Or is shedding tears caused by being far from the beloved;
Cools down the heat of the day of separation?
O rider, the steps of whose mount are firm!
And paves the old plain, trotting and swiftly.
Give my regards to that grave which is in Najaf.
And in it is he who is the best among Arabs and non-Arabs.
Make your motto humbleness before Allah, and call;
The best successor and the nearest in likeness to the best Prophet, and say:
On the day of Ghadir Khum he had kept them apart from this situation,
When Ahmad, the guide, climbed up the saddles of camels,
And told the people who were near around him,
Those who had resided in front of him, to the audience and those who were the hearers of his words:
O’ ‘Ali! Get up since I have been ordered to;
Convey a message to people and I am worthy of conveying a message,
You are the only spouse of the Prophet’s daughter, al-Zahrā' (a.s.),
Whom you protect and you are the father of her noble children,
The children, who strive in the path of Allah,
And are the arms of each other for the cause of Allah,
And believe in Him and work for Him.
They lead toward development and perfection that when the darkness of aberration befalls,
They brightly guide better than any shooting star.
May the greeting of the Lord of the Throne in all times;
Be upon the son of Fātimah, he who repels sorrows!
On his [‘Ali’s] two sons, one of whom was killed by a fatal poison,
And the other was buried with a dusty [bloody] face.
After him was the pious one who was mostly in prostration;