الحَمدُ لِلَّهِ قَد أَصبَحتُ في لُجَجٍ

الحَمدُ لِلَّهِ قَد أَصبَحتُ في لُجَجٍ

مُكابِداً مِن هُمومِ الدَهرِ قاموسا

مُكابِداً مِن هُمومِ الدَهرِ قاموسا

Praise be to God: I have come to be amid deep waters,

Praise be to Allah, though I've awoken mid-storm

struggling against an ocean of time's sorrows.

Bearing the burdens of time like a lexicon's pages

قالَت مَعاشِرُ لَم يَبعَث إِلهُكُمُ

قالَت مَعاشِرُ لَم يَبعَث إِلهُكُمُ

إِلى البَريَّةِ عَيساها وَلا موسى

إِلى البَريَّةِ عَيساها وَلا موسى

Some groups said: Your God did not send

They said, "Your god sent no Messiah to the wilds

to humankind its Jesus or Moses.

Nor Moses with his staff held aloft in miracles."

وَإِنَّما جَعَلوا لِلقَومِ مَأَكَلَةً

وَإِنَّما جَعَلوا لِلقَومِ مَأَكَلَةً

وَصَيَّروا لِجَميعِ الناسِ ناموسا

وَصَيَّروا لِجَميعِ الناسِ ناموسا

And they merely created a source of livelihood for the people,

Yet they made of the people a shared repast,

and established a religious law for all humankind.

And for all mankind crafted a binding law.

وَلَو قَدَرتُ لَعاقَبتُ الَّذينَ طَغوا

وَلَو قَدَرتُ لَعاقَبتُ الَّذينَ طَغوا

حَتّى يَعودَ حَليفُ الغَيِّ مَرموسا

حَتّى يَعودَ حَليفُ الغَيِّ مَرموسا

And if I had the power, I would punish those who transgressed,

If I'd the power, I would punish those grown tyrant

until the ally of error lay buried.

Till the robe of wrongdoing lay trampled and torn.