قَد قسَا الدَّهرُ عَلِيَّه

قَد قسَا الدَّهرُ عَلِيَّه

ونَعَى نَفسِي إِليَّه

ونَعَى نَفسِي إِليَّه

Time has indeed been cruel to me,

Time has been cruel to me

and announced my own death to me.

And my soul is weary of it

فِي الثَّرى بَعضِي وتَخطُو

فِي الثَّرى بَعضِي وتَخطُو

فَوقَها مِنِّى البَقِيَّه

فَوقَها مِنِّى البَقِيَّه

Part of me lies in the dust, and walking

Some of me is in the dust

above it is the rest of me.

While the rest still lingers above