إِذا أزموا ألقوا فُضولَ حِبائِهِم

إِذا أزموا ألقوا فُضولَ حِبائِهِم

وَخَلّوا صُروف الدَّهر نَفري وَتجرحُ

وَخَلّوا صُروف الدَّهر نَفري وَتجرحُ

When hardship strikes, they cast off the loose ends of their knee-binding wraps,

When hardships come, they cast off their excess loves

And let the turns of fate rend and wound.

And leave the cycles of time to wound and scratch me.

وَأَلفَيتَهم وَالضُرُّ حَشوُ ثِيابهم

وَأَلفَيتَهم وَالضُرُّ حَشوُ ثِيابهم

وَضيفُهم في عرصة الدار يَمرَحُ

وَضيفُهم في عرصة الدار يَمرَحُ

And you find them with suffering lining their garments,

I've made them familiar, yet harm stuffs their clothes.

While their guest frolics in the courtyard of the house.

Their guest in the courtyard of the house cavorts.

عَلى بَيتِهم آصارهم وَلجارِهم

عَلى بَيتِهم آصارهم وَلجارِهم

لَدى بَيتهم ملقى رَحيبٌ وَمَسرَحُ

لَدى بَيتهم ملقى رَحيبٌ وَمَسرَحُ

Their burdens fall upon their own house, while their neighbor

Over their home are their injuries and their neighbors.

Has beside their house a spacious resting place and room to roam.

By their home lies a meadow and theater.