سقمsickness بطرفكin your glance قدalready اقضىhas reached (probable reading) الىinto بدنيmy body
سقم بطرفك قد اقضى الى بدني
حتىuntil تبدلexchanged places منfrom عينيmy eyes بالوسنwith slumber
حتى تبدل من عيني بالوسن
Sickness in your glance has already passed into my body,
Your glance has inflicted my body with illness
Till it took the place of slumber in my eyes.
Until my eyes have changed with grief
عدمتmay it perish نظرةa glance عينof an eye غادرتleft جسديmy body
عدمت نظرة عين غادرت جسدي
لولاbut for التأوهgroaning للعوادto visitors of the sick لمnot يبنbe visible
لولا التأوه للعواد لم يبن
Accursed be the eye's glance that left my body
I miss the gaze of the eye that left my body
Invisible, but for groans to those visiting me.
If not for my sighing the healer wouldn't have built
منwho ليfor me بربةwith a mistress of هجرestrangement نبلthe arrows of مقلتهاher eye
من لي بربة هجر نبل مقلتها
لمdid not تحمprotect منهاagainst them طلابseekers of الزغفmail armor والجننand shields
لم تحم منها طلاب الزغف والجنن
Who will help me with a mistress of estrangement? Her eye's arrows—
Who can help me endure the separation of my beloved
Seekers of mail and shields found no protection against them.
Not even seekers of refuge and jinni were safe
زارتshe visited فلمand did not ارI see ليلاًat night قبلbefore طلتعتهاher appearance
زارت فلم ار ليلاً قبل طلتعتها
شمسthe sun of النهارday بدتappeared فيin حندسthe pitch-black darkness of الدجنclouds
شمس النهار بدت في حندس الدجن
She visited; before her appearance, I had never seen at night
She visited but I did not see a night before her rising
The sun of day appear amid the blackness of clouds.
The sun of daytime appeared from behind the shelter
أنانبيI am the prophet of الهوىlove هذاthis القضيبslender bough اتىhas come
أنانبي الهوى هذا القضيب اتى
يمشيwalking اليto me وهذاand this الظبيgazelle كلمنيspoke to me
يمشي الي وهذا الظبي كلمني
I am love's prophet: this slender bough has come
My love directs this arrow which comes
Walking to me, and this gazelle has spoken to me.
Walking to me while this gazelle spoke to me
ياO عاذليmy reproacher لكyou have a claim انif زارvisits الكرىslumber مقليmy eyes
يا عاذلي لك ان زار الكرى مقلي
علىupon ادخالadmitting هذاthis النصحcounsel فيinto اذنيmy ear
على ادخال هذا النصح في اذني
O my reproacher, if slumber visits my eyes, you may count
O you who blame me, you may give advice
On my admitting this counsel into my ear.
To make me accept this advice in my ear
لاnot انشنيI turn aside (probable reading) عنfrom طريقthe path of الحبlove ذاpossessed of مللweariness
لا انشني عن طريق الحب ذا ملل
ماas long as دامcontinues باقremaining تثنيthe swaying of ذلكthat الغصنbough
ما دام باق تثني ذلك الغصن
I will not turn aside from love's path in weariness,
I won't forget the path of love and its difficulties
As long as that bough's swaying endures.
As long as the bending branch remains
لاmay not جاورتdwell beside همميmy ambitions هامthe heights of السهاSuha شرفاin honor
لا جاورت هممي هام السها شرفا
ولاnor نهلنmay they drink deeply بحارthe seas of الفضلexcellence منfrom فطنkeen insight
ولا نهلن بحار الفضل من فطن
May my ambitions never dwell beside Suha's heights in honor,
My ambitions never settled for lowly desires
Nor drink the seas of excellence that spring from insight,
Nor drew from the oceans of merit by guile
ولاnor انتنتmay recoil (probable reading) دونbefore عزميmy resolve يومon a day of معركةbattle
ولا انتنت دون عزمي يوم معركة
تحثbeneath (probable reading) العجاجةthe dust-cloud جبناout of cowardice سطوةthe might of الزمنtime
تحث العجاجة جبنا سطوة الزمن
Nor may there recoil before my resolve, on a day of battle,
I never compromised below my resolve in battle
Beneath the dust-cloud, in cowardice, the might of time,
That drives the stallion despite the power of fate
انif طالlasts long حملىmy bearing عبءthe burden of الذلhumiliation فيin بلدa land
ان طال حملى عبء الذل في بلد
تطاولvie in height with الأكمthe hillocks فيهin it قمةthe summit of القننmountain peaks
تطاول الأكم فيه قمة القنن
If I long bear the burden of humiliation in a land
If my burden of humiliation in a country lasts too long
Where hillocks vie in height with the highest peaks.
Where the ignorant have reached the peak
لأتركنI shall surely leave النضاthe lean riding-camels جرزاًutterly wasted وكانand there was بهاin them
لأتركن النضا جرزاً وكان بها
شذوبfar-ranging motion ذيof one with ولهpassionate longing بالمجدby glory مفتتنenthralled
شذوب ذي وله بالمجد مفتتن
I shall surely leave the lean camels skeletal, though they once possessed
I will leave pleasure as a neighbor though it contained
The restless roaming of one passionately enthralled by glory.
A melting tenderness towards glory alluring
لاnot يخبطstrikes السوطthe whip منهاof them غيرother than مقتبلa facing front
لا يخبط السوط منها غير مقتبل
يحسمهاchecks them نحوtoward طيبthe sweetness of الحوضthe watering-pool والعطنand the watering-ground
يحسمها نحو طيب الحوض والعطن
The whip strikes them only head-on,
No whip strikes it unless welcoming
Checking them as they head toward the sweet pool and watering-ground.
Directing it towards the good waters and meadows
مثلlike القسىbows كلالاfrom exhaustion ماnever رمتI sought قدماto advance
مثل القسى كلالا ما رمت قدما
الاexcept واشفقتand I feared انthat تكبوthey stumble علىonto التفنcalloused pads (probable reading)
الا واشفقت ان تكبو على التفن
Like bows from exhaustion; I never sought to advance
Like the rigid their feet never stepped
Without fearing they would fall onto their calloused pads.
Without my fearing they would stumble over ruins
تهاجرforsake النومsleep فيat وقتthe time of الكرىslumber مقلىmy eyes
تهاجر النوم في وقت الكرى مقلى
كأنماas though الطرفthe eye جسمىmy body والكرىand slumber وطنىmy homeland
كأنما الطرف جسمى والكرى وطنى
My eyes forsake sleep at slumber's hour,
Sleep avoids me in the time of my affliction
As though the eye were my body, and slumber my homeland.
As if my eye were my body and affliction my homeland
اخشىI fear رداهاtheir death فتبدىand so they reveal ليto me صلابتهاtheir strength
اخشى رداها فتبدى لي صلابتها
كأنماas though حدثتthey had been told فيabout اسمthe name of ابيAbu الحسنal-Hasan
كأنما حدثت في اسم ابي الحسن
I fear their death, yet they reveal their strength to me,
I fear her rejection so her harshness appears
As though they had been told of the name of Abu al-Hasan.
As if she were newly named after my father Al-Hassan
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