1. The dawn of blood contested by darkness,
And the night of calamity followed by daybreak.

2. Indeed, the drinking of death has been prolonged,
So neither the swords awaken, nor the conscious awaken.

3. When they describe their wars to a people,
The joints and veins are paralyzed.

4. The water-bearers do not know with which cup
They go around, and which euphoric one they seek.

5. You see its drinkers dead when
The disasters and calamities afflict them.

6. It is as if the earth has inherited misfortunes,
So both its hungry and its deprived have become hopeless.

7. It continually inflicts upon its inhabitants
Severe hardships and overwhelming adversities.

8. It is as if all its inhabitants are merchants,
And all its lands are markets of death.

9. Indeed, the kingdoms have been shaken by what they suffer
From the available fate and what they have tasted.

10. Wars from which sinfulness recoils,
And immorality and corruption flee from.

11. Sacred laws and commandments are trampled by them,
Prohibitions and rights are violated.

12. Those who ignite them have mastered destruction,
And some of the skill of experts is destruction.

13. Righteousness and faith have declined in them,
And disbelief, defiance and transgression have prevailed.

14. So neither the God of the people is pleased with them,
Nor does the helper or preventer consent.

15. When its arguers unleash heavy rainfall,
The eagles are saddened and the ostriches collapse.

16. When it settles in the place of a star, it stirs anxiety
And its whispering, so the shy one plunges into it.

17. The slumberers spend the night apprehensive,
When darkness exposes its faint light to them.

18. The illusion of a specter awakens their worries,
Imagining for it either a banner or plaits.

19. When a group of horsemen set out from it,
A group stumbles in their passage.

20. Clouds of a melody of white and black
Let out from the death pangs what they let out.

21. They pour out death red, not by destiny
That can be averted, or by a fate that can be prevented.

22. Arrows of chaos aimed by minds,
For them in each mystery is an outlet.

23. Sometimes they rival the jinn in innovation,
And at other times they surpass them.

24. When causes are fragile,
The firm cause responds to them.

25. They flowed freely, so they came first,
And after them came the far-reaching future.

26. And others spew terrors, destiny flows
With its missiles, the free destiny.

27. They turn the truths of the earthquake into delusions,
And nullify what the catapult has claimed.

28. The returning calamity has carried from it
That which no being can endure.

29. When it hurls, the atmosphere is filled with fear,
And the earth is filled with death or inferno.

30. It inflicts two frenzied surge of blood and fire,
While people's safety between them is drowned.

31. One aspires to it and becomes addicted when called,
Even though the path is blocked and there is no path.

32. It has been protected from attackers by every conqueror
Who leads the regiments that he leads.

33. He organizes them and implements them quickly,
The storms and lightning bolts urge them.

34. When the earth's crevices are too narrow for them,
It soars through the sky, so the constriction expands.

35. And in the darkness there is a lingering disease,
And a deep wound in its conscience.

36. When the fleet causes a rupture in it,
Breach after breach occurs on its sides.

37. The cities of fire fly from it,
And ships in it collapse and sink.

38. What is hoped for in it is lost,
And the unlucky astute one perishes in it.

39. Its evil has afflicted the whole world,
So neither life is clear, nor is it palatable.

40. Afflictions have escalated, so there is no hope,
And assumptions have failed, so there is no certainty.

41. The years alarm us with horrors,
While we aspire for their crescent.

42. Era after era brings increasing evil,
So where is the good, and where is the graceful era?

43. Disasters of revelation were warned against it,
And the grave and the ancient house roared.

44. Can what the kingdoms desire be destined,
When the children of the world are fixated on frivolities?

45. An incurable disease has hardened our hearts,
And an anxiety in our conscience adheres.

46. And a startled one raves with delusions,
As the discernment and the sigh recur to him.

47. Until a people wished that poison were
In stimulants a potion and a drink.

48. In us is from the striker of calamities what neither
The flexible strong forearm can endure.

49. It is as if his wounds in every heart
Are mouths for death, or folds.

50. The hooting of the owl and crow has settled in us,
Will there be no end to the wailing and the squawking?

51. Every tomorrow calls to evil,
And every evening is a herald of evil.

52. We wished to be blind to troubles,
And for our hearing ducts to be sealed.

53. Hope in God and earnest expectation belie
What we fear of tribulations.

54. And truth prevails between terrifying
Pieces of news, its falsehood vain and futile.

55. I say to the one apprehensive of nations: patience,
For patience befits the afflicted.

56. When the tribulations of fate intensify one day,
Comfort and company therein are excellent.

57. Take it easy, for the caprices of fate are destiny,
And evil in the world is deep-rooted.

58. Perhaps God will provide us relief,
Changing what is feared into what is palatable.

59. Abundant blessings are from Him,
As is the subtle kindness and refined favor.

60. He wants to divert adversities from us,
And calamities recoil and awaken.

61. We hope for what befits Him, and we complain
To Him of harm that does not befit.