طرابلس الغرب لي وطن

أعزُّ بلاد وأكرم حي

Tripoli is my beloved homeland

The most precious and honorable city

ولكن شرقيها شاقني

وما شاقني فيه غير ظبي

But its eastern side pained me

And what pained me in it was nothing but a gazelle

ظبي ولكنهم صحفوه

بنقص البناء فسموه بي

A gazelle, but they defamed it

With lacking construction, so they called it Bey

تنبأ بالحسن في فترة

فآمنت لما تجلَّى علي

It foretold beauty in a period

So I believed when it was revealed to Ali

وإن لم أكن مؤمنا بالذي

أشاهد من آيه فبأي

And even if I was not a believer in what

I witnessed from its miracle, so what?

أنست بخديه نار الهدى

فنزهت في نورها مقلتي

I forgot the fire of guidance with his cheeks

So I took delight in its light with my eyelids

وهمت ولا غرو في حسنه

وهل خلق الحسن إلا لكي

And I admired, without wonder at his beauty

Was beauty created for anything but you?

وجدت بروحي ولا منة

عليه وأخرجتها من يدي

I found in my soul, without a favor

Upon him, and brought it out from my hand