شكري عتيدٌ وكذاك حِقْدِي

شكري عتيدٌ وكذاك حِقْدِي

للخير والشرِّ بقاءٌ عندي

للخير والشرِّ بقاءٌ عندي

My gratitude is ready, and so is my rancor.

My gratitude and hatred alike endure,

Good and evil both remain with me.

Good and evil both have a place with me.

فانظر إذا أسْديتَ ماذا تُسْدِي

فانظر إذا أسْديتَ ماذا تُسْدِي

فإن شكمي مثله وشكدي

فإن شكمي مثله وشكدي

So consider, when you bestow, what you bestow.

So see what you reap when you sow your seed,

For my recompense and my gifts match it.

For my nature is just the same as my creed.

كالأرض مهما استُودِعت تؤدِّي

كالأرض مهما استُودِعت تؤدِّي

وأين عن طينتنا نُعَدِّي

وأين عن طينتنا نُعَدِّي

Like the earth, which yields whatever is entrusted to it.

Like the earth whatever is sown in its stead

And where can we turn away from our clay?

It faithfully yields as was destined to be.

وما طباعي بالطباع الصلدِ

وما طباعي بالطباع الصلدِ

لا ينبت البذرُ ولكن يُكدي

لا ينبت البذرُ ولكن يُكدي

And my nature is not the hard, barren kind,

How can we swerve from the clay we were kneaded,

Where seed does not sprout, but yields nothing.

What's sown cannot sprout but rather impede it.

أحفظُ للأعداء والأودِّ

أحفظُ للأعداء والأودِّ

ما استودعوا من بِغْضَةٍ ووُدِّ

ما استودعوا من بِغْضَةٍ ووُدِّ

I preserve, for enemies and the dearest friend,

For friend and for foe alike I will keep,

Whatever hatred and love they have entrusted to me,

All the love and the hate they entrusted me,

وما أتوا من غَيَّةٍ ورشْدِ

وما أتوا من غَيَّةٍ ورشْدِ

وخيرُ حوض من حياض نجدِ

وخيرُ حوض من حياض نجدِ

And whatever they have done, whether wrong or right.

And whatever they came with of harm or true heed,

And the best basin among the basins of Najd

Better a pool than rain channels of Nejd,

أحفظُها للماء يوم الوِرْدِ

أحفظُها للماء يوم الوِرْدِ

من طَيِّبٍ وآجنٍ وسُخْدِ

من طَيِّبٍ وآجنٍ وسُخْدِ

Is the one that holds water best on the day of watering,

I'll keep it for water on days parched of need,

Whether sweet, stagnant, or thick and yellowish.

Be it pure or murky or evil indeed.

ماذا يقول القائلون بعدي

ماذا يقول القائلون بعدي

What will the speakers say after me?

What more can be said after all I concede!