ياO مالِكاًmaster ماnot بَرِحَتceased كَفُّهُhis palm
يا مالِكاً ما بَرِحَت كَفُّهُ
تَجودُbestows generously بِالمالِwith money عَلىupon كَفّيmy palm
تَجودُ بِالمالِ عَلى كَفّي
O master whose palm has never ceased
O generous friend whose hand
to bestow money generously upon my palm.
Keeps giving me wealth unplanned
أَفلَحَhas prospered بِالعِشرينِwith the twenty مَنone who لَمnot يَزَلceased
أَفلَحَ بِالعِشرينِ مَن لَم يَزَل
فيat رَأسِthe end (of a verse) عِشرينَtwenty مِنَof الكَهفِThe Cave
في رَأسِ عِشرينَ مِنَ الكَهفِ
With twenty, he has prospered who had always been
He who spent twenty in a cave
at the end of verse twenty of The Cave.
Succeeded, though God's slave
ياO أَلفَthousand مَولايَmy lord وَلَكِنَّهاbut it
يا أَلفَ مَولايَ وَلَكِنَّها
مَحسوبَةٌcounted مِنas part of جُملَةِthe total الأَلفِthe thousand
مَحسوبَةٌ مِن جُملَةِ الأَلفِ
O my lord’s thousand—but it
O chief, I've thousand lords, and yet
is counted as part of the total thousand.
Among the thousand you are set
Sol 6.1