هلا رحمت لمشتاق يحبك
معذب والوجد قد أفناه
Will you not have mercy on a yearning lover who loves you,
Tormented, whom passion has consumed?
يقضِّي ليله ونهاره في أنَّةٍ
والبعد والهجران قد أضناه
He spends his night and day amid his sighs,
And distance and desertion have worn him away.
أشفق عليه ولا تكن ذا قسوة
واغمره دوما بالذي يهواه
Take pity on him; do not be cruel,
And ever enfold him in what he longs for.
إن البعاد يضيره ويهينه
؟ ؟؟
لم تعملنَّ؟ إذن لما يخشاه؟؟
For separation harms and humiliates him—
Why, then, would you deliberately do the very thing he fears?
هل تذكرنَّ جلوسكم في خلوة
في الروض حتى قلت لي أهواه
Do you remember your sitting together in seclusion,
In the garden, until you told me, “I love him”?
لا تخلفنَّ لوعده وعهوده
واذكر زماناً كان ما أحلاه
Do not betray the promise made to him, nor his covenants,
And remember that time—how sweet it was!
لو تتركنَّ هواه لعبة حاقدٍ
؟
ستقول يوما كيف لي ألقاه؟
If you make his love a spiteful person’s plaything,
One day you will say, “How can I meet him?”
إن المروءة تقتضي في حبّه
رفقا به أو تلتقي إياه
For honor, when it comes to loving him, demands
Gentleness toward him—or that you meet him.
لا تبق في هذا العناد لأنَّه
يسقيك مرَّ فراقه بعناه
Do not persist in this stubbornness, for it
Will make you drink the bitterness of separation from him, with all its anguish.
ارجع إليه ولا تمنَّ بحبِّه
واخلص له بالود لا تنساه
Return to him, and do not hold your love over him as a favor;
Be true to him in affection; do not forget him.
يا منكرا للحب في محبوبه
؟؟؟
هل هذا ما أضمرته لهنآه؟؟؟
O you who deny love for its beloved,
Is this what you had in store for his happiness?
تسقيه مراً من عذاب كؤوسه
ويلاك يا من تنتشي لشقاه
You make him drink bitterness from torment’s cups—
Woe to you, who revel in his misery!
قاسٍ عليه وتشتهي لفراقه
حتى يعاني جل ما أسداه
Hard-hearted toward him, you yearn to be parted from him,
Until he suffers for nearly all that he has bestowed.
لو كنت ممن يرحمون محبِّهم
لصدفت عما يكتوي بضناه
Had you been among those who show mercy to their lovers,
You would have shunned what sears him with wasting pain.
فالقصد دوماً أن تكون ملبياً
بالوصل لا ترجع لنيل سواه
The aim is always that you should reign supreme
Through union, never turning back to seek another.
يا رب بارك للأحبة حبَّهم
واجمع هموا بالود يا ربَّاه
O Lord, bless the love that lovers share,
And unite them in affection, O my Lord.
1967
1967م
1967 CE
Sol 5.6