1. I will follow the shadow of death among the battalions
Perhaps to find a cure from the edges of the swords

2. So Beirut gave him life with a name
And the daughter of glory kissed him between the eyebrows

3. He passed away while the virgins of poetry mourn around him
How excellent is the weeping of the grieving virgins

4. If I was deprived of love and wealth
The pride of warriors was enough for me from glories

5. Suad's horse, the son of swords for our revenge
And the rest of the souls of the passionate ancestors

6. So this nation will strike until it sees guidance
And it returns with joy to the memory of dwellings

7. I complained of distress after struggle, so you said to me
This body got used to bearing difficulties

8. Give me your body, O beauty, a sharpened sword
When the edge of the sword failed to strike the necks

9. So, many a steed did not stand after stumbling
And a lion, the little foxes humiliated him

10. I am nothing but an eagle carrying its arrow
And striking a bloody heart with its claws

11. My poetry will be immortalized while my beauties pass away
And my enemies will recover from their injuries

12. So say to them, the best of you has died
And you did not know what was between those sides

13. I see the family and loved ones walking in a procession
While I walk alone among the flowers of processions

14. And I lose a companion after another
And I cry over them in the lands of strangers

15. They pass as ghosts so I hear their whispers
And I walk on a past full of ruins

16. And I remember them under the darkness while their souls
Fly over the souls from every side

17. They closed their eyelids but their glances
Illuminate the darkness of the heart among calamities

18. The division of my nation with its religions pains me
With its doctrines and evil among the denominations

19. When will our fortunetellers and sheikhs end
So we can be rid of their lives and scorpions

20. We suffered for their comfort and leisure, yet they
Lead us like lambs towards the slaughterhouses

21. They say "pray, be patient, ascetic, repent
Fast, and be steadfast in trials"

22. While they are among delicacies, provisions and wine
With frivolities in the beard and moustache

23. Our poor fast and live naked in caves
While patiently weeping without complaining

24. And they have increased their velvet and poultry
And told God's people to live by miracles

25. When they occasionally go out for leisure and picnic
The horses drag the most expensive carriages

26. How much communion bread they ate after atrocities
And how much faith they denied for profits

27. I do not want the salvation I desire so much
If it comes from a priest, minister or monk

28. When will an eagle defeat the crows
And the lions of evil crush the foxes

29. Religions have diversified but the truth is one
Through which the fortunetellers attained all wishes

30. Each religion is but a copy after a copy
Embellished by the whims of the writer

31. Most of it is illusion that misleads us
Through the ecstasies that dazzled the deluded

32. Our surrender and reliance lost strength
So how many a weeping, complaining and requesting one failed

33. With the light of reason, tear the darkness of deception
And cut the ropes that connect them to goals

34. In this life there is hell and heaven
For everyone, and rest after death for the unconcerned

35. I have seen good and evil as innate tendencies
Without desires or fears of punishment

36. How many a religious one commits adultery and kills a thief
Yet does not fear the wrath of the Reckoning God

37. We came with destinies and sustenance is a trick
And luck neglects proper reward

38. So are the wicked deprived of good and bounty?
And are the righteous granted the highest wishes?

39. How often when I strive for the best of goals
I have the regret of one cheated and the sorrow of one who failed

40.
Is this the reward of good, to kill a benefactor

41. And to sharpen the blade in the palm of a striker?
Should I laugh at myself and be content with its deception

42. When the knowledge of the Wise Watcher has opposed it?
Leave the illusion, my soul, and live freely

43. Without the malice of evildoers or fear of the penitent
Rejoice in the remembrance of death, for death is rest

44. And do not believe after it in consequences
The vastness is for you my soul, and my body for the earth

45. So never accept one day the testimony of the absent
I sacrifice you, my mother, tear with the light of truth

46. The veil of illusions
And do not call the brothers in their land enemies

47. With what the whims of the misguided and liars have adorned
Enlighten, enlighten the earth and guide its peoples

48. To a path where paths converge
Peace be upon the soul of Al-Ma'arri, it

49. Lit and hid like a flame among the stars
If people had justice and wisdom

50. The light of insights would not be lost in darkness
Daughters of my country who read my poems

51. You are the one I have lost among strangers
I address the poets among you with love

52. And turn away from the playfulness of the flirtatious and coquettish

53. A voice sweetened her soul in her distress
Like lightning and thunder between the darkness of clouds

54. Bestow upon my poetry a tear and a smile
They are solace for passionate love during adversities

55. Does not the heart deserve sympathy from you
When it melted with passion over those calamities?

56. And the nightingale complained about those affections
And the fragrance of lilies emanated

57. Take goodness in spring and delight
And gather love in the fleeting nights

58. Secretly grant me kisses and embraces
And delight me in my misery with pleasures

59. And provide my palm with precious treasures
That will be my weapon against conquerable calamities

60. Chirp like little birds in longing
To conceal the screams of the wailing in darkness

61. Do not fear blame and condemnation for love
For in love is facilitation for all tribulations