1. أيُّ الحمائمِ في الحمى لم تسجَعِ

    فاطرب لترنيمٍ هناكَ مُرجَّعِ

    Which of the doves in the sanctuary has not cooed?

    So delight in a melody resounding there.

  2. ما أسعدَ العربيَّ بعد شقائهِ

    برجوعِ أيامِ الرشيدِ وتُبَّع

    How happy the Arab is after his suffering,

    With the return of the days of al-Rashid and Tubbaʿ!

  3. آباؤه صعدوا إلى أعلى الذرَى

    فليصعدنَّ إلى المحلِّ الأرفع

    His forefathers climbed to the highest peaks;

    So let him surely ascend to the loftiest station.

  4. قد أورثوه سيوفَهم وفخارَهم

    وشريعةً بين الورى كالمشرع

    They have bequeathed him their swords and their glory,

    And a law among humankind, like a path to water.

  5. وبنوا له مُلكاً رفيعاً واسعاً

    أمجادُهُ وفتوحُه لم توسع

    And they built him a lofty, vast realm,

    Whose glories and conquests could not be encompassed.

  6. للهِ ملكٌ بالخلافةِ أيّدٌ

    لولا تنازعُ قومهِ لم ينزع

    God, what a realm, mighty through the caliphate!

    But for its people's strife, it would not have been wrested away.

  7. أثمِن بهاتيك الودائعِ فليكن

    مثلَ السموألِ وافياً بالأدرع

    How precious those trusts! So let him be

    Like al-Samawʾal, faithful in guarding the coats of mail.