1. في اليوم ألف مصيبه

    في أثر ألف عجيبه

    A thousand calamities each day,

    in the wake of a thousand wonders.

  2. هذي من الناس تبدو

    وهذه كعقوبه

    This one appears to come from people,

    and this one is like a punishment.

  3. فكل يوم جبالٌ

    ترمي بنار مذيبه

    For every day, mountains

    hurl a fire that melts;

  4. وكل يوم سيولٌ

    تجتاح أرضا خصيبه

    and every day, floods

    sweep through fertile land;

  5. وكل يوم بحار

    تطغى بحال رهيبه

    and every day, seas

    overflow terrifyingly.

  6. وألف نفس قتيله

    وألف نفس حريبه

    And a thousand souls are slain,

    and a thousand souls are dispossessed.

  7. كم راح زلزال أرض

    بمن عليها رحيبه

    How often an earthquake has carried off

    those upon the vast earth!

  8. أو انفجار مريع

    يغالبون لهيبه

    Or a dreadful explosion—

    they struggle against its blaze.

  9. وكل قطر يلاقي

    من الخراب نصيبه

    And every land receives

    its share of devastation.

  10. تموت في كل يوم

    بالانتحار كتيبه

    Every day there dies

    a battalion by suicide.

  11. وليس في النفس باك

    على النفوس الكئيبه

    And there is no mourner in the soul

    for the sorrowful souls.

  12. وكل فرد وشعب

    صاروا بحال عجيبه

    And every individual and nation

    has come to a strange state.

  13. لا الشيب للحق دانوا

    ولا استقامت شبيبه

    The gray-haired have not submitted to truth,

    nor has youth remained upright.

  14. ما في الرجال أديب

    أفي النساء أديبه

    There is no refined man among men;

    is there a refined woman among women?

  15. لا مسلم صان شرعا

    ولا مسيحي صليبه

    No Muslim has safeguarded religious law,

    nor any Christian his cross.

  16. هو اختلال رأينا

    في كل شيء دبيبه

    It is disorder; we have seen

    its creeping in everything.

  17. ما الأمر فوضى ولكن

    لله عين رقيبه

    This is not chaos; rather,

    God has a watchful eye.

  18. أرى أشر مصيبه

    قد علقت بسبيبه

    I see the worst calamity

    already hanging by a thread;

  19. ودكة الأرض صارت

    بمن عليها قريبه

    and the earth's crushing has drawn

    near—with all who are upon it.