1. Whoever saw lightning in my beloved Syria
Flashing through the night sky, kindling,

2. The lamp's confusion makes the breeze exhilarate,
Glimmering through the darkness, kindling,

3. Whenever lofty Syria comes to my mind,
Yearning rises in my heart and sits down.

4. How much has lightning illuminated for me places of love,
My tears melted there and froze.

5. And places where beauty has sprouted,
Wavering, nourished by my gaze and singing.

6. Whenever the memory of her returns to my heart,
Tears play with my eyelids and roll down.

7. Indeed, the flock's shepherd brought me closest to passion
And patience kept away from me, and composure.

8. With the dew of two branches, a branch and a sapling,
And the harvest of two sweets, honey and cold water.

9. Say to the flowers of old age, welcome,
It took misguidance and gave me wisdom.

10. Tariq straightened my crookedness with advice
After being soaked in excessive love.

11. And today he bowed his unruly head,
Moving away from the excesses of the past.

12. The brilliant remained shining after being illuminated for a time,
After it flashed and rumbled.

13. Do not consider life to be anything, it is but
A breath that passes and days that are counted.

14. Indeed, the days are but one day,
And delusion - its name is today and tomorrow.

15. O pillar of the faith whom she made
A state moving aimlessly without end.

16. Like sparks from the hearth,
Its pots fly from the fire when burning

17. Its roots seek the depths of the earth,
And its sparks seek the highest stars.

18. The higher its branches reach,
The firmer its pegs drive and embed.

19. How can it be protected from its home
By the turns of time, effort, and tent pegs?

20. You give it succor when the ignorant attack it,
With a coat of mail and a shield.

21. The leader of the horses races with the others
Under the hooves whose strike is loud.

22. You account the warriors with their weapons
Splitting the links of the coats of mail in murky water.

23. And the piebalds he sent out
Like wild cats hastening for the loot.

24. Sometimes you cure without intention
With a Yamanite sword and a spear.

25. On a day when its spears rained down
Its valley flowed with stabs and thrusts.

26. It broke the army of the ignorant with its intensity,
The wolf howled so the hyena yielded.

27. And the arrogant one escaped its ferocity,
With lips split, the ribs exposed.

28. Deluded, he dreams of kingship, but does
The camel overcome the lion’s abode?

29. Remember us on the day of Dhi Qar when
They confronted the stabbing with the cutting of swords.

30. The fools were tossed in its currents,
The brave held firm and barely receded.

31. It unsheathed the Indian steel to light up
With fires Nero bin Ma’ad had kindled.

32. It dragged the enemy’s abode collapsing,
Like the foam of the sea hurling froth.

33. So the roofs became spears
And the ground became severed body parts.

34. It overwhelmed the enemies until it left them
Like the flash of lightning hurling arms.

35. A pool after swirling you would think it
A sludge of tar then cooled and hardened.

36. No spear among them went astray,
No sword tripped among what it found.

37. Of the Sasanians it most humbled
The cornerstone of the kingdom and its pillars.

38. In every horizon its sun rises,
Does a sun favor a particular land?

39. We have not seen one like his father ever beget
He gave birth to all people through his son.

40. If he is a crown and a pillar
Then his son is the crown’s pearl and the pillar’s capital.

41. Your shadow never disappears nor
Does fortune cease to fulfill its promise in you.

42. And you have taken the easy life to excess,
The sanctuary of bounty and comfortable living.

43. And seriousness has become unruly with you,
With no way to stop the march of time.

44. Your enemies’ lives shorten
While yours grow long and extend.

45. Traitors run out sometimes but not
The heaving sea with its deep swells.

46. Glory roars mightily through you,
Content with the abode in you and the city.

47. And the domes of kingship were raised up
With pillars built by you.

48. A group whose endeavors went in vain,
He who covets numbers goes astray.

49. They corrupted the times for their children,
None like them will ever be born.

50. O restorer of water to my barren land, and
O my pillar after shaking and love.

51. My fruits today belong to whoever made me bloom,
And if the branch blooms it will bear fruit.

52. Each day fresh blessings from you
Tie the glory in new knots.

53. Much grace from you time after time
Came in pardon and hand after hand.

54. So regard them as binding the sublime,
Bringing glory and glory is endless.

55. Of platforms of fame, no regrets will reach them,
Nor a people or land they will fail to revive.

56. Knots for glory lasting, their essence
Is eternal, and for glory there are knots.

57. Foreigners who confront the horizon,
For them in you are platforms and homes.