يَا قَلْبُ مَهْمَا رَمَاكَ الدَّهْرُ عَنْ غَرَضٍ

يَا قَلْبُ مَهْمَا رَمَاكَ الدَّهْرُ عَنْ غَرَضٍ

بِنَكْبَةٍ أبْدَلَتْكَ الزَّيْنَ بِالشَّيْنِ

بِنَكْبَةٍ أبْدَلَتْكَ الزَّيْنَ بِالشَّيْنِ

O heart, whenever fate strikes you deliberately

O heart, though fate may thwart your dearest aim

with a calamity that has replaced your beauty with ugliness,

And change your joy to grief, your good to shame,

لاَ تَخْشَ عُسْراً فَإنَّ اليُسْرَ يَغْلُبُهُ

لاَ تَخْشَ عُسْراً فَإنَّ اليُسْرَ يَغْلُبُهُ

وَلَيْسَ يُغْلَبُ عُسْرٌ بَيْنَ يُسْرَيْنِ

وَلَيْسَ يُغْلَبُ عُسْرٌ بَيْنَ يُسْرَيْنِ

do not fear hardship, for ease overcomes it;

Fear not affliction that must pass away;

and no hardship is overcome between two eases.

Between two joys a sorrow cannot stay.