1. The malady of the people of the East is the weakness of resolve
And by this came the death of nations

2. O people of the East, you have no East but
Through commitment and piety of purpose

3. Why don't you uncover your gloom?
Do you like the gathering of clouds?

4. Dispel it and reveal its darkness
With illuminating strengths against the darkness

5. You betrayed the covenant and so you became sleepy
The efforts of the treacherous sleepy ones went astray

6. O people of the East, awake! For dreams
Have deceived you with false dreams

7. Verily, among the worst afflictions is your slumber
Against an awake enemy who did not sleep

8. Awaken the eyes and the mind together
While he proceeds like a sharpened blade

9. Do not think glory is something easy
It is in the struggles of those who persevere

10. This is how we are and this is our state
Among us there is none but the dejected and submissive

11. Of weak resolve, his heart is
Not steadfast in the throngs

12. O people of the East, for a lost glory
He who mourned its loss did not blame

13. Yesterday its citadel was impregnable
Towering above the summit of the stars

14.
Today it is like a crumbling edifice

15. Its honor buried by hands of decay
It grieves me, and grieves it, that

16. It was not ruined but by your hands
Renew it, protect its bounds

17. Repel from it the grasping hands
Raise up its structure until it is seen

18. Like it once was, the highest of summits
I fear the East will echo, from its sons,

19. The spilling of blood
And I see the death of the youth better for him

20. Than life between the fangs of disgrace
The East has become old and decrepit

21. My soul yearns for the elderly and frail
Honor him, O his sons, for

22. An old man is not pleased unless he is honored
Restrain yourselves from vain desires