فَسَدَ التَّوَسُّل فِي الْبَلدْ

فَسَدَ التَّوَسُّل فِي الْبَلدْ

هَيْهَاتَ يَصْدقُ مَنْ وَعَدْ

هَيْهَاتَ يَصْدقُ مَنْ وَعَدْ

Pleading has become futile in the land.

The ways of currying favor have failed in this land

How unlikely that whoever promised will keep his word!

How preposterous, he who makes promises is not truthful

تَرْجو وَتُلْحِفُ سَائِلاً

تَرْجو وَتُلْحِفُ سَائِلاً

أَمَّا المجِيبُ فَلاَ أَحَدْ

أَمَّا المجِيبُ فَلاَ أَحَدْ

You hope and plead insistently as a petitioner.

You plead and flatter in vain

But as for one who answers, there is none.

But there is none who answers