نِعمَ الفَتى لَو كانَ يَعرِفُ رَبَّهُ

نِعمَ الفَتى لَو كانَ يَعرِفُ رَبَّهُ

وَيُقيمُ وَقتَ صَلاتِهِ حَمّادُ

وَيُقيمُ وَقتَ صَلاتِهِ حَمّادُ

A fine young man—if only he knew his Lord

Oh what a fine lad he'd be if he knew his Lord

and observed his prayer times—is Hammad!

And established the times of his prayer, Hammad

وَاِبيَضَّ مِن شُربِ المُدامةِ وَجهُهُ

وَاِبيَضَّ مِن شُربِ المُدامةِ وَجهُهُ

وَبيَاضُهُ يَومَ الحِسابِ سَوادُ

وَبيَاضُهُ يَومَ الحِسابِ سَوادُ

And his face has turned white from drinking wine,

His face whitened from drinking wine

but its whiteness on the Day of Reckoning will be blackness.

Yet on Judgement Day his blackness appears