دنیا همه هیچ و اهل دنیا همه هیچ

Is the feeling of happiness and joy nothing?

Is there no difference between beggary and kingship?

Are the tresses of the beloved and the neck of the beloved nothing?

Is this intoxication and anxiety during the gamble nothing?

Is it also nothing that you endured pain and suffering?

Is there nothing in the path of wisdom and knowledge you pursued?

Is there nothing that you reduced the suffering of humanity and added to human knowledge?

Khayyam, why didn't you sleep, and instead compose poetry, if all these are nothing?