1. Among us are those who built not for their people
Though the people's children did no harm, they opposed

2. They offer no guidance, nor heed their guide
So ignorance and misguidance is their fate

3. They were like Luqaym among his clan
When 'Aad were destroyed for what they began

4. Or like Qudar who followed and then
Led people astray till destruction came

5. A house is built on pillars set deep
With no pillars standing the roof cannot keep

6. When pillars and beams come together as one
They accomplish what they together had done

7. When men of merit and lineage convene
Their affairs succeed guided rightly I ween

8. Mankind cannot prosper lacking leadership
Nor succeed when ignorance takes precedence

9. With the rightly-guided affairs come to rights
Else with evil men all things lead to blights

10. When the leadership of a people goes astray
Their affairs decline and worsen each day

11. The mark of misguidance is that the mass assents
When resolving affairs though fools represent

12. What guidance when you're among a band
For whom guidance is shackled, banned?

13. They gave their reins to ignorance leading their way
So all were by misguidance led astray

14. Time to move where goodness can be found
Though kin be near and homeland abound

15. Salvation, if you've vision, is to flee
The harm of misguidance - leave, break free

16. The good grows the more you meet with it
While evil diminishes if you limit it