1. How can I repay the kindness of these good people?
Can someone who falls short make amends?

2. O you who are so generous, fulfill their rights
I have no rights; all praise belongs to you

3. What gift compares to yours that we have seen
Glory was theirs before this gift was made

4. God reward the first ones who addressed me
With praises I cannot adequately return

5. With rhythm and prose they showed us
The finest hospitality and utmost honor

6. I know not why they placed me
In a position far higher than my worth

7. I am nothing but through my people
The happiest of students seeking knowledge

8. I became whatever the grace of those who so chose wished
And the nights passed, some sad and some joyful

9. Kindness came to me everywhere
And righteousness grew in me; before I was twice as weak

10. If fancy had taken any credit from me
I would have shunned vainglory utterly

11. Happy is this friendly gathering that displayed to us
The harmony your fellowship has brought

12. Whence affection settles the eyes
That estrangement had earlier saddened

13. The days of estrangement have passed
Never to return or be remembered again

14. O my country, my heart yearns for you
Always, consumed with longing and passion

15. The more my family suffers hardship
The stronger my love grows

16. How can life not be ransom for a people like this beloved redeemed people
My weeping wounded homeland

17. Where we drink sorrow and bask in happiness
If your oneness were to be fragmented

18. My love for you in my heart would not diminish one bit
How can the divisive one build a wall

19. Between the souls of a mother's children?
From Carmel to Aleppo I found

20. A kinship never reckoned as stranger
My homeland, if eternal bliss were sold to us

21. At the price of one day away from you, we would not buy immortality
True misery is only in being away from you

22. Everyone cries or sorrows and grieves loss
All were attacking their brother in religion

23. So the people failed and the enemy dominated
From you, Haifa, though Haifa is the dearest

24. Pearl in the coasts, strung as a precious necklace
And her people I found to have the nobility of character

25. Too much recount and number
In them is kindness to the visitor, and in them

26. Is propriety that turns the uncouth wise
Their elder, in him is wisdom under the light of old age

27. That glows and returns the misguided aright
And their youth, in the arena of diligence, are the sharpest minded

28. And the most just in purpose
And in chastity every blossom among them

29. Enlightens the mind like the dawn and guides perfectly
May your prosperity last and may God extend

30. For each of you happiness and blessings always