لا تغيبي

ترجمة إنجليزية

لَا تَغِيبِي عَنِّي كَثِيرًا فَإِنِّيسَمَكٌ، أَنْتِ لِي بِحَارِي وَمَائِي

وَحَيَاتِي مِنْ غَيْرِ بَحْرِكِ مَوْتٌفَإِذَا غِبْتِ حَانَ حِينُ فَنَائِي

أَنْتِ لِي الْأُنْسُ وَالْهَوَى وَسُرُورِيفِيكِ دُونًا عَنْ كُلِّ دَانٍ وَنَائِي

مُهْجَتِي تَبْتَغِي احْتِضَانَكِ دَوْمًاأَنْتِ لِي بَلْسَمُ الْجِرَاحِ، دَوَائِي

مَا تَشَائِينَ بِالْفُؤَادِ جَمِيلٌوَرَدِيءٌ فِي الْحُبِّ مَا لَمْ تَشَائِي

وَحْدَكِ الْحُبُّ لَسْتُ أَدْرِي سِوَاهُفَارْحَمِي خَاطِرِي وَكُونِي شِفَائِي

Do Not Stay Away

Do not stay long away from me, for I
am a fish, and you're my water and my sea.
My life without your sea is death,
so when you're gone, the hour has come¹ for me to cease to be.
You are my comfort and my love, and my joy
is found in you, not in anyone near or far from me.
My heart's blood longs to hold you always:
you are the balm for all my wounds, my remedy.
Whatever you wish is lovely to my heart,
and in love, all that you do not wish seems poor to me.
You alone are love; I know no other.
So have pity on my heart, and be the one to heal me.

Ḥāna ḥīnu fanāʾī, 'the time of my perishing has come', repeats the same root in verb and noun (ḥāna, 'came due', and ḥīn, 'time'), a figure that stresses the inevitability: without her, like a fish out of water, his end is certain. ↩

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