بمجدِكَ يا أعزَّ عليَّ منِّي

بمجدِكَ يا أعزَّ عليَّ منِّي

ومجدُك ما ذخرتُ سواهُ ثاني

ومجدُك ما ذخرتُ سواهُ ثاني

By your glory, O you dearer to me than myself,

With Your glory, O most precious to me

and your glory—I have kept no other beside it in reserve—

And Your glory is all I have hoarded besides

على جمرٍ من الضرَّاءِ ترضى

على جمرٍ من الضرَّاءِ ترضى

أُقلَّبُ هكذا بيدي زماني

أُقلَّبُ هكذا بيدي زماني

are you content that, upon the embers of affliction,

On embers of adversity You are pleased

I am tossed about thus by the hands of my time?

That I be tossed about thus by the hands of my fate

أيقصيني وأنتَ تَرى وتُغضي

أيقصيني وأنتَ تَرى وتُغضي

كأَنَّك لا تراهُ ولا تَراني

كأَنَّك لا تراهُ ولا تَراني

Does it cast me out while you watch and turn a blind eye,

You watch me being driven away, yet You turn a blind eye

as though you see neither it nor me?

As if You see it not, nor do You see me

خِلالٌ ما عهدتُك ترتضيها

خِلالٌ ما عهدتُك ترتضيها

وكنت إذ دعوتُك غير واني

وكنت إذ دعوتُك غير واني

These are traits I have never known you to approve,

Gaps never known have You sanctioned

and when I called upon you, you were not remiss.

Though I called You, never wavering

فخُذ إمَّا بما يُدني وإمَّا

فخُذ إمَّا بما يُدني وإمَّا

بما يُقصي عياني عن مكاني

بما يُقصي عياني عن مكاني

So choose either what draws me near, or

Take me either closer or

what removes my presence from my place.

Farther away from my place in Your sight

فإنِّي قد مَلكتُ المكث فيه

فإنِّي قد مَلكتُ المكث فيه

وما لي عنهُ بالمسرى يَدانِ

وما لي عنهُ بالمسرى يَدانِ

For remaining there is within my power,

For I have endured staying here

and I have no strength to journey away from it by night.

And desire no joyful escape