ما لَكَ قَد حُلتَ عَن إِخائِكَ وَاِس

ما لَكَ قَد حُلتَ عَن إِخائِكَ وَاِس

تَبدَلتَ يا عَمرُ شيمَةً كَدِرَه

تَبدَلتَ يا عَمرُ شيمَةً كَدِرَه

Why have you turned away from your friendship and

Why have you abandoned your brother and friend?

exchanged it for a clouded disposition, O ʿAmr?

Omar, you have changed your noble ways.

إِنّي إِذا البابُ تاهَ حاجِبُهُ

إِنّي إِذا البابُ تاهَ حاجِبُهُ

لَم يَكُ عِندي في هَجرِهِ نَظِرَه

لَم يَكُ عِندي في هَجرِهِ نَظِرَه

Indeed, when a door's keeper grows haughty,

When the eye of the door is gone,

I lose no time in forsaking it.

In his estrangement, I cannot see his gaze.

لَستُم تُرَجَّونَ لِلحِسابِ وَلا

لَستُم تُرَجَّونَ لِلحِسابِ وَلا

يَومَ تَكونُ السَماءُ مُنفَطِرَه

يَومَ تَكونُ السَماءُ مُنفَطِرَه

You are not looked to for the Reckoning, nor

You are not hoped for in reckoning, nor

for the day when the sky is split apart,

On the day when the sky is rent asunder.

لَكِن لَدُنيا كَالظِلِّ بَهجَتُها

لَكِن لَدُنيا كَالظِلِّ بَهجَتُها

سَريعَةُ الإِقِضاءِ مُنشَمِرَه

سَريعَةُ الإِقِضاءِ مُنشَمِرَه

but for a world whose splendor is like a shadow,

But this world's joy is like a fleeting shadow,

quick to end, hastening away.

Swift to pass, rolled up in a bundle.

قَد كانَ وَجهي لَدَيكَ مَعرِفَةً

قَد كانَ وَجهي لَدَيكَ مَعرِفَةً

فَاليَومَ أَضحى حَرفاً مِنَ النَكِرَه

فَاليَومَ أَضحى حَرفاً مِنَ النَكِرَه

My face was once familiar to you;

My face was once known to you,

but today it has become a letter of the unknown.

Today it has become one of the unknown.