1. Is it from recalling an uncertain past,
That you've become depressed, crying like one in agony?

2. Or is it from remembering ignorant folk,
Who oppress with injustice those who invite to the faith?

3. They do not cease from lewdness when commanded,
And treachery in them is a path that cannot be trusted.

4. Do they not see how God has humiliated their gathering?
For we were angry for Uthman ibn Maz'un.

5. When they insult without fearing the consequences,
With stabbing, striking, and unbound beating.

6. So we will repay them, unless he dies soon,
With full measure, undeceived recompense.

7. Or they desist from the matter they have undertaken,
And accept from us afterwards, the lesser due.

8. And we prevent injustice from one who seeks to wrong us,
With every banished fist, bound tight.

9. And caustic words, as if salt mixed in,
With which the malady is cured, away from the insane.

10. Until unyielding men are content,
After hardship, with gentleness and softness.

11. Or they believe in a wondrous, revealed scripture,
Sent down upon a prophet like Moses or Jonah.

12. Which comes with a clear command, without crookedness,
As is evident in the signs of Ya Sin.