اللَهُ إِن أَعطاكَ يُجزِل

وَكَأَنَّ هَذا الدَهرَ يَهزِل

God, if He gives you plenty

And time seems to slip away

كِسرى بَنى إِيوانَهُ

وَالعَنكَبوتُ تَظَلُّ تَغزِل

Khosrau built his palace

While spiders spin their webs

هَل يَشعُرَنَّ المَيتُ إِن

ظَهرُ الثَرى بِالحَيِّ زُلزِل

Does the dead feel

When the earth shakes the living?

أَرجُوا أَو اِعتَزَلوا فَإِن

ني عَن مَقامِكُم بِمَعزِلِ

Hope or withdraw, for I

Am far from where you stand

قَد طالَ سَيري في الحَيا

ةِ وَلي بِبَطنِ الأَرضِ مَنزِلِ

Long has my journey through life been

And in the belly of the earth, my home