حتى م تبكي العين طال البكاء

حتى م تبكي العين طال البكاء

أما لحزن بت فيه انقضاء

أما لحزن بت فيه انقضاء

How long will the eye weep? The weeping has lasted long.

Until the eye ceases to weep, weeping continues

Is there no end to the sorrow in which I dwell?

As if the sadness in which it ends has no end

قد خنتني يا دهر قد خنتني

قد خنتني يا دهر قد خنتني

ما كنت أحجوك قليل الوفاء

ما كنت أحجوك قليل الوفاء

You have betrayed me, O Time, you have betrayed me.

O time, you have betrayed me, you have betrayed me

I did not think you so lacking in loyalty.

I did not think you were so little loyal

إن أبد مالي يعيني سرده

إن أبد مالي يعيني سرده

أو أخفه يزدد بهذا الخفاء

أو أخفه يزدد بهذا الخفاء

If I reveal my plight, recounting it wearies me;

If enumerating my possessions could help me

Or if I conceal it, it grows through this concealment.

Or hiding them would lessen this concealment

ماتت أماني ولما أمت

ماتت أماني ولما أمت

أحيا إذن للياس لا للرجاء

أحيا إذن للياس لا للرجاء

My hopes have died, though I have not yet died.

My hopes have died and when they died

I live, then, for despair, not for hope.

I lived for despair, not for hope

أصبحت آبى كل ما أرتجي

أصبحت آبى كل ما أرتجي

هيهات ما مثل الاباء الرضا

هيهات ما مثل الاباء الرضا

I have come to reject all that I hope for.

I have become reluctant towards all I desire

Far from it! Acceptance is not like refusal.

Alas! There is no satisfaction like acceptance

كيف أعزي القلب عما مضى

كيف أعزي القلب عما مضى

ويل لقلب ما له من عزاء

ويل لقلب ما له من عزاء

How can I console the heart for what has passed?

How can I console my heart for what has passed?

Woe to a heart that has no solace.

Woe to a heart that has no consolation

ما زلت أدعو للهدى معشراً

ما زلت أدعو للهدى معشراً

ضلوا فلما يجد طول الدعاء

ضلوا فلما يجد طول الدعاء

I have kept calling a people to guidance;

I continued to call a group to guidance

They went astray, and prolonged appeals have still availed nothing.

But they went astray, so my long call was fruitless

ضاع ندائي حين ناديتهم

ضاع ندائي حين ناديتهم

لو لم أضع ما ضاع ذاك النداء

لو لم أضع ما ضاع ذاك النداء

My call was lost when I called to them;

My call was lost when I called them

Had I not been lost, that call would not have been lost.

If I had not wasted it, that call would not have been lost

هذي رسوم قد محاها البلى

هذي رسوم قد محاها البلى

وذي رسوم قد علاها العفاء

وذي رسوم قد علاها العفاء

These are traces that decay has erased,

These are ruins that decay has erased

And these are traces that dust has covered.

And these are ruins that time has covered

فحيثما تسع تجد مأثماً

فحيثما تسع تجد مأثماً

باك ومبكي وآبي البكاء

باك ومبكي وآبي البكاء

Wherever you go, you encounter sin:

Wherever you go you will find a sinner

One weeping, one making others weep, and one refusing to weep.

Crying, weeping, and reluctant to weep

ليس صباح بصباح لهم

ليس صباح بصباح لهم

ولا مساء لهم بالمساء

ولا مساء لهم بالمساء

No morning is truly morning for them,

They have no morning after morning

Nor is evening truly evening for them.

Nor an evening after evening

في ذمة الله رجال قضوا

في ذمة الله رجال قضوا

طال بهم تحت القبور الثواء

طال بهم تحت القبور الثواء

In God's keeping are men who have died;

There are men in God's care who have passed away

Long have they dwelt beneath the graves.

Long has the ground been their shelter

لا التاج ذاك التاج من بعدهم

لا التاج ذاك التاج من بعدهم

ولا بهاء الملك ذاك البهاء

ولا بهاء الملك ذاك البهاء

After them, the crown is not that same crown,

Neither that crown after them

Nor is the splendor of kingship that same splendor.

Nor the splendor of that kingdom, that splendor

تشقي جراغان بسجينها

تشقي جراغان بسجينها

ويجتلي بيعته من يشاء

ويجتلي بيعته من يشاء

Çırağan suffers with its prisoner,

Princes tear their prisons apart

And whoever wishes beholds his pledge of allegiance.

And He lets whom He wills inherit His land

يا رب هذي كعبة شيدت

يا رب هذي كعبة شيدت

ركناً وهذا خاتم الأنبياء

ركناً وهذا خاتم الأنبياء

O Lord, here is a Kaaba, erected

O Lord, this is the Ka'ba I erected

As a pillar, and here is the Seal of the Prophets.

As a pillar, and this is the seal of the prophets

اساءني بينهما ظالمي

اساءني بينهما ظالمي

وقد كفى بينهما أن أساء

وقد كفى بينهما أن أساء

My oppressor wronged me between the two;

My oppressors have wronged me between them

And it was enough that he did wrong between them.

And it was enough evil to wrong me between them

أعدم قوماً بت أرثيهم

أعدم قوماً بت أرثيهم

والهفي ماذا يفيد الرتاء

والهفي ماذا يفيد الرتاء

I am bereft of men whom I now mourn.

I lost a people whose loss I mourn

Alas for my grief! What use is lamentation?

But what does my wailing accomplish?

كانوا غيوثي حين لا غيث لي

كانوا غيوثي حين لا غيث لي

كانوا نمائي حين ما لي نماء

كانوا نمائي حين ما لي نماء

They were my rains when I had no rain;

They were my succor when I had no succor

They were my growth when I had no growth.

They were my growth when I had no growth

أقول والطلم بآفاته

أقول والطلم بآفاته

يحتث للملك مطايا الفناء

يحتث للملك مطايا الفناء

I say, while oppression with its scourges

I say, and tyranny with its calamities

Spurs the mounts of annihilation toward the kingdom:

Saddles for the king the steeds of mortality

لا ييأس المكروب من فرجة

لا ييأس المكروب من فرجة

ولا عليل أبداً من شفاء

ولا عليل أبداً من شفاء

Let not the distressed despair of relief,

The anguished should not despair of relief

Nor the sick ever despair of healing.

Nor the sick ever of healing

العدل سلطان شديد القوى

العدل سلطان شديد القوى

ينصره الله بجند القضاء

ينصره الله بجند القضاء

Justice is a sovereign of mighty strength;

Justice is a strong sultan

God aids it with the army of fate.

God supports it with the troops of destiny