1. Is this Lebanon or the mountains of Spain?
Or is it yearning for homelands that revived desires?

2. O white days followed by temples,
You have brought our destiny from afar and near.

3. O youth alike in nature and composure,
We count the nights to return our days.

4. The Umayyads came to Damascus,
With its valleys more splendid than songs.

5. They established a great kingdom,
But fate decreed that kingdoms are not eternal.

6. They left it as the raven hovered,
And the owl cried over your ruined dwellings.

7. They populated lands that Tariq had raided,
In a night that humiliated and honored eight.

8. Until God ordained the scattering of their unity,
And they returned as they came, innocent and guilty.