ليت أعمارنا تقضت سراعا

ليت أعمارنا تقضت سراعا

فلأيا ما بها تنكيد

فلأيا ما بها تنكيد

Would that our lives came swiftly to an end.

I wish our lives would pass quickly

For painfully slowly they pass, with distress in them.

For however much hardship they contain

كل عيش لا ينقضي بهناء

كل عيش لا ينقضي بهناء

فبنقصانه يكون المزيد

فبنقصانه يكون المزيد

Every life that does not pass in happiness—

All life that does not end in happiness

in its shortening lies the gain.

Its shortcoming brings more

وسعيد منعاش غير شقي

وسعيد منعاش غير شقي

وشقي يموت فهو السعيد

وشقي يموت فهو السعيد

And happy is whoever lives without misery;

Happy is he who did not live miserable

and a miserable person who dies—he is the happy one.

And the miserable one dies, so he is happy