تصحو

أوتار مبعثرة
ترجمة إنجليزية
شارك:
تَصْحُو وَتَثْمَلُ مِنْ عِشْقِي الَّذِي عَرَفَتْمَذَاقَهُ، فَإِذَا اشْتَاقَتْ أُسَاقِيهَا
تَصْحُو وَتَسْكَرُ مِلْءَ الشَّوْقِ عَاشِقَةًتَهْوَى الْحَبِيبَ وَتَفْدِيهِ مَآقِيهَا
تُخْفِي الْمُحَيَّا حَيَاءً وَهْيَ رَاغِبَةٌلَوْ تَمْنَحُ الْكُلَّ تَحْوِيهِ وَيَحْوِيهَا

She Wakes

  1. She wakes, then grows drunk1 on my love, whose taste
    she's come to know; and when she longs, I pour for her and drink with her2.
  2. She wakes, then grows drunk, brimful with longing, a woman in love
    who adores her beloved, and would give her very eyes3 to ransom him.
  3. She hides her face for shyness4, and yet she longs,
    if she could give her all, to hold him and be held by him.

Notes

  1. Taṣḥū means both 'she wakes' and 'she becomes sober'. The poem plays on the contrast of ṣaḥw (sobriety, waking) and sukr (drunkenness), a pair also familiar from Sufi language: no sooner has she come to her senses than she is intoxicated again by his love. ↩
  2. Usāqīhā is from a verb form that expresses sharing: to pour drinks for someone while drinking with them, as boon companions do. ↩
  3. Tafdīhi, 'she ransoms him', echoes the Arabic formula of devotion fidāka, 'may I be your ransom'. Maʾāqī are the inner corners of the eyes, where tears gather, so the phrase also suggests that she would shed her tears for him. ↩
  4. Al-muḥayyā ('the face') and ḥayāʾ ('modesty, shyness') sound alike (jinās): she hides her face out of shyness. The verse sets outward modesty against inward desire. ↩

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