أيُّها المختال كِبراً

سِرْ على الأرضِ رويداً

O you who are arrogantly imposing,

Walk gently on the earth,

قَدْ تعاظمتَ علَى الله

وجَاوزْتَ الحدودا

You have become prideful before God,

And you have transgressed all bounds.

مَنْ ترى الأيام أعطي

نَ مِن النّاس الخلودا

Who do you think the days have given

Eternal life to among all people?

كَمْ ملوكٍ عوَضَتْهُمْ

بالمقاصير اللَّحودا

How many kings have been replaced

By narrow graves?

قادَهم دَاعي المنايا

ولَكَمْ قادوا الجنودا

The caller of death led them,

And how many armies they led!

بدّلَتْ أجسامهم عَنْ

وشيها تُرباً ودودا

Their bodies were changed

Into worm-eaten rotting dust.

لا عدوَّاً مُبْغِضاً تُبْقِي

ولا تِرْباً وَدُودا

It leaves no hated enemy,

Nor loved and intimate dust.

قد أَكَلْنَ اللّحمَ هِضْنَ

العَظْمَ مَزّقْنَ الجلودا

They ate flesh which ants

Have eaten, they tore skins which have decayed.

أيّها الآبقُ إنْ لَمْ

تَرْجُ وَعْداً خَفْ وَعيدا

O fugitive, if you do not

Return, fear the threat,

عُدْ إلى ربِّكَ فالعَبْ

دُ حَرِيٌّ أن يَعُودا

Return to your Lord, for the

Servant is free to return.