شِرَحَبِيلُ مَا لِلدّينِ فَارَقْتَ أمْرَنَا

وَلَكِنْ لِبُغْضِ الْمَالِكِيّ جَرِيرِ

Shurhabil, why did you abandon our cause though not for religion

But for hatred of Malik and Jareer

وَشَحْنَاءَ دبَّتْ بَيْنَ سَعْدٍ وَبَيْنَهُ

فأصْبَحَتْ كَالْحَادِي بِغَيرِ بَعِيرِ

And dissension crept between Sa'd and him

So it became like a lost camel with no camel driver

وَمَا أَنْتَ إذْ كَانَتْ بَجِيلَة عَاتَبتْ

قُرَيْشاً فَيَا للَّهِ بُعْدُ نَصِيرِ

You were not present when Bajila reproached

The Quraysh, so Allah, how far the helper!

أتَفَصِلُ أمْراً غِبْتَ عَنْه بِشُبْهَةٍ

وَقَدْ حَارَ فِيهَا عَدْل كُلّ بَصِيرِ

Will you decide a matter you were absent from in ambiguity

When the justice of every wise one was confused in it

يَقُولُ رِجَالٌ لَمْ يَكُونُوا أئِمَّةً

وَلاَ لِلَّتِي لَقَّوْكَهَا بِحُضُورِ

Men say who were not leaders

Nor for her who met you with presence

وَمَا قَوْلُ قَوْمٍ غَائِبِينَ تَقَاذَفُوا

مِنَ الْغَيْبِ مَا دَلاَّهُمُ بِغُرُورِ

What is the word of an absent people who cast

From the unseen what led them into delusion

وَتَتْرُكُ أنَّ النَّاسَ أعْطَوْا عُهُودَهُمْ

عَليَّا عَلَى أُنْسٍ بِهِ وَسُرورِ

And you leave that the people gave their covenants

To Ali with intimacy and joy for him

إذا قِيلَ هَاتُوا واحِداً تَقْتَدونَهُ

نَظيراً لَهُ لَمْ يُفْصِحُوا بِنَظِيرِ

When it was said, “Bring one whom you emulate”

They did not speak of an emulator for him

لَعَلَّكَ أنْ تَشْقَى الْغَدَاةَ بِحَرْبِهِ

شُرْحَبِيلُ مَامَا جِئْتَهُ بِصَغِيرِ

Perhaps you will suffer grief in the morning through war with him

Shurhabil, why did you come to it with the insignificant