أحببت رب ملاحة لجماله — Muhammad Fuzuli

أحببت رب ملاحةٍ لجماله

تجب الصلوة على النبي وآله

I loved a master of loveliness for his beauty.

Blessings are due upon the Prophet and his family.

الحسن من ايات مصحف وجهه

سبحان من سر القلوب بفاله

Beauty is among the verses in the Qur'an of his face.

Glory to Him who gladdened hearts with his good omen.

بدر بدا بجماله متكملا

فاق الملاح جماله بكماله

A full moon appeared in the fullness of his beauty.

His beauty surpassed the fair in its perfection.

وا بهجة سلب القلوب بلحظه

وبقده وبخده وبخاله

O splendor! He stole hearts with his glance,

and with his stature, his cheek, and his beauty spot.

في الاستقامة قده متعذر

ما دار حول الوهم فكر مثاله

His upright stature is impossible to match;

no thought of its like has ever crossed the imagination.

لسرور آيات المحبه وجهه

عيدٌ وحاجبه مثال هلاله

For the joy of love's signs, his face

is a festival, and his eyebrow the likeness of its crescent.

عيدٌ صفا جماله لسرورنا

خطبٌ لذاك العيد حسن مقاله

A festival—his beauty shone clear for our joy;

his lovely words are sermons for that festival.

غصن اذا قصد التحرك قده

متمايلاً بيمينه وشماله

His stature is a bough when he intends to move,

swaying to his right and left.

كر التأخر في التعود حوله

من شراول من عصا وضلاله

Delay recurred in growing accustomed around him [text unclear].

From the evil of the first to disobey, and his straying [reading uncertain].

في كل صاد قلبٍ متيم

شرك لصيد القلب كل فعاله

In every [unclear] is a love-stricken heart;

every act of his is a snare for catching the heart.

ما كثر الرقباء إلا لطفه

ما لي مسى غير حسن خصاله

Only his grace multiplied the watchers;

I have no [unclear] except his lovely qualities.

كاف لعفته الشهادة أنه

متجنب بالرعب عن مياله

Sufficient testimony to his chastity is that he

keeps fearfully aloof from his admirers.

فالشمس طول الدهر دارت حوله

ما شرفت يوماً بمس نعاله

For the sun has circled him throughout all time,

yet never once was honored by touching his sandals.

يا أرض جودي بالعطا لمن يشا

ازخرت كترا الفيض من اذناله

O earth, give freely to whoever wishes;

you have stored a treasure of bounty from his garment-hems [reading uncertain].

يا شمس عيبي زدت لي رقباءه

حركت اموات الثرى بظلاله

O sun, [set]; you have multiplied his watchers against me;

you roused the dead in the dust with his shadows.

قلبي لنار خدوده متعبد

لكن يمانع جفنه بنبا له

My heart worships the fire of his cheeks,

but his eyelid opposes it with his arrows.

قلبي على دين المجوس فجفنه

متجند كمجاهدٍ بقتاله

My heart follows the faith of the Magians, so his eyelid

is enlisted like a holy warrior to fight it.

سفك الدما خضاب صفحه كفه

كيد الاكارم في تصرف ماله

The shedding of blood is the dye upon the surface of his palm;

his handling of his wealth is a stratagem against the noble.

مني خياله وصاله متباعد

حسبي لتسليتي وصال خياله

His image—union with him is far from me [text unclear].

Union with his image suffices to console me.

حل الجفا علي من لخطاته

حرم الوصول الى حريم فصاله

Cruelty became lawful against me through his [glances];

access to the sanctuary of his [union?] was forbidden.

طالعت فقه العشق ثلث اصوله

ففرقت بين حرامه وحلاله

I studied love's jurisprudence—a third of its principles—

and distinguished between its forbidden and its lawful.

بين الاحبة للمعيشة حبه

قسم الهموم كمنفق لعياله

Among lovers, his love, for their livelihood,

apportioned sorrows like a provider for his household.

وقف العنا على الفواد اطاير

بذل البلا على الضمير الواله

It endowed the [fluttering] heart with suffering,

and lavished affliction upon the love-bewildered soul.

حصل التساوي بالقناعة بينهم

كل من الشركاء شاكر حاله

Contentment brought equality among them;

each of the partners is grateful for his lot.

مالي خلاف في رعاية امره

ان شاء اعطى الروح قبل سواله

I have no objection to observing his command;

if he wishes, I give my soul before he asks.

لم لا اراعي بالاطاعة حاكياً

تختل اوضاع الهوى بملاله

Why should I not heed him obediently, declaring:

Love's order is disrupted by his weariness.

قسم بقاف قوام قد قويمه

وبحاء حشمته ودال دلاله

I swear by the qāf of the poise of his upright stature,

and by the ḥāʾ of his dignity and the dāl of his coquetry:

إن الهوى متمكن في مهجتي

لا يمكن التقليل الاستقاله

Love is firmly lodged within my heart;

neither lessening nor withdrawal is possible.

فالروح منتسب الى اعقابه

والقلب مصطبر على اهواله

For the soul is attached to his heels,

and the heart patiently endures his terrors.

عنقي باغلال الغرام مطوق

لا اطلب الاطلاق من اغلاله

My neck is encircled by the chains of passion;

I do not seek release from its chains.

قدمى على نهج المحبة ثابت

لم اسع في تدبير حل عفا له

My foot stands firm on the path of love;

I have not sought a way to undo its [fetter?].

لاذوبن الروح في نار الجوى

ولا حرقن القلب في بلبا له

I shall surely melt my soul in the fire of longing,

and surely burn my heart in its turmoil,

حتى تقول عواذلي هذا الذسي

فاق التطاير في علو جلاله

until my reproachers say: This is the one

who surpassed flight in the height of his majesty.

هذا الذي في العشق قد طلب العلا

وبدا له نيل إلى اماله

This is he who sought the heights in love,

and the attainment of his hopes appeared to him.

يا عاذل العشاق لا تتعرضن

ان الهوى لطف لحسن ماله

O reproacher of lovers, do not interfere:

love is a grace, for its outcome is good.

لا يوفب الفحشاء محترق الحشا

حرز من الفحشاء حرقة ماله

One whose heart is ablaze does not [approach] indecency;

the burning of his [wealth?] is a safeguard against indecency.

لا تحسبن يدي العذاب متيم

يوم اللقا والعشق من أعماله

Do not think a love-stricken man [will suffer] torment

on the day of meeting, when love is among his deeds.

يا رب زد شعف الفضولي في الهوى

واسدر طوايق نقصه وزواله

O Lord, increase Fuzuli's ardor in love,

and [bar] the [paths] of its waning and disappearance.

فافتح كنوز الاهتمام بوجهه

واحلل عقود لسان لطف مقاله

So open the treasures of devotion to his face,

and loosen the knots of his sweet-speaking tongue,

لشاء سيدنا الذي بلغ العلا

بجلاله وجماله وكماله

to [praise] our master, who attained the heights

through his majesty, his beauty, and his perfection.

سندٌ كريمٌ سيدٌ متكرم

قد بان امر الحق في ارساله

A noble support, a generous master,

the Truth's command became manifest in his mission.

الذين منتسب الى احكامه

والشرع مبنى على اقواله

[Religion] is bound to his rulings,

and sacred law is founded upon his sayings.

لما توجه للعلو الى السما

نزلت نكات الوحي لاستقالته

When he turned upward toward heaven,

the subtleties of revelation descended for his [reception?].

بثنائه رفعت مدارج قدرنا

خصت تحيتنا عليه وآله

Through praising him, the ranks of our worth were raised;

our salutations are reserved for him and his family.