على سَعةٍ وفي طُنَفُ الأمان

وفي حَبّات أفئدةٍ حواني

In spaciousness and in folds of safety,

And in grains of affectionate hearts,

بقرب أخيهِما كرماً ولطفاً

وثائرة يُسَرُّ الرافدانِ

Close to his brother in generosity and kindness,

And a rebel whom the two rivers please,

فتى عبد العزيز وفيكَ ما في

أبيك الشْهمِ من غُررِ المعاني

O Abdulaziz, in you is what is in

Your father Al-Shahm of the gems of meanings,

لأمرّ ما تُحس منِ انعطافٍ

عليك وما ترى من مهرجان

For some matter you feel a turn,

Upon you and what you see of festivals,

تأملْ في السُّهول وفي الروابي

ومختلِف الأباطحِ والمغاني

Contemplate in the plains and in the hills,

And the different terraces and melodies,

ألستَ ترى ارتياحاً وانطلاقاً

يلوح على خمائلها الحسان

Do you not see comfort and freedom,

That appears on their beautiful horses?

وفي شتى الوُجوه ترى انبساطاً

ولو في وجه مكتئب وعاني

And in various faces you see joy,

Even if in a face saddened and suffering,

وذاك لأن كلَّ بني سُعودٍ

لهم فضل على قاصٍ وداني

And that is because every son of Saud,

Has a virtue over a storyteller and supplicant,

وأنّهُمُ الملاجيءُ في الرزايا

وأنَهُمُ المطامحُ والأماني

And they are the shelters in calamities,

And they are the aspirations and wishes,

وأنك والذي أُفِدْتَ عنه

أباك ملاذةُ الحر المُهانِ

And you and the one about whom,

Your father is the refuge of the oppressed,

تسوسون الرعية بالتساوي

بفرط العدْل أو فرط الحنان

You govern the people equally,

With abundant justice or abundant mercy,

فلا مثلَ الجناة يُرى بريء

ولا بَدَلَ البريء يُعافُ جاني

So the likes of the guilty are not seen innocent,

Nor is the innocent substituted to pardon a criminal,

لكم في ذمة الأحرار دَيْنٌ

وأكرِمْ بالمدُين وبالمُدان

For you the freemen have a debt,

So be generous to the indebted and accused,

أبوكَ ابن السعود أبو القضايا

مشرفةً على مرّ الزمان

Your father son of Saud father of issues,

Elevated over the passage of time,

ولمَحُ الكوكب المُلْقي شُعاعاً

على شُعَب الجْزيرة والمَحاني

And the star shedding a ray,

Upon the people of the peninsula and melodies,

ورمزُ العبقريةِ في زمان

به للعبقرية كلُّ شأن

And the symbol of genius in an era,

In which genius has every glory,

لها كُتِبَ الخلودُ ، وما سواها ،

برغم دعاية الداعين ، فاني

Immortality has been written for it, and what is other than it,

Despite the propaganda of promoters, is fleeting,

ولم أر مثلَهُ إلا قليلاً

مهِيباً في السماع وفي العِيان

And I have not seen the like of him except a little,

Awe-inspiring in hearing and in sight,

كأني منه بين يَديْ هِزبَرٍ

أخي لِبَدٍ على بُعدِ المكان

It is as if I am in front of a magnificent one,

My brother to a distance across space,

أقول الشعر محتفظاً وئيداً

كأني خائفٌ من أن يراني

I compose poetry, sad and grieving,

As if I am afraid that he will see me,

وقى اللهُ الحِجزَ وما يليهِ

بفضل أبيك من غُصَصِ الهوان

May God protect Al-Hijaz and what follows it,

With the surplus of your father from the depths of humiliation,

ومتَّعَ ذلك الشعبَ الموقَّى

بسبع سنينَ شيقةٍ سِمان

And gave that protected people,

Seven pleasant years of fertility,

على حينَ اصطلى جيرانُ نجد

بجمر لظىً وسمّ الأفعوان

While Najd’s neighbors were afflicted,

With the embers of intense heat and viper stings,

وقد رقَّت لها حتى عِداها

لكابوس بها مُلقى الجِران

It even softened for them until even its enemies,

Were a nightmare in which necks are thrown,

أرادَتْه اضطراراً لا اختياراً

وليس لها بدَفْعَتِه يدان

It wanted him out of necessity, not choice,

And it has no means to repel him,

فليت الساهرين على دَماراً

فداءُ الساهرين على الكيِان

May those awake to destruction be sacrificed,

For those awake to the entity,

وما سِيانِ مشتملون حَزْماً

ومشتملون أحزمةَ الغواني

And the cautious and the reckless are not equal,

Nor are the chaste and the adulterers,

تُحاك له الدسائسُ تحت ليل

من الشحناء داجي الطَّيْلسان

Plots are woven against him at night,

By the maliciously sly and twisted tongues,

على يد مصطلينَ بهِ غِضابٍ

على عليائه حرِدِي اللسان

At the hands of those who are angry at him,

For his loftiness, blunt in tongue,

وحُسّاد لذي شرف مَهيب

رَمَوْا منه بسُلٍّ واحتقان

And envious of one whose glory is revered,

They threw at him sticks and outrage,

من القوم الذين إذا استُجيشوا

ذكا لأُنوفهم أَرجُ الجِنان

Of those people who when incited,

The smells of their mouths are the worst stench,

مشى للناس وضّاحاً وجاءوا

إليهم تحت أقنعة القِيان

He went to the people clearly and they came,

To them under the masks of monkeys,

فقل لهُمُ رويداً لا يَطيشوا

ولا يَغُررْهُمُ فرطُ التواني

So say to them slowly, do not be reckless,

And do not let the excess of delay deceive them,

فبالمرصادِ صِلٌّ أرقميٌّ

شديدُ البطش مرهوبُ الجَنان

For in ambush there is a strong lion,

Severe in might and feared in claws,

يُريهِمْ غفلةً حتى إذا ما

تمادَوْا في اللّجاجة والحِران

He shows them inattention until when,

They go too far in stubbornness and confusion,

مشى لهم كأروعِ ما تراه

حديدَ الناب محتشدَ الدُّخان

He goes to them like the finest you see,

Steel-toothed gathered in smoke,

وقال لشيخهم إن شئتَ ألّا

أراك ترفعاً أفلا تراني ؟

And said to their Shaykh: If you want me not,

To see you rising, do you not see me?

إذا لم تَقْوَا أن تبنى فحايد

وكن شَهمْا يقدِّرُ صنعَ باني

If you cannot build then withdraw,

And be a noble one who appreciates a builder,

مَشَيْتُمْ والملوكُ إلى مجالٍ

به أحرزتُمُ قَصَبَ الرِّهان

You have walked and the kings to a field,

In which you have won the canes of the bet,

فجاء مقامُهُمْ عنكم وضيعاً

مقام الزَج زلَّ عن السِّنان

So their position became neglected from you,

The position of the intertwined slipped from the spears,

فلا تحسَبْ بأن دعاةَ سُوءٍ

تحرَّكُ من فلانٍ أو فلان

So do not assume that evil callers,

Move from so-and-so or so-and-so,

ولا شتى زحاريفٍ ركاكٍ

ولا شتى أساليبٍ هِجان

Nor various rubbish nonsense,

Nor various savage methods,

تَحَوَّلَ عَنْكُمُ مجرى قُلوب

موجهةٍ إليكم بِاتزان

Have turned the course of hearts,

Directed to you in composure,

يسُرُّ الناسَ أنَّ فتىً كريماً

يُسَرَّ ، كما يعاني ما يعاني

It pleases people that a generous youth,

Is pleased, just as he suffers what he suffers,

ترفع يا سرورُ عن القوافي

فانكَ لَلْغنيُّ عنِ البيان

Rise up O happiness from rhymes,

For you are needless of rhetoric,

وَهبني كنتُ ذا حَصَرٍ عِيِيّاً

وهبني كنت منحبسَ اللسان

And grant me I was having paucity, utterly weak,

And grant me I was muted of tongue,

فما قدْرُ العواطف والنوايا

إذا احتاجت لنقْلِه تَرجَمان

So what is the worth of feelings and intentions,

If they need a translator to convey them?