روحيروحي: my soul فداءفداء: a ransom مهفهفٍمهفهفٍ: slender-waisted ميَّادميَّاد: swaying
روحي فداء مهفهفٍ ميَّاد
حلوحلو: sweet قدقد: indeed استعذبتاستعذبت: I found sweet فيهفيه: on his account سهاديسهادي: my sleeplessness
حلو قد استعذبت فيه سهادي
My soul be ransom for a slender-waisted, swaying beloved.
My soul is a sacrifice for one who smiles gently
A sweet one, for whose sake I have found my sleeplessness sweet.
Sweet it is, I found tranquility in it
قالتقالت: said محاسنهمحاسنه: his charms لكلِّلكلِّ: to every متيمٍمتيمٍ: love-stricken one
قالت محاسنه لكلِّ متيمٍ
للحلوللحلو: for the sweet one زاويةٌزاويةٌ: a corner بكلِّبكلِّ: in every فؤادفؤاد: heart
للحلو زاويةٌ بكلِّ فؤاد
His charms said to every love-stricken soul:
Its beauty said to every admirer
The sweet one has a corner in every heart.
Sweetness has a corner in every heart
هنئتهنئت: may you be congratulated بالعيدبالعيد: on the feast الرضىالرضى: al-Rida, a name or epithet يايا: O عيدهعيده: its feast
هنئت بالعيد الرضى يا عيده
يايا: O واحدَواحدَ: peerless one العلماءالعلماء: the scholars والزُّهادوالزُّهاد: and the ascetics
يا واحدَ العلماء والزُّهاد
May you be congratulated on the feast, al-Rida, you who are its feast!
Congratulations on Eid, O contentment of Eid
O peerless one among scholars and ascetics!
O singular scholar and devout worshipper
فيفي: in ريِّريِّ: quenching the thirst of صادصاد: a thirsty one بالندىبالندى: with bounty لكلك: for you فكرةٌفكرةٌ: a thought
في ريِّ صاد بالندى لك فكرةٌ
وسرىوسرى: and night travel لالا: for (likely a fragment of لأفصح) فصحفصح: most eloquent (likely the remainder of لأفصح) ناطقناطق: a speaker بالضادبالضاد: in the tongue of ḍād, Arabic
وسرى لا فصح ناطق بالضاد
You have a thought for quenching the thirsty with bounty,
For you is an idea flowing with dew
And a night journey for the most eloquent speaker of the tongue of ḍād.
And a mystery beyond articulate expression
والعبدُوالعبدُ: and the servant قدقد: already وافىوافى: has reached الشتاءالشتاء: winter وجسمهوجسمه: and his body
والعبدُ قد وافى الشتاء وجسمه
قدقد: indeed سابقسابق: raced الإبراقَالإبراقَ: lightning flashes بالإرعادبالإرعاد: with thunderous shivering
قد سابق الإبراقَ بالإرعاد
And your servant has encountered winter, and his body
The servant has endured winter and his body
Has raced the lightning with its thunderous shivering.
Has outrun lightning with its thunder
إنإن: if أخرتأخرت: delayed بيروتبيروت: Beirut عودعود: the return of جوادهاجوادها: its generous giver
إن أخرت بيروت عود جوادها
فنداكفنداك: then your bounty يدعونايدعونا: calls us لخيرِلخيرِ: to the best جوادجواد: generous giver
فنداك يدعونا لخيرِ جواد
If Beirut has delayed the return of its generous giver,
If Beirut delays the return of its steed
Then your bounty calls us to the finest of givers.
Your Nadak calls us to mount a generous steed
Sol 6.1