دِمَنٌ عَفَونَ بِذي الأَراكِ
خَلَّفنَ قَلبي ذا اِرتِباكِ
The abode has become desolate in the place of intimacy
It left my heart confused and disturbed
لَهفي عَلى أَيّامِنا
وَالعَيشِ في ذاكَ الشِرك
I yearn for our days
And living in that partnership
تَدَعُ الأَحازع لِلأَجا
زِع وَالنِباكَ عَلى النِباك
It leaves disputes for those who dispute
And crying for those who cry
يا دارُ كَيفَ عَفَت رُباكِ
يا دارُ أَينَ مَضَت مهاكِ
O abode, how did your people neglect you
O abode, where did your beauty go
أَم أَيُّ خطبٍ بعدَنا
أَو بَعدَ بُعدِهُمُ دَهاكِ
Or what news after us
Or after their distance, destroyed you
سَقياً لوسَنى وَهيَ تَر
مي حَبلَ وَصلي بِاِنبِتاكِ
Watering basil while it was being watered
With love and grow with your growth
لَهفي عَلى ثَغرٍ تُحَد
دِثُ عَنهُ أَلسِنَةُ السواك
I yearn for a mouth that talks
About it the tongues of miswak
يا وَسنَ لَم يَرَ ناظِري
نوراً لِمُقلَتِهِ سِواكِ
O basil, my eyes have not seen
Except your light for its pupil
أَفضى حَديثي اِنَّهُ
لا عَيشَ لي حَتّى أراكَ
My talk is over, that
There is no life for me until I see you
يا حاسِدي دُم في جَوىً
يُنمى وَفي هَمٍّ دِراكِ
O my envious one, stay in agony
And in worry, your perdition
اِنّي بِحُبِّ محمَّدٍ
وَوَصِيِّهِ رَهنُ اِمتِساك
I am, by the love of Muhammad
And his successor, inclined to adhere
أَهلُ لي مُوازٍ في ولا
ئِهِمُ وَهل لي من مُحاكي
Do I have peers in their loyalty
And is there anyone who emulates me
أَدَعُ المُناصِبَ هامِداً
لا يَهتَدي طرقَ الحراك
I shun positions, humiliated
Not guided are the ways of confusion
حَتّى يولّي هارِباً
وَسِلاحُهُ في النَصبِ ناكي
Until he makes the fugitive retreat
And his weapon in ambush, crying
يا عَترَةَ الزَهراءِ اِن
نَّ المَجدَ جَمٌّ في ذراكِ
O family of Zahra, indeed
Glory is all in your remains
قَلبي رَهينٌ عِندَكُم
لا يَهتَدي سُبُلَ اِنفِكاك
My heart is hostage with you
Not guided are the ways to disengage
وَمِلاكُ أَمري مدحُكُم
نَفسي فداءٌ لِلمِلاء
And the order of my affairs is your praise
My soul is ransom for the ones filled
مَن كَالوَصِيِّ لِكَسِّر أَر
ذالٍ تَجَرَّدُ لِلعِراك
Who is like the successor in fighting
A mean person who strips for fighting
كَم باسِلٍ قَد رَدَّهُ
رَهنَ اِمتِساكٍ وَاِحتِباك
How many valiant he has repelled
A hostage of adherence and entanglement
وَمُعانِدٍ أَوهى حَري
مَ حَياتِهِ بيد اِنتِهاك
And an opponent whom he made fragile
His life by the hand of violation
أَودى بِأَلفِ مُدَجَّجٍ
بَينَ اِنفِرادٍ وَاِشتِراكِ
He destroyed a thousand heavily armed
Between singled out and shared
لُعِنَت أُمَيَّةُ اِنَّها
أَهلُ الضَلالَةِ وَالاِفاكِ
Cursed be Umayyah, it is
The people of misguidance and violation
قَد حارَبت خَيرَ الوَرى
وَالدينُ مُذ جَحدوهُ شاكي
They fought the best of mankind
And the religion since they rejected it, complaining
وَتَعَمَّدوا قَتلَ الحُسَي
نِ فَناظِرُ الاِسلامِ باكي
And deliberately killed Al-Hussein
The overseer of Islam crying
سُبِيَت بَناتُ محمدٍ
وَستورُها رهنُ اِنهِتاكِ
The daughters of Muhammad were taken captive
And their veils are hostage to violation
يا لَيتَني في كَربَلا
ءَ أَنوحُ اِن بَكَت البَواكي
Oh I wish I was in Karbala
Crying if the criers cried
هذا وَلو شاهَدتُها
لَوَهبتُ روحي لِلهَلاكِ
If I had witnessed it
I would have given my soul to death
يا أَرضَها أَفدي ذرا
كِ وَمُهجَتي تَفدي ثراكِ
O its land, I ransom its particles
And my life ransoms your soil
مِن أَينَ لِلدُّنيا عَشي
رٌ من سنائِكِ أَو سناكِ
Where is glory for the world
From your brilliance or your shining
فيكِ المَساعي وَالمَعا
لي بِاِمتِزاجٍ وَاِشتِباك
In you are the Greatest Endeavors
With commingling and entanglement
يا شيعَةَ الهادينَ اِن
نَّ الرشدَ أَجمَعَ في حماكِ
O Shiites of the Guided Ones, indeed
Righteousness altogether is in your company
بُلِّغتِ من دنياكِ مَع
أُخراكِ ما طَلَبت مُناك
I have been given from your life
And your hereafter what I wanted
اِنَّ ابنَ عبّادٍ بِآ
لِ محمَّدٍ فَوقَ السماك
Indeed the son of Abbad above
The skies with the family of Muhammad
قَد قالَ أَلفَ قَصيدَةٍ
أَبداً تحلِّقُ في السُكاكِ
He has said a thousand poems
Forever soaring in the horizons
فَاِلَيكَ يا كوفِيُّ هذي
مِثلَ درٍّ في سلاك
So to you O Kufan here
Are pearls in a necklace
أَنشِد وَرَدِّد وَاروِ لي
دمَنٌ عَفَونَ بِذي الاراكِ
Recite, repeat, and quench my thirst
The abode has become desolate in the place of intimacy
