1. O West, your place will be held to account
Before a just judge who knows secrets and reckons

2. And do not, O West, hurt the East in spirit
For time overturns in each day

3. Have you not seen that the earth brings forth her vegetation
Beautifully then the winds fold it and it withers

4. But it refuses humiliation in this way
So it brings forth growth again and resists

5. You sufficed us when you were a fountain in the cradle
Of freedom for countries, if they are granted

6. We served you in that turmoil and you wore
The clothes of innocence, from blood while it pours

7. And we have in it nothing, as it is, a she-camel
Nor a camel we hasten to while it escapes

8. But we came to you when you promised us
And we said, may God forbid you were lying

9. Enough of us, we have become Iraq and our minds
Deceived by mirage, playing tricks of the sun

10. The washing of the dead has flowed on the ground
And it has drowned in grief as moss grew

11. This one is hurt and that one, as you see
Both are scarred by fortune and mourning

12. And this one sips water while the water is sweet
A companion to this one, gave drink and sipped

13. If this is the age of luxury
Then where is the ease of the East and the East is weary

14. And I with rising am like it
Yet it is just in chains and tortured

15. The poor wretch has smashed as he whimpered
From the universe, but the foxes tore it apart

16. He groans with no burdens as his head grayed
And in the prime of life that head is graying

17. Enough of the East's affliction, arrows that hurt
Their shafts wound the healthy and cripple

18. And the intense calamities that have befallen him
Have erased in him the lights, bringing darkness

19. Today he aims for the heights, questioning
On paths that will guide him and bring near

20. So be, O enlightened West, our leader
To good, for the lands have those consequences

21. And O East, stand still and follow your friend and learn
For surely in the carpet of thorns you will toss and turn

22. And open your cocoon for sleep brings no benefit
And it is nothing but disease and misfortunes