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Everyone desires the life of this world

كل على الدنيا له حرص

1. Everyone desires the life of this world
Yet fate's occurrences are unforeseen

١. كُلٌّ عَلى الدُنيا لَهُ حِرصٌ
وَالحادِثاتُ أَناتُها عَفصُ

2. I seek from this life an increase
While my own increase in it is decrease

٢. أَبغي مِنَ الدُنيا زِيادَتَها
وَزِيادَتي فيها هِيَ النَقصُ

3. As though whom the grave has swallowed
No trace of him is left for eyes to see

٣. وَكَأَنَّ مَن وارَتهُ حُفرَتُهُ
لَم يَبدُ مِنهُ لِناظِرٍ شَخصُ

4. The hand of death in its gentle touch
Takes every cherished hoard and treasury

٤. لِيَدِ المَنِيَّةِ في تَلَطُّفِها
عَن ذُخرِ كُلِّ شَفيقَةٍ فَحصُ