'Guardians of the Homeland') was written as the national anthem of Syria,[a] with lyrics written by Khalil Mardam Bey and the music by Mohammed Flayfel, who also composed the national anthem of Iraq as well as many other Arab folk songs.

It was adopted in 1938 after a national competition was held by Hashim al-Atassi's nationalist Syrian government to choose a state anthem for the new republic two years after the Franco-Syrian Treaty of Independence was signed which gave Syria limited autonomy and future independence.

Ḥumāt ad-diyāri ʿalaykum salām ʾAbat ʾan taḏilla n-nufūsu l-kirām ʿArīnu l-ʿurūbati baytun ḥarām Wa-ʿaršu š-šumūsi ḥiman lā yuḍām

𝄆 Rubūʿu š-šaʾāmi burūju l-ʿalā Tuḥākī s-samāʾa bi-ʿālī s-sanā 𝄇 Fa-ʾarḍun zahat bi-š-šumūsi l-wiḍā Samāʾun la-ʿamruka ʾaw ka-s-samā

Rafīfu l-ʾamānī wa-xafqu l-fuʾād ʿAla ʿalamin ḍamma šamla l-bilād ʾAmā fīhi min kulli ʿaynin sawād Wa-min dami kulli šahīdin midād?