أخوa man afflicted with دَنَفٍwasting sickness رَمَتهُshot him فاقصدتهand mortally wounded him
أخو دَنَفٍ رَمَتهُ فاقصدته
سهامٌarrows منfrom جفونكِyour eyelids لاتطيشُnever miss
سهامٌ من جفونكِ لاتطيشُ
A man wasted by sickness, shot and mortally wounded
A brother whose glance is a dart
by arrows from your eyelids that never miss.
Arrows from your eyelids, do not go astray
قواتلُdeadly لاno نصالَarrowheads سوىexcept احورارٍthe eyes’ vivid black-and-white contrast
قواتلُ لا نصالَ سوى احورارٍ
بهنَّin them ولاand no سوىexcept الأهدابthe eyelashes ريشُfeathers
بهنَّ ولا سوى الأهداب ريشُ
Deadly—their only arrowheads the eyes’ vivid black and white,
Warriors with no swords but burning embers
and their only feathers the lashes.
With them neither but eyelash feathers a shaft
أصبنَthey struck سواءَthe very center of مُهجتهhis heart فأضحىso he became
أصبنَ سواءَ مُهجته فأضحى
سقيماًsick لاnot يموتُhe dies ولاand not يعيشhe lives
سقيماً لا يموتُ ولا يعيش
They struck the very core of his heart, and he became
They hit his innermost being making him
sick, neither dying nor living.
Sick, neither dying nor living
كئيبٌgrief-stricken إنif ترحَّلَdeparted عنهfrom him جيشٌan army
كئيبٌ إن ترحَّلَ عنه جيشٌ
منof البلوىaffliction أناخencamped بهupon him جيوشُarmies
من البلوى أناخ به جيوشُ
Grief-stricken: whenever he is left by one army
Gloomy, if an army decamps from him
of affliction, armies encamp upon him.
Armies of affliction pitch camp with him
Sol 6.1