خانَكَ الطَرفُ الطَموحُ
أَيُّها القَلبُ الجَموحُ
Your ambitious eyes have betrayed you
O impulsive heart
لِدَواعي الخَيرِ وَالشَر
رِ دُنُوٌّ وَنُزوحُ
To the motives of good and evil
Drawing near and recoiling
هَل لِمَطلوبٍ بِذَنبٍ
تَوبَةٌ مِنهُ نَصوحُ
Can one who sins hope
For repentance from Him that is pure?
كَيفَ إِصلاحُ قُلوبٍ
إِنَّما هُنَّ قُروحُ
How can hearts be reformed
When they are but wounds?
أَحسَنَ اللَهُ بِنا أَن
نَ الخَطايا لا تَفوحُ
God has been good to us that
Our sins do not diffuse
فَإِذا المَستورُ مِنّا
بَينَ ثَوبَيهِ فُضوحُ
When the hidden among us
Is exposed in his clothes
كَم رَأَينا مِن عَزيزٍ
طُوِيَت عَنهُ الكُشوحُ
How many honored ones have we seen
Whose covers were removed from them
صاحَ مِنهُ بِرَحيلٍ
صائِحُ الدَهرِ الصَدوحُ
The shouter of fate called out
As the eternal complainant shouted
مَوتُ بَعضِ الناسِ في الأَر
ضِ عَلى بَعضٍ فُتوحُ
Some people's death in the earth
Is a conquest over others
سَيَصيرُ المَرءُ يَوماً
جَسَداً ما فيهِ روحُ
Man will one day become
A body without spirit
بَينَ عَينَي كُلَّ حَيٍّ
عَلَمُ المَوتِ يَلوحُ
Before the eyes of every living
Death's sign flashes
كُلُّنا في غَفلَةٍ وَال
مَوتُ يَغدِ وَيَروحُ
We are all in neglect while
Death comes and goes
لِبَني الدُنيا مِنَ الدُن
يا غَبوقٌ وَصَبوحُ
The delusions of worldly life
Are mirages and madness
رُحنَ في الوَشيِ وَأَصبَح
نَ عَلَيهِنَّ المُسوحُ
They left in the evening and woke
To find themselves shrouded
كُلُّ نَطّاحٍ مِنَ الدَه
رِ لَهُ يَومٌ نَطوحُ
Everyone who falls from glory
Has a day of falling
نُح عَلى نَفسِكَ يا مِس
كينُ إِن كُنتَ تَنوحُ
Weep for yourself, o wretched one,
If you are wont to weep
لَتَموتَنَّ وَإِن عُم
مِرتَ ما عُمِّرَ نوحُ
You will surely die though you live
As long as Noah lived
