ألم يَسمعوا يومَ الغديرِ مقالَهُ

يُؤمِّرُ خيرَ الناسِ عُوداً ومعتصر

Did they not hear on the day of Ghadir his saying,

Appointing the best of people as a dry stick and a squeezer,

يقول ألا هذا ابن عمّي ووارثي

وأوّلُ مَنْ صلّى وأوّلُ مَنْ نَصَرْ

Saying, “This is verily my cousin and my inheritor,

And the first who prayed and the first who helped,”

وليُّكمُ بَعدي فوالوا وليَّه

وكانوا لمن عادى عدوّاً لمن كَفَرْ

“He is your master after me, so obey him and obey his master,

And be to his enemy an enemy, to the unbeliever a disbeliever.”