1. Fifty years not forgotten in events
You lived through as the tongue of fate spoke

2. States rose and fell as you met what
You met from others and from calamities

3. Steadfast, your resolve growing stronger
Against the ebb and flow of time

4. Clouds gather as stars fall as shooting stars
While it remains the beacon, its light undimmed

5. How much in your volumes compiled
From the toil of days and nights' vigil

6. How much you defended what’s right and made straight
Opinion, dispelled the unity of misguidance

7. So for the discerning you illuminated each truth
And stirred the resolute with every imagination

8. Unforgotten, never will I forget the support
You gave me in my empty time

9. Days where youth emboldens my resolve
And I roam in the field of rhetoric freely

10. And see life smiling before me
At a thousand facets in my fiery speeches

11. You nurtured me as a child, and what preparation
For advancement like raising children

12. And to protection guided me books with which
I take pride, no matter detractors’ forms

13. The era of the sincere quenched you with its purest nectar
Always shining, clouds of nightfall

14. You were the vanguard in the awaited time
For the change of ideas and circumstances

15. And the father of journalism in you works his work
Weaving tirelessly to a pattern

16. The sincere with his dedication and steadfastness
Was for his followers the finest example

17. So he carried the burden of catastrophes with his capacity
For events, though weariness weighs heavy

18. He reaps bliss like roses from their thorns
And eases pain with hopes

19. And remains as long as loyalty to his people dictates
Fighting the enemy and appeasing each ally

20. In the guise of a gentle lamb, though you may
Find him in the rage of a snarling wolf

21. I remember his free face made majestic
By the silver of old age with grace

22. Bringing together wit, amiability, and contentment
Interplaying traits of beauty

23. And I see the faces of his confidants around him
As if the veil of the unseen were drawn back for me

24. From every trusted ally, the black of his ink
Is light, and the gaze of his eyes high

25. They filled his pages with what integrity dictates
Of splendid opinions and words

26. And Salim the eloquent, refined, overflows
From an ocean of dazzling innovation

27. Bringing every witty virgin idea that holds
A newness unlike what came before

28. And his mind sees cascades of ideas
Flowing from a pen of his, prolific

29. An era passed, and its dearest first
Brought dead lands to life

30. But he who deprived eyes of their friend
Gladdened hearts with the noblest youth

31. O emblem of goodness whose manners
Are for those who know them proverbs sublime

32. And whose ways are for me the epitome
Of moral excellence and rectitude

33. Through you glory always keeps safe the trust
Which in your hands is generations’ trust

34. So congratulations on your tongue’s jubilee
Take what love and veneration you desire

35. And surrender to it an enduring time, and let
Virtue and perfection in protection endure