1. How the outcast is despised, the disgraced abased,
While the beloved, attributed one is lowered!

2. He complained to God, after suffering He reclaimed,
People tried their utmost, and the silent rocks.

3. Will two days of resentment remain
Then it becomes a sacrifice, its rope severed?

4. Far be it from God to shorten the reprimand
So its time rehearses while it’s potent.

5. God spread the state of Ibn Suleiman
So be certain that it does not die.

6. After resurrection there is no death in suppression
To enemies, all are subdued.

7. The auspicious right hand God intentionally allowed
To the eloquent tongue, its attributes withheld.

8. Witness that God’s blessing in you
O Al Wahb never did the ocean whale collide.

9. How many enemies woke up overwhelmed
With blessings from them, no livelihood.

10. If the compatriots’ limited lifespan persisted
While theirs endured pulverized.

11. A group tried to destroy your house
That spiderwebs did not build.

12. You have great favors upon them but rarely
Do the arrogant accept the missed opportunity.

13. They bore their image but does the ostrich bear fruit
Except its equivalent, the spurious.

14. Scoundrels from the people were sure
That their brains had perished.

15. They lampooned you that ever since you rose
The reign was exemplified and the realm obtained.

16. The people spoke the truth, you’re the state’s pillar
Assignment did not punish assignment.

17. Your flaw is that you are noble people
Every evil by your merit contained.

18. You have a sought purpose that eludes the virtuous
And favor sought that does not elude.

19. You have not ceased to stand in gratitude for you
What you have done while the ungrateful silent.

20. In your presence, a requester freed upon hardship
And might against whoever was audacious and restrained.

21. When your generosity does not wrong the intention
And the aspect of your determination not missed.

22. So may God’s blessing upon you last
As long as it settled and the infinite existed.

23. And sacrifice for what his favor meant
And His might necessitated the supreme.

24. You suffice us, You suffice us our Lord God
The Father we refused to worship the sorcerer.

25. Other than you O realm of reign from whom
Does one gain in a day of adversity eradicated?

26. And sacrifice for what your efforts built
Of glory that landmarks have not erected.

27. And protection for what befell you
Of reckoning and the veil that confusion did not contain.

28. But the arrogant man seeks exaltation
In clothes and wealth constantly folded.

29. Does it please the generous that his dress is his residence
And his integrity infringed?

30. If one wages war against you on earth
Then for him in the heavens lies a horned.

31. Had fate seen your ancestors in their prime
It would have been as if it was confounded.

32. O Al Wahb no awe made you panic since you were banned
As you were banned while the sparklers covered.

33. We have seen you looting what you owned
Of grants except for livelihood remnants.

34. The open-handedness of your hands sharper than clawing
And more conclusive if the confounded contemplated.

35. So be patient, your ancestors avenge
And will your ancestors their revenge ever waste?

36. It will not harm the roots, which are hardy
If some secondary branches are contained.

37. The opinion of the prince a treasure for you intact
And the roar of whoever sought slipped.

38. Your honor is securely inherent O Al Wahb
While your dwellings not the burrows.

39. Neither guest nor neighbor of yours felt strangers
Lost in your neighborhood confused.

40. And it sufficed to warn the ones who attacked you
The birds’ and hawk’s apprehension.

41. And that suffices you, may God give you
Loftiness while your counterpart is subjugated.

42. O Al Wahb I have truly known
That my poetry in your glory lodged.

43. If I correctly carved a poem
It generously flowed from the engraved.

44. I have the stringing of praise in you but
For you are the pearls and rubies.

45. From your meanings, I stringed my eulogy
And the implications beyond just implications.

46. Are the owners of implications anything but meanings?
Or the structure of verses but homes?

47. My exaggerated praise does not duly warrant
A right upon you as envisioned by the deluded.

48. The praisers have no rights upon you
But upon God for extolling you devoutly.

49. Then I say an earnest saying
That misses the well-off homeowner.

50. My eager soul oh that pride
Does not lend me before his death Talut.

51. So that God sees every aggressor upon you
While by his demise with me destroyed.

52. If I could withstand the fight for your sake I would fight
Even if it were my casket.

53. I am straightforward of pace within you when
Crookedness creeps into the elevated.

54. Gratitude of an act that constantly flows through you
Without stopping, by what flows specified.

55. From white palms that came outstretched
To us with their generosity weaves cemented.

56. With magic that Harut was not given.
A genie crafted it, not humans

57. Who handle words to swoon the coquettish.
Transforming convoluting, had one day slipped

58. Into burrows, the burrows would have slipped it.
It did not harm him that he was not an Arab

59. His abode Qarqarat or Marwah.
From it blew a scent, O Al Wahb

60. It is musk in crumbled ambergris.
And its broadcast aroma, some people said

61. Beirut greeted us with its wine.