أُفنوا الذَخائِرَ فَالقَضاءُ مُجَهِّزٌ

أُفنوا الذَخائِرَ فَالقَضاءُ مُجَهِّزٌ

أَجنادَهُ لِخَبيئَةِ المِذخارِ

أَجنادَهُ لِخَبيئَةِ المِذخارِ

Use up the treasures, for Fate is equipping

They squandered their treasures, so fate makes ready

its armies for the hoarder's hidden store.

Its hosts for the hiding place of the hoard.

لا تَسخَرَنَّ فَما الزَمانُ وَأَهلُهُ

لا تَسخَرَنَّ فَما الزَمانُ وَأَهلُهُ

إِلّا سَرابُ تَنوفَةٍ مِسخارِ

إِلّا سَرابُ تَنوفَةٍ مِسخارِ

Never mock, for time and its people are

Do not scoff, for time and its people

only a mirage in a mocking wilderness.

Are but a mirage of the meadows of deception.

إِفخَرهُمُ وَلَو أَنَّهُم ذَهَبٌ صَفا

إِفخَرهُمُ وَلَو أَنَّهُم ذَهَبٌ صَفا

ذَهَبوا فَكَيفَ وَهُم مِنَ الفَخّارِ

ذَهَبوا فَكَيفَ وَهُم مِنَ الفَخّارِ

Outboast them—even if they were pure gold,

They boasted, though they were naught but pure gold;

they would perish; how then, when they are made of earthenware?

How then when they are but of pottery?

إِنَّ السَماءَ تَهَذَّبَت أَنوارُها

إِنَّ السَماءَ تَهَذَّبَت أَنوارُها

وَتَخَلَّفوا بِالأَرضِ شَرَّ بُخارِ

وَتَخَلَّفوا بِالأَرضِ شَرَّ بُخارِ

Indeed, the sky's lights have been refined,

The heavens adorned themselves with their lights,

and they remained behind on earth as the vilest vapor.

While they lagged on earth, evil vapors.

وَالخَيرُ قَد يَأتي أَخيراً مِثلَ ما

وَالخَيرُ قَد يَأتي أَخيراً مِثلَ ما

أَجناكَ يَنعُ النَخلَةِ الميخارِ

أَجناكَ يَنعُ النَخلَةِ الميخارِ

And good may come late, like what

Though good may come late, like the date-wine

the late-bearing palm's ripening has yielded you.

That ripens on the date-palm in late harvest.