1. ما أَحسنَ عكّا من بلدٍ

    هِيَ جنّةُ حُسنٍ عاليةُ

    How lovely Acre is as a town!

    It is a lofty garden of beauty,

  2. بِسُليمانَ إِذ حَلَّ بِها

    هِيَ عامِرةٌ هِيَ زاهيةُ

    Through Sulayman, when he settled there.

    It is flourishing; it is radiant.

  3. قَد شادَ بِها عَيناً تَجري

    فَالعيشَةُ فيها صافِيَةُ

    He has built there a spring that flows;

    So life within it is serene.

  4. وَالكلُّ بِها أَرِّخ نَشِطٌ

    بَل فيها عَينٌ جاريةُ

    And everyone there—record the date—is lively;

    Rather, within it is a flowing spring.