قَضاءٌ يُوافي مِن جَميعِ جِهاتِهِ

قَضاءٌ يُوافي مِن جَميعِ جِهاتِهِ

كَما هُوَ عَن أَيمانِنا وَالأَياسِرِ

كَما هُوَ عَن أَيمانِنا وَالأَياسِرِ

Fate comes from every quarter,

A fate that comes from all directions

From our right and our left alike.

As it is beyond our hopes and fears

وَلَو لَم يُرِد جَورَ البُزاةِ عَلى القَطا

وَلَو لَم يُرِد جَورَ البُزاةِ عَلى القَطا

مُكَوِّنُها ما صاغَها بِمَناسِرِ

مُكَوِّنُها ما صاغَها بِمَناسِرِ

And had He not willed the hawks’ oppression of the sandgrouse,

Had the tyrants not intended harm to the helpless

Their Maker would not have fashioned them with hooked beaks.

It would not have molded them with claws

رَأَيتُ سُكوتي مَتجَراً فَلَزِمتُهُ

رَأَيتُ سُكوتي مَتجَراً فَلَزِمتُهُ

إِذا لَم يُفِد رِبحاً فَلَستُ بِخاسِرِ

إِذا لَم يُفِد رِبحاً فَلَستُ بِخاسِرِ

I deemed my silence a trade, and held to it;

I saw my silence as a commodity so I stuck to it

If it yields no profit, I am no loser.

If it brings no profits, at least I lose nothing