خل الأمور لأمر سابق جار

وجار أهل الرضى في نهجهم جار

Leave affairs to a prior decree already in force.

And follow the contented along their path, O neighbor.

هيهات تعدم نفس للرضى سببا

إن النفوس بآمال وأوطار

No soul could ever lack a reason for contentment;

For souls have hopes and desires.

قد ساعفتك رياح اللطف لو نظرت

إلى السفينة بين الماء والنار

The winds of grace have aided you, if you would but look

At the ship between water and fire.

أكلما قام تيار تضيق به

أغاثها الله فانقادت بتيار

Whenever a current rises, do you grow distressed by it?

God rescued her, so she was carried along by a current.

فسر بها في ظلام الليل معتصما

لتخرجنّ إلى جودىّ أنوار

So sail in her through the darkness of night, holding fast;

You shall surely emerge onto a Judi of light.

تطوى له الهول حتى يستبين لها

فجر السلام وحتى يحمد السارى

She traverses terror toward it, until there appears to her

The dawn of peace, and until the night traveler gives thanks.

خفيفة بيد الألطاف تنقلها

إلى شواطئ من تبر وأقطار

Light in the hand of mercies that carry her

To shores of gold and lands.

آمال أروع جمّ الصدق محتكم

بالله في جوهر الآمال مختار

The hopes of a noble man, rich in sincerity, seeking judgment

From God, discerning in the very substance of hope.

هل في الحوادث شك أم بإمرتها

ريب ونحن لأحكام وأقدار

Is there doubt about events, or about their authority

Any uncertainty, when we are subject to judgments and decrees of fate?