1. May God protect a people in Damascus, honorable to me
Even if they haven't kept the covenant of one who has been wronged

2. The darlings of my heart in good times and in adversity
And the utmost desires of my soul in secret and openly

3. People whom I expect treachery from at my own peril
Yet meet it with loyalty and turn all their evil toward good

4. How many arrows have they let fly at me with intent
Yet my heart was silent and I count it as a favor from them

5. My soul had promised me relief from them
But when I rise on Judgment Day in a shroud

6. The Levantine lightning reminds me if it glimmers
My time with you, O how blessed was that time

7. O how blessed were the highlands below your honored land
When it appears and the snow has blanketed the meadows

8. My loved ones, I ask no specter for a visit in vain
Alas, where are the tents of Deylam from Aden

9. I forgave you though suspicions are liars
With your specter, where are the eyelids from sleeplessness

10. And how often was I told in the field of the earth, it has perished
And for a homeland for the soul, a leaning toward a homeland

11. And does it benefit me that many lands
I roam through while my heart is pledged to Syria

12. I wouldn't be content with Sanaa as a home
Even if I attained from Ghumedan the kingdom of the son of Dhi Yazan

13. Perhaps a friendly glance will turn intention
And I will find the delight of eyes with family and homeland.