سل إن عرفت الدار عن سكانها

وانشد بها قلباً رهين ضمانها

Ask, if you knew the abode, about its dwellers

And recite to a heart that is a hostage to its guarantee

واسبل دموع المقلتين بزفرة

تتوقد الاحشاء من نيرانها

And let fall the tears of the weeping ones with a sigh

That ignites the innards with its fires

جار الزمان بها فامحل ربعها

دهراً وكان الدهر طوع عنانها

Time has become a neighbor to it, so bear its place

An epoch, and the epoch was obedient to its rein

قد اصبحت قفراً يباباً بعد ما

امسى شقيق الروض من ندمانها

It has become barren ruins after it was

The juxtaposition of the garden from its bliss

واذا مررت على الطفوف فطف بها

وانعَ ابن فاطمة وعقد جمانها

And if you passed by Al-Taff, then weep over it

And aid the son of Fatima and gather its beauty

لم انسه وبنيه يوم تحوطهم

ارجاس حربٍ من بني سفيانها

I will not forget him and his sons the day

The vileness of war surrounded them, from the clan of Sufyan

فانصاع يخترق الصفوف بصارم

ما انفكَّ يقطر من دما فرسانها

So he charged, piercing through the ranks with his sword

That did not cease dripping the blood of its horsemen

بطل يكرُّ عليهم بضراغم

ترتاع منها الاسد يوم طعانها

A hero attacking them with spears

That make the lion tremble on the day of its stabbing

آساد حرب في الكريهة لم تجد

عوناً سوى الهندي من اعوانها

The lions of war found no

Help but al-Hindi among its aides

ويريهم بالسمهرية ان سطا

طعناً يشيب المرد من شبانها

And he shows them in al-Samhariya that if

A stab poured forth, it would gray the youth from its youths

حتى اذا شاء الأله بان يُرى

ملقى بمهمهةٍ على كثبانها

Until when Allah willed that it be seen

Thrown in Mahmmah upon its dunes

فهوى على وجه الصعيد معفَّراً

تجري عليه الخيل في ميدانها

He fell on the face of the dusty ground colored

By horses galloping in its plain

صادي الحشاشة لا يبلُّ غليله

افديه من صادي الحشا ظمآنها

Quencher of thirsts, his thirst is not quenched

I ransom him from the quencher of thirsts when they thirst

وحش الفلا تبكيه في فلواتها

وحمائم الاغصان في اغصانها

The beasts of the wilderness weep for him in their deserts

And the doves of the branches among their branches

للّه يومك يا ابن بنت محمد

ماجت له الافلاك في سكانها

Oh your day, O son of the daughter of Muhammad

For which the celestial spheres in their inhabitants shook

من مبلغٌ عليا نزار وهاشم

وبني الفواطم من بني عدنانها

Who will tell ‘Ali, Nizar, and Hashim

And the sons of the Fatimids from the sons of ‘Adnan

إِن الحسين وصحبه ايدي العدى

حملت رؤوسهم على خرصانها

Indeed al-Husayn and his companions, the hands of the enemies

Carried their heads on their spearheads

تخذت قراها الخيل مركضة لها

تعدو عواديها على جثمانها

Their horses took their dwellings as racetracks to them

Galloping their valleys over their bodies

وجنت على سبط النبي واظهرت

من حقدها ما اضمرت بجنانها

They lowered themselves upon the Prophet's grandson and showed

From their hatred what they harbored in their souls

تباً لها من عصبة اموية

نقض المواثق لم يزل من شانها

Ruin to them, the clan of the Umayyads

Who broke pacts - it was always their way

نقضت عهود المصطفى ببنيه في

يوم تمادى الغي في خذلانها

They broke the pacts of Mustafa regarding his sons on

The day the ignorance manifested in their betrayal

لهفي لزينب هي تندب ندبها

ودموعها تنهلُّ من اجفانها

My fervor for Zaynab as she wails her wailing

And her tears flow from her eyelids

ترنو الى السجاد وهو مكبَّل

فيزيدها شجواً على اشجانها

She turns to al-Sajjad while he is shackled

So it increases her agony upon her agonies

قطعوا بها قفر الفلاة بضلَّع

تكبو من الاعياء في وخدانها

They severed the desert plains with him with wounded ribs

Bending from fatigue in its cheeks

هيماء صالية الهجير من الظما

تهوى سباع الطير في وديانها

Wandering the desolate quarter from thirst

While the beasts of prey hunt in its valleys

وإليكم آل النبي خريدة

بكمُ يضوع المسك من اردانها

And to you, O Prophet’s family, beloved

With you the musk diffuses from its flasks

غراء من درر الدموع منظم

برثائكم منثور عقد جمانها

Necklaces of the pearls of tears, strung

In your elegy, scattered beads of its adornments

أهديتها لكم وحسبي منكم

غرف مشيدة بخلد جنانها

I dedicated it to you, and it suffices me from you

Houries built in the eternity of its heavens