لا تدعني فرداً إلهي وحيداً

لا تدعني فرداً إلهي وحيداً

وأغثني يا من به يستغاث

وأغثني يا من به يستغاث

Do not leave me alone, my God, solitary.

Do not leave me alone, my God, forlorn,

And rescue me, O You through whom help is sought.

And help me, O You who is implored for help,

وأعني على زمان كأن ال

وأعني على زمان كأن ال

حظ في ليل همه أضغاث

حظ في ليل همه أضغاث

And help me face an age, as though the

And aid me against a time that misfortune

fortune in the night of its sorrow were jumbled dreams.

In its night of worries pours forth sorrows.

واجعل الصبر جنة لي فأن

واجعل الصبر جنة لي فأن

الدهر رام سهامه الأحداث

الدهر رام سهامه الأحداث

And make patience a shield for me, for

Make patience a garden for me, though

time is an archer whose arrows are calamities.

Fate sought with its arrows events to launch.

فأنا العاجز الذي ورث الفقر

فأنا العاجز الذي ورث الفقر

والفقر والغنى ميراث

والفقر والغنى ميراث

For I am the helpless one who inherited poverty,

For I am the helpless one who inherited poverty,

and poverty and wealth are an inheritance.

And poverty and wealth are an inheritance.

قد توسلت بالشفيع الذي

قد توسلت بالشفيع الذي

في البعث للناس من نداه انبعاث

في البعث للناس من نداه انبعاث

I have sought intercession through the intercessor whose

I pleaded with the Intercessor whom

bounty brings people renewed life at the resurrection.

In the Resurrection the people will seek from his bounty a revival.

وعهدت الوفا وما لعهود

وعهدت الوفا وما لعهود

عقدت بالوفا لديه انتكاث

عقدت بالوفا لديه انتكاث

And I have known faithfulness; no covenants

I entrusted fidelity though the covenants

bound in faithfulness with him can be undone.

I contracted in fidelity with him have no tearing.

فهو ذخرى وما اخيب بدعواه

فهو ذخرى وما اخيب بدعواه

إذا بعثرت بنا الأجداث

إذا بعثرت بنا الأجداث

For he is my treasure, and his prayer will not fail me,

He is my treasure, and I am not disappointed in my supplication to him

when the graves are overturned with us within them.

When events scatter us.

صلى يا ربنا عليه صلوة

صلى يا ربنا عليه صلوة

ضعف مكث السما لها امكاث

ضعف مكث السما لها امكاث

O our Lord, bestow upon him a blessing

Bless, O our Lord, bless him, a blessing

whose spans are twice the duration of heaven.

For which the heavens' duration would be too brief to contain.