1. O you who ask about the fortress of our village, why not
Come closer, you are near, and behold its wonders

2. It is a marvel, and he who built it is noble
Adorned, arranged, and well-ordered

3. Its construction has no equal in design
Do good with what is beloved in hearts

4. And it is a lover to all who yearn for it
The stranger forgets his family, as though

5. It were the gardens of Eden, no stranger within
My eyes have not seen a fairer sight

6. Than it, its radiance does not wane
He who shelters in it wants to be jailed forever

7. In it, and does not return to his family
It is the meadow of horizons, beneath it flow

8. Rivers, and it is a lover to its inhabitants
Lofty pillars, orderly and high

9. Its foundations solid rock
Its curtains like the poems

10. Of Ibn Muqla etched in stone
Or the smile of a singing girl

11. Scattering round pearls from her mouth
In its beauty, the chambers have not been dwelled in

12. By any soul, so refreshing is its breeze
Whoever said in describing it, it is a piece

13. Of the garden of heavens, is right
And if he says, I saw a fortress like it

14. In design in Oman, he errs
It has no flaw, but that

15. It makes the lover forget his beloved in contentment