عَجَباً أَعجَبُ مِن ذي بَصَرٍ

يَأمَنُ الدُنيا وَقَد أَبصَرَها

How strange is one with sight

Who feels safe from this world though he sees it

إِنَّ لِلإِنسانِ يَوماً صَرعَةً

يَنبَغي لِلمَرءِ أَن يَحذَرَها

Indeed, man has a day that fells him

One ought to beware it

كَم قُرونٍ حَضَرَتنا قَد مَضَت

وَنَسينا بَعدَها مَحضَرَها

How many generations came to us, now passed

And after them we forgot their gathering

صُوَرٌ كانَت أُناساً مِثلَنا

ثُمَّ أَفناها الَّذي صَوَّرَها

Forms that were people like us

Then He who shaped them made them perish

في سَبيلِ اللَهِ ما أَغفَلَنا

نَأمَنُ الدُنيا وَما أَغدَرَها

In God's cause we were not heedless

Yet we feel safe from the world and its betrayal

إِنَّما الدُنيا كَظِلٍّ زائِلٍ

أَحمَدُ اللَهَ كَذا قَدَّرَها

The world is but a vanishing shadow

I praise God who ordained it thus