ما الَّذي أَعدَدتَ لِلمَوتِ فَقَدْ

ما الَّذي أَعدَدتَ لِلمَوتِ فَقَدْ

قُدِّرَ الموتُ بِلا شكَّ عَلَيك

قُدِّرَ الموتُ بِلا شكَّ عَلَيك

What have you prepared for death? For surely

What have you prepared for death? For indeed,

death has been decreed for you, beyond all doubt.

death has been decreed for you, without a doubt.

أَذنوباً كاثَرت عِدّ الحصى

أَذنوباً كاثَرت عِدّ الحصى

بِئسَ ما استَكثَرتَ مِن كَسبِ يَدَيك

بِئسَ ما استَكثَرتَ مِن كَسبِ يَدَيك

Are they sins that outnumber the very pebbles?

Sins that rival the pebbles in number?

Wretched is what you amassed from the earnings of your own hands.

Wretched is what you have amassed through the deeds of your hands.

بِئسَ ما يسمعُ مِن تَعظيمِها

بِئسَ ما يسمعُ مِن تَعظيمِها

مَلَكا القبرَ بِهِ مِن مَلِكَيك

مَلَكا القبرَ بِهِ مِن مَلِكَيك

How dreadful is what is heard of those sins’ enormity:

How dreadful is what is heard of their enormity

the grave’s two angels hear it from your own two angels.

by the grave’s two angels from your two angels.

أَيّ خَطْبٍ فادحٍ في رَقدةٍ

أَيّ خَطْبٍ فادحٍ في رَقدةٍ

يُوقِظُ الحشرُ إِلَيها مُقلتيك

يُوقِظُ الحشرُ إِلَيها مُقلتيك

What a crushing calamity there is in a slumber—

What a crushing calamity amid your slumber—

the Resurrection awakens your two eyes to it!

the Resurrection will awaken your eyes to it!

وَصِراطٍ لَستَ بالنَّاجي إِذا

وَصِراطٍ لَستَ بالنَّاجي إِذا

وَطِئَتْهُ زلّةٌ من قَدَمَيك

وَطِئَتْهُ زلّةٌ من قَدَمَيك

And the Ṣirāṭ—you will not cross it safely when

And a bridge you will not survive if

a misstep of your two feet treads upon it.

either of your feet should slip upon it.

فَلَكَ الوَيلُ مِنَ النارِ إِذا

فَلَكَ الوَيلُ مِنَ النارِ إِذا

مُقلَةُ الرحمَنِ لَم تَنظُرْ إِلَيك

مُقلَةُ الرحمَنِ لَم تَنظُرْ إِلَيك

Then woe from the Fire is yours, if

Then woe to you from the Fire if

the All-Merciful’s eye does not look upon you.

the eye of the All-Merciful does not look upon you.