عَبْدَ العَزِيزِ عَمِيدَ أَكْرَمِ أُسْرَةٍ

وَكَفَاكَ فَخْراً أَنْ تَكُونَ عَمِيدَهَا

Abdul Aziz, chief of the noblest family

It is pride enough for you to be its chief

وَتَكُونَ بَدْرَ التَّمِّ بَيْنَ نُجُومِهَا

وَالفَرْدَ إِنْ عَدَّ الفَخَارُ عَدِيدَهَا

To be the full moon amid its stars

And peerless if excellence enumerates its number

لَيْسَ المُصَابُ مُصَابَهَا بِكَ وَهْوَ قَدْ

شَمَلَ البِلادَ قَرِيبَهَا وَبَعِيدَهَا

This misfortune that has befallen is not just hers

It has encompassed both near and distant lands

هِيَ أُسْرَةٌ كَرُمَتْ مَهَزَتْهَا وَلَمْ

يَغْمُزْ مَنَافِرُهَا بِلُؤْمِ عَوْدَهَا

A family honoured, whose glory remains untarnished

Its enemies find no defect to censure

أَحْمَدْتَ مَا شَاءَ الوَفَاءُ فِيهَا

وَحَمَدْتَ مَا شَاءَ الودَادُ وَدُودَهَا

You approved what loyalty desired in it

And praised what affection and its friends desired

وَرَأَيْتَ فِي النُّجَبَاءِ مِنْ أبْنَائِهَا

دُرّاً تُقَلِّدُهُ المَنَاقِبُ جِيدُهَا

And you saw, among its excellent sons

A pearl, adorned by the necklace of merit

تَدْرِي الكِنَانَةُ بِأَسَهَا فِي نَفْحِهَا

عَنْهَا لَدَى الجُلَّى وَتَعْرُفُ جُودَهَا

Refinement knows, in its subtle ways

To reveal itself to the eminent and make known its generosity

فَإِذَا تَعَاظَلَتِ الشُّؤُونُ دَعَتْ لَهَا

فُطَنَاءهَا المُتَصَرِّفِينَ وَصِيدَهَا

So when affairs grew grave, it summoned

Its wise statesmen and hunters

عَبْدَ العَزيزِ المُسْتَعَانِ بِأَيدِهِ

لِيَذُودَ عَنْ أَحْسَابِهَا وَيَزيدَهَا

Abdul Aziz, the one resorted to for aid

To defend its interests and increase them

حَقَّقْتَ مَا رَجَّتْهُ فِيكَ بِهِمَّةٍ

لَمْ يَشْهَدِ الجِيلُ الحَدِيثُ نَدِيدَهَا

You fulfilled what it expected of you with determination

The likes of which this young generation has not witnessed

تَرْتَاضُ مَصْعَبَةَ الأُمُورِ فَمَا تَنِي

حَتَّى تُجَارِي فِي مَرَامِكَ قُودَهَا

You surmount the difficulties of affairs, so you do not waver

Until your ambitions run their course

تِلْكَ القِوَى لَوْلا مُغَالَبَةِ الرَّدَى

لَمْ تُوهِ أَحْدَاثَ الزَّمَانِ شَدِيدَهَا

Those strengths, were it not for confronting adversity

The harsh events of time would not have revealed

أَفْنَيْتَهَا عَجْلانَ فِي طَلَبِ العُلَى

وَقَضَيْتَ فِي شَرْخِ الشَّبَابِ شَهِيدَهَا

You exhausted them hastily in seeking exaltation

And met your death in the prime of youth

فَكَمَا بَكَى سَرَوَاتُ مِصْرَ فَقِيدَهُمْ

بَكَتِ الفَضَائِلُ وَالعُلُومُ فَقِيدَهَا

So just as Egypt’s cedars wept for their departed dear one

Excellence and knowledge wept for their departed dear one