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The imagination appeared, though it stayed briefly as a guest

بان الخيال وإن أبان نزيلا

1. The imagination appeared, though it stayed briefly as a guest
And your love flowed, even if you denied the messenger

١. بَانَ الخَيالُ وَإِنْ أَبَانَ نَزيلا
وَسَرَى شَذاكَ وإِنْ مَنَعْتَ رَسُولا

2. So I wanted to spurn your imagination out of jealousy
And so I welcomed it, accepting and receiving it

٢. فَهَمَمتُ أَنْ أَجْفُو خَيالَكَ غيرةً
فَمَنحْتُه قُبَلاً لَهُ وَقُبُولا

3. And kept its connection to you out of love
Thinking it saw you as a substitute for me

٣. وَحَفِظْتُ نِسْبَتَهُ إِلَيْكَ مَحبّةً
مِنْ ظَنِّهِ أَنِّي أَرَاكَ بَدِيلا

4. And I pretended the promise was not lost
And saw obstacles as proof of the opposite

٤. وَزَعَمتُ أَنَّ العَهْدَ لَيْسَ بِضَائِعٍ
وَأَرى الصُّدُودَ لِضدِّ ذَاكَ دَلِيلا

5. And you promised me an additional glance from you
But I found the meeting time of the sick to be sickly

٥. وَوَعدْتَنِي بِاللَّحْظِ مِنْكَ زِيادةً
فَوَجدْتُ مِيعادَ العَلِيلِ عَلِيلا

6. Oh Jesus, the day the spear pained for the sapling
It left nothing rational for us

٦. للَّه عِيسُكَ يَوْمَ حَنَّتْ لِلنَّوى
لَمْ يُبْقِ مُطْلَقُها لَنَا مَعْقُولا

7. You have burdened every heart that love dictated
With all it could bear, as a burden

٧. بِنْتُمْ بِكُلّ حَمُولةٍ قَدْ أَوْدَعَتْ
قَلباً كَمَا شاءَ الغَرامُ حَمُولا

8. How many words have enveloped the lost one when
It cast heavy sighs between the ribs

٨. كَمْ لفظةٍ حَفَّتْ على الحادِي وَقَدْ
أَلْقَتْ جَوىً بينَ الضُّلوعِ ثَقِيلا

9. Oh Hind, your eyelids did not spare anyone feverish
Except as wounded or killed by you

٩. يا هِنْدُ لَمْ تَتْرُكْ جُفونُكِ بالحِمَى
إِلَّا جَريحاً مِنْكِ أَوْ مَقْتُولا

10. Were judgments portioned into chapters deposited
In them for my father of beauty, Joseph

١٠. هَلْ أُوْدِعَتْ لأَبي المحاسِن يُوسُفٍ
فِيهنَّ أَحكامٌ قُسِمْنَ فُصُولا