1. An individual may rise high amongst the crowd with specks of glory,
And become great until the crowd sees in the individual.

2. If he commanded his people with piety,
As a leader strengthens his army with his army.

3. For if that people were humiliated, he exalts them,
And if that people went astray, he guides them.

4. The father of the people - if he walked, they walked behind him,
Like a shadow, as long as he kept to the path.

5. So the leader of the people protects his flock,
And wards off the plots of his vicious enemies.

6. His mind is but an illuminated lantern,
Lighting their path with its burning flame.

7. The first condition is that he remains aloof,
From treachery in oaths and lying in promises.

8. But if a leader lacks fine morals,
Then that will not avail.

9. And few are the leaders of the East,
Those whom He has guided, who guide their hearts.

10. They have no greed for wealth,
Are they not content with the praise they earn?

11. Though they care not for themselves
The sincere devotion of the masses.

12. And ancestral pride is not a thing to boast of,
Only he boasts of glorious ancestors who has no glory himself.

13. Never have I seen a land more wasted than Iraq,
Or a people who exchanged right for wrong more than them.

14. They made a covenant of alliance, foolishly choosing
The wolf, and sought safety in that covenant.

15. The lambs upheld the contract they made,
And soon the lambs will see the results of that contract.