    the evil community do to the two kindreds together—

  17. عِترَةُ البِرِّ النَبِيِّ المُصطَفى

    وَعَلى الوَردِ بَينَ الجَحفَلَين

    the kindred of the righteous Prophet, the Chosen One,

    and upon the roses between the two mighty hosts?