أَبيتُ أُمَنّي النَفسَ أَن سَوفَ نَلتَقي

وَهَل هُوَ مَقدورٌ لِنَفسٍ لِقاؤُها

I refused the wishes of my soul that we will meet

And is it possible for a soul to meet whom it desires?

وَإِن أَلقَها أَو يَجمَعِ اللَهُ بَينَنا

فَفيها شِفاءُ النَفسِ مِنّي وَداؤُها

And if it meets or God unites us

Then in it is the cure of my soul and its ailment

أُرَجّي أَميرَ المُؤمِنينَ لِحاجَةٍ

بِكَفَّيكَ بَعدَ اللَهِ يُرجى قَضاؤُها

I hope, O Commander of the Faithful, for a need

Through your hands, after God is hoped its fulfillment

وَأَنتَ سَماءُ اللَهِ فيها الَّتي لَهُم

مِنَ الأَرضِ يُحيِي مَيِّتَ الأَضِ ماؤُها

And you are God's heaven in which for them

From the earth revives the dead of barrenness its water

كِلا أَبَوَيكَ اِستَلَّ سَيفَ جَماعَةٍ

عَلى فِتيَةٍ تَلقى البَنينَ نِساؤُها

Both your fathers unsheathed the swords of a group

Against young men, their wives meet their sons

فَما أُغمِدَ حَتّى أَنابَت قُلوبُهُم

وَسَمَّحَ لِلضَربِ الشَآمي دِماؤُها

So it was not sheathed until their hearts relented

And the Syrian was allowed the blow, their blood shed

لِنِعمَ مُناخُ القَومِ حَلّوا رِحالَهُم

إِلى قُبَّةٍ فَوقَ الوَليدِ سَماؤُها

For the goodness of the people's place of stay, they unpacked

To a dome above al-Walid is its sky

بَناها أَبو العاصي وَمَروانُ فَوقَهُ

وَيوسُفُ قَد مَسَّ النُجومَ بِناؤُها

Abu al-'Asi and Marwan built it above him

And Yusuf touched the stars its building

فَإِن يَبعَثِ المَهدِيُّ لي ناقَتي الَّتي

يَهيجُ لِأَصحابي الحَنينَ بُكاؤُها

So if al-Mahdi sends to me my she-camel which

For my companions stirs up yearning its weeping

وَإِن يَبعَثوها بِالنَجاحِ فَقَد مَشَت

إِلَيكُم عَلى حَوبٍ وَطالَ ثَواؤُها

And if they send it for success, then it has walked

To you over epithets and prolonged its pace

وَإِنَّ عَلَيها إِن رَأَت مِن غِمارِها

ثَنايا بِراقٍ أَن يَجِدَّ نَجاؤُها

And that if from its burial place it saw

Shining hills that it hastens its escape