1. I see the ravages of ignorance creeping,
Its wailing has torn my hearing from my country.

2. I see it dragging its tail over our heads,
While every heart continues praying for its flames.

3. For death is sweeter than an ignorant life,
Its losers have perished, and its grievers lament.

4. The grave is more fragrant than spacious palaces
Whose misery is vinegar, and whose companion is woe.

5. Palaces like faded moons that rained melancholy,
Sprouting the leaves of tribulations like a whip.

6. Will you be content with this life, O best nation,
While its vigilance never sleeps from its suitor?

7. Does rest taste sweet while our hearts
Are but an ember, and the afflicted, their share?

8. O God, You call us to excellence with commands,
However much it calls us to deterrence, we answer it.

9. Your mercy, O Lord, blinds from guidance,
Countries, in which are its hero and its wise one.

10. My loved ones, has the falsehood of our time deceived you,
And your livers melt from Hellfire's heat?

11. Have all devices failed your wounds?
Then hear my words, for I am their healer.

12. Come and build schools in the countries,
To lift the causes of glory, their answerers.

13. And do not deprive a girl child of the suckling of her breast,
For nothing in these lands flaws her.

14. She is a daughter of the days of youth, and perhaps
Tomorrow she will be one whose milk is tasted.

15. She will show men who enchant the universe when she sees
That glory has never failed proximity to its dear one.

16. Like a land whose flower we smell,
And so the fragrance of the land's flower enchants us.

17. She is the mother. It suffices that we see her adorning us
With her duty, and God rewards her for us.

18. So thousands sing over our heads,
And our joys chant for us in their rhythm.

19. And we reap from the fruits, the sweetest tasting,
As its ripeness and wetness draw near us.

20. To the likes of this, rise, for I
See the ravages of ignorance creeping.