1. Woe to you from the one whose death thunder announced,
Islam's young man, and the East was disturbed,

2. The radio echoed it from every homeland,
The minarets were silenced by it and speech was suppressed,

3. With it, the rivers of every newspaper overflowed,
As our deep sorrows overflowed with tears.

4. We have lost a just king who led to guidance,
With his fairness in ruling, truth prevailed,

5. He established God's limits with the sword as a deterrent,
And with religion as law, people obeyed him.

6. He protected the pilgrims to the Sacred House after
The nomads had spread corruption in Hejaz and the roads were blocked.

7. He dug the earth and brought out gushing water
In all regions ceaselessly gushing forth.

8. He brought out the blessings of the earth displaying prosperity
And shining to the beholder like lightning flashes.

9. He made abundant wells spring from oil riches
With equipment to discover what depths do not perceive.

10. By your life, oil is indeed a treasure for the people
And exquisite bounty, nothing equals it.

11. So the Arabian Peninsula’s land became fertile,
As if no drought had made it barren and stinted its livelihood.

12. Peace upon the lion of the Peninsula in the soil,
Laid to rest in goodly mention, grieved for in truth.

13. He left cubs guarding his lair,
Wolves skilled in herding the sheep flock.

14. In the blessed successor, solace for his people,
And good tidings of a star the horizon brought forth for them.

15. O guardian of the Peninsula! We salute you,
From a people tried by hardship but minds ever sharper.

16. You were kind to those who came as immigrants,
Not turning from them to their land's neck.

17. You returned our missions with benevolence
Redoubling benefit through which the cleft is joined.

18. So praise upon praise which tongues recite,
For your favor, glorification as leaves rustle.

19. And thanks upon thanks for your preceding with dew,
And the House of Saud, forerunning, precedent set.

20. Successors of heroes and descendants of defenders,
The branch from them is as pure as pure lineage.

21. We are but brothers though between us
Siblings in Islam, between us no divide.

22. And the East may hope to unite its fragments,
As the slave hopes for freedom from his bond.