1. The news of culture in Rusafa is truthful
Its necklace adorned the neck of Rusafa, truthful

2. In the battlefront of the nation it shone as a crescent
Its flashing glare was brilliant

3. Its wrists were adorned with the elegance of its merit
So it was adorned by it the garden of perfect grace

4. With the eloquence of speech that was melodiously composed
At the peak of rhetoric, they are its shining stars

5. It has won the crop of the bet up to the horizon
Lingering, as it is the outrunning forefront

6. It scattered the jewels of its words and they aligned
For the scatterer of its pearls and the aligner

7. Congratulations O house of peace, knowledge
In its folds the hopes are fragrant

8. Iraq was longing for its like
Good news to the eager one, for the intriguing has come to it

9. This is the day of knowledge that shone and cleared
From the face of your horizon the night of ignorance gloomy

10. You had the height, O eye of the countries
When their eyes were flags raised to you

11. The radiance of your beauty is pleasant and the glory
Of your knowledge sublime and the banner of your might fluttering

12. And the symposia of minds in you are schools
And the theaters of visions in you are gardens

13. In you are the prominent philosophers of great stature
Who preceded without a subsequent being able to reach their extent

14. I give you good news of success and this is
In success the years of hope speaking

15. For justice is a lasting shade, and knowledge
A fragrant rose, and living a tender branch