1. Spare me your reproach, and be my witness
As I pine for you, lovelorn and submerged

2. Quenching a heart that in you is restless
Yearning, its passions stoked and urged

3. A lovelorn gazelle, flawless and precious
Since in you it saw praise, lauded and merged

4. Your fair character, in its age so wondrous
Is the chief of beauty, all have concurred

5. Your sublime nature matches your manners
Both competing in joy and fortune converged

6. By God, Abdullah, be aided and bolstered
For God grants his servant aid as deserved

7. You who from the oyster of sorrow did proffer
Glistening pearls, perfectly formed and curved

8. From a sea of knowledge, rich in virtues
Among people unique, peerless, reserved

9. You were granted a blessing from your Lord
Garlands and necklaces for you reserved

10. His favors for you wrought such jeweled works
None among men has their equal deserved

11. A nature pure like softened Muzn water
With resolve to hunt prey, nothing swerved

12. Elevated by his zeal and his ancestors
Each ennobled by the honor preserved

13. Bearing the proof of order, respected
Where both proof and tradition are observed

14. With honest Roman stewardship
Keeping those astray from missteps swerved

15. Oh son of great souls, unbowed by the great
You are the one ransomed, refined, and nerved

16. Take these words from me, your ransom, Lebanese
I came when praising you was my purpose deserved