حيُّalive الهوىlove ميتdead الفؤادِthe heart
حيُّ الهوى ميت الفؤادِ
نائيfar from الكَرىsleep حاضرُpresent السهادِsleeplessness
نائي الكَرى حاضرُ السهادِ
Alive in love, dead at heart;
Full of desire but dead in heart,
Far from sleep, with sleeplessness ever present.
Far from my folk but close to sleep-
إنif خطَّhe writes خطاa line محاهُerases it دمعٌtears
إن خطَّ خطا محاهُ دمعٌ
يأتيcomes علىupon الخطِّthe writing بالمدادِwith the ink
يأتي على الخطِّ بالمدادِ
If he writes a line, tears erase it,
If the pen commits a slip, a tear
Sweeping away the writing, ink and all.
Comes swiftly to correct it.
وكلand all قرطاسهhis paper المعمىmade illegible
وكل قرطاسه المعمى
بياضُwhiteness دمعٍtears علىupon سوادِblackness
بياضُ دمعٍ على سوادِ
And all his paper, made illegible,
In all the blind man's writing
Is the whiteness of tears upon blackness.
White tears upon the blackness show,
يُعربُspeaks عنof مدنفٍone wasted by sickness كئيبٍsorrowful
يُعربُ عن مدنفٍ كئيبٍ
بهin him ضنىًwasting sickness كامِنٌhidden وباديand manifest
به ضنىً كامِنٌ وبادي
It speaks of a sorrowful, lovesick man,
Telling of a mind downcast,
In whom wasting sickness is hidden and manifest.
Grief held within, evilly displayed.
Sol 6.1