عَادَتْ إِلى مَنْزِلِهَا فِي الْعُلَى

تَأْبَى الثُّرَيَّا منْزِلاَ

She returned to her abode in the Highest,

The Pleiades refused any other abode.

إِنْسِيَّةٌ مِنْ مَلِكَاتِ النَّدَى

كَانَتْ مِثَالَ الرَّحْمَةِ الأمْثَلاَ

A humanitarian queen of the mistresses of dew,

She was the exemplar of the most perfect mercy.

أَخْلاَقُها مَن شَاءَ تَعْدَادَهَا

عَدَّ المُرُوءَاتِ بِهَا أَوَّلاَ

Her morals, whoever would enumerate them

Would count the chivalries through her first.

آدَابُها كَالنَّسَمَاتِ الَّتِي

تُحْيِي وَتُهْدِي عَبَقاً مُثَمِلا

Her manners are like the breezes

That give life and gently bear fragrance.

أَلْفَاظُهَا كَالدرِّ أَوْ دُونَها

مَوَاقِعُ الدُّرِّ إِذَا سُلْسِلاَ

Her words are like pearls or less than them,

The places of pearls when they are strung.

تَقُولُ مَا يَحْسُنُ لاَ غَيْرُهُ

تَعْمَلُ ما يَجْمُلُ أَنْ يُعْمَلاَ

She says what is best, nothing else,

She does what is beautiful to be done.

إِنْ حَدَّثَتْ أَرْوَتْ ظِمَاءَ النُّهَى

مِنْ مَنْهَلٍ يَا طِيبَهُ مَنْهَلا

If she spoke, she quenched the thirsty of piety

From a spring - how good is its spring!

إِنْ بَسَطَتْ لِلْبَذْلِ كَفّاً فَقَدْ

رَأَيْتَ ثَمَّ المُعْجِبَ المُذْهِلاَ

If she extended a palm for generosity, then you saw

The most wondrous and stunning sight.

أُنمُلَهُ مِنْ فِضَّةٍ فُجِّرَتْ

عَنْ بَرْقِ نَوْءٍ فَجَرَتْ جَدْوَلاَ

Its brightness from poured out silver

From the flashing of a torrent that burst forth rivulets.

مَا كَانَ أَهْدَاهَا فؤَاداً إِلى

مَصْلَحَةِ النَّاسِ وَمَا أَمْيَلاَ

Whatever her heart inclined her toward

The welfare of the people and whatever it leaned toward,

لَمْ تَلْتَمِسْ يَوْماً لَهَا شِهْرَةً

كَلاَّ وَلَمْ تَهْمُمْ بِأَنْ تَفْعَلاَ

She never sought for herself one day fame,

No! And she never thought to do so.

بِرَغْمِهَا أَنْ نَوَّهُوا بِاسْمِهَا

وَرَجَّعُوا أَصْدَاءَهُ فِي المَلاَ

Despite her objections they lauded her name

And made its echoes reverberate in the assemblies.

لَكِنَّهَا تؤْثِرُ فِي بِرِّهَا

أَدْوَمَهُ نَفْعاً أَوِ الأَشمَلاَ

But she prefers in her righteousness

Its continuity of benefit or greater inclusiveness.

أُنْظُرْ إِلى الصَّرْحِ الَّذِي شَيَّدَتْ

لِلْعِلْمِ قَدْ أَوْشَكَ أَنْ يَكْمُلاَ

Look to the edifice she erected

For knowledge, it is about to be completed.

أَحْوَجَ مَا كُنَّا يَدَاً مُسْعِد

بَيتٌ يَقِي الأُمَّةَ أَنْ تَجْهَلا

What we needed most was a helping hand,

A house that protects the nation from ignorance.

وَخَيْرُ مَا تَبْنِي يَدَا مُسْعِد

بَيتٌ يَقِي الأُمَّةَ أَنْ تَجْهَلاَ

And the best that a helping hand builds

Is a house that protects the nation from ignorance.

مَا كَانَ لِلْبِرِّ بِهَا مَأْمل

إِلاَّ أَتَتْ مَا جَاوَزَ المَأْملاَ

For righteousness she had no hope

Except she came to what exceeded hope.

فَكَيْفَ لَمْ يَرْفُقْ عَلَيْهَا الضَّنَى

حَتَّى تَمَنَّتْ لَوْ شَفَاهَا الْبِلَى

So how did hardship not show her mercy

Until she wished that ruin would heal her?

عَانَتْ مِنْ الأسْقَامِ مَا لَمْ يَكُنْ

مِنْ قَبْلُ عَانَاهُ امْرُوءٌ مُبْتَلَى

She suffered sicknesses like none before

Had suffered them, a tried mortal.

لَكِنَّ حُبَّ الأُمِّ أَبْنَاءَهَا

بِهَا إِلى أَسْمَى ذُرَاهُ عَلاَ

But a mother's love for her children

Bore her to the highest of her aspirations.

هَوىً وَنَاهِيكَ بِهِ مِنْ هَوىً

وَكَانَ لَهَا عَنْ نَفْسِهَا مَشْغَلاَ

It was an ardent love from which it was hard

To find distraction, she was preoccupied with herself.

حَمَّلَهَا مِنْ ثِقَلِ الْعَيْشِ فِي

تَجَلُّدِ مَا عَزَّ أَنْ يُحْمَلاَ

It burdened her with the heaviness of living

With composure that which was hard to bear.

بِلَفْظَةٍ أَوْ لَحْظَةٍ مِنْهُم

تَقْبَلُ مَا مَرَّ كَمَا لَوْ حَلاَ

With a glance or look from them

She accepts what passed as if sweet.

وَلَوْ فدَاهُمْ مَا بِهَا أَرْخَصَتْ

دُونَهُمُ مِن عَيشِهَا مَا غلا

If sacrificing herself ransomed them

She wouldn’t spare her own life anything precious.

أَلَمْ يَكُنْ أَوْحَدَهَا مُنْتَهَى

أُمْنِيةِ النَّاجِلِ أَنْ يَنْجُلاَ

Was not her only wish the hope

Of the desperate that he be delivered?

فَتّى عَلَى زَيْغِ الصِّبَا لَمْ يَكَدْ

يَنْهَجُ إِلاَّ المَنْهَجَ الأعْدَلاَ

A young man not inclined to the bent of youth

Scarcely set out except on the most just path.

فِي حَلْبَةِ الفَخْرِ جَرَى سَابِقاً

إِلاَّ إِذَا جَارَى أَبَاهُ تَلاَ

In the arena of pride he ran as a fore runner

Unless he competed with his father the predecessor.

ظُلِمْتِ فِي دُنْيَاكِ فَانْجِي وَفِي

عَدْنٍ تَلَقَّى عِوَضاً أَعْدَلاَ

You were wronged in your world, so be delivered, and in

Eden receive the most just recompense.

تَيَمَّمِي شَطْرَ سَلِيمٍ فَقَدْ

آنَ لِعِقْدٍ بُتَّ أَنْ يُوصَلاَ

Set out toward Peace and indeed

The time for a pact to be fulfilled has come.

وَحَانَ أَنْ يُشْفَى المُحِبَّانِ مِن

شَوْقٍ بِهِ قَلْبَاهُمَا أَشْعِلا

And the time has come for the two lovers to be healed

From a yearning that set both their hearts aflame.

قُولِي لَهُ إِنَّا عَلَى عَهْدِهِ

كَأَنَّ عَهْداً خَالِياً مَا خَلاَ

Tell him, “We are true to his covenant

As if an untarnished covenant it were not.”

وَإِنَّ ذِكْرَاهُ وَزِيدَتْ بِمَا

جَدَّدْتِ لَنْ تُنْسَى وَلَن تَخْمُلاَ

And the mention of him has increased with what

You renewed, it will not be forgotten or fade.

سَقَاكُمَا العَفْوُ نَدًى كَالَّذِي

أَغْدَقْهُمَا دَهْراً وَلَمْ تَبْخَلا

May the pardon water you both with a dew like that

Which it lavished on you both once unstinting.