لقدْ خَفَقَتْ في النَّحر ألويةُ النَّصْرِ

وكانَ انمحاقُ الشَّرِّ في ذلك النَّحر

The flags of victory fluttered in the throat,

And the defeat of evil was in that throat,

وفتحٌ عظيمٌ يعلمُ اللهُ أنَّه

ليستصغر الأَخطار من نوب الدهر

And a great conquest that God knows

That the hazards of fate's times do not diminish

عَلَتْ كلماتُ الله وهيَ عليَّةٌ

بحدِّ العوالي والمهنَّدة البُتْر

The words of God ascended, and they are supreme,

With the height of glories and the drawn sword.

تبلَّج دينُ الله بعدَ تَقَطُّبِ

ولاحت أسارير العناية والبشر

God's religion shone after gloom,

And the lanterns of providence and good tidings appeared.

محا البغيَ صمصام الوزير كما محا

دُجى الليل في أضوائه مطلع الفجر

It erased the injustice of the minister as it erased

The darkness of night in the dawn lights.

وكرّ البلا في كربلاء فأَصْبَحَتْ

مواقف للبلوى ووقفاً على الضّرّ

And misfortune turned in Karbala`, so it became

Stands for afflictions and a stand for harm.

غداة أبادَتْ مفسدي أهلِ كربلا

وكرَّت مواضيه بهما أيَّما كَرِّ

The morning after the corrupters of Karbala’s people perished

And its meadows were filled with them, what a perishment.

فدانت وما دانت لمن كانَ قبله

من الوُزَراء السَّابقين إلى الفخر

So it bowed, and it did not bow to anyone before him

Of the ministers preceding to pride.

وما أدركوا منها مراماً ولا مُنًى

ولا ظفِروا منها بلبٍّ ولا قشر

And they did not achieve any purpose or destination from it

Nor did they gain from it any kernel or peel.

وحذَّرهم من قبل ذلك بطشه

وأَمْهَلَهُمْ شهراً وزادَ على الشهر

And he warned them before that of his tyranny

And gave them a month and more than a month.

وعامَلَهم هذا الوزيرُ بعدله

وحاشاه من ظلمٍ وحاشاه من جور

And this minister treated them with his justice

And far be it from injustice and far be it from tyranny.

وأنذرهم بطشاً شديداً وسطوةً

وبالغ بالرُّسْلِ الكرام وبالنّذر

And he warned them of severe torture and dominance

And was thorough with the honorable messengers and warnings.

ولو يصبر القرم الوزير عليهم

لقيل به عجز وما قيل عن صبر

And if the brave minister had patience with them

It would be said he was helpless, and nothing was said about patience

وصالَ عليهم عند ذلك صولةً

ولا صولةَ الضرغام بالبيض والسمر

And he attacked them at that time with an assault

Not even the assault of warriors with the white and the brown.

وسار بجيش والخميس عرمرم

فكالليل إذ يسري وكالسيل إذ يجري

And he marched with an army on Thursday raging

As the night travels and as the floods flow

وقد أفسدوا شرَّ الفساد بأرضهم

إلى أن أتاهم منه بالفتكة البكر

They had corrupted the land with the worst corruption

Until he came to them with the first massacre

رمتهم بشهب الموت منه مدافعٌ

لها شررٌ في ظلمة الليل كالقصر

Cannons threw them the darts of death from him

With sparks in the dark night like a palace

رأوا هول يوم الحشر في موقف الردى

وهل تنكر الأَهوال في موقف الحشر

They saw the horror of the Day of Resurrection in the position of perdition

And does one deny horrors in the position of Resurrection?

فدمَّرهم تدمير عادٍ لبَغْيهم

بصاعقةٍ لم تُبْقِ للقوم من ذكر

So he destroyed them, the destruction of Aad, for their transgression

With a thunderbolt that left no mention of the people

ألم ترهم صرعى كأَنَّ دماءهم

تسيل كما سالت معتقة الخمر

Did you not see them fallen as if their blood

Flowed as the drunkard’s wine flows?

وكم فئةٍ قد خامر البغيُ قلبَها

على أنَّها بأحبولة الحصر

And how many a group that transgression dwelt in their hearts

Thinking they are with impregnability

فراحت بها الأَجساد وهي طريحةٌ

تداس على ذنبٍ جنَتْه لدى الوزر

So the bodies went away and they were lying down

Stepped upon for a sin they committed at the minister

فإنَّ مرادَ جارٍ على الورى

ولا بدَّ أنْ يجرى ولا بدَّ أن يجري

For the purpose of an aggressor in the world

Must take place and must occur

تجول المنايا بينهم بجنودها

بحيث مجال الحرب أضيق من شبر

Deaths roamed among them with their armies

Where the space of war is narrower than a span

تَلاطَمَ فيها الموجُ والموجُ من دمٍ

تَلاطُمَ مَوجِ البحر في لُجَّة البَحر

The wave and the wave from blood surged in it

Like the surging of the sea wave in the sea abyss

فلاذوا بقبر ابن النبيّ محمد

فهل سُرَّ في تدميرهم صاحب القبر

So they sought refuge in the grave of the son of the Prophet Muhammad

Did the owner of the grave rejoice in their destruction?

فإن تُركوا لا يترك السيف قتلَهم

وإن ظَهَروا باؤوا بقاصمة الظهر

For if they were left, the sword would not stop killing them

And if they appeared, they would come with a back-breaking one

ولا برحت أيَّامه الغرُّ غُرَّةً

تضيءُ ضياءَ الشمس في طلعة الظهر

And its days continued brightly glowing

Lighting the light of the sun at zenith

ولا زال في عيدٍ جديد مؤرِّخاً

فقد جاءَ يوم العيد بالفتح والنصر

And it remained in a new holiday chronicled

For the day of Eid came with victory and triumph