1. Rejoice Damascus that the throne of its kingdom
Has become to you a breast tightened by cares from it the breast

2. You are the light of religion since you visited its land
It was named after you until its eagle descended, the eagle

3. It is the frontier that became sullen in the evenings
And in the morning it snarls at the gate of paradise

4. Whether you stopped the horses echoing the call
Over silk from above it the banners of victory

5. After you watered it with the commotion of turmoil
And goaded it while the whites and the red of the bubbles

6. You adorned it with stunning that made its spark vanish
So its spark is no spark and its amber no amber

7. The river rose when the reeds battled
A battle in every creek it has a creek

8. And its shores shone with the blood of the enemy
Until the rebels and their clamor flowed copiously

9. You fractured them, the fracture of a glass vessel
None can mend it as not all breaks have a mend

10. So none can claim glory after it except the dauntless
For he who battled bronze was the glorious

11. And he who raced Antioch against its king
Obeyed by the glance of the crowned fair

12. His head came galloping while his corpse rotted
And nothing but the wood of vultures is his grave

13. As fate presented the captive to the barefoot
And more fortunate an era that hosted you as captive

14. So it cast its fortresses into your hands
And had it not obeyed willingly, it would come by force

15. And Azaz became mighty like its name through you
Hard on the two eagles even if it were the den

16. March on, filling the world with light and delight
So fly to the Far Mosque from this lofty abode

17. It is as if I see this resolve endless is its extent
And its end at the end while the order is fulfilled

18. And the Sacred House has become pure in the morning
And nothing but the blood pourer has its purity

19. And if the coast of the sea reigns as king
No wonder that the sea reigns the coast

20. You unleashed swords that widowed every town
Of its lord, so that the full moons fear you

21. When Nur al-Din proceeds in his resolves
Say to the slanderous night the dawn has risen

22. They are aspirations: when their swords shook habitations
It has remembrance carried to it an untouched fortress

23. You adorned the days in robes of exaltation
With garments of flags: praise and gratitude

24. So let not Egypt boast over us with its Nile
For with you we have a Nile, every Egypt has its Nile