نبأ الثقافة بالرصافة صادق

حلى بها جيد الرصافة صادق

The news of culture in Rusafa is truthful

Its necklace adorned the neck of Rusafa, truthful

في جبهة الوطن استضاءت غرّة

متألق منها الوميض البارق

In the battlefront of the nation it shone as a crescent

Its flashing glare was brilliant

جيدت خمائلها برونق فضله

فزها به روض الكمال الرائق

Its wrists were adorned with the elegance of its merit

So it was adorned by it the garden of perfect grace

ببراعة الكلم اللواتي لحن في

أوج البيان فهن فيه شوارق

With the eloquence of speech that was melodiously composed

At the peak of rhetoric, they are its shining stars

قصب الرهان إلى المدى قد حازها

متمهلا فهو المجلي السابق

It has won the crop of the bet up to the horizon

Lingering, as it is the outrunning forefront

نثرت جواهر لفظه وتناسقت

لله ناثر درّها والناسق

It scattered the jewels of its words and they aligned

For the scatterer of its pearls and the aligner

تهنيك يا دار السلام معارف

في طيها نشر الأماني عابق

Congratulations O house of peace, knowledge

In its folds the hopes are fragrant

كان العراق لمثلها متشوقا

بشرى المشوق فقد اتاه الشائق

Iraq was longing for its like

Good news to the eager one, for the intriguing has come to it

هذا نهار العلم اشرق وانجلى

عن وجه أفقك ليل جهل غاسق

This is the day of knowledge that shone and cleared

From the face of your horizon the night of ignorance gloomy

قد كان يا عين البلاد لك العلى

أيام أعينها إليك روامق

You had the height, O eye of the countries

When their eyes were flags raised to you

فبهاء حسنك رائق وسناء

علمك فائق ولواء عزك خأفق

The radiance of your beauty is pleasant and the glory

Of your knowledge sublime and the banner of your might fluttering

ومسانح الألباب فيك مدارس

ومسارح الأحداق فيك حدائق

And the symposia of minds in you are schools

And the theaters of visions in you are gardens

فيك الفلاسفة الجهابذة الألى

سبقوا ولم يدرك مداهم لاحق

In you are the prominent philosophers of great stature

Who preceded without a subsequent being able to reach their extent

إني بشيرك بالنجاح وهذه

بالنجح السنة الرجاء نواطق

I give you good news of success and this is

In success the years of hope speaking

فالعدل ظل سابغ والعلم

ورد سائغ والعيش عود وارق

For justice is a lasting shade, and knowledge

A fragrant rose, and living a tender branch