إِذا عَقَدَ القَضاءُ عَلَيكَ أَمراً

إِذا عَقَدَ القَضاءُ عَلَيكَ أَمراً

فَلَيسَ يَحُلُّهُ إِلّا القَضاءُ

فَلَيسَ يَحُلُّهُ إِلّا القَضاءُ

If fate binds you to a matter,

When fate decrees a thing for you

If Fate fastens a decree upon you,

then none but fate can undo it.

None can change it but fate anew

Then none but Fate can undo the knot.

فَما لَكَ قَد أَقَمتَ بِدارِ ذُلٍّ

فَما لَكَ قَد أَقَمتَ بِدارِ ذُلٍّ

وَأَرضُ اللَهِ واسِعَةٌ فَضاءُ

وَأَرضُ اللَهِ واسِعَةٌ فَضاءُ

Why, then, have you settled in an abode of humiliation,

Why dwell then in the house of woes?

So why do you linger in a house of abasement,

when God's earth is vast and open?

God's world is spacious - spread and grow

When God’s earth is vast and open wide?

تَبَلَّغ بِاليَسيرِ فَكُلُّ شَيءٍ

تَبَلَّغ بِاليَسيرِ فَكُلُّ شَيءٍ

مِنَ الدُنيا يَكونُ لَهُ اِنتِهاءُ

مِنَ الدُنيا يَكونُ لَهُ اِنتِهاءُ

Make do with little, for everything

Bear lightly what comes, and all things

Make do with the meager, for every single thing

in this world comes to an end.

Of this world surely have endings

Of this world is destined to have an end.