ياO موضعَplace الناظرِthe pupil منwithin ناظريmy eye
يا موضعَ الناظرِ من ناظري
ويامكانand O place السرthe secret منwithin خاطريmy mind
ويامكان السر من خاطري
O you who hold the pupil’s place within my eye,
O object of my gaze, O focus of my sight
and O you who hold the secret’s place within my mind,
O home of my secret thoughts and plight
ياO جملةentirety الكُلِّthe whole التيwhich كُلُّهاall of it
يا جملة الكُلِّ التي كُلُّها
أحبُdearer منthan بعضيpart of me ومنand than سائريthe rest of me
أحبُ من بعضي ومن سائري
O sum of all, whose entirety
O essence of my whole, that I hold dear
is dearer to me than part of me and the rest of me.
Above my other parts, to me most near
تُراكَI wonder whether you ترثيyou pity للذيhim whose قَلبُهُhis heart
تُراكَ ترثي للذي قَلبُهُ
مُعَلَّقٌsuspended فيin مِخلَبَيthe two talons of طائرa bird
مُعَلَّقٌ في مِخلَبَي طائر
Will you, I wonder, pity him whose heart
Do you now mourn for one whose heart is caught
hangs in a bird’s two talons—
In talons clenched of an ensnaring bird?
مولّهdistraught with love حيرانُbewildered مستوحشlonely
مولّه حيرانُ مستوحش
يَهرَبُhe flees منfrom قفَرِa wilderness ِإلىto آخرanother
يَهرَبُ من قفَرِ ِإلى آخر
love-distraught, bewildered, lonely,
His Lord confused, forlorn and lonesome feels
fleeing from one wilderness to another?
Escaping from one wasteland to another field
يسريhe journeys by night وماand not يَدريhe knows وأسرارُهُand his secrets
يسري وما يَدري وأسرارُهُ
تسريthey course كلمحِlike a flash of البارقِthe lightning النائرِradiant
تسري كلمحِ البارقِ النائرِ
He journeys by night and knows not, while his secrets
Unknowing, on he roams, while mysteries
course like a flash of radiant lightning.
Like lightning’s flash, race through him swift as breeze
فيin لُجِّthe depths of بحرِthe sea of الفكرِthought تجريflow بهwith him
في لُجِّ بحرِ الفكرِ تجري به
لطائِفٌsubtleties مِنfrom قُدرةِthe power of القادرthe Powerful One
لطائِفٌ مِن قُدرةِ القادر
In the depths of the sea of thought, he is borne along
In sea of thought's dark depths they run their course
by subtleties from the power of the Powerful One.
Rays of the Mighty's power, their motivating force
Sol 6.1