قَد أَصبَحَ القَلبُ عَنها كادَ يَصرِفُهُ

عَنها تَتَرُّعُ قَولٍ غَيَّرَ الشَعَرا

The heart has almost turned away from her

Words that changed poetry pour from her

يا زَيدُ يا سَيِّدَ النَجّارِ إِنَّ لِما

أَحدَثَ قَومُكَ في عُثمانَ لي خَبَرا

O Zayd, O chief carpenter, there is news

Of what your people did to Uthman

وَإِنَّ لي حاجَةً يا زَيدُ أَذكُرُها

لَم أَقضِ مِنها إِلى ما قَومِنا وَطَرا

And O Zayd I have a need to mention

I have not fulfilled it though our people wandered

إِنّي أَرى لَهُمُ زِيّاً سَيُهلِكُهُم

وَفِتيَةً لَم يُصيبوا فيهِمُ البَصَرا

I see them wearing a garment that will destroy them

And youths they did not look at wisely

يا زَيدُ هَل لَكَ فيهِم قَبلَ موبِقَةِ

تُسَعِّرُ النارَ في أَفنائِهِم سَعَرا

O Zayd, can you before a perishing

Ignite the fire in their courts aflame

يا زَيدُ أَهدِ لَهُم رَأياً يُعاشُ بِهِ

يا زَيدُ زَيدَ بَني النَجّارِ مُقتَصَرا

O Zayd, advise them with an opinion to live by

O Zayd, Zayd son of the carpenter self-contained

يا زَيدُ أَخرِج بَني النَجّارِ إِذ عَمِيَت

وَاِرفِض طَوائِفَ غَسّانٍ لَها الأُخَرا

O Zayd, bring out the carpenter’s sons when blinded

And reject the factions of Ghassan who came later