1. When peace was born, did you nurture it before it was weaned?
Europe presented it to us, I wish Europe were barren!

2. An innocent child who drank from his mother's cup of pigeons,
I worry for him, torn limb from limb, scattered bones!

3. The winds of turmoil blew him away violently and darkness engulfed him.
So he died a martyr with no grave or tomb to be visited.

4. Peace is not a pillow as long as wreckage remains in this world.
People are just people whether in an age of light or darkness.

5. It's the same: one who lived in palaces or one who lived in tents.
The spilled blood doesn't quench the thirst of the thirsty when drunk.

6. The most pleasing thing to their eyes are corpses and skulls.
Man is made of the redness of blood and wine.

7. If the wolf learned order, it would be like man.
Both are beasts, the fangs seek food.

8. It's the same in killing: the lion's claw or the edge of the sword.
They said: Peace. I said: The tongue cannot be silent.

9. They made pledges, so I asked: Who can restrain the zealous guard?
With an olive branch or the sword of vengeance?

10. They said: Peace. I said: How many prophets fought
Neither the Vatican nor the Sacred House were saved from war.

11. Caliphs used to be crucified between Zamzam and Maqam.
Everyone gestures to peace with the eye of a sleepless wolf,

12. With his fleet before him and an army of gluttons behind.
The skilled lost his throne and reign does not last.

13. Fire and gas replaced spears and arrows.
The specter of death lurks over water and sand

14. Or hovering in the sky like a dove.
The tyrant of Rome will wear Caesar's crown in a dream!

15. Do you wish - God forbid - to delay your people a thousand years?
The age of emperors and great Caesars has passed.

16. Don't you see that power is now in the hands of the corrupt?
You have walked backwards while time marched ahead.

17. If the air of peace cleared, did you sigh and the clouds gathered?
God have mercy! Does the earth complain to you of the crowds?

18. The great fire of strife persists and the wound of the universe remains.
You challenged the times and became the mockery of people.

19. Alas, what did the sons of Ham gain?
Do not think the lairs of lions are easily stormed.

20. These are their strongholds - who do you have with the zeal?
Behold your enemies around the Suez if you seek strife.

21. Grasping Geneva and its rabble like bats.
They said: Blockade. And you surrendered saying:

22. "Say what Hudhaym's daughter has said."
They took provinces from Rome and it is in dire straits.

23. I wonder at an orchard that says to the desirous: This is sacrilege!
They colonized, then put on the veil, and she came out uncovered.

24. You threw tyranny at them and appeared in ostrich feathers.
Rome's evils flew, ready to fight back.

25. The people threatened with extinction, the army with terrible death.
The nations ask: Has Nero returned from the dead?

26. You shook the pillars of peace, so tasted the bitterness of defeat!