الصدُّshunning داؤكِyour ailment , والتَّوددُand courting دائيmy ailment
الصدُّ داؤكِ , والتَّوددُ دائي
دواكِyour cure هجرestrangement , والإباءand proud refusal دوائيmy cure
دواكِ هجر , والإباء دوائي
Shunning is your ailment, and courting is mine.
Your rejection is my malady, and your affection is my remedy
Your cure is estrangement, and proud refusal is mine.
Your estrangement is my cure, and refusal is my medicine
أيكونis it to be? حدِّيmy punishment إذwhen ثملتُI became drunk منwith الهوىlove
أيكون حدِّي إذ ثملتُ من الهوى
حدَّthe punishment of الشَّقيِّthe wretch مقارفِwho partakes of الصَّهباءtawny wine؟
حدَّ الشَّقيِّ مقارفِ الصَّهباء؟
Is my punishment, now that I am drunk with love,
How can I restrain myself when I am drunk with passion?
to be that of the wretch who partakes of tawny wine?
Like the wretched sinner coveting the forbidden
إنif كانis شرعكyour law فيin الغرامlove تنكراrejection
إن كان شرعك في الغرام تنكرا
فالشرعthen the law عنديin my view .. للمحبto the lover وفائيmy fidelity
فالشرع عندي .. للمحب وفائي
If your law in love is rejection,
If you disapprove of love, that is your law
then my law is my fidelity to the lover.
But my law is loyalty to the lover
ياO ويحalas for صبa lovesick lover لاnot يعدis reckoned كميتas dead
يا ويح صب لا يعد كميت
كيso that يستريحhe may rest ولاnor منamong الأحياءthe living !!!
كي يستريح ولا من الأحياء !!!
Alas for a lovesick lover, reckoned neither dead,
Oh sorrow of passion that knows no respite
so that he might rest, nor among the living!
Neither in death nor amidst the living
للهto God belongs أمرthe affair of العشقlove كمhow often هجعslept الورىhumankind
لله أمر العشق كم هجع الورى
والعينand the eye لاdoes not ترقاcease weeping بلاwithout إغفاءsleep
والعين لا ترقا بلا إغفاء
To God belongs the affair of love! How often people have slept,
By God, love perplexes the souls
while the eye will not cease weeping without sleep.
And the eye finds no rest without slumber
لمdid not يبقremain ليfor me فيin الكاسthe cup إلاexcept رشفةa sip
لم يبق لي في الكاس إلا رشفة
بيدِin the hand of النَّديمِthe drinking companion , ودمعةand a tear لعزائيfor my solace
بيدِ النَّديمِ , ودمعة لعزائي
Nothing remains for me in the cup but a sip,
In my cup remains but a sip
in the drinking companion's hand, and a tear for my solace.
In the cupbearer's hand, and a teardrop for my lament
ربَّاهُO my Lord لاno ردّreversal لأمركof Your command والقضاand the decree
ربَّاهُ لا ردّ لأمرك والقضا
لكنهاbut these are الخلجاتthe stirrings منfrom صعداءa deep sigh !
لكنها الخلجات من صعداء !
O my Lord, there is no reversing Your command and decree,
My Lord, your command and decree cannot be reversed
but these are stirrings born of a deep sigh!
Yet these are the stirrings of yearning from Sa'dah!
فالوصلُfor union غايةُthe utmost of ماwhat أرومُI seek , فهلso will? غدٌtomorrow
فالوصلُ غايةُ ما أرومُ , فهل غدٌ
يأتيcomes بترجيعٍwith an echo لصوتof a sound لندائيof my call!
يأتي بترجيعٍ لصوت لندائي!
For union is the utmost I seek; will tomorrow
Union is the goal I seek, so will tomorrow
come echoing the sound of my call?
Come with the echo of your voice calling me?
Sol 6.1