نُعماكَ بَحرَ النّدى بَحرٌ غَرِقتُ بِهِ

نُعماكَ بَحرَ النّدى بَحرٌ غَرِقتُ بِهِ

وَصِرت أُدعى غَريقَ المنِّ والنِّعمِ

وَصِرت أُدعى غَريقَ المنِّ والنِّعمِ

Your favors, O sea of generosity, are a sea in which I have drowned.

Your blessings are an ocean of dew, an ocean in which I drowned

And I have come to be called one drowned in favors and blessings.

And I came to be called the drowned of favors and bounties

وَإِنّني عاجِزٌ عَن شُكرِ أَصغَرِها

وَإِنّني عاجِزٌ عَن شُكرِ أَصغَرِها

وَكَلَّ عنهُ لِساني طائِلاً وَفَمي

وَكَلَّ عنهُ لِساني طائِلاً وَفَمي

And I am unable to give thanks for even the least of them.

Yet I'm incapable of thanking even its smallest

And my tongue and mouth, for all their powers, have faltered at it.

My tongue and mouth failed, exhausted

أَنسَيتَني حاتماً ثمّ اِبنَ زائدةٍ

أَنسَيتَني حاتماً ثمّ اِبنَ زائدةٍ

وَمَنْ غَدا مثَلاً في الجودِ وَالكَرمِ

وَمَنْ غَدا مثَلاً في الجودِ وَالكَرمِ

You have made me forget Hatim, then Ibn Za’idah,

Did you forget Hatim and the son of Zaida

And all who became models of generosity and munificence.

Who became examples of generosity and nobility

لا زِلتَ تُعطي وَلا يُعطيكَ مِن أَحَدٍ

لا زِلتَ تُعطي وَلا يُعطيكَ مِن أَحَدٍ

إِلّا الكريمُ كَفيلُ الرّزقِ لِلأُمَمِ

إِلّا الكريمُ كَفيلُ الرّزقِ لِلأُمَمِ

May you never cease giving, and may no one give to you

You keep giving while no one gives you

Except the Generous One, guarantor of sustenance for the nations.

Except the noble, guarantor of provision for nations

وَلَم تَزَل يَدُك العُليا ولا بَرِحَت

وَلَم تَزَل يَدُك العُليا ولا بَرِحَت

تُحيي الكِرامَ وَبيتَ الفَقر وَالعَدَمِ

تُحيي الكِرامَ وَبيتَ الفَقر وَالعَدَمِ

And your hand has always been uppermost, and has never ceased

Your sublime hand never ceased

Giving life to the noble and the house of poverty and want.

Reviving the generous and the house of poverty and nonexistence