إنَّ البلادَ التي أَصبحتَ واليها

إنَّ البلادَ التي أَصبحتَ واليها

أَضْحَتْ ولا جَنّةُ المأوى ضَواحيها

أَضْحَتْ ولا جَنّةُ المأوى ضَواحيها

Indeed, the lands whose governor you have become

The land which you have become its ruler

Now have outskirts that even the Garden of Refuge cannot rival,

Has become a paradise, its outskirts delightful

وَغَمِّرتْ منْكَ بالعَدل العميم إلى

وَغَمِّرتْ منْكَ بالعَدل العميم إلى

أنْ طابَ حاضرُها سكني وباديها

أنْ طابَ حاضرُها سكني وباديها

And have been flooded by you with all-embracing justice, until

It has been saturated by your absolute justice

Their towns and countryside became pleasant for me to dwell in,

Until its present and countryside became pleasant

من بعد ما أَصْبَحَتْ طيرُ الخراب بها

من بعد ما أَصْبَحَتْ طيرُ الخراب بها

على أسافلها تبكي أعاليها

على أسافلها تبكي أعاليها

After the birds of desolation there had begun

After it had become a land ravaged by ruin

To weep upon their low places for their heights.

With its heights weeping over its lowlands

فأنتَ كالبان أعطافاً مُرَنّحةً

فأنتَ كالبان أعطافاً مُرَنّحةً

لمَنْ تَشَبَهَ أنّا أرضى تَشبيهاً

لمَنْ تَشَبَهَ أنّا أرضى تَشبيهاً

So you are like the bān tree, with swaying limbs.

You are like rain clouds, bending down

Whom do you resemble? I accept the comparison.

To one who resembles you, though I am satisfied with any resemblance

فإنهّا كالتي أنشّدتهُا طَرَبَاً

فإنهّا كالتي أنشّدتهُا طَرَبَاً

صدورها عَلمَتْ منها قوافيها

صدورها عَلمَتْ منها قوافيها

For it is like the one I recited in delight:

For it is like the one whose heart sang joyfully

Its rhymes were known from its opening hemistichs.

Whose breasts have learned its rhyming endings from it