1. Hoist your sails, O fleet,
The one who attacked Istanbul

2. Does she attack lions in their dens?
Her lair is filled with ferocious beasts

3. She sailed towards the Dardanelles to open it
But found the Dardanelles formidable

4. Do not think raids are tourist trips
So discard your calculations, it is nonsense

5. They boast ignorantly of their numbers
Let them increase, for the noble are few

6. They wandered confused, impossible for them to return
They stopped, impossible for them to enter

7. Towards them what was not in their calculations
And ahead of them an unknown future

8. You saw it as the sky clouded over
And you saw how mountains disappear

9. And God alone knows
When their anchorage will be and how things will turn out

10. Each hopes for good fortune from behind them
But the unseen is that which is hoped for

11. When will she unload the burdens of the world?
Life is but a dream and interpretation

12. We spend life disputing survival
And tomorrow all will be held accountable

13. Truth will not be known except through ordeal
And the transmitted will match the rational

14. And it will cry out in surrender to the command
That revelation told the prophets

15. So leave the son of the world for now in his heedlessness
Until he awakens, for he is accountable