1. يَومُنا يُشبهُ أَمسِ

    مثلما نُصبِحُ نمسي

    Our day resembles yesterday;

    As we are at dawn, so are we at dusk.

  2. إِنَّ هَذي لحياةٌ

    ما تُساوي عُشرَ فلسِ

    This is indeed a life

    Not worth a tenth of a copper coin.

  3. فَمَتى يُنقلُ شَخصٌ

    آمِناً لِدارِ قُدسِ

    When, then, will a person be carried

    Safely to an abode of holiness,

  4. لِجنانٍ غالياتٍ

    عَريت مِن كُلِّ بُؤسِ

    To gardens beyond price,

    Free of every misery?

  5. ما تَلَذُّ العَينُ فيها

    وَاشتَهتهُ كُلُّ نَفسِ

    Within them is what delights the eye

    And what every soul has desired,

  6. مَعَ وِلدان وَحورٍ

    قاصِراتِ الطرفِ نفسِ

    With youths and houris,

    Modest of gaze, precious ones.

  7. لَم يَكن لَهُنَّ طَمثٌ

    لا بِجِنٍّ لا وَإِنسِ

    They have never been deflowered,

    Neither by jinn nor by humans.

  8. عُرُبٌ أَبكارُ حُسنٍ

    أنس لَيسَت بِشَمسِ

    Loving, beautiful virgins,

    Companionable, not aloof.

  9. نُورُهنَّ الدَهرَ باقٍ

    لا كَبَدرٍ لا وَشَمسِ

    Their light endures for all time,

    Unlike the full moon or the sun.

  10. هنَّ مِن إِيجادِ ربّي

    أنشِئت مِن غَير جِنسِ

    They are my Lord's creation,

    Created from no prior stock.