إِسمَع وَقاكَ إِلهي ما تُحاذِرُهُ

إِسمَع وَقاكَ إِلهي ما تُحاذِرُهُ

فَخَيرُ ما وَقِيَ الإِنسانُ ما حَذِرا

فَخَيرُ ما وَقِيَ الإِنسانُ ما حَذِرا

Listen—may my God protect you from what you fear.

Hear and obey your God in what He forbids

For the best thing a person is shielded from is what he fears.

For the best that protects man is what he avoids

مَضروبُ أَوَّلِهِ في نِصفِ آخِرِهِ

مَضروبُ أَوَّلِهِ في نِصفِ آخِرِهِ

جَذرٌ لِأَوسَطِهِ إِن حاسِبٌ نَظَرا

جَذرٌ لِأَوسَطِهِ إِن حاسِبٌ نَظَرا

The product of its first part and half its last

The first half is found in the second half

Is a root of its middle, if a reckoner examines it.

A root of the middle if one contemplates