ومُعطيةٍand a giver صَفْوَthe purest part ماwhat استودَعَتْshe has stored
ومُعطيةٍ صَفْوَ ما استودَعَتْ
مسامحةًungrudging عندَat the time of إعطائِهاher giving
مسامحةً عندَ إعطائِها
And a giver of the purest of what she has stored,
Giving the essence of what she was entrusted with
ungrudging in her giving.
Forgiving when she gives
تُسِرُّshe secretly harbors لَندمانِهاfor her drinking companion هيبةًawe
تُسِرُّ لَندمانِها هيبةً
علىdespite أنهthe fact that he is عبدُa slave to آلائِهاher bounties
على أنه عبدُ آلائِها
She secretly holds her drinking companion in awe,
She is pleased by his remorseful dignity
though he is a slave to her bounties.
As if he were a slave to her bounties
فتمنحُهso she grants him صفوَthe purest part مكنونِهاher hidden store
فتمنحُه صفوَ مكنونِها
وتَكتُمُهand she conceals from him جُلَّmost of أقذائِهاher impurities
وتَكتُمُه جُلَّ أقذائِها
So she grants him the purest of her hidden store,
So she grants him the essence of her secrets
and conceals from him most of her impurities.
And hides from him most of her pains
وتُحدِثُand she produces فيin الماءِthe water بردَthe chill of الشَّمالِthe north wind
وتُحدِثُ في الماءِ بردَ الشَّمالِ
إذاwhen سُدَّis sealed فُوهاher mouth علىover مائِهاher water
إذا سُدَّ فُوها على مائِها
And she produces in the water the chill of the north wind,
And cools the water with a north wind
when her mouth is sealed over her water.
When its mouth is blocked from its water
يُصوِّبُhe bends downward فيat طَرفِthe tip of أنفاسِهاher breaths
يُصوِّبُ في طَرفِ أنفاسِها
ويشربُand he drinks منfrom جُرحِthe wound in أحشائِهاher innards
ويشربُ من جُرحِ أحشائِها
He bends down at the tip of her breaths,
He steadies his glance on the edge of her breaths
and drinks from the wound in her innards.
And drinks from the wound of her insides
إذاwhen القيظُthe summer heat أخمدَhas extinguished نيرانَهits fires
إذا القيظُ أخمدَ نيرانَه
تَواصَىurged one another النَّدامىthe drinking companions بإقصائِهاto set her aside
تَواصَى النَّدامى بإقصائِها
When the summer heat has extinguished its fires,
When the sultry heat dampens its fires
the drinking companions urge one another to set her aside.
The remorseful whisper of banishing her
Sol 6.1