1. Shine like the dawn, without you there is darkness
O faces of contentment, peace be upon you

2. And brighten the youth gathering with good tidings
For it is a gathering held for the rightly guided

3. Listening to it was pleasant for the attentive consciousness
As speech was pleasant for the eloquent speaker

4. And guidance was manifested in it, beliefs were lofty
Contentment spread, and order prevailed

5. In it souls met in the pleasure of God
With no other desire but His pleasure

6. Sitting as if they were precious pearls
In bodies as if they were goblets

7. God has bought them from us with a generous ransom
He shelters them, they are generous people

8. We are God's soldiers in public and in secret
And God's soldiers are not blamed

9. He has made for us in affliction fortresses around us
And for us at times of distress, a refuge

10. We seek to support His true religion
Loyal to His religion, holding firm

11. Paying attention as if we are wakeful
Resolute as if we are holding fast

12. And in it we befriend the innocent in truth
Even if the warner is hateful to mankind

13. Perhaps hostility and forgiveness do not benefit
When blame does benefit in souls

14. People have transgressed limits, so feet
Race to trample them

15. Disbelief has spread, protected in the Abode of Perdition
And idols' eras have been revived

16. And the tyrant becomes victorious, troops around him
Mighty, flags waving over him

17. Falsehood and gambling have spread in the land
And wine spreads on it and pens write about it

18. Corruption has soared and evil has intensified
Harm has spread and discord has intensified

19. This land is aTester's whip
The weak have no food in it but to suffer

20. Most people distribute goods in it
With injustices, as if they are cattle

21. These are the hearts of the wilderness, mirrors
Sins and misdeeds have tarnished them

22. The sins that have afflicted them are malignant
And the clouds of disobedience are high upon them

23. Filled with lust, arrogance, deception
Delusion, ordeals, and gloom

24. And passions have besieged them, so they were struck
With the malady of passions, and miserable is the malady

25. These houses' sanctity is largely violated in them
And kinship ties are severed

26. And the slanderer propagates lies
The busybody carries tales

27. Tongues that contain poison like snakes
In them is softness and nakedness

28. Scathing as if they are embers
Cutting as if they are blades

29. How many innocent souls have they harmed with their slander
Who had no protector or blame throughout their life

30. These roads are markets for forbidden acts
And crowds of disobedient people gather in them

31. You see much that grieves the heart, so how much grief in our hearts
In them the beggars yell and the orphans sob

32. And the laborer is driven like a camel for work
Sadness covers his face

33. And the rich wander arrogantly amongst the people
And the rulers are harsh to them

34. And places of frivolity announce vices
Pens write about them

35. And projects are difficult, construction is rare in them
And demolition plentiful

36. The wealthy are invited to them and appeal to him
He who is reckless with his money rushes to them

37. Confident in life though it is a delusion
Arrogant because of money though it is debris

38. And prostitutes move freely, the old man is tempted
By seducing them and the boy enticed

39. Oh what ruinous things in the company of palaces
Against which taking precautions does not bring safety

40. I wish I were a wandering nomad, my home the desert
My clothes rags, impoverished and destitute

41. My food plants of every kind
My dwelling caves and shelters

42. My friends the stars and birds therein
And my family the howling winds and sands

43. My destination is He who has guided me
My quest and my prayers are to Him and fasting

44. The wilds are like vast gardens, dwelling in their shade is pure
And ascending in them is sublime

45. No sin or disgrace is in them
No estrangement or retaliation is in them

46. No lawful thing made prohibited in fear of God
Nor prohibited thing made lawful

47. So perform God's sacraments and fear God
O people

48. Teach your family beneficial, comprehensible knowledge
Teach the child what purifies him

49. Before he reaches puberty
Teach the girl what protects her chastity

50. So the vile refrain from harming her
Teach people everything that brings glory

51. And refinement to their worth and respect
Teach women religious truths, for fantasies have misled them

52. Teach her order and effort in her home and responsibilities
Teach her caring for her child

53. And how to nurture and inspire
Teach her kindness to her husband

54. And appreciation and reverence
Teach her caution regarding what

55. The days have assaulted her with
Do not tempt her with inferior goods

56. Which bondmaids swaggered with
How can women be saved from evil

57. When their faces are not covered by a wrap?
Modesty has become the rarest trait

58. And lewdness and crimes have spread
A woman's chastity is her concealment, protection

59. And refusal, chasteness and modesty
Teach the Algerian nation, for knowledge

60. Is its guide to goodness and rein
Teach it an easy religion from God

61. With no coercion or compulsion
An honest messenger propagated it among people

62. A rescuer of people, compassionate and revered
He came while people were in misguidance and deviance

63. He guided them to his straight path, so they became upright
A language whose letters are melodious notes

64. Enchanting, as if they are tunes
Eternal, impervious to extinction

65. Arabic, flawless in its composition
Sound for studying like marble

66. Its splendors appeared while still raw
Dazzling the meadows with eloquence

67. While tents vanished over the palaces
And guard your right for it has been marked for pillage

68. Do not sleep regarding your right, do not sleep
Direct the face of your people to noble goals

69. They are its objectives and we are the arrows
And make religion the leader and imam

70. Nothing leads like religion leads
Everything the son of Adam institutes perishes

71. While what God institutes endures
The foundations of disbelief will surely collapse

72. Ephemeral, while Islam eternalizes!