1. O wanderers in the darkness of earth, enough misfortune and confusion
Carry repentantly the corpses of your dead

2. And lament over the graves for long
Adorn them with perfume, wrap their remains

3. With carnation and jasmine
And chant around them the anthem of peace

4. To comfort in the grave every sad soul
Gather the little children to sing

5. With the tunes of purity and smiles
Save the dead from the clamor of war

6. To let them feel the beauty of peace
What is this conflict, O living ones? What is this fighting? What is this blood?

7. Why did the youth go in the prime of life as victims and why this enmity?
Is it the love of wealth? How strange are hearts! And what is the value of fleeting wealth?

8. Tomorrow is a journey, so will the dead be pushed away by money and the horror of shrouds?
Every living one tomorrow will be destined for the grave, so is there wealth in death?

9. Open these graves and bring forth
Tell us where are wealth and luxury?

10. Look here, on thorns and sand rest the rich and the poor
What difference do you see? Is there anything above the graves and the dead other than the silence of death?

11. How strange! What then drove this universe to death, harm and destruction?!
Why do nations provoke the greed of an arrogant whose eyes burn with fire?

12. The ecstasy of victory? How absurd are words! How lost are illusions and misguidance!
O deluded ones, enough madness and fanciful imagination

13. We are captives led by blind fate to the night of an unknown world
None of us can achieve deliverance

14. None of us other than the humiliated prisoner
Nights will always rule and we walk

15. No beseeching or crying avails
Death does not fear the roaring of cowards and what excites the weak

16. That is how death is forever victorious and we are the fallen, bewildered, frail
To it belongs victory and pride over us

17. So lament what you called victory
O disrupted world, war has revealed the victory of deaths

18. These graves have borne witness to their triumph, what a pity for those victims
Then what, O inhabitants of the grieving world? What have you gained from the fighting?

19. And have you reached the distant stars? Have you been saved from the grip of torment?
Have you overcome poverty, sorrows and disease, O deluded ones?

20. Have you been saved from afflictions or is life still temptation and madness?
Alas souls still live in their eternal sin

21. The wine of misguidance is still the hope of humans in the wretched existence
The song of sorrow still exists in the world sung by starving weak ones

22. In existence there are still bewildered sick ones forever afflicted by pains
Everything remains as it was before the war

23. Other than the orphans and the dead
Other than a shadow of melancholy and confusion walking on the edges of life

24. These orphans were yesterday the image of humanity and beautiful comfort
Under their fathers' shade they lived a life

25. That knew no taste but its sweetness
And they awoke from their dream as fate is war and the universe murder and fire

26. O children's eyes, do not ask the world why the adversity? And why the destruction?
For the sake of the fake glory this horror, if only their glory never was

27. For the sake of the deceitful victory the sweet world has turned into smoke and fire
These fallen ones on rock and thorns

28. As youth, young men and elders
How were they yesterday a vision they painted but did not last long?

29. O wretched ones on earth, O you who
Were not killed by the shells of fire

30. In vain you hope your loved ones will return
To homelands now

31. Look, here are soldiers returning one by one, their limbs shattered
Oh, if not for a remnant of life

32. They would not be counted among the living
In vain they search amidst this rubble

33. For their families and homes
In vain they ask about what the passersby

34. Know nothing of, what a fire was theirs
How they tasted the bitterness of black disappointment

35. After pains and ailments
Did they survive the jaws of death and captivity

36. Only to fall captive to misery?
O wretched ones, O groups of the living

37. In every village and countryside
It is time to regain our lost love

38. It is the key to our missing dream
What hatred is between us? What was

39. The secret of fighting and grudges?
O resentful ones, we are all

40. Prey in the hands of merciless misfortunes
We live in a world whose secret is unknown

41. It is an abyss, mysterious
The sun rises each day, so what is

42. Its essence? And why does it set?
What makes the stars appear in the sky at night?

43. What is the essence of this existence?
What is this space? And what is the secret

44. Of its darkness? Is there an end behind it?
We, are we in existence anything

45. But ignorance molded into human form?
What rules us in the universe?

46. What then is the secret of this tyranny?
Why do we tyrannize? And how can we forget the powers of the universe?

47. And that we are the weakest in existence?
Worms eat what we build and volcanoes and winds leave nothing of us

48. Why do we spend our lives in enmities
And live for years in despair and sorrow?

49. How can we forget that we live the life of a rose
That quickly dies and withers away?

50. Days will not last, time will not preserve
Any human body

51. Let us rid ourselves of this malice and hatred
And live in pure harmony