If you do not know what death is, then look
at Hāni' and Ibn 'Aqīl in the marketplace.
Look at a hero whose face the sword has covered with wounds
and another who fell dead from a high place.
The command of the governor struck them down,
and they became legends for those who travel on every road.
You see a corpse whose color death has changed
and a spattering of blood that has flowed abundantly,
A young man who was even more bashful than a shy young woman
yet was more decisive than the polished blade of a two-edged sword.
Is Asmā' riding in peace a mount that moves at walking pace
While Madhhij seeks vengeance against him?
All Murād throng around him. Each one of them,
whether a questioner or a questioned, is apprehensively watchful.
If you don not avenge your two brothers,
then be harlots, satisfied with little.
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