سَل دِيارَ الحَيِّ ما غَيَّرَها

سَل دِيارَ الحَيِّ ما غَيَّرَها

وَمَحاها وَمَحا مَنظَرَها

وَمَحاها وَمَحا مَنظَرَها

Ask the tribe's dwellings what has changed them

Ask the dwellings of the living what has changed them,

And effaced them and effaced their appearance.

And erased them, and erased their aspect;

وَهيَ اللاتي إِذا ما اِنقَلَبَت

وَهيَ اللاتي إِذا ما اِنقَلَبَت

صَيَّرَت مَعروفَها مُنكَرَها

صَيَّرَت مَعروفَها مُنكَرَها

And they are those that, whenever they change,

They who, when they have been transformed,

Turn what is familiar in them into what is strange.

Turn their good into evil.

إِنَّما الدُّنيا كَظِلٍّ زائِلٍ

إِنَّما الدُّنيا كَظِلٍّ زائِلٍ

نَحمَدُ اللَّهَ كَذا قَدَّرَها

نَحمَدُ اللَّهَ كَذا قَدَّرَها

The world is but like a passing shadow;

Verily the life of this world is only like a shadow that passes away.

We praise God; thus has He ordained it.

We praise God who has decreed it thus.