أنت اختياري

أوتار مبعثرة
ترجمة إنجليزية
شارك:
أَنْتَ نَجْمِي الَّذِي بَدَا فِي سَمَائِيوَزُلَالِي مِنَ الْغَمَامِ وَمَائِي
مِنْ جَمِيعِ الْأَنَامِ أَنْتَ اخْتِيَارِيأَنْتَ مِنْ كُلِّ عِلَّةٍ لِي دَوَائِي
شَوْقُ نَفْسِي إِلَيْكَ أَضْنَى فُؤَادِيأَعْطِنِي الْحِضْنَ وَامْحُ عَنِّي عَنَائِي
هَاكَ حِضْنِي أَيَا حَبِيبِي اسْتَلِمْنِيلَا تَدَعْنِي كَقِطْعَةٍ فِي فَنَاءِ
عِلَّتِي مِنْ رَصَاصِ حُبِّكَ يُرْمَىمِنْكَ حَتَّى يَقِرَّ فِي أَمْعَائِي
أَدْرِكِ الْقَلْبَ قَبْلَ يُقْبَرَ جِسْمِيعَجِّلِ الْخَطْوَ قَبْلَ هَدِّ بِنَائِي
كَمْ تَرَانِي سَطَرْتُ مِنْ صُحْفِ حُبٍّ-لَيْسَ يُحْصَى تَعْدَادُهَا – مِنْ دِمَائِي

You Are My Choice

  1. You are the star that rose within my sky,
    my limpid rain1 from the clouds, my water, cool and pure.
  2. Of all mankind, you are my choice;
    for every ill, you are my cure.
  3. My soul's longing for you has worn my heart away;
    give me your embrace, and wipe away the weariness I endure.
  4. Here are my arms, my love: receive me; do not leave me
    like a fragment cast away in nothingness2.
  5. My sickness comes from the bullets of your love, fired
    by you until they come to rest deep in my entrails.
  6. Save the heart before my body goes into the grave;
    quicken your step, before my frame comes crashing down.
  7. How many pages of love, do you suppose,
    too many to be counted, I have written in my blood!

Notes

  1. Zulāl is pure, cool, sweet water, clear enough to see through. After ‘my star in my sky’, the verse moves from the heavens down to the rain that falls from them: the beloved is both the light above and the water of life. ↩
  2. Fanāʾ, as vocalised here, means extinction, passing away into nothing; it is also the Sufi term for the self’s dissolution. The same letters read as fināʾ mean an open courtyard. Both senses hang over the image: a piece left lying in an empty yard, and a self left to vanish. ↩

English translation prepared by artificial intelligence and reviewed against the Arabic for accuracy of meaning and rhetoric.