تبين ايها الناعي المشيد

أحقاً أنه أودى يزيد

O you who mourn the loss, behold

Is it true that Yazid has passed away?

ألم تعجب له أن المنايا

فتكن به وهن له جنود

Are you not amazed that death

Could strike him when he had great armies?

فتكن به وكن يحدن عنه

إذا ما الحرب شب لها وقود

It could take him though hosts protected him

When the fires of war blazed all around.

لقد عزى ربيعة ان يوما

عليها مثل يومك لا يعومد

The clan of Rabee'ah once thought no day

Could equal yours, yet life goes on.