1. With your resolve, take heart when helpers are few
And let not indifference make your purpose limp

2. My eyes stay awake in the dark of calamities
With thoughts that are moonlit and clear

3. Do not leave matters to the negligent
For those affairs will belong to others

4. I am more truthful in striving for you
In what you attempt, for you are most deserving

5. Matters may be left to the vigilant
But even the vigilant may grow weary

6. Complete what you seek by yourself
Upright, not relying on others

7. The full moons gained the light of the sun
Yet with the sun, the full moons couldn't dispense

8. We don't deny the merit of some people
Among us their excellence is well known

9. They have done good work, but still
The expert is master in his own home

10. My kinsmen, awake from your slumber
For the bed has grown weary of its long use

11. When life passes in sleep
Beds and graves become all the same

12. God forbid such a grave thing
Whose realization would tax the petty

13. When the matter has grown dangerous
Perilous efforts must meet it head on

14. So take on the task with a sound heart
Backed by resolute, daring determination

15. And never let desires lead you astray
For desire's pursuers stumble and fall

16. Our tongues may confuse us
When the heart and conscience differ

17. All birds have wings and feathers
Yet between them are those that cannot fly

18. Truth between people is a sun
Rising on the horizon of minds

19. To the eyes of the wise it's light
To the livers of fools it's fire

20. So unite, my people, in cooperation
That our ending may be good

21. And after long hardship and toil
Reclaim what time has robbed from our hands

22. And for civilization raise up every edifice
Over which the clouds pass as they move

23. Are we not descendants of those whose fame
Filled annals and ages of yore?

24. Who shone like suns in knowledge
With splendor the ether extols

25. Let's follow their path and spend an age
With resolve that never wanes or grows old

26. And not pride ourselves on their ancient glory
For to us that's a disgrace so severe

27. Shall we build greatness from our progress?
If our hands can reach, they will grasp and hold

28. I see the countries weeping in sorrow
For their delight is destroyed by desolation

29. The cedars of Lebanon mourn in lament
And ruins mourn the past's expiration

30. Damascus is destroyed without cease
And none live there but the eagles

31. Baalbek, and there is nothing in it
Except ruins hinting of its honor

32. Events attack it daily
As eagles swooped down on prey

33. If the country knew what has bared it
It would nearly faint in its zeal

34. What a terrible, frightening event
At which breasts and hearts are distraught

35. Eyes delighted, but now slumber
Though tears will follow their rest

36. Through you and your efforts, glories are built
And its blossoming garden thrives and grows

37. The shadow of the great state is over us
Success heralds our triumphant woes

38. That is rain over the plain of justice
A wall around the garden of knowledge