1. لا يُعجِزُ اللَهَ هارِبٌ هَرَبا

    سُبحانَهُ مُدرِكٌ إِذا طَلَبا

    No fugitive can elude God by fleeing.

    Glory be to Him! When He pursues, He overtakes.

  2. أَينَ يَفِرُّ المَغرورُ مِن أَجَلٍ

    وَمِن بَلاءِ كِلاهُما كُتِبا

    Where can the deluded man flee from his appointed death,

    and from affliction—both have been decreed?

  3. إِذا رَأى الشَمسَ حَولَهُ اِشتَبَكَت

    قالَ أَداةٌ تُفيدُني الغَلَبا

    When he sees the sun entangled around him,

    he says, "A tool that brings me victory!"

  4. وَهيَ بِمَنصوبِها لَهُ شَرَكٌ

    وَهوَ عَلى نَفسِهِ بِها نَصَبا

    Yet it, through what it has set up, is a snare for him,

    and with it he has set a trap for himself.

  5. لا وَأَلَت هَذِهِ المَطامِعُ لا

    تَقولُ إِلّا لِأَهلِها الكَذِبا

    May these ambitions find no refuge! They do not

    tell those who harbor them anything but lies.

  6. يا موقِدَ البَغيِ إِن موقِدَهُ

    لِنارِهِ يَصطَلي بِها حَطَبا

    O kindler of oppression, indeed its kindler

    burns in his own fire as firewood.

  7. عَمائِمٌ لِلسِنانِ تُلبِسُها الرُم

    حَ وَتُرخي لَها الدِما عَذَبا

    Turbans for the spearhead: you clothe the spear in them,

    and let blood trail from them as tassels.

  8. وَتَستَبيحُ العِدا بِها قُضُباً

    تَجُرُّ يَومَ الوَغى لَها القُضُبا

    And with them you lay the enemy low like branches,

    drawing blades for them on the day of battle.