أَرى المَوتَ لي حَيثُ اعتَمَدتُ كَمينا

أَرى المَوتَ لي حَيثُ اعتَمَدتُ كَمينا

فَأَصبَحتُ مَهموماً هُناكَ حَزينا

فَأَصبَحتُ مَهموماً هُناكَ حَزينا

I see death lying in ambush for me wherever I turn.

I see death lying in wait for me as an ambush

So I became careworn there, sorrowful.

So here I am, worried and sad.

سَيُلحِقُني حادي المَنايا بِمَن مَضى

سَيُلحِقُني حادي المَنايا بِمَن مَضى

أَخَذتُ شِمالاً أَو أَخَذتُ يَمينا

أَخَذتُ شِمالاً أَو أَخَذتُ يَمينا

The camel-driver of deaths will bring me to those who have passed on,

The guide to death will catch up with me like those who passed before

Whether I turn left or turn right.

Whether I go left or go right.

يَقينُ الفَتى بِالمَوتِ شَكٌّ وَشَكُّهُ

يَقينُ الفَتى بِالمَوتِ شَكٌّ وَشَكُّهُ

يَقينٌ وَلَكِن لا يَراهُ يَقينا

يَقينٌ وَلَكِن لا يَراهُ يَقينا

A young man's certainty about death is doubt, and his doubt

A young man's certainty of death is doubt and his doubt

Is certainty, yet he does not see it as certainty.

Is certainty, yet he does not see it as certainty.

عَلَينا عُيونٌ لِلمُنونِ خَفِيَّةٌ

عَلَينا عُيونٌ لِلمُنونِ خَفِيَّةٌ

تَدِبُّ دَبيباً بِالمَنِيَّةِ فينا

تَدِبُّ دَبيباً بِالمَنِيَّةِ فينا

Death's hidden eyes are upon us,

Eyes invisible to us watch for our death

They creep slowly among us, bearing death.

Creeping through us with mortality.

وَما زالَتِ الدُنيا تُقَلِّبُ أَهلَها

وَما زالَتِ الدُنيا تُقَلِّبُ أَهلَها

فَتَجعَلُ ذا غَثّا وَذاكَ سَمينا

فَتَجعَلُ ذا غَثّا وَذاكَ سَمينا

And the world has never ceased to turn its people about,

And the world keeps overturning its people

So it makes this one lean and that one fat.

Making one gaunt and another corpulent.