كنتم دليلي قبلا

على وفاء الخليل

You were once my guide

To a loyal friend's constancy

ما قلت وجدان خل

من رابع المستحيل

I never suspected a bosom friend

Could become the fourth impossibility

واليوم لما انقلبتم

وضاع فيكم جميلي

But today when you turned

And my beauty was lost in you

اقمتكم لي عدولا

على ثبوت عدولي

I made you witnesses

To prove my enemy's enmity

فالحمد للّه أنتم

في الحالتين دليلي

So praise be to God, you

Are in both cases my evidence