إِن أَشِرَ الخَطبُ فَلا رَوعَةٌ

أَو عَظُمَ الأَمرُ فَصَبرٌ جَميل

If the worst of calamities befall, no panic,

Or the matter grows grave, patience is good.

لِيُهوِنِ المَرءُ بِأَيّامِهِ

إِنَّ مُقامَ المَرءِ فيها قَليل

So one may make light of his days,

Since one's stay therein is but brief.

هَل نافِعٌ نَفسَكَ أَذلَلتَها

كَرامَةُ البَيتِ وَعِزُّ القَبيل

Does it profit you to humiliate yourself

When dignity is your house and the tribe's glory?

إِنّا إِلى اللَهِ وَإِنّا لَهُ

وَحَسبُنا اللَهُ وَنِعمَ الوَكيل

To God we belong and to Him we return.

God suffices us, an excellent Guardian.