أَمَلالَةً ضَيَّعتَ وُدّي بَعدَما

أَمَلالَةً ضَيَّعتَ وُدّي بَعدَما

وَجَبَت عَلَيكَ حُقوقَهُ الأَسلافُ

وَجَبَت عَلَيكَ حُقوقَهُ الأَسلافُ

Was it out of weariness that you cast aside my affection, after

After you wasted my love in futility

its ancestral claims had become binding upon you?

When the predecessors established its rights upon you

أَم شِئتَ تَعلَمُ أَنَّ جودَكَ لَم يَدَع

أَم شِئتَ تَعلَمُ أَنَّ جودَكَ لَم يَدَع

شَيئاً وَأَنَّ طِباعَكَ الإِتلافُ

شَيئاً وَأَنَّ طِباعَكَ الإِتلافُ

Or did you wish to learn that your generosity had left

Or did you want to know that your generosity left

nothing, and that destruction is your nature?

Nothing, and that your nature is destructive