إِن هَنَّؤوكَ بِها فَلَستُ مُهَنِّئاً

إِن هَنَّؤوكَ بِها فَلَستُ مُهَنِّئاً

إِنّي عَهِدتُكَ قَبلَها مَحسودا

إِنّي عَهِدتُكَ قَبلَها مَحسودا

If they congratulate you on it, I offer no congratulations.

If they congratulate you on it, I am not congratulating

Indeed, I knew you to be envied before it.

I knew you before it, envied

قَد كانَ قَدرُكَ لا يُحَدُّ نَباهَةً

قَد كانَ قَدرُكَ لا يُحَدُّ نَباهَةً

وَسَعادَةً فَغَدا بِها مَحدودا

وَسَعادَةً فَغَدا بِها مَحدودا

Your stature was once boundless in eminence

Your fate was boundless glory

And good fortune; through it, that stature became bounded.

And happiness, yet with it became confined