1. جَددي كلَّ صباحٍ

    من رسوم الأمس رَسْما

    Renew each morning

    a trace from the traces of yesterday;

  2. ودَعي الناعينَ صَرْعى

    خُشُباً عُمْياً وصُمَّا

    and leave those announcing death struck down—

    blocks of wood, blind and deaf.

  3. إنَّهم أضغاثُ حُلمٍ

    إنَّهم لغزٌ مُعَمَّى

    Indeed, they are tangled fragments of a dream;

    indeed, they are an inscrutable riddle.

  4. سقطوا في حمأةِ العارِ

    فبئس القَوْمُ قَوْما

    They fell into the mire of shame—

    so what a wretched people they are!