مَغنىabode الصبِّاof youth ماwhat ليails me أراكَI see you دريساworn to ruins
مَغنى الصبِّا ما لي أراكَ دريسا
ولقدand indeed عهدتُكَI once knew you آهلاًinhabited مأنوساwelcoming
ولقد عهدتُكَ آهلاً مأنوسا
Abode of youth, why do I see you worn to ruins,
The morning breeze, why do I see you scattered?
when once I knew you peopled and welcoming?
I knew you intimate and familiar.
ماnot راحwent forth دمعيmy tears فيin عِراصكَyour courtyards مطلقاunrestrained
ما راح دمعي في عِراصكَ مطلقا
حتىuntil غداbecame قلبيmy heart بهنّwithin them حبيساa captive
حتى غدا قلبي بهنّ حبيسا
No sooner did my tears run free through your courtyards
My tears did not flow freely in your plains
than my heart became a captive within them.
Until my heart within became imprisoned.
حملتbore away أهلَّةُcrescent moons مُهرةٍof Mahra منfrom عامرٍʿAmir
حملت أهلَّةُ مُهرةٍ من عامرٍ
يومَon the day of الكثيبthe dune أهلّةًcrescent moons وشموساand suns
يومَ الكثيب أهلّةً وشموسا
Mahra's crescent-like camels bore away from ʿAmir,
The new moon of a blessed month from Aamir
on the day at the dune, crescent moons and suns.
Rose over Al-Kathib as a new moon and sun.
غربَتshe set بهمwith them فيin غُرَّبGhurrab ياO مَنwhoever رأىhas seen
غربَت بهم في غُرَّب يا مَن رأى
شمساًa sun يكونis غروبُهاits setting تعبيساa cause of frowning
شمساً يكون غروبُها تعبيسا
She set with them in Ghurrab—O who has ever seen
It set with them in Ghurrab. O you who saw
a sun whose setting makes one frown?
A sun whose setting brings frowning.
ياah حبّذاhow dear المتحمّلونthose departing عشيّةًone evening
يا حبّذا المتحمّلون عشيّةً
منfrom بطنthe valley floor of وَجرَةَWajra يعُملونthey drive hard العِيساthe pale camels
من بطن وَجرَةَ يعُملون العِيسا
Ah, how dear those who departed one evening
O excellent are those who endure an evening
from Wajra's valley floor, driving the pale camels hard!
Of starvation and make dough from millet.
متبارياتٍracing one another كالسِّهامlike arrows فأصبحتthen they became
متبارياتٍ كالسِّهام فأصبحت
مماbecause of how أضرّبهاhad harmed them الدروبُthe roads قُؤوساbows
مما أضرّبها الدروبُ قُؤوسا
Racing one another like arrows, they became
Racing like arrows, so they meet the morning
bows, so badly had the roads worn them down.
Shattered by the roads into fragments.
لاmay not درَّflow درُّكِyour milk منas قِلاصyoung she-camels قلّصتshortened
لا درَّ درُّكِ من قِلاص قلّصت
ظِلَّthe shade الهوىof love فغداso became حِماهits sanctuary وطيساa furnace
ظِلَّ الهوى فغدا حِماه وطيسا
May your milk run dry, young she-camels, who shrank
You have no shelter from a cleft that contracted
love's shade until its sanctuary became a furnace.
The shadow of passion, so it became turbid.
فلقدfor indeed صدعتyou split ببَنهمby their parting كِبَدَthe liver الهوىof love
فلقد صدعت ببَنهم كِبَدَ الهوى
ونكأتِand you reopened قَرحاa wound فيin الحَشاthe breast لاnot يُوسىcan be healed
ونكأتِ قَرحا في الحَشا لا يُوسى
For with their parting you have split love's liver,
You have ruptured their livers with passion
and reopened in my breast a wound that cannot heal.
And opened in the pericardium an unhealable wound.
للهِto God (in praise) ليلٌa night بالحريمِat al-Harim خلَستُهI stole it
للهِ ليلٌ بالحريمِ خلَستُه
والحَزمُand prudence كونيmy being للسرورfor joy خَلوساa stealthy snatcher
والحَزمُ كوني للسرور خَلوسا
God be praised for a night I stole at al-Harim!
By God, I had an intoxicated night with the women
And prudence lies in my snatching joy by stealth.
And be intoxicated with joy.
فجلوتُso I unveiled فيهin it علىbefore الهمومcares وطوَّفَتand she circled
فجلوتُ فيه على الهموم وطوَّفَت
بابنِaround Ibn المنىal-Muna بنتِthe daughter of الكرومthe vines عروساas a bride
بابنِ المنى بنتِ الكروم عروسا
So there I unveiled her before my cares, and she circled
So I escaped from worries and she encircled
Ibn al-Muna—the daughter of the vines, a bride.
The son of Minna, daughter of the vineyards, as a bride.
وشموسُand suns راحٍof wine فيin سماءِthe sky of الراحthe palms قدhad
وشموسُ راحٍ في سماءِ الراح قد
جعلتmade لناfor us أبراجهنّtheir zodiacal mansions كؤوساgoblets
جعلت لنا أبراجهنّ كؤوسا
And suns of wine in the sky of our palms had
The setting suns in the sky of comfort made
made their zodiacal mansions goblets for us.
Their constellations for us cups.
Sol 6.1