1. خيرُ حامٍ مجير عبد المجيدِ

    عَن عثارٍ برجفِ جحد عهودِ

    The finest protector and giver of refuge is Abd al-Majid,

    Against stumbling amid the tremor of repudiated covenants.

  2. آلُ عثمانَ كلّهم جبرُ رجفٍ

    فَرعُ إرثٍ لنسجِ بأس وجودِ

    All the house of Uthman are a remedy for tremors,

    A branch of a legacy, weaving valor and generosity.

  3. قَصّرت عَن جداهُ رجّف سحبٍ

    باِنسِجامٍ ورجفٍ ثكل رعودِ

    Quivering clouds fell short of his bounty,

    In downpour and trembling, bereft of thunder.

  4. يا ثِمالَ نَجوى صريعٍ برجسٍ

    نَصر جفٍّ ربل ثمال الوجودِ

    O refuge for the whispered plea of one struck down by defilement,

    A throng's aid, lush growth, the sustainer of existence.

  5. عَصمُ جارٍ ناجى الثريّا بدينٍ

    حَيثُ نار البرجيسُ سعد نجيدِ

    Protection for a neighbor who communed with the Pleiades through faith,

    Where Jupiter shone, a valiant man's good fortune.

  6. فُقتَ نجراً أما المجلّ بصدرٍ

    فَنجومٌ راقتكَ برج السعودِ

    You excelled in lineage; as for the honored one at the fore—

    Then stars delighted you—the constellation of lucky stars.

  7. آثَلوا المجدَ مُنجحاً برهَ عرفٍ

    ماثَلوا رفعَ نجرهم بالجدودِ

    They firmly established glory, successful through periods of kindness.

    They matched their forefathers in exalting their lineage.

  8. مِثلُهُم من أبادَ عجرا فجورٍ

    فَأجارَ عثراً بصلد النجودِ

    Their like is he who destroyed the knots of wickedness,

    And sheltered a stumbler on the highlands' hard rock.

  9. جَلّلوا النفرَ سبرَ جودٍ ملثٍّ

    فَثَرانا مسجولُ سجل برودِ

    They cloaked the company in deep, unceasing bounty,

    So our soil is drenched with a cool bucketful.

  10. ناصَروا الحقّ باكتوا الفجرَ مجدٌ

    أَمّنوا الجمعَ رجف بثَّ الحرودِ

    They championed truth and confounded the dawn—glory!

    They secured the gathering; a tremor spread wrath.

  11. آثَروا البرّ عَن جفاءٍ جسوسٍ

    بَعثَ الفجرَ جاسراً للنهودِ

    They chose benevolence over a spy's harshness.

    He sent forth the dawn, daring to rise.

  12. كَم فجورٍ منجّسٍ رام ثلباً

    نالَ بِالسفهِ أجرَ رجس ثمودِ

    How many a defiling sinner sought slander,

    And through folly earned the recompense for Thamud's defilement.

  13. جُرّع الرعبَ من هجودٍ فحدّث

    حدثَ رجفٍ بمنع مسرى هجودِ

    He was made to swallow terror out of slumber; so recount

    An event of trembling, barring sleep's nightly passage.

  14. فُسقُ جورٍ أرنَوا لكعبةِ مجدٍ

    عينَ نبثٍ لرعيِ رجس جديدِ

    Tyranny's wicked men gazed toward a Kaaba of glory,

    A probing eye, to watch over a new defilement.

  15. قَد رَمَت جمعَهم بنفلِ حجارٍ

    طيرُ رجمٍ مِن ثني عبد المجيدِ

    Indeed, they pelted their host with a gift of stones—

    Birds of stoning, from Abd al-Majid's fold.

  16. قَد جَنوا بالرجوسِ مصفق شرٍّ

    ثَمر الجفوِ مِن مرابع جودِ

    They have indeed reaped, through abominations, a gathering of evil,

    The fruit of estrangement from the pastures of bounty.

  17. عثرٌ مَن جَنى بِمرمى جحيمٍ

    أَينَ يَجري بالعرجِ نكث العهودِ

    A stumbler is he who sins within hellfire's range.

    Where does covenant-breaking run, limping?

  18. ربّ وعّث مَن رام جفواً لمجدٍ

    ربّ أَفعم مُروج منثال جودِ

    Lord, make the way rough for whoever seeks to slight glory;

    Lord, fill the meadows with cascading bounty.