Sol 6.1

  1. تباعد عني الأصل والوطن الذي

    أقمت المدى فيه وفيه تولعي

    My origin and the homeland have grown distant from me,

    where I dwelt for ages, and where my passionate attachment lies.

  2. تدكدك قلبي المستهام لبعدهم

    وفتن القلب حين تروعي

    My love-stricken heart crumbled at their distance,

    and the heart was sorely tried in my alarm.

  3. ألا يا نسيم الصبح بلغ مقالتي

    مقالة صب أنهك البين أضلعي

    Ah, O dawn breeze, convey my words,

    a lovesick lover's words: separation has worn down my ribs.

  4. ألا يا طيور الجو من ذا يعيدني

    جناحا له أسلوبه وتمتعي

    Ah, O birds of the sky, who will restore me

    as a wing, with its own course and my enjoyment?

  5. لعلي إلى من هوى القلب مقلة

    يطير به قلبي وطرفي ومسمعي

    Perhaps I—toward the one the heart loves, an eye [unclear syntax]—

    my heart, my gaze, and my hearing would fly with it.

  6. فيا ليتني لو كنت مثل حمامة

    أطير سماء الدير وهو تضجعي

    Then, oh, if only I were like a dove,

    I would fly through the sky above the monastery, my resting place.

  7. ويا ليتني لو كنت مثل سفينة

    أذب ذبيبا والوصال تطمعي

    And oh, if only I were like a ship,

    I would creep slowly along, with union as my hope.

  8. ويا ليتني لو كنت ريح صبابة

    أصب مقام الحب وهو تضوعي

    And oh, if only I were a wind of ardent longing,

    I would pour forth at love's station; there my fragrance spreads.

  9. نسيم الصبا بلغ سلامي إليهم

    وانشد لهم بيتي وفيهم تفجعي

    Breeze of the east, convey my greeting to them,

    and recite my verse to them; it is for them that I lament.

  10. نهاري وليلي دائم الحزن والبكا

    على حيرة لنحوا مكاني موضعي

    My day and night are unceasing sorrow and weeping,

    in bewilderment, toward my place, my abode [wording unclear].

  11. تقادمني حب الديار وربعها

    وأسكرني قبل الظهور بأجمعي

    Love of the dwellings and their abode long preceded me,

    and intoxicated me wholly before manifestation.

  12. وليس الذي يدري الهوى وطروقه

    كمن يعرف الحب الغريب الممنعي

    And one who knows passion and its visitations is not

    like one who knows strange, inaccessible love.

  13. ألا فافهموا ذوق الغرام بديهة

    تحوزوا مقام السبق للسبق مزمعي

    Ah, then grasp the taste of ardent love intuitively;

    you will attain the station of precedence; to be first is my resolve.

  14. فليت زفير الشوق وما خلقا ولا

    تعذب قلبي في الصبابة مجزعي

    So, would that longing's sigh had never been created, nor

    had my heart suffered in ardent longing, my source of anguish.

  15. وقيدني رب العباد بقيده

    وأجج في قلبي لهيب تزعزعي

    And the Lord of His servants bound me with His fetter,

    and kindled in my heart the blaze of my trembling.

  16. فلو أسكن القلب الجزيع من الهوى

    وكف أجيج الشوق

    So if He stilled the heart distressed by passion

    and checked the blaze of longing,

  17. لغلبني قلب النسيم إذا سرى

    بوقيدني قيد المهيم المرفعي

    the breeze's heart would overcome me as it traveled by night,

    and bind me with the exalted, love-stricken one's fetter [wording unclear].

  18. ومن ذا الذي يفدي النوى بحمامه

    ويبقى خليلا للحبائب رتعي

    And who is it that ransoms separation with his death,

    and remains a companion to the beloveds—my grazing [wording unclear]?

  19. ألا يا إله العرش قرب مسافتي

    وباعد أناسا أقلقولي تصدعي

    Ah, O God of the Throne, shorten my distance,

    and keep far away people who have troubled me in my brokenness.

  20. وصل على الهادي النبي محمد

    نبي عظيم فاضل ومرقعي

    And send blessings upon the guide, the Prophet Muhammad,

    a great, virtuous Prophet, and the one who mends me,

  21. وآل وكل الصحب طرا ومن تلا

    وأتباعه الأمجاد طرا تقنعي

    and his family, and all the Companions together, and whoever followed,

    and his glorious followers, all of them—my contentment.