1. O people who have gone astray and spread
Their misguidance in every land and gained notoriety

2. O people who have regrouped
For the sedition till they were torn apart

3. O my people, can you come back
For your stories have become evening talk

4. They took a crooked path and recklessness
And plunged into every desire till they collapsed and crumbled

5. Blinded of mind, if only they understand
That they are blind of insight and vision

6. I'm at a loss what name to call them and with
What to describe them truly, with what

7. I do not choose to mention them with something
Good they have done that could be recalled

8. They opposed God and did not heed what
Was stated clearly in the Gospel

9. About the denial of Peter the significant
The one of great worth a man of worth

10. The chief head, the foundation, the assured
The rock of faith, the manifest truth

11. From Jesus the Chosen, this trustee
Became head of the church, well-known

12. The base of its creed, its noble shepherd
And supreme leader through generations

13. Whoever denies his leadership is an intruder
Rather, despised, fallen, worthless

14. His status above the heavens lofty
When called head of the church and named

15. He has grasped the reins of the heavens
None shall enter it, he in whom is blasphemy

16. The Roman faith which rode
The horse of misguidance, for in it was suppression

17. Have mercy on it, it has stumbled
Become captive slaves to nations

18. A targeted victim of arrows of wrath
Deprived of good while possessing blessings

19. Such is the reward of ungratefulness, abhorrent evil
How can you not weep for them, O Samir

20. Crying with woe from the depths of conscience
They have left the clear water

21. And chosen mud as drink and bitterness
Where are those kingdoms and riches

22. Where is that repute with that celebrity
All has gone and nothing remains for us

23. Except forms and ghosts of images
Where are those enlightened sciences

24. Where are those flourishing monasteries
Where are those illuminated faces

25. What remains is but a wrapped up form
They abandoned the beauty of facts and sciences

26. Discarded them and substituted with rituals
They have nothing but wild, raging youths

27. Making lawful prohibitions without caution
Of Cypriot origin, priest by profession

28. Empty of spirit like the inanimate
If afflicted by an incident, he would surrender

29. And discard religion with throwing a stone
They took a confused path in this manner

30. Their nature like the wilderness’ beasts
If you seek to civilize them, you invite futility

31. For they vary as the moon varies
They went astray as they were beguiled by misguidances

32. Drank the wine of ignorance so they erred and erred
And with an ignorant sword they assaulted

33. It is no wonder they are a brutal horde
We heard God say about them as a witness

34. My people have become a wandering flock
Due to the disbelief they have come to drink

35. From shepherds, so blessed is he who avoids them
With the sword of unjust tyranny

36. Not with the word of a merciful Lord
Relying on the sharp blade

37. Their hallmark is but harm and havoc
The wicked have said openly

38. We shall kill the just to publicize our deed
He has become a rebuke to us

39. Exposing to people our hidden shame
If you wish for truth, O people of villains

40. Remove the sword of nations from your grasp
We have no sword but the pen

41. From God's book we recite what it mentioned
And come, let us compete with words

42. Riding examination in the field of debate
Only the light of guidance dispels misguidance

43. So darkness is unveiled when dawn spreads
They are the illiterate's sons, and deliberately they attacked

44. They abandoned it and to others they clung
They attributed it to vulgarness but gained nothing

45. These are their news in summary
We have heard God testify about them

46. My people have become a lost herd
Due to the disbelief they have come to drink

47. From shepherds, so blessed is he who avoids them
With the sword of unjust enmity

48. Not with the word of a merciful Lord
Relying on the blade of execution

49. Their hallmark is nothing but harm and havoc
O deep seas of injustice, O thorn of discord

50. O destitute of faith, O household of stubbornness
Your evil has grown in settlements and valleys

51. And afflicted the nomads and the urbanites
You have misguided them when you prohibited them

52. So they disobeyed and did what was forbidden
Your matter is detriment to the world, it is as if

53. You were created only for evil instincts
Woe to you, O stumbling block you have made stumble

54. With your many sins that multiplied
You have cut its connections and spread

55. Becoming dispersed amongst people, scattered and separated
Woe to you, O gang you have wronged

56. From shepherds to guide it, it was wronged
If it knew the state it has settled in

57. Tears would have poured from it like rain
The essence of reason was covered with the darkness

58. Of a purpose which established its origin
Love of race brought sickness to the soul

59. So its solutions have become bitter
The opinion of Luther and Calvin they

60. Followed, an opinion that is flawed
They have nothing but ignoramuses who

61. Lost their reason till they became blind
The wicked from the worst of mistakes said

62. The spirit proceeds from the Father alone
They lowered the Son from the Father and cut Him off

63. None with resolve has said this inexcusable talk
They aggravated speech in what they conveyed

64. About souls they have not perfected
So let them answer us when asked

65. What the death of the Awaited benefited people
In ignorance they rejected purification of souls

66. Without aid of priests' offerings
And so they denied that without money

67. Deeming it like songs and legends
They sanctioned the unleavened bread

68. But it does not suit at all, except with leaven
As the Lord said, as stated the bearer of good news

69. He kept the law as is, without change
They rejected the act of substantial speech

70. Which is God's word, an open declaration
So they turned away from the light of evident truth

71. And shunned it when it beamed
They sanctified Photius the violator

72. Who has no holiness but arrogance
The ways of Satan he precisely follows

73. No sanctities in him have a trace
Then with Emaus the source of innovations

74. That damned one who brought misery to the sale
It was forbidden by Rome along with those denominations

75. In their councils, as stated in the reports
They sparked their extinct fires

76. Fueling the candle from those funds
And the like with worship and prostration

77. Then exclaimed, our Lord's light has appeared
Made into prophets by the deceivers

78. A Lord's light yet a burning fire
With it they gained luxury through theft

79. Content for them is the smoke of fire and sparks
Do not blame me, O Aretiki, for

80. Censuring those who have angered the Lord of Highness
Their lies have been uncovered and revealed

81. A trick recognized amongst humankind
Fire-worshipers in those rituals

82. Tell us, are they priests or Magi
As long as heads were bent from them

83. Away from the blaze, and reports were cut off
I swear by the fire, O fleer

84. Amongst us you are a priest or an outcast
Tell us, O loud crier, before being taken

85. To the flames, and news is severed
My God, by the Messenger Al-Mustafa

86. The head of Your messengers, the pure rock
Quench us with a drink of pure faith

87. And save us from the heat of hellfire
By the chaste virgin, the ladder of ascension