يا غوث كل امرءٍ أودى به الكمدُ

يا غوث كل امرءٍ أودى به الكمدُ

عليك بعد إله العرش نعتمدُ

عليك بعد إله العرش نعتمدُ

O rescuer of every man whom grief has laid low,

O succor of all who are undone by poverty

On you, after the God of the Throne, we rely.

After God on the Throne, we depend on you

أشكو لك الصبر يوم العيد فارقني

أشكو لك الصبر يوم العيد فارقني

صفر اليدين فولَّى بعده الجلد

صفر اليدين فولَّى بعده الجلد

I complain to you of patience: it deserted me on Eid,

I complain to you that patience deserted me on feast day

While I was empty-handed; then fortitude departed after it.

Empty-handed, so turned away after that, my skin

فانظر لمن ما له كبش يقدمه

فانظر لمن ما له كبش يقدمه

للعيد يا غوث من ضاقت به البلد

للعيد يا غوث من ضاقت به البلد

So look upon one who has no ram to offer

So look upon those who have no lamb to offer

For Eid, O rescuer of one for whom the land has grown too narrow.

For the feast, O succor, straitened in this land

واسلم له ولأعيادٍ يجددها

واسلم له ولأعيادٍ يجددها

لك الإله فلا يفنى لها عدد

لك الإله فلا يفنى لها عدد

And may you remain well for it and for feasts that

And submit it for them and for feasts renewed

God renews for you, so their number never ends.

By God, may their number not diminish for them

لا يأكل الدهر أموالي ولا عوضٌ

لا يأكل الدهر أموالي ولا عوضٌ

ويقتل الفقر أمثالي ولا قود

ويقتل الفقر أمثالي ولا قود

Time shall not devour my wealth without recompense,

Time does not consume my wealth nor compensates

Nor shall poverty kill those like me without retribution,

And poverty kills the likes of me without retribution

ولا يدوم دجى حظي ووجهك لي

ولا يدوم دجى حظي ووجهك لي

يا شير خورشيد شمسٌ برجها الأسد

يا شير خورشيد شمسٌ برجها الأسد

Nor shall the darkness of my fortune last, while your face, to me,

The darkness of my fortune does not last, your face to me

O Shir Khurshid, is a sun whose zodiacal sign is the Lion.

Is the sun whose mansion is the Lion

فأنت أرفق بي مني وأرحم من

فأنت أرفق بي مني وأرحم من

أمٍّ يجود على أحضانها ولد

أمٍّ يجود على أحضانها ولد

For you are kinder to me than I am to myself, and more compassionate than

For you are kinder to me than I, more merciful than

A mother in whose embrace a child breathes his last.

A mother generous to her child in her embrace