1. Why do you withhold the pen
While the land is fertilized with blood

2. Straighten its sharp teeth
In the chest of those gone astray

3. Alert the sleeping nations
So its deeds bring life to glory

4. Is this not the day of justice?
The oppressed stand, so stand

5. Between those who fight
And us there is kinship of revenge

6. Whoever defiles our enemies
To them we are tied by blood

7. No safety for the sleeping nation
Tomorrow it may be destroyed

8. Say, O prince of poets, does obsession
Or lofty ambitions bind you?

9. I call the taverns to responsibility and integrity
Each rises to their duty, and whoever lags behind, let him sleep

10. We live in ignorance though honor lived
And we have not

11. When our time ends
And we move from slumber to annihilation

12. When we rise again after it
It will be like a fanciful dream

13. To whom are the tents? Not on a mountain
For an eagle to perch

14. A tent rose over them
Solitary between tents

15. With it a flag atop a flag
An elder of high morals planted it

16. One who if touched would roar
His weapon ever sharpened

17. Gashing whatever it strikes
Blessed among his compatriots

18. Like an army of noble breed
An army but of chivalry, courage and zeal

19. Its morals distributed among them
How excellent is that which is divided

20. This leader and the like of him
Give pride to the greatest of men

21. Mightier than feeble kings
Who can not counsel him

22. Never made greater but by wealth
And arrogance, not service

23. He waits looking out for the enemy
Like food eyed by the covetous

24. His nation rallies around him
Like cubs around a fierce lion

25. A nascent nation
Its history among nations

26. They built no edifice
With might that went unremembered

27. They defended their independence
And their lands from threats

28. Their livelihood made lawful to seekers
And their homeland inviolable

29. Purity their pillars, souls their dwellings
Their mishap most bitter

30. Oh day of looting Dhi Ghoroor
When nations thought them cattle

31. A wolf who fancied them sheep
Grazing safe in their enclosure

32. A thief who dreamt of spoils
Yet found only misery

33. They hunted the transgressor and his ilk
Like hunting vicious predators

34. And meted him greatest humiliation
So is the requital of villains

35. Then they resolved to execute him
But pardoned him instead

36. How excellent is such chivalry
If not for callousness and regret

37. Who are these morbid clouds
Diminishing the sterility of ages?

38. In their haughtiness is their gait
And the tread of their feet atop the banner

39. She emerged from her lair to them
Battered without a veil

40. Her parent Azrael, her kin a vicious people
Coveting those who meet destruction

41. How will great men pass as warning goes unheeded
And foundations crumble?

42. Evil is the messenger of misery
And ominous is the mother of misfortunes

43. That is a dishonest war
And the breach of sanctity

44. Woe to the strong one today
Against that weak one who attacked

45. Do you see the arrogant
Retreating, fraudulent in all his enormity?

46. Receding though never accused of cowardice
And the sons of the land flocking where he withdrew

47. Like birds flushed in panic
And snakes slithering into burrows

48. Like wolves vanished in darkness
And whales delved into depths

49. On Thursday they walked like one
Toward the fated encounter

50. Ferocity with no despair
And zeal for battle with no fatigue

51. No fear of annihilation
Nor weakness of soul or boredom

52. But for the honor of whoever
Would avenge whichever was destroyed

53. Let them stand firm and renew
Their struggle against them intensely

54. This is an encounter to be muffled
In a fire stoked to rage

55. Behold the hail of embers
Like blood pouring from veins

56. And bombs erecting themselves
To consume the marrow of armies

57. Blind yet discerning in fray
The paths of the enemy to shred

58. Gripped tight until
Their jaws meet what they gnaw

59. They pounce with frowns
Until their bite brings death then smile

60. Behold their women thronged
Like steadfast banners fluttering

61. A forest serenaded
By hot sighs, though it knows no shame

62. Behold children pelted with stones
As they play with toy arrows

63. And old men soaked by their blood
The reckless spared them no mercy

64. Behold their dead heaped
Each like a crumbling palace

65. Behold their horsemen provoked
To assault like violent winds

66. And infantries like a wall
Marching in step to the drum

67. The coming and going
By order visible and concealed

68. Those who stand and those who kneel
Those who attack and those who spare

69. Those who fall to the ground
And those who climb the summits

70. Hear the neighing of their horses
Pawing the earth impatient for combat

71. And the roaring unsheathed swords
Among destructive weaponry

72. And thunderbolts like
The miracles of Moses long ago

73. And the growling of lions in iron
And their cubs disciplined for war

74. Hear drums almost burst
From the clashes or deafening

75. Hear the moaning earth
Aggrieved by all it has seen

76. The few prevailed over the many
And pardoned them instead of revenge

77. But however the wretched gloat at first
They will regret the conclusion

78. Stroll in their villages and you see
No despair of mothers or fathers

79. No starving wanderers
Faces contorted in pain

80. No miscarrying pregnant women
From stress or illness

81. No orphans begging
To suckle, destitute

82. And disasters between them
Sow like torrents of rain

83. Tour the mines, how much anguish
And how many calamities arose!

84. Gaping mouths and swollen bellies
After sucking the good life dry

85. Oh, if only they were misfortunes
So many grudges befell those blessings!

86. With bitterness for oppressors
I have cursed them as far as my tongue allows

87. Let us mourn those who died
Among them no coward fled

88. And let us console the frail
Their misery pitied by the mighty

89. A shocking sight the just witnessed
As if their reason was an idol

90. They saw wolves so attempted
To drive them back through law

91. Where is justice to whom disputes
Between nations are referred?

92. Where is truth, where is redress
Of the innocent when oppressed?

93. Who supports the weak when he complains
And challenges the strong when he oppresses?

94. Oh those who lead astray, turn back
Those who clung to you have failed

95. Do not busy your minds
With rights of a people violated

96. They swore if unsuccessful
None would survive

97. So leave them to live or perish
Truly by this oath

98. Take conscience, enshroud it
In what is precious of your morals

99. Consign it to the earth when dead
And say no mercy on it