يا رب أين عطاؤك الجزل

ونوالك المعهود والفضل

O Lord, where is Your abundant bounty,

Your accustomed largesse and grace?

أضحى العباد وأنت رازقهم

ولك الجلال وحكمك العدل

Your servants have become—though You provide for them,

and Yours is majesty, and Your judgment is just—

هلكي لفقد القوت مالهم

ورد سواك دهاهم المحل

stricken for lack of sustenance; they have no

watering place but You: drought has befallen them.

صرعى ببابك يسألون لهم

فرجا وانت لسؤلهم أهل

Laid low at Your door, they ask You to grant them

relief—and You are worthy to grant what they ask.

يشكو إليك الطفل فاقته

وإليك يشكو جوعه الكهل

The child complains to You of his destitution,

and to You the mature man complains of his hunger.

يرجوك لا يرجو سواك لما

قد ضل فيه الرأي والعقل

He hopes in You, and hopes in none but You, for that

in which judgment and reason have gone astray.

فاكشف بجودك صرف فاقتنا

واحلم وإن ازرى بنا الجهل

So lift, through Your bounty, the affliction of our want,

and be forbearing, though ignorance has brought us low.