1. Tripoli is my beloved homeland
The most precious and honorable city

2. But its eastern side pained me
And what pained me in it was nothing but a gazelle

3. A gazelle, but they defamed it
With lacking construction, so they called it Bey

4. It foretold beauty in a period
So I believed when it was revealed to Ali

5. And even if I was not a believer in what
I witnessed from its miracle, so what?

6. I forgot the fire of guidance with his cheeks
So I took delight in its light with my eyelids

7. And I admired, without wonder at his beauty
Was beauty created for anything but you?

8. I found in my soul, without a favor
Upon him, and brought it out from my hand