أَخوكَ الَّذي إِن أَخرَجَتكَ مُلِمَّةٌ

أَخوكَ الَّذي إِن أَخرَجَتكَ مُلِمَّةٌ

مِنَ الدَهرِ لَم يَبَرَح لَها الدَهرُ واحِما

مِنَ الدَهرِ لَم يَبَرَح لَها الدَهرُ واحِما

Your brother is the one who, if you are driven out by a calamity

Your brother who, if adversity

Your brother is he who, if a calamity of fate befalls you, remains unceasingly distressed on your behalf.

of fate, remains grieving over it all his life.

Assails you from fate, will not cease to blame fate,

And your brother is not he who, when affairs become tangled for you, persists in scolding and casting blame.

وَلَيسَ أَخوكَ بِالَّذي إِن تَشَعَّبَت

وَلَيسَ أَخوكَ بِالَّذي إِن تَشَعَّبَت

عَلَيكَ أُمورٌ ظَلَّ يَلحاكَ لائِما

عَلَيكَ أُمورٌ ظَلَّ يَلحاكَ لائِما

Nor is your brother the one who, if matters become entangled

And he is not the brother who, if affairs

for you, keeps reproaching and blaming you.

Branch out against you, persists to chide you.