يا بَحرُ إِنّا وَقَد جَدَّ الغَليلُ بِنا

مِن يَومِ بَينِكَ مَقذوفونَ في اللجَجِ

O sea, we are indeed exhausted

Since the day we were cast into your surging waves

ما أَنتَ حوشيتَ تَحتَ التُربِ في حَرَجٍ

بَل نَحنُ وَاللَهِ فَوقَ التُربِ في حَرَجِ

You are not constrained, buried beneath the soil

Rather we, by Allah, are above the soil, constrained

تَبكي عَلَيكَ عُيونٌ أَنتَ قُرَّتُها

وَما قَضى الحَقُّ باكي البَحرُ بِالخُلجِ

Eyes weep for you, you are their comfort

Yet the Truth has not decreed the sea to cry in stillness

في كُلِّ شدَّةِ دَهرٍ لَم تَزَل فَرَجاً

فَأَعظَمَ اللَهُ أَجرَ الناسِ في الفَرَجِ

In every tightness of time, you remain relief

So may Allah increase the reward of people in relief