يا مُؤثِرَ الدُنيا عَلى دينِهِ

وَالتائِهَ الحَيرانَ عَن قَصدِهِ

O you who prefer the world over your religion,

O you who choose this world over your faith,

And who wanders lost, far from your purpose,

And wander, bewildered, far from your true path,

أَصبَحتَ تَرجو الخُلدَ فيها وَقَد

أَبرَزَ نابَ المَوتِ عَن حَدِّهِ

You have come to hope for immortality in it, yet

You have come to hope for eternity here, even as

Death has bared its fangs beyond restraint,

Death has bared the sharpness of its fangs.

هَيهاتَ إِنَّ المَوتَ ذو أَسهُمٍ

مِن يَرمِهِ يَوماً بِها يُردِهِ

Alas! Death has arrows

Alas! For Death is armed with arrows;

That will strike down whomsoever it hits one day,

Whomever it strikes one day, it brings to ruin.

لا يُصلِحُ الواعِظُ قَلبَ اِمرءٍ

لَم يَعزِمِ اللَهَ عَلى رُشدِهِ

No preacher can redeem the heart of one

No preacher can mend the heart of a man

Whom God has not willed to guide aright.

If God has not decreed his guidance.