1. You were granted success as a traveler in love and intimacy,
Yet you refused to seize glory and victory.

2. Gifts especially bestowed on you by the Generous Lord,
Out of His bounty, unattainable by mankind.

3. God has great plans for you, which will make you
A master of nomads and settled folk alike.

4. Indeed good fortune's visions have shone upon you
Since childhood with the auspicious one.

5. From it your name was derived when you were our joy,
So you and it came to be according to destiny.

6. Those who marched evilly in the night
Were punished by God's whip at dawn.

7. They thought you overlooked them and were patient
With their ignorance as if it were dignity.

8. Don't they know their doom, that lions though dormant
Are belittled by the despised enemy in pretense?

9. But when lions wake the provoker becomes
Prey between the claws and fangs.

10. O son of the rightly guided, protectors of the faith, you
Advise us as the scripture dictates.

11. Advice, if not supported by politics,
Won't be safe from harm.

12. Knowledge, if not aided by reason,
Puts its owner in jeopardy.

13. So it is that kingship has pillars and foundations
Which support it since olden times:

14. Revelation, the sword, and wise resolution.
The insight of the experienced with vision.

15. Consider the past: how much light emerged
From the bitterness of fruit!

16. The commoners will not obey you sincerely
Unless you mix reward with intimidation.

17. The free man is satisfied with favours,
The servile is limited by the threat of the blade.

18. Evil is deterred before the act, so admonish
Its speaker, words being the coolness of deeds.

19. Do not take evil lightly in its beginnings,
How many fires were sparked by a flint's spark!

20. Do not feel secure with one you have betrayed,
Enmity is an unamendable wound.

21. If an evil trait appears in a man, it has
Counterparts in him, as we've been told.

22. Treat affliction decisively, before it spreads,
Curing lies between wellness and jeopardy.

23. Consider Omar: how he banished
Victory without seeing or reports.

24. That was not for a prior sin, but rather
A confidential divine matter.

25. Rather, for a girl's wish, unknown to him,
Who was no lewd harlot.

26. Proof that the Imam may act on suspicion
Against one corrupted or prone to evil.

27. So act in your time in a fitting manner,
For this is an age of purity mixed with filth.

28. O, beauty of the world and its joy,
Son of the exemplars, beauty of books and legends.

29. You surpassed kings with ferocity and favour,
Stars are veiled by the radiance of the moon.

30. Your father Abdulaziz, honourable and generous,
Who honours the white and brown skinned.

31. A king of incarnate ferocity and nobility,
Like rain and lion in beneficence and fierceness.

32. He guarded the peninsula with an unsleeping eye,
His enemies always anxious.

33. While you follow his example faithfully,
Honouring the excellent traditions.

34. You satisfied your Lord in war with the rebels,
As you sated your sword with skulls and blood.

35. Take these refined proverbs, daughters of thought,
Like pearls threaded with rubies and gems.

36. They strut proudly among people lost in your praise,
For praises of you are prideful adornment.

37. Then blessings and peace be upon the purest
Of mankind and the chosen of Mudar,

38. And his family, whiter than sheets
Adorned with flowers in their prime.