هفا قلبي

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الشَّوْقُ أَسْهَرَ أَجْفَانِي وَعَذَّبَنِيفَلَمْ أُحِسَّ سِوَىٰ بِالْوَجْدِ وَالشَّجَنِ
هَفَا إِلَيْكِ فُؤَادِي وَالْجَوَىٰ حُرَقٌتَكَادُ تَقْتَلِعُ الْأَعْضَاءَ مِنْ بَدَنِي
أَبِيتُ يَقْظَانَ تَبْكِي مُقْلَتِي بِدَمٍيُمَازِجُ الدَّمْعَ، يَهْمِي كَالْحَيَا الْهَتِنِ
حَبِيبَتِي وَلَكِ الْعُتْبَى فَلَا تَدَعِيحَبِيبَكِ الْوَالِهَ الْمُشْتَاقَ فِي مِحَنِ
زُورِيهِ طَيْفًا إِذَا عَزَّ اللِّقَا وَصِلِيفَرُبَّمَا يَكْتَفِي بِالطَّيْفِ فِي الْوَسَنِ

My Heart Yearned

  1. Longing has kept my eyelids wakeful and tormented me,
    and I have felt nothing but passion and sorrow’s pain.
  2. My heart has flown toward you, and love’s fever is a burning
    that all but tears the limbs out of my frame.
  3. I lie awake, my eye weeping blood1
    that mingles with the tears, and pours like steady rain.
  4. My beloved, yours is the right to be appeased2: do not leave
    your love, distraught and yearning, in his trials.
  5. Visit him as a phantom3, if meeting is denied, and keep the bond:
    perhaps, in slumber, the phantom will be enough for him.

Notes

  1. Weeping blood is a classical hyperbole for the most extreme grief: the tears run dry and blood flows in their place. ↩
  2. Laki al-ʿutbā, ‘yours is the ʿutbā’, means ‘I will make amends until you are satisfied; I accept whatever you reproach me for’. The phrase is famous from the supplication of the Prophet (PBUH) at al-Ṭāʾif, lak al-ʿutbā ḥattā tarḍā, ‘Yours is the right to be appeased until You are pleased’. The lover humbly takes the blame upon himself. ↩
  3. Ṭayf (khayāl) is the phantom of the beloved that visits the lover in sleep, a central motif of classical Arabic love poetry. If she cannot come in person, he begs her at least to send her image into his dreams. ↩

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