1. People in life are but words, and you are their meaning,
And life itself is your servant, and you are its master.

2. In your right hand is a sword and a pen,
Both with fires and waters in their margins.

3. The will of the Creator has flowed with benevolence,
So people say "In God's name" wherever it goes.

4. Its rising star gave Syria good tidings,
With stars like the Pleiades guarding over its people.

5. A leader whose governance is not straitened by any strategy,
Even if all the people of the world were his subjects.

6. In his heart is an overflowing sea of knowledge,
Such that pearls have become his most trivial gifts.

7. He seeks no one's legal opinions or edicts,
Yet the jurists seek edicts and counsel from him.

8. Religion and worldly life frequent his gatherings,
So that his worldly rule never breaks from religion.

9. He governed the lands with kindness and justice,
So that all the people came to adore him.

10. He brought tranquility to a region where he stayed,
Such that scarcely a tremor could disturb it.

11. If lions were once his subjects,
They would prey on no one that crossed their path.

12. Nobility rises above the highest horizons for him,
Until even the mighty are lower than his lowest.

13. And the more glory he gains, the more humble he becomes,
For prestige and status never made him vain.

14. Welcome to the arrival in Beirut, which has rejoiced,
And were it able, would have come to greet him itself.

15. It saluted its blooming, fertile environs,
Just as God saluted it with a worthy greeting.

16. O lord who arose to shepherd the face of his Creator,
With God's gaze always watching over him.

17. You have succeeded, by God's grace, in obeying Him,
And all people together pray, may God increase you.