Sol 6.1

  1. هيج البعد هواها

    مهجة طال اساها

    Separation stirred its longing—

    a heart whose sorrow has long endured.

  2. عشقت اطلال نجد

    ولها شبت لظاها

    It loved the ruins of Najd,

    and for them its flames flared.

  3. كلما تجذب آها

    تتبع اللهفة آها

    Whenever it draws forth a sigh,

    yearning follows with another sigh.

  4. لهفي مي عليها

    وعلى ما قد عراها

    How I grieve for it, Mayy,

    and for what has befallen it!

  5. ريم نجد بنبال

    صائبات قد رماها

    A gazelle of Najd, with arrows

    that strike true, has pierced it.

  6. وليال سلفت لي

    قرب سلع ورباها

    And nights that once were mine,

    near Salʿ and its hills.

  7. سلي القلب غراما

    ولوجد ما سلاها

    The heart forgot its passion,

    yet through longing it has not forgotten them.

  8. وحمامات بسلع

    ذكر من تهوى شجاها

    And doves at Salʿ—

    the memory of their beloved saddened them.

  9. هملت منها عيون

    والنوى زاد عناها

    Their eyes streamed with tears,

    and separation deepened their suffering.

  10. هل لغير الحي يا

    مي عناها وبكاها

    Is it for anyone but the clan, O

    Mayy—their suffering and their weeping?

  11. فعساها تبلغ الآ

    مال منهم وعساها

    So may they attain their

    hopes from them—may they indeed.

  12. هي ذاك الحي لاش

    ك من الكون ماها

    It is that clan, without

    doubt—its water is from creation.

  13. يا لاطلال اراها

    شاركتني بهواها

    Oh, the ruins I see

    have shared their longing with me!

  14. غير اني كل آن

    دون غيري مبتلاها

    Yet I, at every moment,

    alone among others, am their afflicted one.

  15. اندب الاطلال وحدي

    والنوى اقصى مداها

    I lament the ruins alone,

    while separation reaches its furthest extent.

  16. وعجيب مع بعدي

    لم تر العين سواها

    And wondrously, despite my distance,

    my eye has seen nothing but them.

  17. ريمها سلسل من عي

    ني بالصد المياها

    Their gazelle made waters flow from my

    eye by turning away.

  18. وبه كم ضاء من

    يعقوبها المضنى عماها

    And through him, how often light shone from

    the blindness of their weary Jacob!

  19. فاسئلوه يا لقومي

    مهجتي كيف كواها

    So ask him, O my people,

    how he seared my heart,

  20. والى اطلال نجد

    كيف بالقهر ثناها

    and toward the ruins of Najd,

    how he bent it by force.

  21. فرعاه الله من

    ريم رعاها ورعاها

    So may God guard him—what a

    gazelle, who grazed there and watched over them!

  22. ليت شعري والاماني

    كم بها الولهان تاها

    Would that I knew! And wishes—

    how often the lovesick one has wandered in them!

  23. هل الريم بها

    تيك المغاني واراها

    Is the gazelle in them—

    those dwellings? And I see them

  24. عبقت بالمسك من

    كل الحواشي طرفاها

    fragrant with musk on

    every side, at both their ends.

  25. وزها يشرق في سم

    ك العلا بادي سناها

    And he gleamed, shining in the

    height of sublimity, their radiance manifest.

  26. هي سيناء فؤادي

    وجد اليوم هداها

    They are my heart's Sinai;

    today it has found their guidance.

  27. هي شمس الروح في

    برج التجلي وضحاها

    They are the sun of the spirit in

    the mansion of manifestation, and its morning light.

  28. تطرب الروح وتبغي

    نار قرب من طواها

    The spirit rejoices and seeks

    a fire of nearness from their Tuwa.

  29. قدس الله حما وا

    دي حماها وحماها

    May God sanctify the precinct of the

    valley that sheltered them, and their sanctuary.

  30. كم طرحنا جبهات

    بثراها وشفاها

    How often we laid our foreheads

    upon their soil and at their edge!

  31. يا ثرى ما شمل الع

    لة الا وشفاها

    O soil that never embraced an

    ailment without healing it!

  32. آه يا ريم رباها

    انت نبراس زكاها

    Ah, gazelle of their hills,

    you are the lamp of their purity.

  33. داو لي المهجة بالوص

    ل فذا البعد كفاها

    Heal my heart through

    union—for it has had enough of this separation.