وَعَظتَكَ أَجداثٌ خُفُت

وَعَظتَكَ أَجداثٌ خُفُت

فيهِنَّ أَجسادٌ سُبُت

فيهِنَّ أَجسادٌ سُبُت

Silent graves have admonished you;

Your lessons are new graves dug,

within them lie slumbering bodies.

In them are bodies kept still.

وَتَكَلَّمَت لَك بِالبِلى

وَتَكَلَّمَت لَك بِالبِلى

مِنهُنَّ أَلسِنَةُ صُمُت

مِنهُنَّ أَلسِنَةُ صُمُت

And through decay there spoke to you

And the worn tells you,

silent tongues from within them.

From them tongues of the silent.

وَأَرَتكَ قَبرَكَ في القُبو

وَأَرَتكَ قَبرَكَ في القُبو

رِ وَأَنتَ حَيٌّ لَم تَمُت

رِ وَأَنتَ حَيٌّ لَم تَمُت

And they showed you your grave among the graves,

And it showed you your grave in the graves,

while you are alive and have not died.

While you are alive, you did not die,

وَكَأَنَّني بِكَ عَن قَريـ

وَكَأَنَّني بِكَ عَن قَريـ

ـبٍ رَهنَ حَتفٍ لَم يَفُت

ـبٍ رَهنَ حَتفٍ لَم يَفُت

And it is as though I see you, before

And it is as if I see you from near,

long, captive to a death that will not pass you by.

A hostage of death inescapable.