1. Against tremors, horrors, and affliction
Should the earth extend, the towering pillar remains steadfast

2. Bare shouldered, unless clouds shade him
He is clothed by them, content

3. He avoided with his sides the loss of way and quicksand
With his origin, and towered with grandeur and the head

4. Huge, his expanse almost blocks the horizon
Like the young, vigorous camel, except that he is firm

5. With him, the earth ascends as the sky draws near to it
As if a towering, straight pillar to the hunchback

6. "An island from the vicinity of" "Al Ghoutah" "upon"
A sea of sand dunes and surging waters

7. "As if your Lord," "when Damascus" "bordered it"
Had depicted eternity and the highest places for people

8. "It remains dragging like a peacock from" "Barada"
A trail tangled amid roses and myrtles

9. It remains rising with burdens, lofty
And the cloud from above it, the ascent of sighs

10. When the sun rises upon it or sets
The chambers of a smiling and joyous one appear

11. You see the stars when their meteors shine
Were upon its head a crown of diamonds

12. It tells of the sky when its lights shine
A mansion, mansion by mansion, and minaret by minaret

13. An impregnable wall which God elevated holding it
In times of neglect of soldiers and guards

14. It opposed time, it did not submit to its voice
Face to face, and did not resort to humiliation

15. So time's hand was short of attaining it
And incidents had an aim below it

16. Caravans of time were slain around its sides
It warns you of them with rumors and spearheads

17. "In the "Cave" and "Grotto" reverberating echoes"
For those remembering at dawn and nightfalls

18. They saw God's wondrous work manifest
Perfection of beauty appeared joyously at weddings

19. They sighed and sang in worship of Him
As the senses sigh in ecstasy

20. The lighthouse of tears, ask it about their chanting
Did it not soften and make the rigid rock weep?