دَعنْ يَا مُعَاوِيَ مَا لَنْ يَكُونَا

فَقَدْ حَقَّقَ اللهُ مَا تَحْذَرُونَا

Leave, O Mu'awiya, what will never be,

For God has realized what you fear.

أتّاكُمْ عَلِيٌّ بِأهْلِ الْحِجَازِ

وَهْلِ العِرَاقِ فَمَا تَصْنَعُونَا

Ali has come upon you with the people of Hejaz

And Iraq, so what will you do?

عَلى كُلّ جَرْدَاءَ حَيْفَانَةٍ

وَأَشْعَثَ نَهْدٍ يَسْرٌّ الْعُيُونَا

On every well-rounded, white-faced maiden,

And slender, delicate body, eyes delight.

عَلَيْهَا فَوَارِسُ مَخْشِيَّةٌ

كَأسْدِ العَرِينِ حَمَينَّ العَرِينَا

Over them are horsemen fearsome as lions,

Ferocious lions defending their dens.

يَرَوْنَ الطِّعانَ خِلالَ العَجَاجِ

وَضَرْبَ الفَوَارِسِ في النَّقْعِ دِينَا

They see the piercing through the rushes

And the striking of the horsemen in the fight as loans.

هُمُ هَزَمُوا الجَمْعَ جَمْعَ الزبَيرِ

وطَلْحَةَ والْمَعشَرَ النَاكِثِينَا

They routed the army, the hosts of Zubayr

And Talha and the oath-breaking band.

وَقَالُوا يَمِيناً عَلى حَلْفَةِ

لِنُهْدِي إلى الشَّامِ حَرْباً زَبُونَا

They swore an oath at Halqa

To lead against Syria a humiliating war,

تُشِيبُ النَّوَاصِيَ قَبْلَ المَشِيبِ

وَتُلْقِي الْحَوامِلُ مِنْهَا الْجَنِينَا

That turns gray the side-locks before their greying

And causes the pregnant to miscarry what they carry.

فإِنْ تَكْرَهُوُا المُلْكَ مُلْكَ العِرَاقِ

فَقَدْ رَضِيَ الْقَوْمُ مَا تَكْرَهُونَا

If you dislike the rule, the rule of Iraq,

Then these people have approved what you dislike.

فَقُلْ لِلْمُضَلِّلِ مِنْ وَائِلِ

وَمَنْ جَعَلَ الْغَث يَوْماً سَمِينَا

Say to the misguided one from Wail

Who once made the froth into cream one day:

جَعَلْتُمْ عَلِيَّا وَأشْيَاعَهُ

نَظِيرَا ابْنِ هِنْدٍ إلاَ تَسْتَحُونَا

You made Ali and his adherents

The peers of Ibn Hind, have you no shame?

إلى أولِ النَّاسِ بَعْدَ الرسُولِ

وَصِنْوِ الرسْولِ مِنَ الْعَالَمينَا

He is the foremost of men after the Messenger

And the in-law of the Messenger of all mankind

وَصِهْرِ الرسُولِ وَمَن مِثْلُهُ

إذا كانَ يَوْمٌ يُشِيبُ الْقُرُونَا

And the son-in-law of the Messenger, and who is like him

If there comes a day that turns generations gray?