1. O fate, my patience is not weak
Even if your dawn is endless

2. Your night has been long, it wore out my patience, and the two
Will end in a period

3. Their extent traced a more tender inclination
To its abode in a country other than my country

4. O fate, what Lebanon has from you
A hope that excuses it with good tomorrow

5. And the old man, if his illness settles
It does not heal like the illness of the boy

6. And the house, if it becomes without pillars
Alas, you cannot stabilize it without pillars

7. O fate, you only clarified in my homeland
Liberty in the humiliation of the peg

8. Those foxes are still as they were
Taking over the positions of the lion

9. And the unjust killer is in luxury
And the weary poor man is in misery

10. O fate, you did not laugh at a weeping
Pauper, nor did you laugh at one with clenched fists

11. Where are the hopes that I waited for
To this day, it did not appear to anyone

12. What is the promise that keeps life for us
While the soul is dead from the body

13. O fate, no arrow hit
Lebanon except it passed through my liver

14. And my soul holds me back because of my nature
And my determination holds me back because of my patience

15. I extend my hand to my pen
And to anything else I do not extend my hand