سَقياًmay it be watered وَرَعياًand may it be tended لِلجَزيرَةِfor al-Jazira مَوطِناًas a dwelling place
سَقياً وَرَعياً لِلجَزيرَةِ مَوطِناً
نَوّارُهُits blossoms الخيرِيُّthe wallflower وَالمَنثورُand the stock
نَوّارُهُ الخيرِيُّ وَالمَنثورُ
May al-Jazira, a dwelling place, be watered and tended;
Watering and grazing the island my home
Its blossoms are wallflower and stock.
Its beneficence scattered far and wide
وَتَرىand you see البَهارَthe yellow daisy مُعانِقاًembracing لِبَنَفسجٍwith a violet
وَتَرى البَهارَ مُعانِقاً لِبَنَفسجٍ
فَكَأَنَّso it is as though ذلِكthat زائِرٌa visitor وَمَزورُand one visited
فَكَأَنَّ ذلِك زائِرٌ وَمَزورُ
And you see the yellow daisy embracing a violet,
You see the spring embrace the violet
As though one were a visitor and the other the one visited.
As though a guest visiting, feted
وَكَأَنَّand as though نَرجِسَهاits narcissi عُيونٌeyes كُلُّهاall of them
وَكَأَنَّ نَرجِسَها عُيونٌ كُلُّها
كَالزَعفَرانِlike saffron جُفونُهاtheir eyelids الكافورُcamphor
كَالزَعفَرانِ جُفونُها الكافورُ
And its narcissi seem like eyes, all of them
As though its narcissi are eyes, all of them
Like saffron, their eyelids camphor.
Like saffron, their lids camphor white
تَحياcome alive النُفوسُthe souls بِطيبِهاthrough its fragrance فَكَأَنَّهاso as though it were
تَحيا النُفوسُ بِطيبِها فَكَأَنَّها
طَعمُthe taste الرِضابِsweet saliva يَنالُهُobtains it المَهجورُthe forsaken lover
طَعمُ الرِضابِ يَنالُهُ المَهجورُ
Souls come alive through its fragrance, as though it were
The souls thrive on its fragrance as though
The taste of sweet saliva that a forsaken lover obtains.
The taste of syrups savored by outcasts
Sol 6.1