1. We were created for life and for death
And from these two derive all occurrences

2. Whoever is born lives and dies as though his phantom
Had not passed among the existents

3. A man's cradle is in the hands of the mourning women
Like his bier amid the wailing ladies

4. No newborn is free from defect
So how can the aged be free from affliction?

5. This life is battle, we therein
Are objects of swords and lances

6. And all mankind is driven unto it
As the coward was driven unto standing his ground

7. We are terrified however terrified until we are shot
With an arrow from the hand of Destiny coming

8. O Taimuzar, may God's prayers recompense
Your soil instead of reciting and praying

9. And for ninety years you were
Like the virtuous, righteous ladies

10. You excelled the faithful women, so each
Said, perhaps you are the Mother of the Faithful

11. In virtues some persisted
While today you are all of the persisting

12. The kings adopted you and you were to them
Like sons or daughters

13. They shaded diverse glories from you
And practiced piety and righteousness

14. They did not buy you in a market, but
Beside the shade of the spear and the tents

15. You cooed to them in the voice of Morat daughter of ten
While the sword of death was in the tyrant's grasp

16. Thus you were to them and the Merciful a prey
And a link in the bond of Muslim women

17. You followed Muhammad after Jesus
For your excellence in your early years

18. So the parents were guidance and piety
And the child was these miracles

19. Even if you had not appeared among the Arabs except through
Ahmad, you would be the best of mothers

20. You surpassed the proudly child-bearing
To the pride of tribes and languages

21. And most decisive of those who gained mastery in meadows
And most eloquent of those who were eloquent of pen

22. And most innocent of those who were innocent of enmity
And purest of those who were pure of censure

23. And most chaste guardian of a brother's honor
And most protective keeper of the bond of amity

24. And deadliest killer of Time's news
And most patient enduring one of calamities

25. It is as though I and Time are in combat
Rivaling on the battleground of life

26. I fear when the nights grow heavy
And dread the lightly visiting fates

27. But my caution avails me naught, rather
Disdain that I see them taking me by surprise

28. Is one who steps describing circles with his feet
Safe from the returning heavenly sphere?

29. Consider, do you see anything but the hunting nets
Of days cast around you?

30. Had the directions been created seven
Death would be the seventh direction

31. Accursed is the bier! Not out of love, but
For your sake, O heaven of the venerated

32. Nor did the hands of its bearers betray it
Though they walked with my patience and deliberation

33. Never had I seen Mars cast down before it
Nor heard of the burial of metals

34. There I stood to ask you for consolation
And hold to the noble deeds and nobility

35. And look into your soil, then withdraw my eyes
As the streaming one withdraws from the mote

36. And remember of your life what transpired
From morning to morning