تَأَمَّل مَليّاً وَاِسبِلِ الدَمعَ بِالخَدِّ

فَما أَنتَ في دارِ المُقامِ وَلا الخُلدِ

Contemplate for a while and let tears flow down your cheeks

For you are neither in the abode of eternity nor immortality

بَلى أَنتَ في دارٍ سِهامُ خُطوبَها

تُصيبُ وَتُصمي حَوزَةَ الأَسَدِ الوَردِ

Rather you are in an abode whose calamities

Strike and annihilate the garden of the lion and rose

وَهَيهاتَ أَن تُغنيَ الصوارِمُ وَالقَنا

عَلى صَرحِ رَبِّ التاجِ أَو رَبَّةِ العِقدِ

Alas, the swords and spears cannot avail

Against the palace of the Lord of the Crown or the Lady of Necklaces

فَطوبى لِمَن حازَ الرِضى مِثلَ هَذِهِ

زُلَيخا ابنَةِ الباشا حُسَينٍ أَخي المَجدِ

Happy is one who has won pleasure like this -

Zuleikha, daughter of Pasha Hussein, my brother of glory

وَزَوجِ وَزيرِ الحَربِ زروقَ أَحمَدٍ

وَصاحِبَة العُرف المؤَمَّلِ وَالرفدِ

And wife of the Minister of War, Zorok Ahmed

And possessor of the expected dignity and provision

صَحيحُ حَديثِ المَجدِ عَنها مُسَلسَلٌ

عَنِ الأَهلِ وَالإِخوانِ وَالآبِ وَالجَدِّ

True is the glorious speech about her, handed down

From family, brethren, father, and grandfather

وَرَيحانَةٌ وَلا الجِنانُ اِستَفَزَّها

لَما اِستَبدَلَت مِن قَصرِها مُفرَدَ اللَحدِ

She was not incited like a basil plant in gardens

When she exchanged her palace for the solitary grave

وَلَكِن دَرَت أَنَّ الحَياةَ مُعارَةٌ

وَهَل دامَ في جيدٍ نَظيمٌ مِنَ العِقدِ

Rather, she realized that life is but a loan

And does any knot in a rope of pearls last forever?

فَحازَت مِنَ الدارَينِ مِن فَضلِ رَبِّها

وَخَفَّفَ عَنّا ذَلِكَ مِن لَوعَةِ الوَجدِ

So from her Lord she attained grace from both worlds

And that lessened for us the bitterness of grief

وَعَزَّ بِجَنّاتِ الخُلودِ مُقامُها

وَفازَت فَأرّخ عَزَّ في جَنَّةِ الخُلدِ

And her abode was honored with the gardens of eternity

Thus she attained success. Record the date of her immortality in the garden of eternity.