ما لَكَ قَد حُلتَ عَن إِخائِكَ وَاِس

تَبدَلتَ يا عَمرُ شيمَةً كَدِرَه

Why have you abandoned your brother and friend?

Omar, you have changed your noble ways.

إِنّي إِذا البابُ تاهَ حاجِبُهُ

لَم يَكُ عِندي في هَجرِهِ نَظِرَه

When the eye of the door is gone,

In his estrangement, I cannot see his gaze.

لَستُم تُرَجَّونَ لِلحِسابِ وَلا

يَومَ تَكونُ السَماءُ مُنفَطِرَه

You are not hoped for in reckoning, nor

On the day when the sky is rent asunder.

لَكِن لَدُنيا كَالظِلِّ بَهجَتُها

سَريعَةُ الإِقِضاءِ مُنشَمِرَه

But this world's joy is like a fleeting shadow,

Swift to pass, rolled up in a bundle.

قَد كانَ وَجهي لَدَيكَ مَعرِفَةً

فَاليَومَ أَضحى حَرفاً مِنَ النَكِرَه

My face was once known to you,

Today it has become one of the unknown.