جار الزمانُ علينا في تصرفِه

جار الزمانُ علينا في تصرفِه

وأي دهرٍ على الأحرار لم يَجُرِ

وأي دهرٍ على الأحرار لم يَجُرِ

Time has wronged us in its dealings;

Time passes by controlling us in its course

And what age has not wronged noble men?

And what era on the free has not gone by

عندي من الدهر ما لو أنَّ أيسَرَهُ

عندي من الدهر ما لو أنَّ أيسَرَهُ

يُلقى على الفلك الدَّوَار لم يَدُرِ

يُلقى على الفلك الدَّوَار لم يَدُرِ

I bear such woes from time that, were the lightest of them

For me, of time, what if its easiest part

Cast upon the revolving celestial sphere, it would cease to turn.

Were cast upon the revolving cosmos, it would not revolve