1. Abandon news of Salma, O Samir
And leave the mention of Layla and Saad

2. And draw near to the name of she where is the fragrance
From the aroma of her breath in every meadow

3. In the heat of the wilderness she stayed just as
In the hills of Lebanon she began to shine

4. And Beirut became beautiful in the world as
The stars in it began to twinkle

5. She is the sister of justice called wherever
She was once enraged and what a good pasture

6. A gift from the Almighty Creator
Who has endowed her to humanity until the return

7. He said many good things are hoped from her
So graze in the shade of this, O servants

8. Passion has invited her to love's affliction
Complaining of time's troubles

9. He said my life without her has faded
And my time if good then it is lies

10. And my heart if satisfied with her
Then for how many did hearts melt in loving her

11. So my sighs are only from embers
Between my flank and heart

12. So when my tears are like the downpour
It cannot extinguish the volcano's love

13. Oh! My yearning for the days of youth
For the days of youth there is no return

14. I wish and in those hills
I wonder till when will I shed tears

15. May Allah protect you, O breeze of youth
In the morning if you pass by those meadows

16. Then carry from it the aroma of a broken heart
That spends the night wandering in every valley

17. That is my heart and I am a little child
Who got lost from me between those valleys

18. Strange that I live enamored in the West
While my heart is in the meadows of the East

19. And at memories my tears if I am preoccupied
Cannot soothe an agony from my burning

20. The soul has melted and my passion has grown
And by my life nothing remains except my love

21. So yearning, moaning and sighs
That is my habit since leaving the country

22. I almost flew from yearning for Lebanon
If only my wish to reach it would be fulfilled