وَعَيْشِكَ وَالسَّمَاءِ وَمَا بَنَاهَا

وَأَضْوَاءِ الْغَزَالَةِ فِي ضُحَاهَا

By your life, and by the sky and He who built it

By your life, by the heavens, and by Him who built them,

And by the lights of the gazelle in its morning

And by the rays of the morning sun in its bright forenoon,

لَهِنَّكَ لَلرَّئِيسُ رَئِيسُ فَاسٍ

وَفَاسٌ جَنَّةُ الدُّنْيَا ذُرَاهَا

You are most certainly the eminent, eminent ruler of Fez

You are indeed the rightful chieftain, the chieftain of Fez,

And Fez is the paradise of the world, its beauty

And Fez is the paradise of this world, its ultimate peak!

أَمِطْ يَا عَيْنَ بَهْجَتِهَا قَذَاهَا

وَحُطْ يَا شَوْقَ مَغْرِبِهَا سَنَاهَا

Remove, O eye, the splendor of its ornaments

Remove, O essence of its joy, the mote from its eye,

And take down, O longing, its lofty minarets

And guard, O longing of the Maghreb, its radiant splendor.

سَنَاهَا أَنْتُمْ لِلَّهِ أَنْتُمْ

كَوَاكِبُ أَسْعُدٍ مَحَقَتْ دُجَاهَا

Its lofty minarets, you are for Allah, you

Its splendor is none other than you—how truly wondrous you are!—

Are the planets of good fortune whose darkness has been erased

Stars of good fortune that have utterly dispelled its darkness.

وَلاَ كَعُبَيْدِ خَالِقِهَا فَتَاهَا

سَلِيلِ ذَوَاتِهَا وَأَبِي عُلاَهَا

Not like the Kabaids, makers of its Creator's temptation

And among its youth, there is none like the humble servant of his Creator,

Descendants of its notables and father of its ascension

The descendant of its noble essences and the father of its high glories.

عُلاَهَا اللَّذْ بِهِ بَلَغَتْ مَدَاهَا

وَكَانَتْ قَبْلَ ذَلِكَ لاَ تُضَاهَى

Its ascension through which it reached its purpose

Glories through which it has reached its absolute zenith,

And was before that incomparable

Even though, long before that, it was entirely without equal.

إِذَا مَا سَادَةٌ وَلَدَتْ أَبَاهَا

تَكَمَّلَ مَجْدُهَا وَسَمَا سُمَاهَا

Whenever the masters beget its father

When noble lords give birth to the father of its greatness,

Its glory is perfected and its renown exalted

Its glory attains perfection, and its eminence soars ever higher.

لَهُ مِرْبَاعُ حُبِّيَ وَالصَّفَايَا

وَحُكْمُهُ وَالنَّشِيطَةُ مَعْ سِوَاهَا

To him belong Mribau and Saffaya

To him belongs the chieftain's quarter of my love, and the choicest spoils,

And his rule and Annachita along with them

Along with absolute command, the early captures, and all else besides.

بِآيَةِ أَنَّهُ عَجِلَتْ إِلَيْهِ

صُنُوفُ مَحَامِدٍ لَمَّا دَعَاهَا

With the sign that to him hastened

Proved by the fact that they rushed in haste toward him—

Types of praises when he called them

All manner of praiseworthy virtues, the very moment he summoned them.

دَعَاهَا وَهْيَ عَاقِدَةٌ حُبَاهَا

فَحَلَّتْهَا فَطَارَ بِهَا هَوَاهَا

He called them while they had tied up their love

He called to them while they sat firmly bound in their resting posture,

So they unleashed it and it flew away with their passion

Yet they untied their knots, and their passion made them take flight,

هَوَاهَا أَنْ تَرَاهُ أَوْثَرَاهُ

فَلاَ يَنْفَكُّ مُنْتَشِقاً ثَرَاهَا

Their passion to see him most adorned

Their deepest desire being to behold him or the very dust of his earth,

So it does not cease gushing his fragrance

Thus he never ceases to deeply inhale the sweet fragrance of its soil.