غرد فما أنت إلا الطائر الغرد

غرد فما أنت إلا الطائر الغرد

وما نشيدك إلا الدر منتضد

وما نشيدك إلا الدر منتضد

Sing, for you are none other than the tuneful bird.

Sing! For you are but a singing bird

And your song is nothing but pearls neatly arrayed.

And your melody nothing but flowing pearls

وما نداؤك بالحق الذي صدحت

وما نداؤك بالحق الذي صدحت

به قوافيك إلا النصح والرشد

به قوافيك إلا النصح والرشد

And your call to the truth proclaimed

And your call in truth that you cried out

by your rhymes is nothing but counsel and right guidance.

In your rhyming verses is but advice and integrity

اتحفتنا بفتاة أم والده

اتحفتنا بفتاة أم والده

بلقيس والجد قيس الفارس النجد

بلقيس والجد قيس الفارس النجد

You have graced us with a maiden whose father's mother

You have gifted us with a maiden whose father is a mother

is Bilqis, and whose grandfather is Qays, the valiant horseman.

With Balkis and ancestry is Qays the knight of Najd

سليلة الضاد..لا فخر ومنبته

سليلة الضاد..لا فخر ومنبته

جزيرة العرب الأمجاد مذ وجدوا

جزيرة العرب الأمجاد مذ وجدوا

A daughter of ḍād—no boast—whose birthplace

A descendant of Dhad...neither boasting nor its origin

is the peninsula of the Arabs, noble since they came into being.

The island of Arabs, glories since they existed

أهل الفصاحة والآداب إن نطقو

أهل الفصاحة والآداب إن نطقو

فالقول فصل عليه الناس تعتمد

فالقول فصل عليه الناس تعتمد

Masters of eloquence and letters: whenever they speak,

The people of eloquence and literature, if they speak

their speech is decisive, and people rely on it.

The word is conclusive, people depend on it

بهم تقوم أخلاق وألسنة

بهم تقوم أخلاق وألسنة

ولا يقوم ما عابوا وما نقدوا

ولا يقوم ما عابوا وما نقدوا

Through them, morals and tongues are set right;

With them manners and tongues are established

nor can what they faulted or criticized stand.

And what they denounced and criticized cannot stand

للدين والعدل ما ضحوا وما فتحو

للدين والعدل ما ضحوا وما فتحو

وللعروبة ما شادوا وما رفدوا

وللعروبة ما شادوا وما رفدوا

For religion and justice were their sacrifices and conquests,

For religion and justice they sacrificed and what they opened

and for Arab identity, all they built and gave in aid.

And for Arabism what they built and what they supported

تبوأوا من سنام المجد ذروته

تبوأوا من سنام المجد ذروته

وغاب عنه سواهم حينما شهدوا

وغاب عنه سواهم حينما شهدوا

They took their place at the summit of glory's hump;

They attained the pinnacle of glory

and all others were absent from it when they were present.

And none but them were present when they witnessed

كم أرغموا بالسرايا أنف طاغية

كم أرغموا بالسرايا أنف طاغية

وبالسياسة كم حلوا وكم عقدوا

وبالسياسة كم حلوا وكم عقدوا

How often, with their detachments, they rubbed a tyrant's nose in the dust!

How many tyrants they humiliated with cavalries

And through statesmanship, how often they loosened and how often they bound!

And with politics how many they solved and tied

تلك المآثر من وحي ومن شرف

تلك المآثر من وحي ومن شرف

لو أنهم ماجدوا الدنيا بها مجدوا

لو أنهم ماجدوا الدنيا بها مجدوا

Those glorious deeds arose from revelation and honor;

Those feats are from inspiration and nobility

were they to vie with the world in glory through them, they would prevail.

If they glorified the world with them, they would have glorified it

فليت أحفاد من سادوا الورى زمن

فليت أحفاد من سادوا الورى زمن

يسترجعون من الأيام ما فقدوا

يسترجعون من الأيام ما فقدوا

If only the descendants of those who once ruled humankind

If only descendants of those who ruled the world one day

would reclaim from time what they have lost.

Regain from the days what they lost

فإن تخلوا " لأمس " عن كرامتهم

فإن تخلوا " لأمس " عن كرامتهم

فلن يكون لهم في العالمين غد

فلن يكون لهم في العالمين غد

For if they relinquish their dignity for 'yesterday',

If they abandon the “past” and their dignity

then they will have no tomorrow in all the worlds.

They will have no tomorrow in the two worlds

ما للمصائب لا تنفك تلفحن

ما للمصائب لا تنفك تلفحن

بنارها وجنون الشر يحتشد

بنارها وجنون الشر يحتشد

Why do calamities never cease to scorch us

What calamities do not cease to afflict us

with their fire, while the madness of evil gathers?

With their fires and the madness of evil accumulates

محسدون وندري أن ثروتن

محسدون وندري أن ثروتن

على بريق سناها يكبر الحسد

على بريق سناها يكبر الحسد

We are much envied, and we know that our wealth

There are envious people and we know that our wealth

makes envy grow with its glittering radiance.

With the brilliance of its quality breeds envy

مستهدفون وبلوانا تفرقن

مستهدفون وبلوانا تفرقن

وفي التفرق ما يؤذي وما يئد

وفي التفرق ما يؤذي وما يئد

We are targeted, and our affliction is our division;

We are targeted, and our afflictions separate us

and division holds what harms us and what buries us alive.

And in separation is what hurts and weakens

ولا وسيلة تحمي أمن أمتن

ولا وسيلة تحمي أمن أمتن

إلا اتحاد عليه العزم ينعقد

إلا اتحاد عليه العزم ينعقد

And no means can safeguard our nation's security

And there is no means to protect the security of our nation

except a union on which resolve is firmly set,

Except unity, on which determination is tied

موحد الجيش أركانا وألوية

موحد الجيش أركانا وألوية

موحد المال لا تلوي به العقد

موحد المال لا تلوي به العقد

uniting the army, both staff and brigades,

Uniting the army, departments and brigades

uniting wealth, unhampered by entanglements.

Unifying money, no knots twist it

فإن أردتم لهذا الشعب عزته

فإن أردتم لهذا الشعب عزته

وأمنه فدعوا التسويف واتحدوا

وأمنه فدعوا التسويف واتحدوا

So if you desire this people's honor

If you want for this people their power

and security, then abandon procrastination and unite.

And their safety, then stop procrastinating and unite