1. The sun has set, leaving behind
A twilight with thin sky fringes

2. And to the beholder’s eye, if heedless,
It seems the glow he longs for is a blaze

3. As if this night is a black robe
And the stars in it, rents

4. They fell asleep as the torrent nearly swept them away
And the night is dark and slumber deep

5. Night and morn pulled each other
Until dawn emerged with a torn shirt

6. Nations march ahead together
In droves, with steps now wide and now narrow

7. Not equal their speed and their slowness
With airplanes high and camels low

8. One group chose ascetic wisdom
Another group chose a life of plenty

9. The people at the two rivers chained
The people at the two rivers moaning

10. Far between the fettered people
Complaining of harm and the people freed

11. The outstretched hand longingly awaits
One coming from Iraq, but no glow appears

12. Are you loyal to the wronged people’s rights
Or do the weak people have no rights?

13. Do not think the unjust are spared
From vengeance that will come for the unjust

14. I will ask on the day of their downfall, in their faces
This is the traitors' reward, so taste it