1. أَلا أَبلِغ مُعاوِيَةَ بِن حَربٍ

    فَلا قَرَّت عيونُ الشامِتينا

    Lo, tell Muawiya son of Harb:

    So may the eyes of those who gloat never find joy.

  2. قَتَلتُم خَيرَ مَن رَكِبَ المَطايا

    وَخَيَّسَها وَمَن رَكِب السَفينا

    You slew the best of those who rode mounts

    and tamed them, and of those who boarded ships,

  3. وَمَن لَبِس النِّعالَ وَمَن حَذاها

    وَمَن قَرأَ المَثانيَ والمئينا

    and of those who wore sandals and those who made them,

    and of those who recited the oft-repeated verses and the hundred-verse surahs.

  4. إِذا اِستَقبَلتَ وَجهَ أَبي حُسَينٍ

    رَأَيتَ البَدرَ راقَ الناظِرينا

    When you looked upon Abu Husayn's face,

    you saw the full moon delighting onlookers.

  5. لَقَد عَلِمَت قُرَيشٌ حَيثُ كانَت

    بِأَنَّكَ خَيرُهُم حَسَباً ودينا

    Quraysh surely knew, wherever they were,

    that you are the best of them in ancestral honor and faith.