ويا خافض الكفار خفضاً مقدراً

ويا خافض الكفار خفضاً مقدراً

باشقائهم في سابق الأزلية

باشقائهم في سابق الأزلية

And O You who abase the unbelievers with a decreed abasement,

O You who abases the disbelievers with destined abasement

by consigning them to wretchedness in eternity past;

Through their misery in the precedence of eternity

وذلك سر بالجلال محجب

وذلك سر بالجلال محجب

ولا حكم إلا عدله في القضية

ولا حكم إلا عدله في القضية

and that is a secret veiled in majesty,

And that is a mystery veiled in majesty

and there is no judgment in the matter but His justice.

And no judgment but His justice in the case

ويا خافضاً بالبعد من شاء بعده

ويا خافضاً بالبعد من شاء بعده

كما أن في تقريبه كل رفعة

كما أن في تقريبه كل رفعة

And O You who abase through estrangement those You will to keep distant,

O You who abases whom You will with remoteness

just as all exaltation lies in Your drawing one near;

As elevation is in bringing him near

ويا خافضاً بالجهل والجهل منبع

ويا خافضاً بالجهل والجهل منبع

لكل بلاء وانحطاط وخسة

لكل بلاء وانحطاط وخسة

And O You who abase through ignorance—and ignorance is a wellspring

O You who abases with ignorance, and ignorance is the source

of every affliction, degradation, and baseness;

Of every affliction, decline and vileness

ويا خافضاً بالفقر من كان فقره

ويا خافضاً بالفقر من كان فقره

يسفله في دينه بالدنية

يسفله في دينه بالدنية

And O You who abase through poverty one whose poverty

O You who abases with poverty whom poverty

degrades him in his faith through base conduct;

Debases in his religion with baseness

ويا خافضاً بالذل من كان ذله

ويا خافضاً بالذل من كان ذله

لغيرك حباً أو لقهر وخيفة

لغيرك حباً أو لقهر وخيفة

And O You who abase through humiliation one whose submission

O You who abases with humiliation whom his humiliation

is to another than You, out of love or through coercion and fear;

Is to other than You out of love or coercion and fear

ويا خافض الجبار بالقهر نقمة

ويا خافض الجبار بالقهر نقمة

وخافض أهل العلم بالطمعية

وخافض أهل العلم بالطمعية

And O You who abase the tyrant by subjugation, in retribution,

O You who abases the tyrant in vengeance

and abase the learned through greed;

And abases people of knowledge out of greed

الهي أشكو ظالاً أنت حسبه

الهي أشكو ظالاً أنت حسبه

ترفع طغياناً على ضعف قوتي

ترفع طغياناً على ضعف قوتي

My God, I complain of an oppressor; You suffice against him.

My God I complain of an oppressor, You are sufficient for him

He has exalted himself in tyranny over my feeble strength.

To raise tyranny over my weak strength

تراءت له الدنيا كأكلة جائع

تراءت له الدنيا كأكلة جائع

فساغت له أكلاً ويا شر أكلة

فساغت له أكلاً ويا شر أكلة

The world appeared to him like a hungry man's meal,

The world seemed to him like food to a hungry man

so it went down easily for him as food—O vilest of meals!

So it was delicious food to him, oh how evil is such food

فيا خافض اخفضه بأسفل سافل

فيا خافض اخفضه بأسفل سافل

وسلط عليه الرجز في كل وجهة

وسلط عليه الرجز في كل وجهة

So, O Abaser, bring him down to the lowest of the low,

So O You who abases, abase him to the lowest of the low

and unleash torment upon him from every side;

And unleash curses upon him from every direction

واركسه مخفوضاً على أم رأسه

واركسه مخفوضاً على أم رأسه

إلى دركات المهلكات الوبيلة

إلى دركات المهلكات الوبيلة

and cast him down, abased, headfirst,

And flip him abased on his head

into the depths of grievous, deadly calamities.

To the pits of destructive calamities