يا سيدي تفديك مهجة خادمٍ

يا سيدي تفديك مهجة خادمٍ

لك يستقل لك الفداء بنفسه

لك يستقل لك الفداء بنفسه

O my lord, may a servant’s lifeblood ransom you—

My lord, the devotion of a servant ransoms you,

your servant, who deems his own life too little a sacrifice for you.

Who sacrifices himself for you out of his own free will.

يفديك من جليت أول كربةٍ

يفديك من جليت أول كربةٍ

عنه ومن أدركت آخر نفسهِ

عنه ومن أدركت آخر نفسهِ

May he ransom you whose first distress you lifted

He ransoms you from the first affliction that befell you,

from him, and he whom you reached at his last breath.

And from the last breath that left him.

انظر إلى اليوم الذي أشبهته

انظر إلى اليوم الذي أشبهته

لو كان جنسك ناشئاً من جنسهِ

لو كان جنسك ناشئاً من جنسهِ

Look at the day you would have resembled,

Look at the day that resembles you;

had your kind sprung from its kind.

If your kind originated from its kind.

يحكي نداك بغيثه فإذا انجلى

يحكي نداك بغيثه فإذا انجلى

فكأن وجهك ما انجلى من شمسهِ

فكأن وجهك ما انجلى من شمسهِ

It mirrors your generosity with its rain; and when it clears,

It tells of your bounty, then when it clears up,

it is as though your face were what shone forth from its sun.

It is as if your face cleared up from its sun.

لكن فضلت عليه أنك دائماً

لكن فضلت عليه أنك دائماً

تبقى وهذا اليوم تابع أمسه

تبقى وهذا اليوم تابع أمسه

Yet you surpass it in that you always

But you are superior to it in that you always

endure, while this day follows its yesterday.

Remain, while this day follows yesterday.