1. The kingdoms of the East or the ruins of Andalusia
And those its states or their fading image

2. Time has struck them except for their glories
And time goes through people from one state to another

3. And what we sing of its beauties
Became the talk of one suffering from loss of his dear companion

4. If truth prevails on earth, its side bends down
As if it were a forest without game

5. And if ignorance takes control of it, it surrenders
To a lethal fate from the adversities of humiliation

6. Inspire the geniuses of the East through it
From the stagnant nights of the despairing weakened man

7. If you blow into it the spirit of rhetoric and the truth of knowledge
It will rise again after disability

8. Do not make religion a gate of evil between you
Nor a place of boasting and pretentiousness

9. Religion is nothing but the inheritance of people before you
Every man is a follower of his father

10. Excessiveness is not trustworthy in its advice
The paths of righteousness may be obscured from the extremist

11. Do not seek your right out of hatred or remissness
How far is the right from the hater and pretender

12. Do not let its aspects get lost out of negligence
For many interests are lost out of negligence

13. How many ambitions have repelled generations of honor
And how many naps have destroyed the building of generations

14. In it, knowledge is neither useful to the wandering soul
Except for the purification of prohibitions, fame, and money

15. What good you do today you will find tomorrow
Good and evil are measured precisely by their weights

16. God has completed your crescent moon for us
So time saw no defect after completion

17. It still holds in the souls of its readers
The prestige of the first scriptures over the subsequent

18. In it are the masterpieces of knowledge, morals
Events of days and conditions

19. In it is the ambition of a soul adorned with manners
They are the best role models for the seeker of sublime goals

20. You have taught every sluggard among men through it
That life is through hopes and deeds

21. Whatever of the states of Islam has declined
You have depicted it every day with statues

22. Through it we see the people in power and weakness
And the kingdom fluctuating between regression and progression

23. You have not presented to the minds ripe fruits
Like knowledge which you present in the best narrative

24. You have put the best narratives of life, so put
The story of death in its sublime style

25. Describe to us how the soul abandons its body
And decay takes over the empty body

26. Does it long for it after their separation
As the exiled longs for his homelands

27. The highlands of Lebanon shook because of your death
As if Lebanon was hit by an earthquake

28. The land weeps for the loss of its scholar
Like a mother weeping for the loss of her precious son