1. Stop in Tokyo and tour Yokohama
And ask both the towns, how fares the Day of Judgment

2. The hour has come near, that people were warned of
Its conditions have occurred and the signs

3. Stop, contemplate the battlegrounds of the people, and look
Do you see any pillars remaining of Aad's abodes?

4. The land was made to cave in with their dwellings sinking down
And its inhabitants were wrapped up from settling down

5. Death circulated in both the cities
And time brought ruin upon the people utterly

6. The eye cannot see where they roamed
Other than rubble, ruins or wreckage

7. They were seized by graves from the earth’s depths
In the imagination, their depth is a thousand cubits

8. You would think the dead in its surroundings can perceive
The Trumpet's blow so that it may recollect his bones

9. They were at the prime of life in the morning and expired by dusk
Their spirit departed and they packed up their belongings

10. Trust in whatever you desire from your time except
The company of livelihood or the proximity of safety

11. The glory of the East at its peak of honor
Perplexes the eyes with its arrogance

12. Its army betrayed it, though armored on land
And its fleets, though bladed in the sea

13. If you contemplated it one evening frothing
You'd find it in the hands of fate a bet

14. It shook it a shake that crashed down the thrones
of Buddha and shook its pillars

15. We seek refuge in Allah from that torrent
Which decimates cities wherever it goes

16. Whoever saw hail blowing a blowing gale
And a hot wind dispersing like cloud masses

17. And smoke whirling wings with wings
Wherein its confines cannot be seen

18. And an onslaught as the wolf descended
Howling in every place and the hyenas clamoring

19. The earth and heaven came with a flood
That makes Noah's flood a forgotten thing

20. You see the ocean raging until it crosses the land
And its waves take on flags

21. Seething with intense tumult like an army
Whose encampment the blustery gale demolished

22. Noah's ship would seek refuge in Noah
If it saw it, and grasp onto its helm

23. I imagined them as magic spells
From the clanging of fate felled unconscious

24. And whoever lagged behind them
Thought that was the night of Resurrection while he slept

25. Were those shining glimmers or revelations
From old wounds tightly bound?

26. The earth finds relief wherever blood was shed
The relief of body from the bloodletting

27. Why does it not shake from what little
Corruption it was carrying and darkness it was loaded with?

28. Whenever it was worn by the people of an era
It witnessed their deep immoral sins

29. They equaled in harm, evildoing, crime
Bloodlust, and shedding blood

30. This life has attired us
In the world of evil, fear, and vermin

31. That was of its pleasures: triumph and ambition
While this is its weapon: the scimitar

32. It loved from Usamah valor and conquest
So it named its son Usamah

33. They inherited evil nature from it
But the son of sinners is even worse calamity