1. He walked with time and its generations
May God protect and care for him

2. And the world reads its legends about him
In scripts written in its folds

3. Like sequels, story by story
As if the pages were mouths

4. So Fakhr al-Din one day when he was done
Glory and grandeur came to him

5. Greater than Fakhr al-Din was any prince
Glory embraced him and was his brother

6. Victory revealed to him its verses
He believed the revelation and dictated it

7. Dictated it with the sword to his troops
His messengers were his elite guard

8. We compete with the East for its history
And match it in the West with his remembrance

9. I swear by the cedars and their history
I will recount fully his glory

10. And by the Mount Lebanon mountains around him
That touch the stars on their peaks

11. And by the blood shed for his sake
The finest and purest blood

12. What glory recorded for his sons
Is nobler than what his own son recorded

13. It is said he ransomed Lebanon, they said yes
With the most precious souls we ransomed it

14. They died as loyalty required of them
The immortal are glory and God

15. I stood by the cedars, how many times
It stirred the heart and saddened it

16. I say to the cedar in its shade
A grave our hands dug

17. O cedar shadow our glory in the earth
Do you not see we buried it?

18. O grave where we found comfort
In the gloom of darkness was its dwelling

19. It held the tender youth in its midst
So its scent was perfume

20. Lebanon, the Khazens ransomed you
And who can match those who ransomed you?

21. When we asked glory about their glory
The cedar told us and quenched our thirst