شَرَّفْتِ قَوْمَكِ يا عَقِيلَةَ يُوسُفَ

هَذِي شَهَادَةُ كُلّ حُرٍّ مُنْصِفِ

You have honored your people, O Aqilah Yusuf

This is the testimony of every free and fair man

فَإِذَا حَبتْكِ حُكُومَةٌ بِوِسَامِها

فَبِأَيِّ مَا قَدَّمْتِ مِنْ فضْلٍ يَفِي

So if a government loves you with its medals

With what good you have offered, it is enough

لُبْنَانُ يَعْرِفُ لِلْمُرُوءَةِ حَقَّها

أَيَكُونُ لُبْنَاناً إِذَا لَمْ يَعْرِفِ

Lebanon knows the right of chivalry

Can Lebanon exist if it does not know?

فِي كُلِّ مَوْقِفِ رَحْمَةٍ ومَبَرَّةٍ

حَقَّقتِ آمَالاً بِصُدْقِ المَوقِفِ

In every position of mercy and kindness

You have fulfilled hopes with the honesty of the position

خَيْرُ المَكَارِمِ مَا يَفِيضُ بِهِ النَّدَى

مِنْ ذِلكَ القَلْبِ الأَعَفِّ الأَشْرَفِ

The best generosity is that which flows with dew

From that most chaste and noble heart

أَدَّيتِ حَقَّ الزَّوْجِ لَمْ تَتنَقَّصي

مِنْ حَقِّه شَيْئاً ولمْ تَتَحَيَّفي

You have given the husband his right, you have not diminished

Anything from his right and you have not been deviant

ورَقَيْتِ بِالحُسْنَى بَنِيكِ فَصُنْتِهِمْ

مِنْ آفَةِ العيْشِ الرَّخِيِّ المُتْرِفِ

And you have brought up your children well, protecting them

From the harm of easy and luxurious life

جَارَيْتِ يُوسُفَ وَهْوَ أَكْرَمُ قُدْوَةٍ

فِي سَيْرِهِ لِلمُقْتَدِي وَالمُقْتَفِي

You accompanied Yusuf while he is the best role model

In his path for the follower and emulator

وَحَكَيْتِ مُنْجِيكِ الَّتِي فِي ظِلِّهَا

رُعِيَ اليَتِيمُ وَهِينَ وَجْهُ المُعْتَفِي

And you told of your savior in whose shade

The orphan was cared for and the face of the transgressor was disgraced

وَبَذَلْتِ فِي الإِحْسَانِ بَذْلَكِ مِنْ قُوَى

فِكْرٍ وَمِنْ سعْيٍ وَمِنْ بِرٍّ خَفِي

And you spent in charity from the strength

Of thought, effort and hidden righteousness

لاَ تَبْتَغِينَ جَزَاءَ مَا أَسْلَفْتِهِ

إِلاَّ مِنَ اللهِ الكَرِيمِ المُخْلَفِ

You do not seek reward for what you have offered

Except from Allah the Bountiful, the Guardian