تسامت بك الدنيا فأنت أميرُها

تسامت بك الدنيا فأنت أميرُها

وباسمك أضحى دورها ومسيرُها

وباسمك أضحى دورها ومسيرُها

The world is exalted through you, for you are its prince.

The world has been honored by you, for you are its prince

And in your name are now its turning and its course.

And by your name have its houses and journeys become

وجودك في ذا العصر كافٍ لفخره

وجودك في ذا العصر كافٍ لفخره

تواريخ ما قد جد تغلو سطورها

تواريخ ما قد جد تغلو سطورها

Your presence in this age suffices for its glory.

Your existence in this era is enough for its pride

The lines of chronicles recording what has occurred grow precious.

The histories, however new, cannot transcend their lines about you

وحسبك مجداً أن ترى الفخر رافعاً

وحسبك مجداً أن ترى الفخر رافعاً

عليك قباب العز أنت منيرها

عليك قباب العز أنت منيرها

And it is glory enough for you to see pride raising

It is enough glory for you that pride raises

Above you domes of glory that you illuminate.

Domes of honor over you - you are its illuminator

سلامة هذا العصر بل أنت روحهُ

سلامة هذا العصر بل أنت روحهُ

وحافظها الرحمن والقلب سورها

وحافظها الرحمن والقلب سورها

You are this age's well-being—nay, you are its soul.

The well-being of this era, rather you are its spirit

And the All-Merciful is its guardian, and the heart its rampart.

And its protector is the Merciful, and the heart is its wall

فلا حاجةٌ إلا إليك احتياجها

فلا حاجةٌ إلا إليك احتياجها

ولا نصرة إلا وأنت نصيرها

ولا نصرة إلا وأنت نصيرها

So there is no need that does not depend on you,

So there is no need except for you, its need is to you

And no victory is without you as its champion.

And no aid except you are its supporter

أيا كوكباً في الشرق قد ضاءَ لامعاً

أيا كوكباً في الشرق قد ضاءَ لامعاً

وها نوره في الغرب باقٍ ينيرها

وها نوره في الغرب باقٍ ينيرها

O star that has shone gleaming in the East,

O you planet in the East that shone radiantly

And behold, its light remains in the West, illuminating it.

And its light remains in the West, illuminating it

هنيئاً إلى ألمانيا إذ غدت بهِ

هنيئاً إلى ألمانيا إذ غدت بهِ

على صَهًوات العز يعلو حقيرها

على صَهًوات العز يعلو حقيرها

Joy to Germany, for through him she now rides

Congratulations to Germany, for with you

Upon the saddlebacks of glory, her lowliest rising high.

It rose above the peaks of honor, diminishing its contemptible ones

تهون لديهِ المشكلات وأن بدت

تهون لديهِ المشكلات وأن بدت

خطوبٌ بفكر منهُ حُلَّ عسيرها

خطوبٌ بفكر منهُ حُلَّ عسيرها

Difficulties grow easy before him; should there arise

Difficulties become easy to it, even if they appear

Calamities, a thought of his resolves their hardest part.

As calamities - with your thought, you solve even the insoluble

فأي مديح لم تسعهُ صفاتهُ

فأي مديح لم تسعهُ صفاتهُ

وذي صحف الأخبار ضاقت

وذي صحف الأخبار ضاقت

So what praise have his qualities not encompassed?

So what praise did your attributes not encompass

And these pages of news have grown too narrow.

And the pages of news became too narrow for your attributes?

صفات أبت حصراً وأن رمت بعضها

صفات أبت حصراً وأن رمت بعضها

أعد نظراًَ فيهِ تفوح عطورها

أعد نظراًَ فيهِ تفوح عطورها

Qualities that defy enumeration; and if you seek some of them,

Attributes that evaded limitation even if some were cast

Look upon him again: their perfumes waft forth.

Reconsider them - their fragrances diffuse

بأيَّة أرضٍ لم تقع منهُ رعدة

بأيَّة أرضٍ لم تقع منهُ رعدة

ومن فيض بحر الحلم يبدو سرورها

ومن فيض بحر الحلم يبدو سرورها

What land has not felt a tremor from him?

Upon which land did dread of you not fall

And from the overflowing sea of forbearance its joy emerges.

And from the outpouring of the sea of wisdom appears its joy?

تعلمت الأبطال منهُ شجاعة

تعلمت الأبطال منهُ شجاعة

إذا ما رحا حرب بدوَّي هديرها

إذا ما رحا حرب بدوَّي هديرها

Heroes have learned courage from him,

The heroes learned courage from you

Whenever war's millstone thunders with its roar.

If war's tumult ever roared with its clamor

فيبسم للأشبال أن جد هزلها

فيبسم للأشبال أن جد هزلها

ويطربهُ من أمهنَّ زئيرها

ويطربهُ من أمهنَّ زئيرها

So he smiles at the lion cubs when their play turns serious,

So you smile at the cubs if their playing becomes serious

And the roar from their mother delights him.

And their mothers' snarling delights you

يدبر جيش النصر في حزم رأيهِ

يدبر جيش النصر في حزم رأيهِ

ورأيته البيضاءُ تعلو نسورها

ورأيته البيضاءُ تعلو نسورها

He commands the army of victory with the firmness of his judgment,

You arrange the army of victory with the decisiveness of your opinion

And the eagles of his white banner soar high.

And your white banner rises above its eagles

ويحطم قرن الدهر في عزم صدمة

ويحطم قرن الدهر في عزم صدمة

تموج لها الدنيا ولكن يجيرها

تموج لها الدنيا ولكن يجيرها

And he shatters Time's horn with a resolute blow,

And you smash the era's horn with your resolute strike

The world heaves at it, yet he shelters it.

Making the world surge, but you protect it

فتى ما تولى الحرب إلا وخلتها

فتى ما تولى الحرب إلا وخلتها

كساعة يوم الحشر ينفخ صورها

كساعة يوم الحشر ينفخ صورها

A youth who never took command of war without my imagining it

A youth who undertook war except it emptied it

Like the hour of the Day of Gathering, its trumpet being blown.

Like the Hour of Resurrection when it blows its trumpet

وفي قلبهِ من خوف مولاه صولة

وفي قلبهِ من خوف مولاه صولة

وصولتهُ في الكون ينمو سعيرها

وصولتهُ في الكون ينمو سعيرها

And in his heart is fierce might, born of fear of his Lord,

And in his heart is a ferocity of fear of his Master

And the blaze of his might grows throughout the universe.

Whose ferocity in the universe fans its blaze

عجبت بأيّ السفن قد زار قطرنا

عجبت بأيّ السفن قد زار قطرنا

وأي جياد الخيل عزت ظهورها

وأي جياد الخيل عزت ظهورها

I marveled: aboard which ships had he visited our land,

I wondered which ships had visited our country

And which noble steeds had their backs ennobled?

And which steeds of horses had honored their backs

وهمته لا تمتطي غير صهوة

وهمته لا تمتطي غير صهوة

من المجد يعلو فوق كيوان نورها

من المجد يعلو فوق كيوان نورها

Yet his ambition mounts no saddleback save one

And your ambition mounts none but a peak

Of glory, whose light rises above Saturn.

Of glory rising above the celestial sphere's light

أتيت بلاد الشام مولاي إذ غدت

أتيت بلاد الشام مولاي إذ غدت

دياراً بمولاها يعزُّ سفيرُها

دياراً بمولاها يعزُّ سفيرُها

You came to the lands of al-Sham, my lord, when they had become

You came to the Levant, my Master, when it became

Abodes whose envoy is honored through their sovereign.

Lands with their Master honoring his ambassador

هو الملك العالي العزيز حليفكم

هو الملك العالي العزيز حليفكم

مليك الورى عبد العزيز خطيرها

مليك الورى عبد العزيز خطيرها

He is the exalted, mighty king, your ally,

He is the lofty, mighty king, your ally

Sovereign of humankind, Abd al-Aziz, its eminent one.

The King of mankind, its formidable one dangerous to oppose

أتيت بلاداً شرَّف اللّه قدرها

أتيت بلاداً شرَّف اللّه قدرها

وضيف المعالي ذاك عال نظيرها

وضيف المعالي ذاك عال نظيرها

You came to lands whose worth God has honored,

You came to the country that Allah ennobled

And that guest of high honors is their exalted peer.

And that sublime guest is its peer

فيا نعم ضيفاً عند خير مضيّفٍ

فيا نعم ضيفاً عند خير مضيّفٍ

وفي خير أرض قد تبدت زهورها

وفي خير أرض قد تبدت زهورها

So what an excellent guest with the finest host,

So what a fine guest with the best host

And in the finest land, whose flowers have appeared!

And in the best land where its flowers appeared

وما غيركم مولاي يجني أقاحها

وما غيركم مولاي يجني أقاحها

لا وحد هذا العصر يهدي عبيرها

لا وحد هذا العصر يهدي عبيرها

And none but you, my lord, gathers its daisies,

And none but you, my Master, plucks its fruits

To this age's peerless one it offers its fragrance [probable reading].

Not in this era does one guide its fragrance but you

وإما حللتم في دمشقٍ ترحبَّت

وإما حللتم في دمشقٍ ترحبَّت

وقد فُتحت أبوابها وقصورها

وقد فُتحت أبوابها وقصورها

And when you alighted in Damascus, she welcomed you,

And when you stayed in Damascus, it greeted you

And her gates and palaces had been opened.

And opened its doors and palaces for you

وحلَّت بمرآك السعادة والهنا

وحلَّت بمرآك السعادة والهنا

وقرَّت بنا عينٌ سناؤُك نورها

وقرَّت بنا عينٌ سناؤُك نورها

And happiness and bliss settled at the sight of you,

Joy and bliss descended upon your abode

And an eye among us was gladdened, your splendor its light.

And the eye was comforted - your felicity is its light

فنهنيك يا مولاي أهني سياحة

فنهنيك يا مولاي أهني سياحة

ملائك تهديها وربي خفيرها

ملائك تهديها وربي خفيرها

So we congratulate you, my lord, on a most delightful journey,

So we congratulate you, my Master. I congratulate a journey

Angels guide it, and my Lord is its guardian.

Whose safety the angels bring, and my Lord guards it

وصوت التهاني حيثما سرت هاتف

وصوت التهاني حيثما سرت هاتف

يهلل باسم اللّه يحيا مدبرُها

يهلل باسم اللّه يحيا مدبرُها

And the voice of congratulations calls out wherever you go:

And the voice of congratulations wherever you went, exclaiming

It acclaims in God's name: 'Long live its ruler!'

"Praise be to Allah!" "Long live its Planner!"

ونقاش برد الحمد بالمدح هاتف

ونقاش برد الحمد بالمدح هاتف

تسامت بك الدنيا فأنت أميرها

تسامت بك الدنيا فأنت أميرها

And Naqqash, returning thanks through praise, proclaims:

And the echoes of cool praise with eulogy exclaiming

The world is exalted through you, for you are its prince.

The world has been honored by you, for you are its prince