and all of baghdad is ours it lives as we live and moves as we move. the whole world is suspended from it and will come to its meaning. if this is its affair and its destiny then the whole world is subject to it. and so is its people to its people its young men to its young men its dissolute to its dissolute its leaders to its leaders and its righteous to its righteous.
ولنا بغداد بأسرها، تسكن ما سكنا، وتتحرك ما تحركنا. والدنيا كلها معلقة بها، وصائرة إلى معناها. فإذا كان هذا أمرها وقدرها فجميع الدنيا تبع لها. وكذلك أهلها لأهلها، وفتاكها لفتاكها، وخلاعها لخلاعها، ورؤساؤها لرؤسائها، وصلحاؤها لصلحائها.