1. Yes, they have raged before me..and I will rage
So I start with you now as long as I start

2. Yes, you were once the star of the universe and faded away
But now you are the one that does not fade away

3. Proof that the entire earth, all its wolves
Worked together against your blood flow..and became rancid

4. Every wound they opened
Remains pure so that every oppressed may perform ablution with it!

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Yes, they have raged before me..and I will rage

6. So I start with you now as long as I start
The world gathered against you in its night

7. With all its beasts..they wreaked havoc and muddled
Those who wouldn’t dare to overstep in dreams grew bold

8. And those who wouldn’t dare prepare in delusions prepared
And armies erupted that only God knows

9. Who provoked them..they didn’t arouse or rally
Except that it’s hatred upon the land of Sumer

10. Because its soil is the origin of civilizations
Because the heir of light shines like it

11. And the mine of this like that does not rust!
America tries with all its armies

12. To provoke the unseen, and the unseen mocks
And they missed that the devils themselves

13. If asked to do what they dared
Because the course of the earth..God alone

14. Is responsible for it..He elevates, empties, and fills!
And glory to the Lord of the universe..His kingship

15. Is not shared, and the justice of His law is not delayed!
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16. Peace on Baghdad..there is no sun like its sun
Nor its darkness, a house that glitters

17. Nor an oasis in earth like plenty Baghdad
Nor another Tigris that the soul thirsts for!

18. And no shade but its shade we take shelter in
And none but its brilliance in winter we wrap ourselves with!

19. You are surrendered so there is no refuge on earth but you
And no hand on earth but yours we cling to

20. How strange, O love of both Euphrates’
When did the wings of those who abandoned you rest?

21. And how can you see coolness in the water and be sated?
And how can you taste flavor in food and delight?

22. And how can those who were distanced from you sleep at night?
And how can those who disavow you ward off calamity?!

23. Whenever all the earth was straitened for us
On a palm frond we would lean!

24. So how, with a wound in our guts, do we roam
Lands in which the wound of strangers is provoked?!

25. *
Peace on Baghdad.. I grew addicted to her worries

26. So nothing in it surprises anymore
And I grew addicted to her complaints, and I grew addicted to her patience

27. And I grew addicted to her as a wound that disdains humiliation!
And here it is, bleeding but stubborn

28. And from it the arteries of the jealous flow!
Proof that the entire earth, all its wolves

29. Worked together against your blood flow, and became rancid
Every wound they opened remains pure

30. So that every oppressed may perform ablution with it!