إنيindeed I بنيتI built لمنfor the one whom أحبI love
إني بنيت لمن أحب
وللهوىand for love عرشa throne الحدادmourning
وللهوى عرش الحداد
Indeed, I built for the one I love
I built for those I love
And for love, a throne of mourning—
And for passion the throne of grief
عرشاًa throne قوائمهits pillars الهموsorrows (word continues)
عرشاً قوائمه الهمو
مcompletion of 'sorrows' وتاجهand its crown شوكthorns القتادthe qatad thornbush
م وتاجه شوك القتاد
A throne whose pillars are sorrows,
A throne whose pillars are anxiety
And whose crown is of qatad thorns.
And its crown the thorns of misery
والدمعand tears فيضoutpouring نوالهits bounty
والدمع فيض نواله
يجرىflows علىover جثثcorpses العبادhumankind
يجرى على جثث العباد
And tears are the outpouring of its bounty,
Tears are its abundance
Flowing over the corpses of humankind.
Flowing over the corpses of mortals
واليأسand despair كوكبهits star المضىshining (word continues)
واليأس كوكبه المضى
ءcompletion of 'shining' لتائهfor a lost wanderer حرانparched صادىthirsty
ء لتائه حران صادى
And despair is its shining star
And despair is its planet
For a lost wanderer, parched and thirsty.
Wandering, calling out in agony
منwhoever أمهapproached it مسترحماًseeking mercy
من أمه مسترحماً
اصمتstruck dead حشاشتهhis last spark of life العوادىcalamities
اصمت حشاشته العوادى
Whoever approaches it seeking mercy
Seeking solace from its mother
Has his last spark of life extinguished by calamities.
Hushed by her, the abandoned one
كالليلlike night مسودblackened الجواbreast (word continues)
كالليل مسود الجوا
نحcompletion of 'breast' لاnot يحنfeels compassion لذىfor one with سهادsleeplessness
نح لا يحن لذى سهاد
Like night, black of breast,
Like the night, blackening the cosmos
It feels no pity for the sleepless.
Unmoved by any rested one
هذاthis هوit (emphatic) العرشthe throne الذيthat
هذا هو العرش الذي
حطمتهyou shattered it هذاthis فؤاديmy heart
حطمته هذا فؤادي
This is the throne that
This is the throne that
You shattered—this is my heart.
My heart has shattered
Sol 6.1