1. احطتَ بخَطبي يا محيط وما انطوى

    عليه عدائي من حبائل هلكتي

    You have encompassed my plight, O All-Encompassing One, and what

    my enemies harbor of snares for my destruction.

  2. أحاطت بضعفي يا محيط شدائد

    وهي جلدي منها وجلت رزيئتي

    Hardships have surrounded my weakness, O All-Encompassing One;

    my endurance has weakened under them, and my affliction has grown great.

  3. وما عرض حالي يا محيط يزيد في

    إحاطة علم اللّه مثقال ذرة

    Nor does recounting my state, O All-Encompassing One, add to

    God's all-encompassing knowledge even an atom's weight.

  4. ولكن دعائي يا محيط وسيطة

    أمرت بها المضطر عند البلية

    But my supplication, O All-Encompassing One, is a means

    You commanded the distressed to use in affliction.

  5. وما لي حول يا محيط وإنني

    تبرأت من حولي لديك وقوتي

    I have no power, O All-Encompassing One, and indeed I

    have renounced my power and strength before You.

  6. وحولي عجزي يا محيط وذلتي

    وفقري وسفحي عبرة بعد عبرة

    And my power is my helplessness, O All-Encompassing One, and my abasement,

    and my poverty and my shedding tear after tear,

  7. وبثي وحزني يا محيط وكبوتي

    على حروجهي وارتعاد فريصتي

    and my anguish and sorrow, O All-Encompassing One, and my falling

    flat upon my face, and the trembling of my flank.

  8. أحطني حياتي يا محيط من البلا

    ء في الدين والدنيا ومن شؤم زلتي

    Protect me throughout my life, O All-Encompassing One, from affliction

    in religion and worldly life, and from the ill fortune of my lapse.

  9. ولي نفس سوء يا محيط جهولة

    تجهمني الأخطار غير زكية

    And I have an evil soul, O All-Encompassing One, deeply ignorant;

    dangers scowl at me; it is unpurified—

  10. مطية شر يا محيط مقودة

    إلى هلكها من جهلها بأزمة

    a mount of evil, O All-Encompassing One, led

    by reins to its destruction through its ignorance.

  11. قني شر جهل يا محيط وزكني

    بأنوار سراسم المحيط الجلية

    Protect me from the evil of ignorance, O All-Encompassing One, and purify me

    with the manifest lights of the secret of the name 'the All-Encompassing One.'