1. O passerby in the Levant grieving
Why are you so worried, what awaits you?

2. Why this restless wandering
What news and books do your bags contain?

3. I see blood flowing from their sides
The ground around you is crimson and painted

4. Listen to hear the sorrows held in their folds
I hear grief moaning within

5. Unburden the anguish of sorrow like fire on my liver
And empty my heart for another blaze to ignite

6. This one carries Egypt's rights
And that one fulfills what Syria owes

7. Both bear momentous affairs on each side
Sublime goals and vigilant companions in every eye

8. The hand of evil has wreaked havoc on both nations
And let loose the cycles of fate upon the two peoples

9. Horde follows horde in succession
Led by one faction against another rival faction

10. The space is too narrow for any soul to walk
Without stumbling backward over its steps

11. It's as if each man has spies among his own limbs
About to pounce at him from his eyes or leap up

12. No hopes or fears can grip a man
When souls are bent by a life of dread throughout

13. One day evil takes its dying breath
With no good in it, while the next day looms ahead

14. O nation in the Levant's expanses made desolate
By meager living and a land of ruin for adversities

15. A vicious hand has felled its verdant boughs
The lush gardens are but firewood in its storm

16. Difficult, gloomy, from its fingers flows
The ruin of nations and cries of woe and war

17. When it touches the ground only its edges blacken
After sunshine, and water and grass are gone

18. What have you suffered from those ungrateful people
The tyrants of the East, their favors and gifts withheld

19. They thought civilization was theirs alone to keep
Never to extend beyond their borders however derived

20. That we are confused misguided nations
Remaining in the darknesses of ignorance adrift

21. The times cried out in horror at their crimes
And generations tasted the bitter fruits of their morals

22. They discarded your covenant in a fierce tempest
Beyond control or hope of reclaim

23. It flew off so not a feather remained attached
Despite the winds and the clouds' refrain

24. Protection is gone and wrongdoing lays waste your side
Where are the protectors? Where is the compassion and zeal?

25. Where are the promises that captivated those among you
Of proud souls and discernment that persevere?

26. Do not wonder when you see an appointed time betrayed
For deception is politics' very nature and name

27. What stability or tranquility can you expect
When wealth is plundered and lives robbed away?

28. O nation of might, where lies your might?
O nation of glory, where is your glory and merit?

29. Do not accept tyranny, safeguard your sanctities
For sanctities are what the Arabs forbid

30. I see the smeared nations preoccupied
With grave affairs, no jesting or play

31. Either honor in life defending from disgrace
Or death and epitaphs will pave the way

32. Woe to the neighbors who have been deceived
To suffer worldly blows and afflictions cruel and dire

33. I wish upon them what of fate's disasters they've tasted
And loathe what bitter fruits of life they've tried

34. If they were just the blows would not have reached them
Nor would worries and toil have quenched their fire

35. The arrogant conqueror should not be surprised if they rebel
For wrath is part of their very nature and fiber

36. I am like a brother to the crying orphans
And to the barefoot destitute who have found life bitter

37. I yearn and pity though I've no wealth or children there
No family or lineage in Levant to deliver

38. No passion stirs me for Syria though I seek it out
But Islam and dignity spur me to persevere

39. Civilization we know is God's religion
No injustice or turmoil in its clear unmodified texts

40. People are equal family and brethren
In all things, neither head nor tail to inject

41. Justice if they rule, truth if they seek
Goodness if they act, righteousness if they aim

42. If Umar's rule veered into crooked lines
The staffs of India would straighten and adjust

43. Judgment is God's alone, no partners has He
Verily His is the dominion, authority and triumph undefiled

44. He established for mankind an exalted religion
Before which idols and statues are humbled and toppled

45. Tell the kings to wake from their delusions
The clouds of blindness are lifted and veils split

46. The people will not endure the disgrace of coercion
And rights will not be usurped by the hand of tyranny

47. You have ignited an unjust war filling the earth
The chaos of creeds - pure folly with no cause or basis

48. If one brazen horde clashes with another
Another horde will battle them fiercely head on

49. They have cast millions into its depths as fuel
To fulfill their vows whether counted or appraised

50. Every reckless charlatan sacrificing his nation
In a desolate wasteland he kindles and fans

51. Blood flowed with no one extending a hand
No kinsman to check it or dam to inhibit its advance

52. Their treasuries were depleted so they manufactured new paper money
Blown by the winds but it is no more than scraps

53. With it they exacerbated the ignorant, futile war
The like of which gold itself could not curb or diminish

54. Its value declined over days until
Dirt and wood became greater and more prized

55. A thousand units of it could purchase
The lowest and meanest goods that are bought and hauled

56. If it left people or its collapse came about
Then the hardship of living and toil would depart

57. O people of Syria, does anyone rejoice in Syria
While the Nile grieves on your account, downcast and grim?

58. Protect the country, and be patient as a group
Who will not grasp the wing of disgrace if defeated

59. Leave Faisal's rule to what his destiny dictates
Today none triumphs except the fleet shadow-piercing steed

60. The object of aspirations has become those pacts preserved
No other covenants will fulfill or make good their loss

61. He donned the crown only to quickly discard it
Roaming desolate lands an outcast and dispossessed

62. Those were the dreams and hopes of one now aged
Flying away with neither aspirations nor vigor remaining

63. If he startles the Nile and Jordan by his actions
Then the Euphrates and the banks of the Tigris will be struck with awe

64. Rouse Iraq and the people of Iraq now lofty
Their tumult and continual uproar and fervor

65. Hope in them has been jolted so matters are disturbed
Chaos reigns throughout and rupture splits across

66. Baghdad watches while her core trembles
Her eyes welling over, heart pounding with anticipation

67. Where is Harun al-Rashid and his reign long past?
Where are the protectors and the noble youth?

68. Abode of Peace, disasters have grieved you with sorrow
When you lost them, did that or passion's fever shake you?

69. Where is the civilization they protected and raised
With might and justice, a stronghold and towering pillar?

70. They brought in an Occidentalism but its emergence
Was not seen in the East before its meteors blazed a trail

71. The ways of homeland and lineage they did not cease
Hunting prey in the horizons spreading far and wide

72. All the peoples on their land are prey to conquer
And everything their hands have seized is booty robbed

73. Oppression walks baiting us step by step
To pounce upon a blooming meadow where the dog roams free

74. Rise, O sons of the East! No sleep or play
Until power is regained or grasped any way

75. What can you expect but to be surrounded
With no refuge or escape left for you one day?

76. Be as one nation through time unified
Let not the West look to see you divided in war

77. Religion is God's not Islam to prohibit
Life's path nor statues and crosses from before

78. Why should politics divide us and distance
What we should join when united and draw near?

79. Discord has tempted us until it sapped our strength
And toppled the East with its harvests far and wide

80. It takes one nation chasing another
And one kingdom on the heels of the next in its pull

81. Those vultures feasting on peace were quickened
By nothing but the prey - else they would not strive

82. The West is exposed, its schemes manifest
No longer concealed by doubts or ambiguities' veil

83. No excuse for the people if I say rise and they refuse
Prudence calls for mobilizing and thought is focused

84. March, O sons of the East, in brotherhood's shade so you may
Succeed, and perhaps the rift will mend