ما بعد بعدك للنهار وضوحٌ

ما بعد بعدك للنهار وضوحٌ

فيطوف ساقٍ أو يطيب صبوح

فيطوف ساقٍ أو يطيب صبوح

After your departure, daylight has no brightness

After you, the daylight has no clarity,

For a cupbearer to make his rounds or a morning draught to taste sweet.

A leg circulates or a morning becomes good.

وسوى ادّكارك لا سمير لوالهٍ

وسوى ادّكارك لا سمير لوالهٍ

تغدو به حسراته وتروح

تغدو به حسراته وتروح

And apart from remembering you, a distraught soul has no night companion;

Except for remembering you, there is no night companion

His sorrows go out with him in the morning and return in the evening.

Whose longings and sorrows renew with it.

يا بدر سوريا التي ما صانها

يا بدر سوريا التي ما صانها

سورٌ سواك ولا أبٌ ممدوح

سورٌ سواك ولا أبٌ ممدوح

O full moon of Syria, which has never been protected

O moon of Syria, whom no wall protected

By any rampart but you, nor by any praiseworthy father.

Except your wall, and no praised father.

إن غبت عن أبصارنا فقلوبنا

إن غبت عن أبصارنا فقلوبنا

لك والجوانح كلهن صروح

لك والجوانح كلهن صروح

If you are absent from our sight, then our hearts

If you disappear from our sights, then our hearts

Are yours, and all our ribs are lofty palaces.

And all our wings are castles for you.

لم ندر ما سبب انفصالك بعدما

لم ندر ما سبب انفصالك بعدما

عادت بعدلك للشآم الروح

عادت بعدلك للشآم الروح

We do not know what caused your removal, after

We did not know the reason for your separation after

The spirit had returned to al-Sham through your justice.

The spirit returned to Syria because of your justice.

ألفتحك البلقاء والسلط التي

ألفتحك البلقاء والسلط التي

ما احتلها والٍ سواك نصوح

ما احتلها والٍ سواك نصوح

Was it for your conquest of al-Balqa and al-Salt, which

Did Aleppo, which you captured, and Salut dislike you,

No devoted governor but you had occupied?

Or the protection of passersby from the powerful sin to governors outright?

أم صون أبناء السبيل من النصي

أم صون أبناء السبيل من النصي

ريين ذنبٌ للولاة صريح

ريين ذنبٌ للولاة صريح

Or is protecting wayfarers from the Nusay-

Your friend opened to us with your isolation his wisdom,

ris a clear offense for governors?

By Allah, this opening is no conquest.

فتح النديم لنا بعزلك حكمه

فتح النديم لنا بعزلك حكمه

واللَه ما هذا الفتوح فتوح

واللَه ما هذا الفتوح فتوح

Al-Nadim opened his rule for us with your dismissal;

Alas, no country in its time will be safe

And by God, this opening is no triumph.

From a disease that bleeds and festers with it.

هيهات تسلم بلدة في عصره

هيهات تسلم بلدة في عصره

من علةٍ تدمي بها وتقيح

من علةٍ تدمي بها وتقيح

No town in his time can be safe

If the hearts of all worshipers do not bend

From an ailment that makes it bleed and fester.

To the separation of the righteous, then hearts will mourn.

إن لم تنح مقل العباد بأسرها

إن لم تنح مقل العباد بأسرها

لفراق راشد فالقلوب تنوح

لفراق راشد فالقلوب تنوح

If the people's eyes do not all lament

At parting from Rashid, their hearts lament.