Sol 6.1

  1. جَمالُكِ هذا أَم جَمالي فَإِنَّني

    أَرى فيكِ إِنساناً جَميلَ الهَوى مِثلي

    Is this your beauty or mine? For I

    see in you someone, like me, whose love is beautiful.

  2. وَهذا الَّذي أَحيا بِهِ أَنتِ أَم أَنا

    وَهذا الَّذي أَهواهُ شَكلُكِ أَم شَكلي

    And this by which I live—is it you or I?

    And this that I adore—is it your form or mine?

  3. وَحينَ أَرى في الحُلمِ لِلحُبِّ صورَةً

    أَظِلُّكِ يَجري في ضَميريَ أَم ظِلّي

    And when I see in dreams an image of love,

    is it your shadow flowing through my inner self, or mine?

  4. تَرَبَّع كلُّ الحُبِّ في كُلِّ ما أَرى

    أَم روحك الكُلِّيِّ هذا السنى الكُلّي

    Has all love enthroned itself in everything I see,

    or your universal spirit—this universal radiance?

  5. خَلَقتُكِ في دُنيا الرُؤى أَم خَلَقتِني

    وَقَبلَكِ جِئتُ الوَحيَ أَم جِئتِهِ قَبلي

    Did I create you in the world of visions, or did you create me?

    And did I come to inspiration before you, or did you come to it before me?

  6. وَعَنِّيَ قُلتِ الشِعرَ أَم عَنكِ قُلتُه

    وَمَن في الهَوى يُملي عَلَيهِ وَمن يُملي

    And did you compose poetry about me, or did I compose it about you?

    And who, in love, is dictated to, and who dictates?

  7. أُحِسُّ خَيالي في خَيالِكِ جارِياً

    وَروحَكِ في روحي وَعَقلَكِ في عَقلي

    I feel my imagination flowing through yours,

    and your spirit in my spirit, and your mind in my mind.

  8. إِذا ما تَراءى مُبهَمٌ في تَصَوُّري

    رَأَيتُ لَهُ ضوءاً بِعَينَيكِ يَستَجلي

    Whenever something obscure appears in my imagination,

    I see a light for it growing clear in your eyes.

  9. كَأَنَّكِ شَطرٌ مِن كَياني أَضَعتُه

    وَلما تَلاقينا اِهتَدَيتُ إِلى أَصلي

    As though you were the half of my being I had lost,

    and when we met, I found my way back to my source.