لغات الحب

أوتار مبعثرة
ترجمة إنجليزية
شارك:
لِلْحُبِّ كَمْ مِنْ لُغَاتٍ بِتُّ أُتْقِنُهَالَكِنَّمَا الصَّمْتُ فِي التَّعْبِيرِ أَبْلَغُهَا
يَقُولُ مَا لَمْ يُقَلْ مِمَّا يَدِقُّ خَفًاوَالْحَرْفُ لَمْ يَسْتَطِعْ حَمْلًا فَيُفْرِغُهَا
فِي نَظْرَةِ الْعَيْنِ أَشْوَاقٌ مُكَتَّمَةٌمَهْمَا كَتَمْنَا؛ فَإِنَّ الْعَيْنَ تُبْلِغُهَا
فِي ذُرْوَةِ الْوَجْدِ حَالَاتٌ مُقَدَّسَةٌصَمْتُ الْمُحِبِّينَ دُونَ الْقَوْلِ يَبْلُغُهَا
إِنَّ الْمَحَبَّةَ فِي الْأَعْمَاقِ رَاسِخَةٌنُورُ الْيَقِينِ بِلَوْنِ الطُّهْرِ يَصْبُغُهَا
وَهْيَ الْعَطَاءُ الَّذِي تَسْرِي نَسَائِمُهُمِنْ غَيْرِ قَوْلٍ وَصِدْقُ الْوَجْدِ يُسْبِغُهَا
تِلْكَ الْمَشَاعِرُ خَتْمُ اللَّهِ فِي دَمِنَاسِرٌّ مِنَ الرُّوحِ نَبْضُ الْقَلْبِ يَدْمَغُهَا

The Languages of Love

  1. How many are love’s languages! I have come to master each,
    and yet, in utterance, silence is the most eloquent1 speech.
  2. It says the never-said, things fine and hidden deep,
    which letters lacked the strength to carry and pour out.
  3. Within the glance of an eye lie hidden longings;
    however much we hide them, the eye delivers1 each.
  4. At the height of passion there are sacred states2
    which lovers’ silence reaches1, where words can never reach.
  5. Love is rooted deep within, held fast,
    and the light of certainty dyes it with purity’s hue.
  6. It is a giving whose breezes flow without a word,
    and true passion lavishes them in abundance.
  7. These feelings are God’s seal within our blood,
    a secret of the spirit that the heartbeat stamps with its mark.

Notes

  1. The rhyme words of the poem play on sound and root. In verse 1 silence is ablaghuhā, ‘the most eloquent of them’; in verse 3 the eye tublighuhā, ‘conveys them’; in verse 4 silence yablughuhā, ‘reaches them’. All three come from the root b-l-gh, ‘to reach, to convey’, from which balāgha, ‘eloquence’, is also derived: eloquence is the power to reach the mark. The poem thus argues through its rhymes that silence and the eye ‘reach’ where words fall short. ↩
  2. Ḥālāt, ‘states’, recalls the aḥwāl of Sufism: states of the soul that come upon the seeker as gifts and cannot be described in words. The poem gives human love the same sacred, ineffable character. ↩

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