1. O my God! My heart trembles with deep anguish,
And I turn in repentance to You, full of fear.

2. In our homes lurk horrors and strife
Whirling about, while tears flow profusely between.

3. Blood is shed and victims lie scattered,
Earthquakes convulsed around us with great upheaval.

4. A structure collapsed and fell into ruins,
Still battered by raging storms and gales.

5. The world swooped down upon us suddenly,
Hordes advanced into our lands in droves.

6. As if they flocked towards a basin for them,
And their multitudes clamored for it covetously.

7. Beasts baring deadly fangs draw near,
While all hearts besides theirs quiver and shake.

8. As if havoc crouches waiting between its claws,
To pounce and deal death, swift and merciless.

9. O my God! My nation is torn by passions,
Weakened and clouded by vain desires and ornaments.

10. An astray leader guides its steps into wilds,
Thrusting it amidst storms and billows.

11. Faces pressed down into the dust disgracefully.
The vile took advantage, finding none to deter them,

12. Many a maiden’s honor was ripped apart by oppression,
Terrified amidst the calamities that uncovered her.

13. There in Bosnia is suffering and strife,
And in the land of Kashmir, agony and bombardment.

14. This is Palestine, bloodied and woe to us!
The vestiges of its glory disappear from it.

15. They fade behind the horizon; landmarks
Of its meadows’ shade and thickets.

16. The hearts of believers fly to its fields,
Rising up eagerly to meet its sanctuaries.

17. For Masjid Al-Aqsa yearning and longing stir,
Our deepest passions and sentiments.

18. In every land one calamity follows another,
And days loom bleak with evil and horrors.

19. Our nakedness was exposed and torn apart,
A plain of dignity and battlefields disgraced.

20. Events pass by as if they were
Idle tales told in vain and fictitious anecdotes.

21. O my God! Who will help Muslims as they slumber?
Neither sign nor Scripture has awakened them!

22. O my God! Help us and pour light amongst us,
When tightness has constricted the means and channels.

23. And make concordant hearts that rancor has divided,
For one day, even foes may show sympathy.

24. And grant us conviction filling our hearts,
That we may race to our fields and boundaries.

25. And send down upon us a mercy to cleanse
The sins we are bent on committing and repeating,

26. And rid us of our misdeeds, so repentance
May awaken one heedless of matters to reckoning,

27. Then legions will surge forth from our ranks
Brandishing weapons, ardent and zealous,

28. Bearing our Lord’s message for the world,
Debating its guidance sympathetically.

29. Marching in unison as if His troops
Were pillars of a building, crawling or mounted.

30. Then send down victory and mercy, O my God,
When resolve in the battlefields remains steadfast.