سلى الحوادث و التاريخ هل عرفا حقا ورأيا بغير القوة احترما — Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri

"Do you know or do you not know that the wounds of victims are a mouth?"

"O Damascus, be strong in the face of hardships / as gold being melted many times but never burns out."

"أكلما عصفت بالشعب عاصفة هوجاء نستصرخ القرطاس و القلما هل أنقذ الشام كتاب بما كتبوا أو شاعر صان بغدادا بما نظما"

"They boast that a towering tyrannical wave has blocked the path to every outlet and escape But they lie, for my verses fill the mouth of time endlessly traversing from the east to the west Tearing them from their youth and dropping them to their fate, destroying their grand palace of lies For I am their death, bringing their houses upon them, inciting even doormen and babies to curse their name!"

"What further wishes and desires / do you seek from life Have you been offered / to see all your dreams come true And the mighty hands were / willing to satisfy you But you love to suffer / like the pious’ love for adhaan"