لوعةٌ ما تزحزحُ

وجوى ليس يبرحَ

An anguish that does not subside,

A passion that does not depart,

وشجى ما أزال

أغبق منه وأصبحُ

A grief I have not yet removed,

More confounded than it, though morn arrives,

وأسىً كلما خبا

ضوؤه عاد يقدحُ

And a sorrow whenever it wanes,

Its light returns to be kindled,

وحسود يحاول ال

جد من حيث يمزحُ

And enviers attempting but no

Way where they jest,

فهو ياسو إذا حضر

ت وان غبت يجرح

Thus he is miserable if present

And hurts if absent,

فمداج مواربٍ

ومبين مصرح

So deviant and evasive

And evident and frank,

كأبن آوى يعوي

ورايء وكالكلب ينبحُ

Like a son who howls

And behind, like a dog that barks,

عجبي والخطوب

تبرح فينا وتسنح

My wonder is trouble persists in us and lodges,

And turns of fate sometimes thrust and sometimes gore,

وصروف الزمان

ترمح حيناً وتنطحُ

For my students, for the comfort of

Living and death, I go,

لطلابي لراحة ال

عيش والموت أروحُ

Tell the unjust profit

Through praise if he continues praising,

قل لباغي ربحٍ

بمدحٍ إذا ظل يمدحُ

Praise the Prophet's family, O unjust,

Through it profit profits,

مدح آل النبي يابا

غي الربح أربحُ

Through them salvation is granted

Tomorrow when fates are apportioned

من بهم تمنح النجاة

غداً حين تمنحُ

And through them matters are corrected

Which cannot otherwise be corrected,

وبهم تصلح الأمو

ر التي ليس تصلحُ

No eloquent one but by them

Is more eloquent than he,

ما فصيح إلا وهم

بالعلى منه أفصحُ

They surpassed explaining the prohibition

With an advice none can explain,

سبقوا شرح ذي النهى

بنهيّ ليس تشرحُ

To the dispossessed they are

The most generous hands and most giving,

هم على المعدمين

أوسع ايدٍ وأفسحُ

Whenever weighed against them

They are weightier,

كلما ووزنوا به

فهمُ منه أرجح

The birds of fire in the deserts

Birds whose cries ever resonate,

طير النار في الحشا

طائر ظل يصدح

Crying woefully, not knowing

That I for them lament,

ناح شجواً وما درى

أنني منه أنوحُ

I am more woeful in spirit than they

And more compassionate and wounded,

أنا أشجى منه فؤاداً

وأضنى وأقرحُ

I have a heart whose fire

Every day salt and burning,

لي فؤادٌ بناره

كل يوم ملوح

And desolate in the horizon's expanse

Are my scorches detailed,

وحشا بالمدى مدى

حرقاتي تشرح

For al-Husayn whom the affairs

With his mention overflow,

للحسين الذي الشؤ

ون بذكراه تسفح

The son of one who stood by guidance

When standing advising,

لابن من قام بالنصي

حة إذ قام ينصح

The slaughtered, slaughtered of

Thirst, as he is slaughtered,

الذبيح الذبيح من

عطشٍ وهو يذبحُ

One who saw the Prophet's son

In his blood, how he swims

من رأى ابن النبي

في دمه كيف يسبح

Aspiring, his gaze towards

His family when he aspires,

طامحاً طرفه إلى

أهله حين يطمحُ

Blinking his eye,

While in Karbala's woes, opening,

يطبق العين و

هو في كرباتٍ ويفتحُ

In me is an ardor for al-Husayn

That agonizes my heart and wounds,

بي جويّ للحسين

يولم قلبي ويقرح

A hero whose like

No bed has ever contained,

أبطحيٌ ما إن حوى

مثله قسط أبطح

Honors glimpse from

His face when they glimpse,

تلمح المكرمات من

طرفه حين تلمحُ

What grave through the slain

Became filled, triumphant,

أي قبرٍ بالطف

أضحى به الطف بنجح

By my father the slain, discarded

To exaltation, in it discarded,

بأبي الطف مطرحاً

للعلى فيه مطرحُ

The earth's expanse by it

Grieves while the interior rejoices,

ظاهر الأرض منه

محزن والبطن تفرحُ

The journey was pleasant with the slain, and they became

From a slain poured

مالسفر بالطف أمسوا

حلولاً وأصبحوا

On its sides, the birds wings,

And a fallen whose

من صريع على

جوانبه الطير جُنح

Dirt covers and discards,

So may Allah greet

وطريحٍ على محا

سنه الترب يطرحُ

My callers protected by them when they met,

How ugly! Unless the people rode

فلحى اللَه مستب

يحي حماهم وقد لحوا

More ugly than it,

The House of the Prophet,

ما قبيحٌ ألا وما ار

تكب القوم أقبحُ

Why from you do I sway?

Successful those who

آل بيت النبي

مالي عنكم تزحزحُ

Remained in your guidance and succeeded,

I in that have no peer

أفلح الساكنون

ظل هداكم وانجحوا

That I strive and work for,

Perhaps Allah will pardon my

أنا في ذاك لا سوى

ذاك أسعى وأكدحُ

Sins and forgive.

فعسى اللَه عن ذنو

بي يعفو ويصفح