1. The master of eloquence, who after you can speak
You reached the pinnacle, and access is denied

2. Your path cannot be traced, and since when
Can one attain the limits of that path?

3. Can branches reach what those roots attained exclusively?
That refined prose will endure

4. As will that beautiful poetry
And the meanings of its creator will remain

5. After their maker, though minds conceived them
And if his masterpieces abound, they are few

6. Enough for you are those scarce peers
And enough is the refinement found in his craft—

7. Whether intricate or majestic
Hear it—how can El Kumri then sing?

8. Drink it in—how sweet is zamzam?
Seek its guidance—how can dawn then break

9. When darkness has been dispelled?
Seek a cure—if accelerated

10. How can the ailing heart delight?
Yearn for meadows—how can they then be revealed

11. Along with terraces and fields?
Can beauty touch you? What loveliness

12. Have you witnessed its likeness or parallel?
A composition whose reasons are obscured

13. So what reason is light and what heavy?
It may awe you with anchored rhymes

14. And with imagery you meander through
Oh war is ill for one so dear lost

15. Mourned by forbearance and noble manners
The stars refuse to shine lacking brightness

16. The swords lack clatter and clash
Lebanon bowed its grieving summit for him

17. And soil heaped resembles eyes welling
Therein lies an abode for eternity alive

18. Where his most beloved lies resident
O trustee surrender and the rightly-guided strays not

19. Can one who has the like of him roam astray?
He who lived two lifetimes in his fleeting world

20. Constructed a glory his descendants will perfect