على من بالهدى يا ابن الإمامه

تحيل ومن بعصبته المضامه

O you who are guided by the Imamate, how can you

Be tranquil while your tribe is being wronged?

أتستلقى الأبوة عنه يوما

وتنتبه القرابة والرحامه

Will you one day renounce your fatherhood

And kinship and womb relations awaken?

إذا لم يحم عن شبل هزبر

أتحمي عن أداحيها النعامه

If you do not protect the cub of a gazelle

Will you protect the ostriches in the wilderness?

وما ائتمن الإله سواك فيه

فلا تأمن على مرعى مسامه

And none but you has God entrusted with this

So do not feel secure in a feeding ground.

شكا الإسلام من قوم رموه

بافك وادعوا فيه الزعامه

Islam complained of a people who struck it

With nonsense and claimed leadership over it.

وقال فلا جزاه الله خيرا

زعيمهم ولا رؤى عظامه

And it said may God not reward their leader well

Or let him see his bones after death.

بأن عبادة الأصنام حق

وإن لكل معبود كرامه

Saying that worshipping idols is right

And that each idol has prestige.

وأن الله تعرفه رجال

وليس لهم فيعرفهم علامه

And that God is known through men

And they have no mark by which to know Him.

وقال لأنه من شاء منا

يقيم بنفسه ربا أقامه

And it said whoever wishes among us

Can make for himself a god if he wishes

فيعرفه وما المبنى يدرى

ببانيه فما أقوى اقتحامه

And know it though the building knows not

Its builder, how mighty is its defiance!

يصرح فوه فض الله فاه

بتعطيل يبيح لك اصطلامه

It pronounces unashamedly the nullification

That makes lawful for you to destroy it.

فحذر منه والعنه لترضى

به البارى فقد بارى ذمامه

So beware of it and curse it to please

The Creator for its protective covering has torn.

فلا والله ما يثنى عليه

سوى رجلين اما ذو سلامه

By God, none praises it

Except a fool or a cursed villain

غبي أو شويطين رجيم

تزندق فهو يركب ما أمامه

Who vilifies - so it rides whatever is in front of it.

Will you praise one who says I have made my God

أتحمد من يقول صنعت ربي

عليه لعنة الله المدامه

Upon him be God's eternal curse.

For by praising him you invite

فإنك بالثناء عليه تدعو

الا ان تعبد الصور المقامه

Others to worship idols.

For worshipping idols is a thing

لان عبادة الأصنام شيء

تراهم خير طرق الاستقامه

You see as the best path of righteousness.

Did you not see how it responded to the words of Noah

ألم تر رده لمقال نوح

فكم في ذمه ليغوث لامه

So how much blame did it attract from the lamenter.

And as for the people of Hud, it said they succeeded

واما قوم هود قال فازوا

بما علموه في دار المقامه

In what they knew in the house of eternity.

And it denied the curse which followed them

وانكر لعنة قد اتبعوها

على الدنيا وفي يوم القيامه

In the world and on Judgement Day.

So men rose for their Lord against it

فقام لربهم منا رجال

لهم فيه على الحق استقامه

And they had truth and steadfastness.

Grant victory for His religion over its enemies

وهب لنصر ملته عداه

وقاموا في ضلالته مقامه

And they took a stand in its misguidance.

So we said to be fair ask about this

فقلنا منصفين سلوا بهذا

رجال العلم تنتقدوا كلامه

The people of knowledge and examine its words.

The righteous did not hesitate

فاما الصالحون فما تلكوا

ولا قالوا نخاف من الملامه

Or say we fear blame.

And they issued the judgement they knew and feared

وافتوا بالذي علموا وخافوا

وعيداً نال من رضى اكتتامه

A threat that reached the one pleased with its concealment.

As for others they shepherded matters

واما غيرهم فرعى أمورا

وآثرها على يوم القيامه

And preferred them over Judgement Day.

And Sheikh Ahmad said to me my friend

وقال الشيخ أحمد لي صديق

وكل منه يفرط بالسلامه

And everyone who neglects peace with him.

So I said God is more deserving than your friend

فقلت الله عند سواك أولى

وأجدر من صديقك بالكرامه

Of precedence and honor.

Will you please him by angering God in ignorance

أترضيه بسخط الله جهلا

وتأمن مكر ربك وانتقامه

And feel safe from your Lord's cunning and vengeance?

Your friend may die while you live

صديقك قد يموت وأنت حي

وقد يبقى فيحرمك اهتمامه

Or live but deprive you of his care.

The day is not equal in weight

نهار الشرق ليس يقوم وزنا

بقيراط الفضيحة والسخامه

To an atom of disgrace and sin.

What principles will remain if you are stripped

من الدين انسخلت ومن ذويه

علام حصلت بعدهما علامه

Of religion and its people - what mark will remain?

Over a world too distant for you to see it

على دنيا بعيد ان تراها

وان حصلت فما تسوى قلامه

And if attained it is not worth a wound.

You have been excessive in wronging yourself

لقد أسرفت في ظلم لنفس

لديك الا تداركت الظلامه

Unless you correct the darkness.

A people will laugh at you when you weep

ستبكي حين يضحك منك قوم

وتندم حين لا تغني الندامه

And regret when regret will not avail.

You heard the protected's every depravity

سمعتم في المهيمن كل موذ

وشاركتم بتلك الابتسامه

And shared in that smile.

And your selves did not disdain in God's cause

ولم تأنف لكم في الله نفس

ولا حسر امرؤ منكم لثامه

Nor did any man of you grieve his protector.

No by God I will not claim victory

فلا والله لا ادع انتصارا

لديني أو يرى يومي حمامه

For my religion or see my day as a battlefield.

Even if I were alone amongst enemies

وإن أك مفردا بين الأعادي

فقد تحمي البنانة بالقلامه

The fingers can protect against wounds.