1. You have fulfilled your sacred duty completely
And left generations preoccupied with your memory

2. Wait O father of the free, wait, if the lives
Of the likes of you are like suns with stages

3. We the people of the earth whose misery
Remains, bid you farewell, O fleeting shade

4. We used to take refuge in you during our pains
And see your competence as the perfect asylum

5. And now, vast wildernesses have become
A dream, and embraced the immense annihilation

6. How weak your opponent was in his conviction
Yet you refused to be submissive to your weak opponent

7. And how much you saved from disasters ungratefully
And freed the shackled, so he went astray

8. And how many arrows you deflected fighting
And how much enmity you overlooked conciliating

9. And you were known in both situations as the most generous wise man
Who forgot harm, rather pardoned the ignorant

10. Your voice rang out guiding and calling
Nations in their defeat obeying the fickle

11. And if any nation woke up alive
You found it chained, heedless and oblivious

12. I wish it would bury its weakness in the calamity
Thirstily, and bury humiliation and chains

13. Images crowd to depict in my sadness
When I came to you eulogizing and questioning

14. O loss of man in his arrogance
As if glory had become fleeting

15. And I searched but gained no truth
And buried my hopes and lived apathetically

16. And I mocked my knowledge and manners alike
And refused to be called the wise and reasonable

17. And I remained as the masses tossed me in its waves
After I saw the shore in you

18. And if my chanting were the blood of a poet
Who bore wounds and remained optimistic

19. Forever wrestling his mind and body
And sees existence as tragedies and tribulations

20. And sees the death of the eminent as a crime
No matter how justified and fatal destiny

21. Sleep my friend in your solitude alone
If we cannot find the all-encompassing eternity

22. Sleep, for it is enough what you bore of torment
And death's farewell kills your affliction soon

23. For you have created with what you did achievements
Filling eloquence, undying and in multitudes

24. If medicine knew the way
It would restore your voice in preaching abundantly

25. Or the surgeon knew which orphan
Was cut off, stunned from the immense grief

26. He suffered and cured, and death fluttered awake
Frustrating the desperate or the reckless

27. Lebanon never ceased to proudly remember you
And will remain proud of your formidable thought

28. A mountain of original thought, its armies
Marched with the likes of you in masses

29. If the world forgets you, the cedar will not forget
For it made you its glowing torches

30. The people of guidance preserved the heritage of guidance
Splendidly, and warded off its falsehood

31. It lived for you as lasting wealth and glory
So build for it lasting wealth and glory

32. And when knowledge passes, revive its memory
As knowledge eternally transmitting its light