يا أيها السائل عن ديننا

يا أيها السائل عن ديننا

قد ذهبَ المردانُ بالدينِ

قد ذهبَ المردانُ بالدينِ

O you who ask about our religion,

O you who ask about our religion

O you who asks about our religion,

The beardless youths have indeed carried religion away.

The libertines have done away with religion

The beardless youths have run off with the faith,

نحن أُناسٌ حسَنٌ ديننا

نحن أُناسٌ حسَنٌ ديننا

نكسّرُ القُثاء في التينِ

نكسّرُ القُثاء في التينِ

We are people whose religion is good:

We are good people in our religion

We are a people whose creed is agreeable,

We break cucumbers in figs.

We break the dried breadfruit into the mudbricks

We break the cucumber into the figs,

تحسبُها من لينها خزّة

تحسبُها من لينها خزّة

أو فنَكاً من فنَكِ الصينِ

أو فنَكاً من فنَكِ الصينِ

From its softness, you would think it silk-and-wool cloth,

You think it soft from its tenderness

You would think it, for its softness, to be silk,

Or a fennec pelt from the fennecs of China.

Or Chinese porcelain from Chinese porcelain

Or the fennec fur of China.