الهي بك استكفيت عن كل حادث

الهي بك استكفيت عن كل حادث

كفى بك يا كافي لكفي مهمتي

كفى بك يا كافي لكفي مهمتي

My God, I have sought sufficiency in You, needing no created thing.

O God, in You I find sufficiency against every affliction,

You suffice, O All-Sufficing One, to meet my pressing need.

You suffice, O Sufficient One, to fulfill my purpose.

كفايتك اللهم لا شيء غيرها

كفايتك اللهم لا شيء غيرها

تقوم طاعاتي وأمر معيشتي

تقوم طاعاتي وأمر معيشتي

Your sufficiency, O God—nothing else—

Your sufficiency, O God, nothing else,

Sustains my acts of obedience and the affairs of my livelihood.

Makes righteous my devotions and sustains my livelihood.

الهي وقيد الفقر في معرك الهوى

الهي وقيد الفقر في معرك الهوى

ببابك استكفيت رزء المصيبة

ببابك استكفيت رزء المصيبة

My God, with poverty's fetter in desire's battlefield,

O God, the shackles of poverty in the battle of desire,

At Your gate I have sought protection from calamity's grievous blow.

At Your door I find sufficiency from the stroke of misfortune.

الهي يا كافي الكفاة تولني

الهي يا كافي الكفاة تولني

بكافية من نفحة صمدية

بكافية من نفحة صمدية

My God, O One who suffices for all who suffice, take me into Your care,

O God, O Sufficient One of suffiencies, take care of me

With sufficing aid from a breath of the Eternally Self-Sufficient.

With the sufficiency of a breath of Your Eternal Self.

الهي من استكفاك ضراً أصابه

الهي من استكفاك ضراً أصابه

فلم تكفه يا كافياً للبلية

فلم تكفه يا كافياً للبلية

My God, who has sought Your protection from harm that befell him

O God, one who seeks sufficiency from You against harm that befell him,

And not been protected by You, O One who suffices against affliction?

If You did not suffice him, O Sufficient One against tribulation.

الهي ما في الحادثات كفاية

الهي ما في الحادثات كفاية

إذا لم تكن عوني وكافي محنتي

إذا لم تكن عوني وكافي محنتي

My God, there is no sufficiency in created things,

O God, in events there is no sufficiency,

If You are not my aid and the One who sustains me through my trial.

If You are not my ally and Sufficient One in my tribulation.

ومالي وللأحداث وهي فقيرة

ومالي وللأحداث وهي فقيرة

إليك افتقاري ناظرات كنظرتي

إليك افتقاري ناظرات كنظرتي

And what have I to do with created things, when they are needy

Without You, events are poor,

For You as I am, gazing as I gaze?

My need looks to You like my gaze.

وما قدر ما تأتي به من كفاية

وما قدر ما تأتي به من كفاية

سوى عين ما قامت به من ضرورة

سوى عين ما قامت به من ضرورة

And what measure of sufficiency do they bring,

None can fathom the sufficiency You bring,

Beyond the very necessity upon which they subsist?

Except an eye that rose to its necessity.

جنابك يا كافي جناب كفايتي

جنابك يا كافي جناب كفايتي

وعندك يا كافي غناء لعسرتي

وعندك يا كافي غناء لعسرتي

Your court, O All-Sufficing One, is the court that meets my needs.

Your side, O Sufficient One, is the side of my sufficiency,

And with You, O All-Sufficing One, is abundance to ease my hardship.

And in You, O Sufficient One, lies the abundance for my hardship.

الهي قد أملقت املاق راغب

الهي قد أملقت املاق راغب

وقيدني الاعدام عن كل خطوة

وقيدني الاعدام عن كل خطوة

My God, I have become destitute with the destitution of one who longs.

O God, I have slipped with a slipping of one hopeful,

And destitution has fettered me, preventing every step.

And lacking makes me unable for any step.

وفي حسبة الكافي الكريم كفايتي

وفي حسبة الكافي الكريم كفايتي

وفي طوله تحقيق مطلق رغبتي

وفي طوله تحقيق مطلق رغبتي

And in the care of the All-Sufficing, Generous One lies my sufficiency.

In the account of the Sufficient, Generous One is my sufficiency,

And in His bounty lies the fulfillment of my every desire.

And in His abundance lies the realization of my absolute hope.