1. O my tears, relieve me of the fire of my sorrows
For I knew you both as the best of my helpers

2. A fire rages in my heart, could you
Quench it with pouring and calmness?

3. If today I have no comforting beloved
Then which day has my presence and tenderness?

4. I spend the nights without seeing a specter I love
Split between confusion and anxiety

5. I have nothing but cups of tears as company
And nothing but the stars of night as my regret

6. Manliness refuses a heart not burning
For a lover and an eye not crying

7. Glory never let me onto its lofty backs
If it had not deafened my heart and forsaken me

8. Not every brother whose death comes
Falls upon the heads of his family like a collapsed building

9. We have lost you, O Abdel Salam, you were
The hoped for in lands and homelands

10. You were a pillar for it, indeed a nation took refuge
From foes in its nobles and pillars

11. The brilliant quality tires whoever competes with it
And the killing distinction from knowledge and proof

12. It casts from its entities whoever aims
Every bow of thought missing it

13. His praises were diverse, we say for them
Glory to their composer in the thread of humanity

14. Refined manners in wool and in rags
And advisor of affection in secret and openly