1. O you who consoled the people, you lived long
For life is but a part of this longevity

2. Your day in Lebanon is a day for it
With news at the end of times

3. You made my precious tears feel trivial
And the dignity of this grieved matter that made it feel trivial

4. I cried for those praises that after you
At Nawa they became like a prayer caller

5. It is by them that the firm, steady pillar
Did not take long for obligation to weaken it

6. I cried for that virtuous, protected character
That his moral compass protected and the people's character adorned

7. I cried for that love you granted me
With a clear sign of its intimacy

8. I cried for encompassing knowledge, its benefit
Immortality recorded what it documented

9. I cried for inspiration that came to him over
Your peers, the revelation that dictated to him

10. With thought, you summon it from the Most High
And composition makes its essence boil in ornaments

11. Its meaning is most eloquent, and the wording
Most expressive, and the style most well-organized

12. I cried for that fresh, refined literature
That generosity was its habit

13. And the gentle disposition, so that if
Preservers called, it returns what it roughened

14. And the generosity thatrefine in it from gentleness
What depicted graciousness and what adorned it

15. With a glance or a word it indulges
Before the act of benevolence, the benevolent hand

16. It is a great matter that a man be generous
And its secret is the sincerity of what he declared

17. Not expenditures of wealth, except upon
What the self desires lightly

18. O you who mourned among his people
You mourned the most loyal servant of his homeland

19. A young man who kept all his covenants
Despite differing eras and times

20. If he leads the council, he runs it and he was not
Faulted in any position or task

21. He was only an advising brother
Amongst comrades, obedient with confidence

22. Or he leaves office, his evident
Ability in himself takes charge

23. Next to that virtue, minimize with what
Pens and tongues enumerate

24. O you who suffers, may dignities redeem him
If ransom was possible from his bondage

25. Lebanon embraced him to its chest
And perception may find what is feasible

26. Its ribs softened toward you, so you were not
Filled except as a gentle blaze

27. Sleep comfortably, how many a comrade in the foreign
Soil of his exile, make his grave homely

28. And your dwelling will cover the valleys of life
With every blossoming adornment

29. In it is a child befitting his like
That the rose and lily bow