1. Your fragrance, O Jerusalem, is the scent of arts
O flower above the branch of time

2. Your aroma permeates existence
And the secrets of that treasure are obtained

3. A poem of poetry told by time
In the rhyme of fate behind the fold

4. And sang in a sweet melody
With it, how many imaginations has love seduced?

5. A nightingale sings it in the bushes
Awakening the dormant passion in the soul

6. With your towering walls
The fort of guidance is protected from weakness

7. And from the Dome of the Rock
For the journey of Isra, the Bringer of Bounties

8. To a servant of His who yearning called him
To his footing paired with the world

9. In the morning, the Beloved called him
To the land of Hebron, so he led the horse

10. On the night of his ascension to the sky
And his ascension above the highest of heights

11. At the Lote Tree of the extreme end
At his arrival, he was paired with safety

12. And he returned to Mecca in the morning
And the revelation of heaven rang in his hearing

13. He saw wonder in the high domain
And whatever was concealed of his secrets and the manifest

14. He saw Adam, the creation in his horizon
And Moses and Jesus residing in a body

15. And he spoke to his Lord in His highness
And in the Light, a merging, no higher arts

16. The Prophet of guidance, seal of the Messengers
And demolisher of idols from idolatry

17. To a mosque I came from a mosque
And Gabriel trotting with Burāq swift

18. So he said to him: wait, O Burāq
For you carried the Prophet of time

19. And you are for him a mount to the earth
In a secret night in the veins of time

20. On the expanse of his horizon a wing for him
His ship beyond all ships

21. And where do you see ships for space
Except for the Prophet, no human or Jinn?

22. And if there were any, they are not for good
Like his footing, but to bring tribulations

23. The care of the Lord of the worlds around him
And above him, openly or secretly

24. I remembered, O Jerusalem, his ascension
And when he suffered severe distress

25. And when a people of his challenged him
He prevailed for him and protected the helpless

26. And when you, O Jerusalem, you reminded me
My tears from my agony and sorrow overflowed

27. Do you refuse peace envying it
And from its fortress the wronged are demolished?

28. And those near to it are forbidden from it
And the banners of its Islam folded?

29. And the voice of the doves of guidance muted
So miserable is the garden that was wronged!

30. When the people of its Palestine return to it
To its glory or Jericho they settle

31. In Jerusalem there is a soul for the body that resides
And can a soul live without a body?

32. O Jerusalem, O homeland of the eternal
Caesar and the West have passed from you

33. And the son of Ayyoub's eyes overflowed with sorrow
When at dawn he saw in you a vanished glory

34. And he had liberated the land of eternity
And Richard, the heart of the most sorrowful weakened

35. And he shed bloodied tears
That he did not find it a homeland

36. When Jerusalem rings its bells
And the call to prayer for it is embraced

37. And he left it forsaking its sorrow
And the disgrace of defeat from it withdrew