1. تبقى الحصون منيعةً أسوارها

    مادام يرفع باليقينِ شعارُها

    The fortresses stand, their walls impregnable,

    so long as her banner is raised with conviction.

  2. وتظلُّ تهنأ بالربتيع رياضُها

    وتزفُّ أشذاء الرضا أزهارها

    Her gardens continue to delight in spring,

    and her flowers waft the fragrances of contentment.

  3. تجري سواقي الحبِّ في ساحاتها

    وتهُّز أشواق الثرى أمطارُها

    Channels of love flow through her courtyards,

    and her rains stir the earth's longings.

  4. تتمايلُ الأغصان تنثر طَلَّها

    وبها تميل إلى الأكفِّ ثمارُها

    The branches sway, scattering their dew,

    and upon them her fruit bends toward waiting hands.

  5. للهِ دركِ يا رياضَ محبَّةٍ

    غنَّت بلحن جمالها أطيارُها

    How splendid you are, O Riyadh of love!

    Her birds sang to the melody of her beauty.

  6. زحفتْ إلى الحلم الجميل رمالها

    وتشبثت بجبالها أحجارها

    Her sands advanced toward the beautiful dream,

    and her stones clung to her mountains.

  7. وتقاربت أطرافها حتى شدا

    بفم الإخاءِ كِبارُها وصغارُها

    Her farthest reaches drew together, until they sang—

    her old and young, with brotherhood's voice.

  8. فيها محجَّتُها المضيئة ، ليلها

    مستبشرٌ بضيائها ونهارها

    Within her lies her radiant path; her night

    rejoices in its radiance, and so does her day.

  9. بالعلمِ والإيمانِ يرفع شأنها

    وبهمَّة الأبطال تحمى دارها

    Through knowledge and faith, her standing is raised,

    and through the heroes' resolve, her home is protected.

  10. علماؤها وولاتُها ، وقضاتها

    ودعاتُها جمُلَتْ بهم أخبارها

    Her scholars, her governors, and her judges,

    and her preachers—through them her chronicles were made fair.

  11. في قصة الشيخين حين تعاهدا

    تبدو معالمُ أشرقت أنوارُها

    In the story of the two sheikhs, when they made their pact,

    landmarks appear whose lights have shone.

  12. لمَّا تحالف شيخُها وإمامُها

    خرجت إلى نور الهدى أقطارها

    When her sheikh and her imam formed their alliance,

    her regions emerged into the light of guidance.

  13. وتجمعت بعد الشتات ، فضمَّها

    عبد العزيز وقد أُقيل عثارُها

    They gathered after dispersion, and he united them—

    Abd al-Aziz—with her stumbling set right.

  14. بوابةٌ فتحت على واحاتنا

    فسرى إلينا شيحُها وعرارُها

    A gateway opened onto our oases,

    and their wormwood and wild chamomile wafted to us.

  15. من حول كعبتنا يتمُّ طوافُها

    ويعيشُ نعمة أمنِها عُمَّارُها

    Around our Kaaba, its circumambulation is completed,

    and those who frequent it enjoy the blessing of its safety.

  16. وربوعُ طيبتنا تمدُّ غصونها

    ليسير تحت ظلالها زوَّارُها

    The quarters of our Taybah stretch out their boughs,

    so that its visitors may walk beneath their shade.

  17. إرْثٌ عظيمٌ ورَّثتهُ شريعةٌ

    مازال يحمل عبئَها أنصارُها

    A mighty legacy, bequeathed by a sacred law,

    whose supporters still bear its burden.

  18. أأَخا العقيدة ، و السعادةِ كلُّها

    في ديننا تجري به أنهارها

    O brother in faith—all happiness

    is in our religion, through which its rivers flow.

  19. شكرا لخدمة شِرعةِ الهادي التي

    ما زال يرفع في الوجودِ منارُها

    Thank you for serving the Guide's law, whose

    beacon is still raised throughout the world.

  20. تهُدي إليكَ قصيدتي من أحرفي

    لغةً عى معنى الوفاءِ مدَارُها

    My poem offers you, from my letters,

    a language centered on the meaning of loyalty.

  21. جاءتكَ ترفلُ في ثيابِ مشاعري

    ومن الوفاءِ رداؤها وإزارُها

    It came to you, trailing the robes of my feelings,

    and its cloak and waist-wrap are made of loyalty.

  22. في ليلة التكريمِ أشرقَ لحنُها

    لِمَ لا ، وقادَةُ علمها أقمارُها

    On the night of honoring, its melody shone.

    Why not, when her leaders in learning are her moons?

  23. يامن منحت العلم همَّةَ مصلحٍ

    حتَّى يطيب لأرضنا استقرارُها

    O you who gave learning a reformer's resolve,

    so that our land might enjoy stability,

  24. دعني أبُح لك بالهموم فلم يزل

    يجري بها فوق الظلوع قطارُها

    let me confide my worries to you, for still

    their train runs with them across my ribs.

  25. في عصرنا يا ابن الكرامِ كما ترى

    ونرى ، شؤونٌ لا يقرُّ قرارُها

    In our age, O son of the noble, as you see

    and we see, affairs never settle into rest.

  26. فتنٌ تعالى في الفضاء ُخانُها

    وتأجَّجتْ في كلِّ أرضٍ نارُها

    Strife, its smoke rising into the sky,

    and its fire blazing in every land.

  27. فتنٌ يطوف في البلاد لهيبُها

    وبها يدورُ على الورى ديَّارُها

    Strife whose flames roam through the lands,

    and with it its dweller circles among humankind.

  28. لكأنَّني بالأرض في دوَّامةٍ

    من حزنها مما جنى كفَّارُها

    It is as though I see the earth caught in a whirlpool

    of grief at what its unbelievers have wrought.

  29. مَنَحتْ بإذنِ اللهِ خير كنوزها

    حتى تيسر للورى إعمارُها

    By God's leave, it gave the best of its treasures,

    so that humankind could readily build it up.

  30. أيكونُ نكرانُ الجميل جزاءها

    منا ، فنرضى أن يسيء شرارُها ؟؟

    Should ingratitude be its reward

    from us, while we accept the harm its wicked ones do?

  31. إني لأسمتتعها تقولُ مقالةً

    تفضي بها واحاتُها وقفارُها

    Indeed, I hear it uttering words

    voiced by its oases and its barren wastes:

  32. ماذا أقول عن العراق وغزةٍ

    و النَّاطقانِ ركامُها ودمارُها ؟

    What can I say of Iraq and Gaza,

    when their rubble and devastation are the two that speak?

  33. وعيونُ أقصانا دموعٌ لم يزل

    يجري على ساحاتها مدرارها

    And our Al-Aqsa's eyes are tears; unceasingly

    their torrents flow across its courtyards.

  34. سُرقتْ عباءتُها ، ومزِّق ثوبها

    وأضيعَ في يوم الزفافِ سِوارُها

    Her cloak was stolen, and her dress was torn,

    and her bracelet was lost on her wedding day.

  35. مالي وللأمم التي يُزري بها

    أيزيسها ، ويضلُّها عِشتارُها ؟

    What have I to do with nations debased

    by their Isis, and led astray by their Ishtar?

  36. مالي وللأمم التي تقتادُها

    أطماعُها ويسوقُها دولارُها ؟

    What have I to do with nations led

    by their ambitions and driven by their dollar?

  37. أنَّى أسير وراءها وهي التي

    ما زال يقطع دوحتي منشارُها ؟!

    How can I follow them, when they are the ones

    whose saw still cuts down my spreading tree?

  38. أيُعالَجُ الجرح العميقُ بمثلِهِ

    أتصونُ بائعة الهوى أطمارُها ؟!

    Can a deep wound be treated with another like it?

    Does a prostitute safeguard her tattered clothes?

  39. طَرَفانِ مذمومانِ حينَ تطرَّفا

    تعبت مراكبنا وزادَ عِثارُها

    Two condemned extremes, when they went too far:

    our ships grew weary, and their stumbling increased.

  40. طَرَف التَّنطُّعِ في التَّديُّنِ لم يزلْ

    لغةٌ من الإرهابِ ثارَ غُبارُها

    The extreme of rigid overzealousness in religion remains

    a language of terror whose dust has risen.

  41. وتطرُّفٌ جلَبتهُ علمانيَّةٌ

    تُغوي العقول، غريبةٌ أطوارُها

    And an extremism brought by secularism,

    which seduces minds and has strange ways.

  42. وكأنَّني بهما حليفا فتنةٍ

    ثقلت على أوطاننا أكدارُها

    I seem to see the two as allies of strife,

    whose troubles weigh heavily upon our homelands.

  43. بئس الغلوُّ فإنَّهُ لَسجيَّةٌ

    للمارقينَ ، خيارُها أشرارُها

    How vile is excess! It is surely a disposition

    of renegades, whose best are their wicked ones.

  44. بئس التنطُّعُ لا مكانَ لأهلهِ

    في أمَّة درْبُ الرَّشادِ مسَارُها

    How vile is rigid overzealousness! Its adherents have no place

    in a nation whose course is the path of rectitude.

  45. بئس التقدِّم حين يسرق حرَّةً

    من حِرْزِها حتى يضيعَ خِمارُها

    How vile is progress when it steals a free woman

    from her shelter until her veil is lost.

  46. بئسَ التَّقدُّم حين يصبحُ نكسةً

    في الدينِ تنشُرُ بيننا أفْكارُها

    How vile is progress when it becomes a setback

    in religion, spreading its ideas among us.

  47. تشقى المبادئ حينَ يصبِحُ أهلُها

    تَبَعاً ، وحين يبيعها تجَّارُها

    Principles suffer when their adherents become

    followers, and when their traders sell them.

  48. للمُلْكِ أركانٌ تُثبتُ صرحهُ

    مهما دهاهُ من الخطوبِ سُعارُها

    Kingship has pillars that steady its edifice,

    whatever frenzy of calamities may assail it:

  49. دينٌ ، وأخلاقٌ ، وعلمٌ راسخٌ

    وعدالةٌ تبدو لنا آثارُها

    religion, morals, and firmly rooted knowledge,

    and justice whose effects are clear to us.

  50. إنَّ الممالِكَ كالرِّجالِ يصونُها

    ويعزها في العالمينِ وقارُها

    Kingdoms, like men, are protected

    and exalted among all peoples by their dignity.

  51. تبقى البلادُ عزيزةً بثباتِها

    وبحبِّ ما يدعو إليهِ خيارُها

    The country remains mighty through its steadfastness,

    and through love of what its finest advocate.

  52. يحمي حماها حاكمٌ متمرِّسُ

    وبطانةٌ تصفو لهُ أفكارُها

    A seasoned ruler protects its sanctuary,

    and an inner circle whose thoughts toward him are sincere.

  53. ويصونُها العلماءُ من نزقِ الهوى

    فيعزُّ ساكنها ويأمنُ جارُها

    Scholars protect it from the recklessness of desire,

    so its inhabitant is honored and its neighbor is safe.

  54. يرقى بأنفسنا اليقينُ إلى الذُّرى

    ويظلُّ يرفع شأنها إيثارُها

    Certainty raises our souls to the heights,

    and their selflessness continues to raise their standing.

  55. تبقى الشَّواطئ للسفينةِ مأمناً

    إن كان في بحر الردى إبحارُها

    The shores remain a refuge for the ship,

    if its voyage is upon the sea of destruction.

  56. للهِ درُّ بلادنا ، مِنْهاجُها

    قرآنُها ، ودليلُها مُختارُها

    How splendid is our country! Its guiding path

    is its Quran, and its guide is its Chosen One.

  57. هي دولةٌ بنيتْ على إسلامها

    وبهِ سيبقى عزُّها وفخارُها

    It is a state founded upon its Islam,

    and through it, its might and glory shall endure.