1. كَيفَ نَرجو إِقامة وَحياتاً

    وَاللَيالي تَحثّها الأَسحار

    How can we hope for permanence and life,

    while the pre-dawn hours urge the nights onward?

  2. غَرض كُلنا لِعمرك وَالدَه

    رُ قِسِيّ سِهامها الأَقدار

    We are all targets, by your life, and Time

    is bows whose arrows are the decrees of fate.