أتَحِينُ فِي هَذِي النَّضَارَةِ وَالصِّبَا

مَنْ يَبْكِ مِنْ أَسَفٍ فَلَيْسَ مَلُوما

In this youth and prime of life,

Let none blame him who weeps in sorrow.

َأَكْبَرْتُ فيكَ الخَطْبُ حَتَّى إِنَّنِي

لأَرَى الثَّرَى يَحْنُو عَلَيْكَ رَحِيمَا

Great grief for you fills me, until

I see even the earth bend with compassion.

يَا مُهْجَةً ذَابَتْ وَعَيْناً أُغْمِضَتْ

ذَهَبَ الرَّدَى بِهِمَا وَكَانَ أَثِيمَا

O extinguished flame, O closed eyes,

Decay took them and acted wickedly.

مَا كُنْتُمَا بِالجَانِبَيْنِ وَأَنْتُمَا

لَمْ تَعْرَفَا التَّحْلِيلَ وَالتَّحْرِيمَا

You were not on either side, yet

You knew not what was lawful and unlawful.

لَكِنَّهُ للهِ سِرٌّ غَامِضٌ

يَتَجَاوَزُ الْمَظْنُونَ وَالمَفْهُومَا

But it is a mysterious secret of God,

Beyond what is suspected and understood.

سِرٌّ يُرِيبُ النَّاسَ حَتَّى تَنْتَفِي

حُجُبُ الحَيَاةِ وَتَكْشِفَ المَكْتُومَا

A secret that makes people doubt,

Until life's veils are lifted and all is revealed.

فَهُنَاكَ نَعْلَمُ أَيُّ حَقٍّ بَاهِرٍ

أًَحْيَا النُّفُوسَ وَقَدْ أَمَاتَ جُسُومَا

There we will know what evident truth

Gave life to souls, though tyrants condemned.

وَنَرَى مِنَ التَّصْرِيفِ مَا رَدَّ الوَرى

تُرْباً وَمَا جَمَعَ الهَبَاءَ نُجُومَا

And we will see, from how things are directed,

What gathered dust as stars, and what returned as soil.

هَلْ فِي أَسَى الدُّنْيَا شُكُولِهَا

مَا كُنْتَ تُؤْثِرُ لَوْ بَقَيْتَ مُقِيمَا

Is there in the sorrows of this world,

Anything you would have preferred, had you remained?

إِذْهَبْ ذَهُبْتَ مُوَفَّقاً وَتَمَلَّهُ

خُلْداً هُنَالِكَ مُونِقاً وَنَعِيمَا

Go, you went well, find eternal,

Tranquil bliss and bounty there.