إِذا عَقَدَ القَضاءُ عَلَيكَ أَمراً

فَلَيسَ يَحُلُّهُ إِلّا القَضاءُ

When fate decrees a thing for you

If Fate fastens a decree upon you,

None can change it but fate anew

Then none but Fate can undo the knot.

فَما لَكَ قَد أَقَمتَ بِدارِ ذُلٍّ

وَأَرضُ اللَهِ واسِعَةٌ فَضاءُ

Why dwell then in the house of woes?

So why do you linger in a house of abasement,

God's world is spacious - spread and grow

When God’s earth is vast and open wide?

تَبَلَّغ بِاليَسيرِ فَكُلُّ شَيءٍ

مِنَ الدُنيا يَكونُ لَهُ اِنتِهاءُ

Bear lightly what comes, and all things

Make do with the meager, for every single thing

Of this world surely have endings

Of this world is destined to have an end.