كَيْفَ يَبْقَى مَنْ يُعَرِّضُهُ

كَيْفَ يَبْقَى مَنْ يُعَرِّضُهُ

لِلْمَنَايَا لَحْمُهُ وَدَمُهْ

لِلْمَنَايَا لَحْمُهُ وَدَمُهْ

How can one survive, exposed

To death by his flesh and blood?

كَلُّ شَيءٍ فِيْهِ صِحَّتُهُ

كَلُّ شَيءٍ فِيْهِ صِحَّتُهُ

فِيْهِ إِنْ مَيَّزْتَهُ سَقَمُهْ

فِيْهِ إِنْ مَيَّزْتَهُ سَقَمُهْ

Everything in which his health lies

Contains, if you examine it, his sickness.

فَالَّذِي يَشْفِيْهِ يُمْرِضُهُ

فَالَّذِي يَشْفِيْهِ يُمْرِضُهُ

وَالَّذِي يُحْيِيْهِ يَحْتَرِمُهْ

وَالَّذِي يُحْيِيْهِ يَحْتَرِمُهْ

So what heals him makes him ill,

And what gives him life cuts his life short.