1. The conditions of life have adorned every garden in Tripoli,
Indicating a fragrant garden of superior virtue,

2. A garden whose growth the clouds of divine knowledge have watered
With droplets of flowing pearls like dewdrops.

3. It has grown and become tall, reviving every desert,
So we do not care about the barren, arid plain.

4. God has established an association which has been successful and united
Within its ranks every skillful, elite archer,

5. Of every night watcher whose only ambition
Is in the assemblies of the stars, not in churches.

6. They are a people whose faces illuminate the darkness, and
From their ideas, meteors flash through the gloom,

7. Benefits flow from their pens, and through them
The thirsty have attained an unstinting spring,

8. A meadow for every enthusiast, a spirit for the despondent,
Sustenance for the seeker, light for the igniter.

9. They have renewed the lost vitality of ancient knowledge in
An era we see competing with the era of Andalusia,

10. In a city whose glories have an influence
That has persisted elevated in every age,

11. It has endured so that no Arab or Persian city
Has paralleled it in its virtues,

12. Say to whoever intends to date its glory out of greed
That every civilization falls short of Tripoli.