كلّ اِمرئٍ دُنياه ذا حدّها

أيّ فتىً سالَمهُ حدّها

Each person's world has a limit to it

What young man is safe from its limit?

أَما تَرى تربة ماميّةٍ

وَكَم حَوى مِن مفخرٍ لَحدها

Do you not see a graveyard

And how many glories it contains within its limit?

شَقيقةُ الملكِ المشيرِ اِبنة ال

باشا حسينٍ حبّذا مَجدها

The sister of the advising king, the daughter of Pasha Hussein

Her glory was goodly

حَليلة المولى الوزير أبي الفدا

ء من جد به جدها

The wife of the Lord Minister, Abu Fida

By ancestry her ancestry was noble

وارى حياءً وحوى عفّةً

وبِرّ زوجٍ وتقى بردها

I saw in her modesty, chastity

Loyalty to a husband and piety in her coolness

في موسمِ المِعراجِ قَد وَضَعت

فَطالَ في ليلِ الضنى سُهدها

In the season of Mi'raj she gave birth

So the night of grief was prolonged for her

ثمّ في شهرِ الصومِ في ليلة ال

جمعةِ ماتَت وَالثرى مَهدها

Then in the month of fasting on the night of Friday she died

And the earth became her cradle

فَريدةٌ آنَسها ربّها

إِذ آلُ بيتِ المُصطفى عقدُها

She was singled out by her Lord

When the family of Al Mustafa was her necklace

قَد غادَرت إِذ غربت شَمسُها

أهلّةً لَم يَكتمل مدُّها

She left when her sun set

At a new moon whose fullness was incomplete

لَكنّ فضلِ اللّه خيرٌ لها

وَللّذي خلّفهُ فقدُها

But the grace of God is better for her

And for the one whom she left, her loss

فَليَهنها من ربّها حفظهُ

مَن أودَعت إِذ راعَهم بُعدها

So may her Lord protect him whom she entrusted

When the distance made them anxious after her loss

وَليهنها الفِردوسُ تأوي بهِ

لِغرفٍ قَد شادَها زُهدها

And may Paradise house her

In chambers built by her devoutness

وَحَسبُها أن كانَ تاريخُها

ماميّة شَفيعها جدّها

And it suffices her that the date of her death

Was Mamia her intercessor, her ancestor