كُلُّall شِعرٍpoetry فيكِabout you ينتَحِبُsobs!
كُلُّ شِعرٍ فيكِ ينتَحِبُ!
ماتhas died فيin أعماقناour depths الغَضَبُanger!
مات في أعماقنا الغَضَبُ!
All poetry about you sobs!
Every poem in you laments!
Anger has died deep within us!
Our anger has died in our depths!
نَحنُwe قَومٌa people كُلماwhenever سُفِكَتare shed
نَحنُ قَومٌ كُلما سُفِكَت
أنفُسٌlives تُستنفَدare exhausted الخُطَبُspeeches
أنفُسٌ تُستنفَد الخُطَبُ
We are a people: whenever slaughter claims
We are a people, whenever souls
lives, speeches are exhausted.
Are shed, speeches are exhausted
ليسَthere are no فيin أغمادناour scabbards قُضُبٌswords
ليسَ في أغمادنا قُضُبٌ
هرِئَتhave decayed فيin جفنهاtheir sheath القُضُبُthe swords
هرِئَت في جفنها القُضُبُ
There are no swords in our scabbards;
In our sheaths there are no rods
the swords have decayed in their sheaths.
Rods appeared in their eyelids
قدalready طَوىhas folded التاريخُhistory صفحتناour page
قد طَوى التاريخُ صفحتنا
واختفىand vanished فيin طَيِّهاits folds النُّجُبُthe noble ones
واختفى في طَيِّها النُّجُبُ
History has already folded our page,
History has folded our page
and the noble ones have vanished within its folds.
And the eminent disappeared in its folds
فَاصعَدِيso ascend للَّهِto God يَاO حَلَبُAleppo
فَاصعَدِي للَّهِ يَا حَلَبُ
ليسthere is not فيamong الأمواتthe dead مَنanyone who يَثِبُleaps
ليس في الأموات مَن يَثِبُ
So ascend to God, O Aleppo!
So ascend to Allah, Oh Aleppo
Among the dead, no one leaps.
Among the dead there is no one who jumps
كُلُّall منthose who سَحَّتstreamed دموعُهُمُtheir tears
كُلُّ من سَحَّت دموعُهُمُ
فيconcerning فرنساFrance شأنهمtheir case عَجَبُa wonder
في فرنسا شأنهم عَجَبُ
All those whose tears streamed
All those whose tears have flowed
over France—their case is strange:
In France their condition is wondrous
سَفَرَتwere unveiled فِيهاconcerning her وجوههمtheir faces
سَفَرَت فِيها وجوههم
ولدىand before الشَّهباءal-Shahba (Aleppo) تَنتقِبُdon face-veils
ولدى الشَّهباء تَنتقِبُ
Their faces were unveiled for her,
Their faces have traveled there
but before al-Shahba, they don veils.
And with the gray-haired they wear the veil
Sol 6.1