واللهِ لو كانت الدنيا بأجْمعها

واللهِ لو كانت الدنيا بأجْمعها

تُبْقي علينا ويأتي رِزقُها رَغَدَا

تُبْقي علينا ويأتي رِزقُها رَغَدَا

By God, even if the world in its entirety

By God, if all the world could stay

spared us and its sustenance came in abundance,

With us, its bounty ours for aye,

ما كان مِن حقِّ حُرٍّ أن يَذِلَّ لها

ما كان مِن حقِّ حُرٍّ أن يَذِلَّ لها

فكيف وهيَ مَتاعٌ يَضْمَحِلُّ غدا

فكيف وهيَ مَتاعٌ يَضْمَحِلُّ غدا

it would not befit a free man to abase himself before it;

No freeman would for it decay;

how then, when it is but a pleasure that will vanish tomorrow?

How then, when 'tis a toy some day?