Kazi Nazrul Islam

(translated from Bangla by Mohammad Omar Farooq)

We haven't embraced your message,

Please forgive us, O Prophet!*

We have forgotten your ideals

And the path for us that you did set.*

Please forgive us, O Prophet!*

You trampled like dust

Luxury and wealth, O master!*

You never dreamed that

We will be kings or lords of disaster!*

In this world's resource and treasure

Everyone has right of due measure;*

You proclaimed, on this earth,

Equal son's treatment all will get.*

Please forgive us, O Prophet!*

In your religion, toward the unbelievers

You did not direct any hate;*

You served them as your fellows,

For all of them was open your hospitable gate.*

To demolish temples of others anywhere on land,

O valiant, you did not ever command;*

Now even difference in opinion from others

We can't bear or tolerate.*

Please forgive us, O Prophet!*

You did not seek in the name of faith

Meaningless and shameful killing or fight;*

You did not place sword in our hand,

Rather gave us guidance, so noble and upright.*

Ignoring your tolerance and Magnanimity,

We have elevated fanaticism to a warped nobility;*

Is that why, from the heavenly fountain,

Does not flow that mercy, so divine and great?*

Please forgive us, O Prophet!*

We haven't embraced your message

Please forgive us, O Prophet!*

We have forgotten your ideals

And the path for us that you did set.*

Please forgive us, O Prophet!*

Courtesy: Kazi Nazrul Islam Page