أَجِيرانَنا كَيفَ السَّبيلُ وَقَد غَدَت

ديارُكُمُ تَزدادُ من دارِنا بُعدا

Our friends, how fares the road when your homes

Grow farther from our home by the day?

أَحنُّ إِليكُم والَمهامِهُ بَيننَا

وَشَحطُ النَّوى قَد قَدَّني سَيفُهُ قَدَّا

I yearn for you while fate keeps us apart,

Its sword has pierced me with homesickness.

وَلي مُهجَةٌ قَد غَيَّرَ الشَّوقُ رَسمَها

يَذوبُ بِها دَمعٌ غَدا ماؤُهُ وِردا

My heart is transformed, longing has changed its shape,

My tears now melt to become a stream,

وَقَلبٌ إِذا هَبَّ النَّسيمُ يَزيدُهُ

غَراماً غَدا من حَرِّ ذِكرِكُمُ وَقدا

My heart, when the breeze blows, grows

Ever fonder, the memory of you flames within.

إِذا لاحَ بَرقُ الشَّامِ فالدَّمعُ هاطِلٌ

عَلَيكُم وَقَلبي لا يَقِرُّ ولا يَهدا

When lightning flashes in Damascus, my tears flow

Ceaselessly for you, my heart knows no peace.

وأَذكُرُ أَيَّامُ الوِصال وَلَيتَها

تَعودُ ولا نُحصي لساعاتِها عَدَّا

I remember the days we were together, would that

They return, that we count their hours no more.

وَيُصبِحُ ثَغرُ الزَّهرِ بالقُربِ بِاسِماً

وَنَعدَمُ ما عِشنا القَطيعَةَ والصَّدَّا

That the rosebud mouth smile close by each dawn,

That we forget the estrangement and separation we knew.