أَفنَيتَ عُمرَكَ وَالذُنوبُ تَزيدُ

وَالكاتِبُ المَحصي عَلَيكَ شَهيدُ

You've wasted your life while sins increase

You have consumed your life while your sins multiply,

And the recording angel bears witness against you

And the Recording Scribe bears witness against you.

كَم قُلتَ لَستُ بِعائِدٍ في سَوأَةٍ

وَنَذَرتَ فيها ثُمَّ صِرتَ تَعودُ

How often you said you wouldn't return to vice

How often you claimed, "I shall never return to vice,"

Yet you vowed to avoid it, then went right back

And vowed to abstain, only to fall back again.

حَتّى مَتى لا تَرعَوي عَن لَذَّةٍ

وَحِسابُها يَومَ الحِسابِ شَديدُ

How long will you not refrain from pleasure

Until when will you not desist from fleeting pleasure,

Whose reckoning on Judgment Day is severe

Knowing its toll on the Day of Reckoning is severe?

وَكَأَنَّني بِكَ قَد أَتَتكَ مَنِيَّةٌ

لا شَكَّ أَنَّ سَبيلَها مَورودُ

I see your death has come upon you

It is as if I see your fated end approaching,

Doubtless its way to you is well-trod

For without doubt, that path is one all must tread.