كلّ اِمرئٍ دُنياه ذا حدّها

كلّ اِمرئٍ دُنياه ذا حدّها

أيّ فتىً سالَمهُ حدّها

أيّ فتىً سالَمهُ حدّها

Every person's earthly life has this as its limit;

Each person's world has a limit to it

which youth has its cutting edge spared?

What young man is safe from its limit?

أَما تَرى تربة ماميّةٍ

أَما تَرى تربة ماميّةٍ

وَكَم حَوى مِن مفخرٍ لَحدها

وَكَم حَوى مِن مفخرٍ لَحدها

Do you not see Mamiyya's tomb,

Do you not see a graveyard

and how much glory her grave holds?

And how many glories it contains within its limit?

شَقيقةُ الملكِ المشيرِ اِبنة ال

شَقيقةُ الملكِ المشيرِ اِبنة ال

باشا حسينٍ حبّذا مَجدها

باشا حسينٍ حبّذا مَجدها

Sister of the king, the marshal, daughter of the

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

Pasha Husayn—how splendid her glory!

Her glory was goodly

حَليلة المولى الوزير أبي الفدا

حَليلة المولى الوزير أبي الفدا

ء من جد به جدها

ء من جد به جدها

Wife of the lord, the minister Abu al-Fida',

The wife of the Lord Minister, Abu Fida

the one through whom her good fortune flourished.

By ancestry her ancestry was noble

وارى حياءً وحوى عفّةً

وارى حياءً وحوى عفّةً

وبِرّ زوجٍ وتقى بردها

وبِرّ زوجٍ وتقى بردها

Modesty was veiled, and chastity enfolded,

I saw in her modesty, chastity

with devotion to her husband and piety, in her mantle.

Loyalty to a husband and piety in her coolness

في موسمِ المِعراجِ قَد وَضَعت

في موسمِ المِعراجِ قَد وَضَعت

فَطالَ في ليلِ الضنى سُهدها

فَطالَ في ليلِ الضنى سُهدها

In the season of the Ascension, she gave birth;

In the season of Mi'raj she gave birth

so long was her sleeplessness in the night of wasting illness.

So the night of grief was prolonged for her

ثمّ في شهرِ الصومِ في ليلة ال

ثمّ في شهرِ الصومِ في ليلة ال

جمعةِ ماتَت وَالثرى مَهدها

جمعةِ ماتَت وَالثرى مَهدها

Then, in the month of fasting, on the night of

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

Friday, she died, and the earth was her cradle.

And the earth became her cradle

فَريدةٌ آنَسها ربّها

فَريدةٌ آنَسها ربّها

إِذ آلُ بيتِ المُصطفى عقدُها

إِذ آلُ بيتِ المُصطفى عقدُها

A peerless pearl, comforted by her Lord,

She was singled out by her Lord

for the Chosen One's household is her necklace.

When the family of Al Mustafa was her necklace

قَد غادَرت إِذ غربت شَمسُها

قَد غادَرت إِذ غربت شَمسُها

أهلّةً لَم يَكتمل مدُّها

أهلّةً لَم يَكتمل مدُّها

As her sun set, she left behind

She left when her sun set

crescent moons whose waxing was not yet complete.

At a new moon whose fullness was incomplete

لَكنّ فضلِ اللّه خيرٌ لها

لَكنّ فضلِ اللّه خيرٌ لها

وَللّذي خلّفهُ فقدُها

وَللّذي خلّفهُ فقدُها

But God's grace is better for her

But the grace of God is better for her

and for whoever her loss left behind.

And for the one whom she left, her loss

فَليَهنها من ربّها حفظهُ

فَليَهنها من ربّها حفظهُ

مَن أودَعت إِذ راعَهم بُعدها

مَن أودَعت إِذ راعَهم بُعدها

So may she rejoice in her Lord's protection

So may her Lord protect him whom she entrusted

of those she entrusted to Him, when her absence alarmed them.

When the distance made them anxious after her loss

وَليهنها الفِردوسُ تأوي بهِ

وَليهنها الفِردوسُ تأوي بهِ

لِغرفٍ قَد شادَها زُهدها

لِغرفٍ قَد شادَها زُهدها

And may Paradise gladden her, where she finds refuge

And may Paradise house her

in chambers her asceticism has built.

In chambers built by her devoutness

وَحَسبُها أن كانَ تاريخُها

وَحَسبُها أن كانَ تاريخُها

ماميّة شَفيعها جدّها

ماميّة شَفيعها جدّها

And enough for her that her chronogram reads:

And it suffices her that the date of her death

“Mamiyya—her intercessor is her grandfather.”

Was Mamia her intercessor, her ancestor