الفراق

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ترجمة إنجليزية
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أَصَاعِقَةٌ تَحُلُّ بِأَرْضِ عَادٍ؟وَعَادٌ فِي فُؤَادِي يَسْكُنُونَا؟
فِرَاقٌ لَمْ يَكُنْ يَوْمًا بِبَالِييَهُدُّ بِأَضْلُعِي رُكْنًا رَكِينَا
فِرَاقٌ لَمْ يَعُدْ لِلْقَلْبِ بُدٌّمِنِ اسْتِقْبَالِهِ بَرِمًا حَزِينَا
هِيَ الْأَقْدَارُ تَجْمَعُ ثُمَّ تُقْصِيوَنَقْضِي عُمْرَنَا مُتَفَرِّقِينَا
وَتُشْعِلُ فِي الْفُؤَادِ حَرِيقَ حُبٍّوَلَا يُطْفَى لَظَاهَا مَا حَيِينَا
كَمَا كَانَ اللِّقَا قَدَرًا كَذَاكُمْأَتَى يَوْمُ الْفِرَاقِ لِيَبْتَلِينَا

Parting

  1. Is it a thunderbolt that strikes the land of ʿĀd1,
    when it is in my heart that ʿĀd are dwelling?
  2. A parting that had never once crossed my mind,
    that sends a firm-set pillar2 in my ribs toppling.
  3. A parting that the heart can now no longer shun:
    it must go out and meet it, weary and grieving.
  4. Such are the fates: they gather, then drive apart,
    and so we spend our lives, from one another parting.
  5. And they kindle in the heart a blaze of love
    whose flames will not be quenched as long as we are living.
  6. Just as our meeting was decreed by fate, so too
    the day of parting came, to put us to the test.

Notes

  1. ʿĀd was an ancient Arabian people destroyed, according to the Qur'an, for rejecting the prophet Hūd. The Qur'an (41:13) warns of 'a thunderbolt like the thunderbolt of ʿĀd and Thamūd', and the fate of ʿĀd became a byword for sudden, total ruin. The poet asks whether this parting is such a catastrophe, and answers that it is, for it falls on his own heart, where 'ʿĀd', that is, those he loves, now dwell. The rhetorical question makes the heart itself the ruined land. ↩
  2. Rukn is a pillar or corner-stone, and rakīn, from the same root, means 'firm, solid'; the pairing of the two related words (jinās ishtiqāq) stresses how strong the support was that the parting knocks down. ↩

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