We wish for peace in life;
we ask for fidelity in love.
May you not delay in changing our situation, God!
Only you alone can we depend on;
you are our one and only succor.
There is no one of ours in this world of yours.
God, Allah, listen to this cry,
Oh God, Allah, supreme being.
We cannot behold this scene of destruction,
in neighborhoods laid to waste, these aching human beings.
A mother stands holding the pieces of little bodies.
You tell us where she should go amidst the smoke of gunfire.
We are innocent, God; why did you give us this punishment?
Or is there hatred welling over in the hearts of everyone?
Remind them again of that lessonof love,
so this world filled with thorns will once again become a garden.
Hear my cry.
