إِنّا نُعَزّيكَ لا إِنّا عَلى ثِقَةٍ

مِنَ الحَياةِ وَلَكِن سُنَّةَ الدينِ

We offer you condolences, not that we are confident

Of life ourselves, but as the custom of the faith;

فَلا المُعَزَّي بِباقٍ بَعدَ مِيتَتِهِ

وَلا المُعَزِّي وَلَو عاشا إِلى حينِ

For neither the one consoled shall remain after the dead,

Nor the one consoling, though they live on for a while.