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When the winds call to the breezes

إلى الراح هبوا حين تدعو المثالث

1. When the winds call to the breezes
The winds are naught but stirrers of spirits

١. إلى الرَّاحِ هُبَّوا حِينَ تَدْعُو المَثَالِثُ
فَمَا الرَّاحُ لِلأَرْوَاحِ إِلاَّ بَوَاعِثُ

2. It is the pure, eternal essence, so if
It showed a grain, it would be recent

٢. هِيَ الجَوْهَرُ الصَّرْفُ القَدِيمُ فَإِنَ بَدا
لَهَا حَبَبٌ نِيْطَتْ بهِ فَهْوَ حَادِثُ

3. I experienced it as pure, but when it acted
Drunkenness took control of the sequins, playing

٣. تَمَزَّزْتُهَا صِرْفاً فَلَمَّا تَصَرَّفَتْ
تَحَكَّمَ سُكْرٌ بِالتَّرَائِبِ عَابِثُ

4. The fragrance of its breaths diffused, so souls
Were harmed, ignorance being useless and corrupt

٤. وَفَاحَ شَذَا أَنْفَاسِهَا فَتَضَرَّرَتْ
نُفُوسٌ عَلَيْهَا الجَهْلُ عَاتٍ وَعَائِثُ

5. I swore to them its cup was naught but itself
So they said redeem yourself, for you have sinned

٥. حَلَفْتُ لَهُمْ مَا كَاسُها غَيرُ ذَاتِهَا
فَقَالُوا افْتَدِ فِيهَا فَإِنَّكَ حَانِثُ

6. And nothing but the lights of rays deluded
So they told it of beauty, a second and a third

٦. وَمَا غَيْرُ أَضْوَاءِ الأَشَّعةِ أَوْهَمَتْ
فَقَالُوا لَهَا في الحُسْنِ ثَانٍ وَثالِثُ

7. Stay a while until it destroys you from it by describing it
And goes from what debates you in it

٧. إِقِمْ رَيْثَّمَا تُفْنِيكَ عَنْهَا بِوصْفِهَا
وَتَذْهَبُ عَمَّا مِنْكَ فِيهَا يُبَاحِثُ

8. So if eyes saw its eyes in you
You would win, else eyes are more corrupt

٨. فَإِنْ شَاهَدَتْ مِنْكَ العُيُونُ عُيونَهَا
ظَفِرْتَ وَإِلاَّ فالعُيونُ أَخابِثُ

9. And if no verse in you changes a verse
Of what's said of it, leave, for you are staying

٩. وَإِنْ لَمْ تُبَدِّلْ آيةٌ مِنْكَ آيَةً
بِمَا قِيلَ عَنْهَا اذْهَبْ فَإِنَّكَ مَاكِثُ

10. Its talk was strange in ranking and protecting
And difficult, so the searcher did not attain its meaning

١٠. تَنَكَّرَ فِي سَامٍ وَحَامٍ حَدِيثُهَا
وَعَزَّ فَلَمْ يَظْفَرْ بِمَعْنَاهُ يَافِثُ

11. It did not last a day in time, but rather
Time in it, if you contemplate, is lasting

١١. وَما لَبِثَتْ فِي الدَّهْرِ يَوْماً وَإِنَّمَا
هُو الدَّهْرُ فِيهَا إِنْ تَأَمَّلْتَ لاَبِثُ