أي خير يَرجو بَنو الدهرِ في الدَه

ر ومازالَ قاتلاً لِبَنيهِ

What good do the people of time hope for in life

When it remains an everlasting killer of its sons?

مَن يعمر يفجع بفقد الأحبا

ومن ماتَ فالمصيبةُ فيهِ

He who lives long will grieve the loss of loved ones

And he who died, the disaster was in him