إِيّاكَ وَالبَغيَ وَالبُهتانَ وَالغيبَة

إِيّاكَ وَالبَغيَ وَالبُهتانَ وَالغيبَة

وَالشَكَّ وَالشِركَ وَالطُغيانَ وَالريبَه

وَالشَكَّ وَالشِركَ وَالطُغيانَ وَالريبَه

Beware of oppression, slander, and backbiting,

Beware of transgression, slander, gossip,

and doubt, associating partners with God, tyranny, and suspicion.

Suspicion, idolatry, tyranny, and doubt.

ما زادَكَ السِنُّ مِن مِثقالِ خَردَلَةٍ

ما زادَكَ السِنُّ مِن مِثقالِ خَردَلَةٍ

إِلّا تَقَرَّبَ مِنكَ المَوتُ تَقريبَه

إِلّا تَقَرَّبَ مِنكَ المَوتُ تَقريبَه

Age adds not even a mustard seed’s weight to you

As you grow older by not an atom's weight

without death drawing closer to you once more.

Does death not draw closer to you, await.

فَما بَقاؤكَ وَالأَيّامُ مُسرِعَةٌ

فَما بَقاؤكَ وَالأَيّامُ مُسرِعَةٌ

تَصعيدَةً فيكَ أَحياناً وَتَصويبَه

تَصعيدَةً فيكَ أَحياناً وَتَصويبَه

So how can you last, while the days rush on,

What is your stay when time swiftly flies,

sometimes lifting you up, sometimes bringing you down?

Now raising you, now causing your demise?

وَإِنَّ لِلدَهرِ لَو يُحصى تَقَلُّبُهُ

وَإِنَّ لِلدَهرِ لَو يُحصى تَقَلُّبُهُ

في كُلِّ طَرفَةِ عَينٍ مِنكَ تَقليبَه

في كُلِّ طَرفَةِ عَينٍ مِنكَ تَقليبَه

And time—were its changes to be counted—

If the vicissitudes of fate could be told

has a reversal with every blink of your eye.

In every blink, how much change they would hold!