With you our worries rest
and new hope is found
With you wills find strength
our hearts peaceful and our minds sound
You watch us journey through the years
The joys and the tears
The falls and the climbs
the lows and the highs
You are God’s miracle in this land
Without you
the pains of distance,
the strangeness of the customs,
the breach of made promises,
the tides of politics,
the amalgam of cultures,
the dryness of the books,
of the he-saids and he-objecteds,
the arrogance of knowledge,
the façade of piety,
the seductions of fame
and a thousand many more troubles and baits
will devour us whole,
were it not for your embrace
every time you returned our salam with grace
So to you salam belongs,
to you our thanks do not end
the mother of our hearts,
the miracle of this land.
