1. Thankfulness is deserved by those aware to show gratitude
So praise be to Him who sent glad tidings

2. Of one whose coming taught Damascus
He will restore religion's glow to it unveiled

3. And settle the eye of Sacred Law to see
A sword in his hands all bejeweled

4. My Master Abdullah who has offered himself
To bring joyful spirit into Damascus light-filled

5. And life's prime verdantly soft
As the garden's greenery flourishes green

6. His glory remains diffused as musk
Pure, fragrant among all peoples like ambergris

7. He nurtured in the meadow's folds propriety
And sowed with noble deeds prominence

8. And in solving problems emerged outstanding
With intellect's acumen, formidable when roused

9. From him pours eloquence in knowledge
That, were the rhetorically gifted to mimic, would fall short

10. And skill that bows its branches to praise him
Bearing evermore for ears' joy pearls

11. My Master, your arrival has chilled our hearts
With good omen's birds, realms' cores

12. So may the stay be comfortable for you in a house
For Sacred Law, its awe drawing modesty's veil

13. And ours is the delight at one you have delighted
For we have been granted of him amplest share

14. To you, O virtuous one, it is right for the like of you
In the like of what you embarked on to be excused

15. A chapter that leaves every eloquent one
Falling short in descriptive praise, and nature like a gentle breeze

16. Loving were you to cast the eye of approval upon it
And tomorrow by your acceptance to endow it mahr

17. Greetings and ever may the one enraptured in pastures sing
The ringdove in the branches its song early