1. سُرورُنا بِكَ فَوقَ الهَمِّ بِالنُوَبِ

    فَما يُغالِبُنا حُزنٌ عَلى طَرَبِ

    Our joy in you outweighs sorrow at calamities;

    So no grief overcomes us amid delight.

  2. إِذا تَجاوَزَت الأَقدارُ عَنكَ فَهَل

    مِن واجِبِ الشُكرِ أَن يُرتاعُ مَن سَبَبِ

    If the decrees of fate have spared you, is it then

    A duty of gratitude to take fright at some cause?

  3. حَتّام تَخدَعنا الدُنيا بِزُفِها

    وَلا تحصلنا مِنها عَلى أَرَبِ

    How long will the world deceive us with its plumage,

    Yet not let us attain any desire from it?

  4. نُسَرُّ مِنها بِما تُجنى عَواقِبهُ

    هَمّاً وَنَهرُبُ وَالآجالُ في الطَلَبِ

    We delight in what comes from it, whose consequences are reaped

    As sorrow; and we flee while our appointed deaths give chase.