أَعَين حَياتي وَالَّذي بِبَقائِهِ
بَقائي لَقَد أَصبَحت نَحوَك شَيِّقا
O very soul of my life—by Him through whose abiding
I abide—I have grown ardently yearning for you.
أَقَمتَ بِقَلبي غَيرَ أَنَّ لِمُقلَتي
بِرُؤيتكَ الحَظَّ الَّذي يُذهِبُ الشَقا
You dwell within my heart; yet it is my eye
that, seeing you, receives the boon that banishes misery.
وَما كانَ ظَنّي أَنك الدَهرَ تارِكي
وَلَو أَنَّني أَصبحتُ بَينَ الوَرى لَقا
Never did I think you would forsake me forever,
even were I to become, among all humankind, a castaway.
لَطائفُ مَعنىً في العِيان ولَم تَكُن
لِتُدرك إلا بِالتَزاوُرِ وَاللِقا
Subtleties of meaning lie in seeing face to face, and cannot
be grasped except through mutual visits and meeting.
Sol 5.6