إِنِّيْ امْرُؤٌ لَيْسَ فِي دِيْنِي لِغَامِزِه

لِيْنٌ، وَلَسْتُ عَلَى الإِسْلاَمِ طَعَّانَا

I am a man whose religion has no insulter.

I am gentle, not a slanderer of Islam.

فَلاَ أَسُبُّ أَبَا بَكْرٍ وَلاَ عُمَراً

وَلَنْ أَسُبَّ مَعَاذَ اللهِ عُثْمَانَا

So I don't insult Abu Bakr or Umar,

Nor will I insult, God forbid, Uthman.

وَلاَ ابْنَ عَمِّ رَسُوْلِ اللهِ أَشْتِمُهُ

حَتَّى أُلَبَّسَ تَحْتَ التُّربِ أَكْفَانَا

I don't insult the Prophet's cousin

Until shrouded under the soil in my burial clothes.

وَلاَ الزُّبَيْرَ حَوَارِيَّ الرَّسُوْلِ، وَلاَ

أُهْدِي لِطَلْحَةَ شَتْماً عَزَّ أَوْ هَانَا

Nor Zubayr, the Prophet's disciple,

Nor will I give Talha insult, mighty or weak.

وَلاَ أَقُوْلُ: عَلِيٌّ فِي السَّحَابِ، إِذا

قَدْ قُلْتُ وَاللهِ ظُلْماً ثُمَّ عُدْوَانَا

Nor will I say ‘Ali is in the clouds,’

When I have indeed wronged and transgressed.

وَلاَ أَقُوْلُ بِقَوْلِ الجَهْمِ، إِنَّ لَهُ

قَوْلاً يُضَارِعُ أَهْلَ الشِّركِ أَحْيَانَا

Nor will I utter the words of Jahm,

Whose words sometimes match the polytheists.

وَلاَ أَقُوْلُ: تَخَلَّى مِنْ خَلِيقَتِهِ

رَبُّ العِبَادِ وَوَلَّى الأَمْرَ شَيْطَانَا

Nor will I say: ‘The Lord of servants has neglected His creation,

And handed affairs over to Satan.’

مَا قَالَ فِرْعَوْنُ هَذَا فِي تَمَرُّدِهِ

فرْعَوْنُ مُوْسَى وَلاَ هَامَانُ طُغْيَانَا

Neither did Pharaoh utter this in his rebellion,

The Pharaoh of Moses, nor Haman in his tyranny.

اللهُ يَدْفَعُ بِالسُّلْطَانِ مُعْضِلَةً

عَنْ دِيْنِنَا رَحْمَةً مِنْهُ وَرِضْوَانَا

God repels catastrophes from our religion

With mercy from Him and His good pleasure.

لَوْلاَ الأَئِمَّةُ لَمْ تَأْمَنْ لَنَا سُبُلٌ

وكَانَ أَضْعَفُنَا نَهْباً لأَقْوَانَا

Were it not for the Imams, no paths would be safe for us,

And the weakest of us would be prey for the mighty.