أرأيت فعل معاشر مقتوا

أولى لهم لو أنهم سكتوا

I saw the deeds of a group gone astray

Better if they had kept silent

نكتوا وما علموا بأنهم

بنفوسهم لا الدين قد نكتوا

They joked without knowing

They mocked their own souls, not the religion

تركوا شعار الدين عن عنتٍ

بل عن عتوٍّ دونه العنت

They abandoned the symbols of religion

Rather out of arrogance, not difficulty

فلسوف يلقون الذي كسبوا

في حيث لا مال ولا جدة

So they will face what they have earned

Where there is no money or help

حلفوا وغب الحلف قد حنثوا

قالوا وغب القول قد صمتوا

They swore oaths and broke them when absent

They spoke and hushed when present

فإذا دعوا لهداية نكلوا

وإذا دعوا لغواية ثبتوا

So if called to guidance, they refused

And if called to misguidance, they persisted

يتشيعون وذي صفاتهم

لا بوركت من شيعة صفة

They claim to be Shia but their traits

Are not blessed, no blessing in their form of Shia

أسمعتهم والحق منبلج

هم في الضلال الغي لو نصتوا

I heard them and the truth was shining

They are in clear misguidance if they had listened

يا ليت شعري كيف عذرهم

وجدوا لهم جهة ولا جهة

Oh how I wonder what their excuse could be

They found an avenue while there was none

جمعوا لأمر لم يكن لهم

وتفرقوا فجميعهم شتت

They united for a cause that was not theirs

And so they dispersed and all were scattered

سمة لهم من قبل أعرفها

مذمومة يابئسما السمة

A marking I recognize in them from before

Contemptible, how miserable this marking

لا بارك الرحمن في نفرٍ

ضاق الخناق بهم ولا سعة

May the Merciful not bless a group

Whose throats are constricted with no relief