بن يدي الله — Atika Al Khazraji

أحبك لو صح أن الهوى

تترجمه أحرف أو معان

I love You—if it were true that love

could be rendered in letters or meanings.

أحبك للحب لو أعربت

عن الحب قافية أو بيان

I love You for love's sake—if expression could be given

to love by rhyme or eloquence.

أخال الهوى فوق مافي اللغى

أو أن اللغى دون مافي الجنان

I think love surpasses all that languages hold,

or that languages fall short of what lies in the heart.

أحبك رباه فوق الهوى

أيا من به كنت و الحب كان

I love You, O my Lord, beyond love itself,

O You through whom I came to be, and love came to be.

و سبحت بإسمك يا خالقي

و أبصرت وجهك آنا فآن

And I glorified Your name, O my Creator,

and beheld Your face, moment after moment.

ولحت لعيني في كل حسن

فلله عيناي ما تجلوان

And You appeared to my eyes in every beauty;

so, God bless my eyes—what they unveil!

جمالك يارب عم الوجود

فليس لقبح به من مكان

Your beauty, O Lord, has pervaded existence,

so ugliness has no place within it.

أحس به في فؤادي هوى

يعم الورى بين قاص ودان

Through it I feel a love within my heart

that embraces all creatures, far and near.

أحب بك الخلق يا خالقي

وحوشا وطيرا و إنسا و جان

Through You I love all creatures, O my Creator:

wild beasts and birds, and humans and jinn.

أحب بك الكون يا فاطري

سماء و أرضا و ما تحويان

Through You I love the universe, O my Originator:

heaven and earth, and all they both contain.

عرفت بك الحب أنت الهوى

و فيك القصيد و منك البيان

Through You I came to know love; You are love itself.

And in You is poetry, and from You comes eloquence.

تباركت أنت بقلبي المنى

وبالروح أنت الهدى و الأمان

Blessed are You: You are my heart's every hope,

and in my soul You are guidance and security.

عشقتك يارب عشق الذليل

لمولى جليل عزيز المكان

I adored You, O Lord, with the love of the lowly one

for a majestic Master, exalted in station.

وكم عند بابك طال الوقوف

وطاب لديك الهوى و الهوان

And how often I have stood long at Your door,

and before You love and abasement grew sweet.

و انت الجميل تحب الجمال

فأنى تجليت كان إفتتان

And You are the Beautiful, who loves beauty;

so wherever You revealed Yourself, there was enchantment.

فوجهك قبلتنا في الصلاة

و ذكرك تسبيحنا كل آن

So Your face is our direction in prayer,

and remembering You is our praise at every moment.

إلهي كيف شغلت الفؤاد

و كيف إمتلكت علي الكيان

My God, how You have occupied the heart,

and how You have taken possession of my being,

و كيف تلاشت رؤى عالمي

فما من زمان و لا من مكان

and how the visions of my world have vanished,

so there is neither time nor place.

جمالك يارب قد حف بي

تباركت يا واحد دون ثان

Your beauty, O Lord, has surrounded me.

Blessed are You, O One without a second.

أراك أمامي و خلفي وعن

شمالي و يمناي رؤيا عيان

I see You before me and behind me, and to

my left and my right—a vision in plain sight.

تكشف لي سناك النقاب

فتجلى معان و تخفى معان

Your radiance lifts the veil for me,

so some meanings appear, and others remain hidden.

و أعنو لوجهك أشتفه

فيعشى للألائه الناظران

And I bow before Your face, drinking it in,

so both eyes are dazzled by its brilliance.

سقيت بحبك يا خالقي

من الشعر كأسابها نشوتان

Through Your love, O my Creator, I was given to drink

a cup of poetry holding two ecstasies.

فصرت من الأرض في جنة

غذاها الهوى و رواها الحنان

So from earth I found myself in a paradise,

nourished by love and watered by tenderness.

فما أنت إلا إبتسام الوجود

و سر الخلود بصدر الزمان

For You are but the smile of existence,

and the secret of eternity in the breast of time.

تباركت صنع قدير صناع

برانا فكنت و كنا و كان

Blessed are You, the handiwork of a mighty, skillful Maker,

who fashioned us—so You came to be, and we came to be, and He was.