1. God avenged those who opposed her
And did good for her sacrifices

2. So how much she carried for the Arabs of calamities
Thus is the mother who protects her offspring

3. Ten passed over it, disastrous
Like pieces of the night whose darkness was not uncovered

4. It brought back the era of (Taimur) to it
So she thought once again of its invasion

5. And the children did not turn white for it but
With the laws of its tyrants, it returned its repeal

6. We knew the day of (Yusuf) its beginning
So who can inform of its ending?

7. (Oh Yusuf), and the victims today are many
Be delighted, you were the first to initiate it

8. The country's plants thrived, and it is no wonder
The blood of martyrs was its life

9. I sacrifice you, alive and dead, as a leader
You raised every glory high

10. A nation got angry at her, and she has a grudge
So you satisfied Arabism and the Lord

11. Oh you, lying dead, you awakened a people
And awakened the sights from their disdain

12. And oh you, dead, you revived in us
Souls that do not settle for their harm

13. The soul of a free man only aspired to glory through you
Indeed its purpose had become its end

14. You plunged into death, not caring
As plummets plunge from its sky

15. I sacrifice for you, rather for your shoes, every crown
Which the tyrants manipulate according to their desires

16. The tragedy of (Maysalon), though it was devastating
Is lighter than the impact that followed it

17. So there is no place in Damascus except
It depicts Maysalon and what afflicted it

18. The branches of fire have reached its homes
And with blood, its land always stayed wet

19. Ask about the blood that was shed
Reality will inform you, it overflowed

20. And I have not seen a paradise whose people
Became firewood for raging fire but it

21. And remnants of the sword are still suffering from them
Exile that tore their determination

22. They wrote eternal scriptures
I see the breast of time has accommodated them

23. And their affliction through the long nights
Rings in the ears of the world its echo

24. I loved Damascus, for it is the abode of immortality
Its happiness residing, humbling its neighbors

25. So when the fires flared up in it
And its flames reached its highest homes

26. Love showed it to me as a house of fire
Looming weakness flickers its years

27. We worshipped it, bliss or inferno
And souls were inspired by it as guidance

28. And the consummation of its tribulation was matters
Time really laughed foolishly at it

29. With the jest of fate, a wretch got lost in it
As Iblis got lost in Paradise

30. And riffraff competing in vulgarities
I wonder at our Lord, how He justified it!

31. I think the scenes of tragedy are over
With a farce that was fabricated by its storytellers

32. If a night comes and lingers
It is best that its morning draws near

33. And the outcome of hardships and calamities
Is relief, when it reaches its extent

34. I will stop, for rhymes today are embers
I fear for the ears from their heat