أَصبَحوا يفرقونَ مِن إِفراقي

فاستَعانوا في نكسَتي بالفِراقِ

They began to part from my parting,

So they aided in my defeat with parting.

ما صَبَرتُم لقَد بخِلتُم عَلى المُد

نفِ حَقاً حتَّى بطولِ السِّياقِ

You did not have patience - you were stingy with extending,

A right, even with prolonging the context.

راحَةٌ ما اعتَمدتُموها بقَتلي

رُبَّ خَيرٍ أَتى بغَير اتِّفاقِ

A rest which you did not depend on by killing me,

How much good has come without agreement.

سَوفَ أمضي وتَلحَقون ولا عِل

مَ لكُم ما يكونُ بعدَ اللِّحاقِ

I will pass, and you will follow, without any knowledge,

Of what will happen after joining.

حَيثُ لا يجمعُ القَضيَّةَ من يَج

مَعُ بَينَ الخَصمَينِ ماضٍ وباقِ

Where the case cannot be gathered by one who ga-

thers between the two opponents, one gone and one remaining.

ما لَهم لا خلقت فيهم فَما أَغ

فَل قَومي عن الدَّمِ المُهراقِ

They have no ethics, so I have no duty to

turn away my people from spilled blood.

ربَّ ظَهرٍ قلبتُه مثلَما يُق

لَبُ ظهرُ المجنِّ لِلأرشاقِ

How many backs have I overturned, like the back of

the twisting snake is overturned for the archers.

بعدَ ما قادَني فَلَم أَدرِ حتَّى

صِرتُ ما بَينَ مُلتَقى الأَحداقِ

After it led me, I did not know until

I became between the meeting of the eyeballs.

وأَراني أَسيرَ عينَيكَ مِنهن

نَ فَماذا تَراهُ في إِطلاقِي

And it makes me a prisoner of your eyes,

So what do you see in my release?

مسَّةٌ من هَواكَ بي لا مِن الجن

نِ فَهَل مِن مُعَزِّمٍ أَور راقِ

A touch from your love is upon me, not from

the Jinn, so is there a determined and pure comforter.

غَيرَ أَن يُبرِدَ احتِراقي بوَصلٍ

أَو بِوَعدٍ أَو أَن يبلَّ اشتِياقي

Other than one who cools my burning with a union,

Or a promise, or makes my yearning gush.

أَو يُعيدَ الكَرى كَما كانَ لا يو

حِشُني مِن خَيالِكَ الطرَّاقِ

Or returns the times like it did not make me

lonely from your fanciful imagination.

ما لِنَومي كأنَّه كانَ في أَو

وَلِ دَمعي جَرى مِن الآماقِ

What is sleep to me, as if it was in the

beginning, and my tears flowed from the depths.

غيرُ مُستَرجَع فيُرجَى وهَل تَر

جِعُ لِلعَينِ أَدمعٌ في سِباقِ

Nothing else to be regained, so it is hoped. And can

tears be returned to the eye in a race?

بِأَبي شادِنٌ توثَّقتُ بِالأَي

مانِ مِنه مِن قَبلِ شدِّ وَثاقِي

By my father taken, I trusted the covenants,

From him, from before my binding and fastening.

فَهوَ إلا يَكن لحربٍ فَحربٌ

علَّمتهُ خِيانَةَ الميثاقِ

So it is either for war, so it is war,

It taught him betrayal of the covenant.

نَفَرٌ مِن أُميَّةٍ نَفَر الإِس

لامِ مِن بَينهم نُفور إِباقِ

A number from Umayyah, the number of Is-

lam turned away from them, fleeing wickedly.

أَنفَقوا في النِّفاقِ ما غَصَبوه

فاستَقامَ النِّفاقُ بِالإِنفاقِ

They spent in hypocrisy what they usurped,

So hypocrisy became upright with spending.

وهيَ دارُ الغُرورِ قَصر بِاللو

وامِ فيها تَطاولُ العُشاقِ

And it is the house of delusion, a palace with

injustices in it, the lovers extend.

وأَراها لا تَستَقيمُ لذي الزُّه

دِ إِذا المالُ مالَ بالأَعناقِ

And I see it cannot be made right for one of repute,

When the money leans with the necks.

فلِهذا أبناءُ أحمَدَ أبنا

ءُ عَليٍّ طَرايد الآفاقِ

So for this, the sons of Ahmad, sons

of Ali, prey of the horizons.

فقراءُ الحجازِ بَعدَ الغِنى الأَك

بَرِ أَسرى الشآم قَتلى العِراقِ

The poor of Hejaz, after great wealth,

Captives of Levant, killed in Iraq.

جانبَتهم جَوانبُ الأَرضِ حتَّى

خلت أنَّ السماءَ ذات انطِباقِ

Its sides avoided them until it seemed

the sky has folding.

أن أقصِّر يا آلَ أحمَدَ أَو أغ

رقَ كانَ التَّقصيرُ كالإغراقِ

That I fall short, O family of Ahmad, or exaggerate,

was a shortcoming like flooding.

لَستُ في وَصفِكُم بِهَذا وهَذا

لاحِقاً غَيرَ أن تَروا إِلحاقِي

I am not in describing you with this and that,

Following, other than you see my joining.

إِنَّ أَهلَ السَّماءِ فيكُم وأهلَ ال

أَرضِ مادامَتا لأهل افتراقِ

Indeed the people of the sky are among you, and the people

of the earth, as long as they are people of separation.

عَرفَت فَضلَكُم مَلائِكَةُ ال

لَهِ فَدانَت وقومُكم في شِقاقِ

The angels of God knew your merit so they submitted,

while your people are in conflict.

يَستَحِقُّونَ حَقّكم زَعموا

ذلكَ سُحقاً لَهم من استِحقاقِ

They claim your right, they alleged,

damn them from entitlement.

وأَرى بعضَهم يُبايعُ بَعضاً

بانتِظامٍ من ظُلمِهم واتِّساقِ

And I see some of them pledging allegiance to some,

with organization from their injustice and harmony.

واستَثاروا السُّيوفَ فيكُم فقُمنا

نَستَثيرُ الأقلامَ في الأوراقِ

And they provoked the swords against you, so we

provoke the pens in the pages.

أيُّ غَبنٍ لَولا القِيامَةُ والمَر

جوُّ فيها مِن قُدرة الخَلاقِ

What loss, if not for the Day of Judgement, and the hope

in it from the Power of the Creator.

فَكَأنِّي بِهم يَودُّونَ لَو أنَّ ال

خَوالي مِن اللَّيالي البَواقي

So it is as if I see them wishing if only

the remaining nights from the years would repent.

ليَتوبُوا إِذا يُذادونَ عَن أَك

رَم حَوضٍ عَليه أكرمُ ساقِ

When they are pushed away from the most generous basin,

upon it the most generous of legs.

وَإِذا ما التَقَوا تَقاسَمَت النا

رُ عَليّاً بالعَدلِ يَوم التَّلاقي

And when they meet, the fire will distribute to

Ali with justice, the day of meeting.

قيلَ هَذا بِما كَفَرتُم فذُوقوا

ما كَسَبتُم يا بُؤسَ ذاكَ المَذاقِ

It will be said, “This is for what you disbelieved, so taste

what you have earned, oh misery of that taste.”