1. O Ajja on the west of Lebanon that became famous
That west is an east where the moon rose

2. It extended a hand to the land and picked fruit
And extended a hand to the sea and picked pearls

3. If its land is lower than your countries
It is a base on which the house was built

4. And the origin is lower in status than the branches
Yet it is what provides for the branches and the fruit

5. When the face of the Prince appears to you
Glorify God forcibly against those who disbelieved

6. Do not divert the finest poetry to love verses
About the love of a gazelle and the complaint of an abandoned lover

7. When we see the finest gentleness alone
Away from the ranks of people, we criticize the approach of poetry

8. And the composer of poetry is a weaver who weaves with it
For each people according to their measure, ink

9. I certainly praised his father before him so
The debts of praise spread over livelihoods and broke

10. So for me there is praise for him that is deserved
Earned praise and praise by the right of inheritance that became obligatory

11. Who has the right to give the old men the heart of a young man
As if it were their heart created in this life

12. He attained the perfection that is with the old men and then
Left them after that old age and senility

13. I ask Allah’s forgiveness, I do not praise him
As I claimed, did the speech lengthen or shorten

14. He is the one who attained what he attained, and I
Announce to the people about his morals, news

15. I certainly looked for an equal for him, but this search exhausted me
Who will look with me?

16. And who do we have like the Prince, so if
You asked, who can there be like the Prince?

17. Poetry visits him shyly
And takes shelter in the fold of pages, hidden

18. Every day we turn it over
In diction and meaning, and we never finish a composition

19. Oh son of the Trustworthy one whose qualities gave you
Five, and you added twelve to them

20. The sensible one is not the one who comes to you praising
The sensible one is the one who comes apologizing

21. You surpassed the one who was most generous over people
So you have become most capable over the most capable

22. It is as if time among us is an ingenious poet
And you are a meaning it invented