ترومُ مقامَ العزّ والذلُّ نازل

ولم يك في الغبراء منك زلازلُ

The abode of might and abjection comes and goes,

And no slips occurred from you in the dusty (battle) field,

وترجو عُلاً من دونها قدرُ القضا

وعزمك عن قرع المقادير ناكل

And you hope for an elevation, without which fate's measure (decree) is,

And your determination breaks the knocking of destinies.

إذا كنتَ ممَّن يأنف الضيمَ فاعتصم

بعزمٍ له قلبُ الحوادث ذاهل

If you are one who disdains oppression, then adhere

To a determination, before which the heart of tribulations is confused.

وليس يزيل الضيمَ إلاَّ أُباتُه

ويرحضُ عار الذل إلاَّ المُناضل

And nothing eliminates oppression but its decisiveness,

And the shame of abjection is not dispelled but by the struggler.

رُمِ العزّ في الخضراء بين نجومها

وكن ثاقباً فيها وهنَّ أوافِل

Seek might in the Greens among its stars,

And be piercing in it while they (the stars) are declining.

وكن إن خلت منك الربوع وأوحشت

أنيسَ المواضي فهي منك أواهل

And if the meadows were vacant of you and you made

The habitations feel lonely, then they would be first to lament over you

أما لكَ في شُمّ العرانين إسوةٌ

فتسلك ما سنَّته منها الأفاضل

Do not the poignant smells of sweet herbs give you

A model, so you follow the path taken by the virtuous?

بيوت عُلاهم في الحوادث إن دهت

قناً وضُباً مشحوذةٌ وقنابِل

Their lofty houses - if disasters shake them -

Become spears, sharpened blades and missiles.

هم قابلوا في نصر مَدرَة هاشمٍ

أُميَّةَ لما آزرتها القبائل

They faced in the victory of Hashim's crescent

Umayya when the tribes supported it.

وأجروا بأرض الغاضريَّة أبحراً

من الدّم لم تبصر لهنَّ سواحلُ

And they dragged in the land of al-Ghadiriya a sea

Of blood whose coasts were not seen for them

بيوم كيوم الحشر والحشر دُونه

أواخره مرهوبةٌ والأوائل

A day like the Day of Resurrection and the Resurrection is

Less feared, while its late and early (stages) dismay.

مناجيبُ غُلب من ذؤابة هاشمٍ

وآساد حرب غابُهنَّ الذوابل

Swords of defeat from the army of Hashim

And lions of war whose remnants the hyenas took away

إذا صارخُ الهيجا دَهاهم تلملمت

لهم فوق آفاق السماءِ جحافل

When the roaring (war) called them, companies

Gathered for them above the horizons of the sky

وإن غَيَّمت بالنقع شمت بوارقاً

لهم غربُها بالموت والدّم هاطل

And if it was clouded with gloom, dawns broke out

Whose west was killing and pouring blood.

وللضاريات الساغبات برزقها

قناهم بمستن النزال كوافِلُ

And for the birds inclining to get their sustenance

Their spears in the heat of battle were providers.

وفي أكبد الأبطال تُغرس سمرهم

ومن دَمها خرصانُهنَّ نواهل

And in the liver of heroes their spears are planted

And their swords from its blood are dripping wet.

لهم ثمرات العزّ من مُثمراتِها

فعزّهم بَين السماكين نازل

For them are the fruits of might from its orchards

So their might between the two skies comes and goes

ولم يُرَ يومَ الطفّ أصبرَ منهم

غداة بها للموت طافت جحافل

And the day of the Canal was not seen (to have) more patient than them

The next morning when armies of death circulated around it.

وما برحت تَلقى القنا بصدورها

إلى أن تروَّت من دماها العواسل

And it did not stop meeting the spears with their chests

Until the horsemen were saturated with its blood.

بنفسي بدوراً من سما مجد غالبٍ

هوت أُفلاً بالطعن وهي كوامل

By my life some rounds of the lofty glory of the victor

Fell to the stabbing and they were perfect.

وَمن بَعدهم يعسوب هاشم قد غدا

فريداً عن الدين الحنيف يقاتلُ

And after them, the helper of Hashim set out

Unique in fighting for the upright religion.

على سابحٍ لم تعتلق بغُباره

إذا ما جرى يومَ الرهان الأجادل

On a swimmer whom no dust clung to

When the day of the difficult test raced.

عَجِبتُ لمن لم تستطع فوق ظهرها

على حمله الغبرا له المُهر حامل

I wonder at who the dust beneath him

Could not carry despite his heavy load.

همامٌ له عزمٌ به الشمُّ في الوغى

تعود أعاليهنَّ وهي أسافلُ

A protector whose intention thereby the peaks

In the fray return inverted and low.

نَضى لقراع الشوس عضباً مُهنَّداً

تميلُ المنايا أينما هو مائل

He set out to clash with spears angrily

Wherever he tilts, death leans (towards it).

وغادرهم في غربه جُثَّماً على

الثرى وبهم شغلٌ من الموت شاغل

And he left them in his west, lying

On the ground preoccupied with death and its preocuppations.

وَما زال يُرديهم إلى أن قضى على

ظماً والمواضي من دماهُ نواهِل

And he did not stop finishing them off until

He had fulfilled the rights of the polished sword.

قضى بعد ما أعطى المهنَّدَ حقَّه

ولا جسم إلاَّ وهو للروح ثاكل

And there is no person but the soul preys upon him

And he left `Adnanites like the brood of a bird

وخلَّف عدناناً كأفراخ طائرٍ

تحوم عليها كلَّ حين أجادل

Which enemies attack all the time.

And at the Canal, some chained captives from the progeny

وبالطفِّ من عليا نزارٍ عقاثلاً

أُسارى ومن أجفانها الدمع هاملُ

Of `Ali the Victorious whose tears are flowing.

Enduring in the captivity without anyone to provide for them

بلا كافلٍ تطوي المهامهَ في السُرى

وأنَّى لها بعد ابن أحمد كافل

And how can they have a provider after the son of Ahmad?

Omayya rouse from the slumber of polytheism and look

أُميَّة هبِّي من كرى الشرك وانظري

فهل أُسرت للأنبياء عَفائل

Were captives taken from prophets' families?

Why are protected women and captives

فما لِلنساءِ المُحصنات وللسُرى

تجوبُ بها البيداءَ عيسٌ هوازِل

Roaming with you the barren lands, O `Isa, in small groups?!

And why the Messenger's daughters and his in-laws

وما لبُنيَّات الرسول ولِلظَما

بقفرٍ به للحرّ تغلي مراجل

And grief in a wasteland where fires for heat are kindling?!

So you fancy the pattering of clouds is rain dripping

فتحسب رَقراقَ السحاب بِموره

نطافاً ومنها الماء في الأرض سائِل

While water in the land remains flowing?

So they faint from the heat of ath-Thamaa while your riding beasts

فتجهش من حرّ الضماء بركبكم

ولم يك في استجهاشها الركبَ طائل

Faint without the fainting benefiting the riders?

Beware, O you masked by God, and expect a protector

ألا يا لحاكِ الله فارتقبي وغًى

يثور بها من غالب الغلبِ باسِل

Whose suppression cannot be overcome to rage

He is the Riser, the Guided who will take revenge

هو القائم المهديّ يُدرك ما مضى

من الثار فليهمل لك الثارَ هاملُ

For what is past so he is hoped for by the vengeful.

Wanted! Even if his vengeance is in the abdomen of death

طَلوبٌ فلو في مهجة الموت وِترُه

لشقَّ إليه الصدرَ والموت ناكل

He would split the chest and death is chewing.

With the edge of the sword he takes his due

ينالُ بحدّ السيف ما هو طالبٌ

وَيمضي ولو أنَّ المنيَّة حائل

And goes on even obstacles stand in his way.

Quenching with the blood of enemies from two sharp edges

شَروب بماضي الشفرتين دمَ العِدى

وأجسامَهم بالسمهريَّة آكل

And their bodies for the sword are left to eat

You made them fill the immensity of his determination, protection of you

أملتهم الكونينِ في فم عزمه

حنانيكَ ما في ذمّنا الدهرَ طائلُ

O our imam, there is no protector against what afflicts us

How long, may God shepherd you, has our waiting been?!

متى يا رعاك الله طال انتظارُنا

تقيم عمادَ الدين إذ هو مائل

You straighten the pillar of religion as it inclines?!

And you raid a people every radiant East of whom is

وتجتاح قوماً منهم كلّ شارقٍ

تغولكم شرقاً وغرباً غوائل

for you a calamity raiding East and West?!

And by you becomes the garden of religion thriving

وتصبحُ فيكم روضةُ الدين غضَّةً

وتزهر منكم للأنام الخمائل

And for people its perfect sights flourish?!

The sons of revelation have guided Haider in your praise

بني الوحي أهدى حيدرٌ مدحةً لكم

يدين لها قس بما هو قائل

To which a devout believer even if eloquent falls short

So excuse me if I fall short in praising you

فعُذراً فإنِّي باقل إن أقل بكم

مديحاً له قس الفصاحة باقل

For rhetoric even if eloquent falls short.

And may the Creator of creation send blessings upon you

وصلَّى عليكم خالقُ الخلقِ ما جرت

على رزئِكم سحبُ الدموع الهواطل

As long as the pouring tears flow down your cheeks!