O compatriots!

O compatriots! O compatriots!
O compatriots! See! Our homeland has been devastated!
Our people drown in tears [of anguish], O compatriots! O compatriots!
Our beautiful Kabul has been reduced to dust
Our people drown in tears [of anguish], O compatriots! O compatriots!

They [the fundamentalists] slaughtered hundreds of thousands of men and women without compunction
Their teeth and claws drip with our blood,
The Ikhwan [fundamentalists] are the cause of the destruction of Afghanistan
Our people drown in tears [of anguish], O compatriots! O compatriots!

Balkh, Baghlan, Heart, Kunduz and Faryab,
Kandahar, Kabul, Parwan, Maidan, all have been destroyed
Defenceless city dwellers have been bombarded
Our people drown in tears [of anguish], O compatriots! O compatriots!