Sol 5.6

  1. May God curse the men who abandoned him on the day of Bābil—

    Abū Khālid, beneath the flashing swords.

  2. A young warrior who, facing death, was nobler than they,

    more steadfast in guarding honor, and more generous to fleet steeds;

  3. and more fiercely protective of sheltered women when

    their anklets showed and they hastened to tighten their girdles.

  4. So one woman mourns Yazīd, while a man says:

    “May God send rain upon that man, abundant in generosity and pure in character.”

  5. When the death-herald proclaimed Yazīd dead, the earth

    beneath us convulsed and shuddered like thunderbolts.

  6. After his death, may no Azdī woman ever bear

    a fetus, nor hope for the bounty of rain-laden clouds.

Sol 5.6