يا قدس

لعينيك ياقدس
ترجمة إنجليزية
شارك:
يَا قُدْسُ نَاشَدْتُ الْكَرَامَةَ فِيكَ أَنْ تَتَمَدَّدَا
الْقَيْدُ ضَاقَ بِهِ الْوَرَى وَالذُّلُّ صَارَ مُبَدَّدَا
هَا أَنْتَ قَدْ جَاوَزْتَ كُلَّ تَخَيُّلِي نَحْوَ الْمَدَى
يَا حُرُّ، لَيْسَ يَرُومُ ذُو الْإِصْرَارِ إِلَّا الْفَرْقَدَا
هَا هُمْ بَنُوكَ وَلَمْ يَكُونُوا مِثْلَمَا ظَنَّ الْعِدَا
حَلَفُوا وَحَقَّ يَمِينُهُمْ وَتَقَدَّمُوا نَحْوَ الْفِدَا
هَتَفُوا بِصَوْتٍ وَاحِدٍ مَلَأَ الْعَوَالِمَ مُرْعِدَا
وَالصِّدْقُ مِلْءُ حَنَاجِرٍ سَكِرَتْ بِذَيَّاكَ النِّدَا
وَعَلَا دَوِيُّ الصَّوْتِ مُصْطَخِبًا يُرَدِّدُهُ الصَّدَى
وَتَتَابَعَتْ صَيْحَاتُهُمْ فَوْقَ الْجَمِيعِ.. مُرَدِّدَا
اللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ فِي الْبِقَاعِ سَرَى دَوِيًّا مُنْشِدَا
فَتَحَطَّمَ الْقَيْدُ الْكَبِيرُ فَمَا غَدَوْتَ.. مُقَيَّدَا

O Jerusalem

  1. O Jerusalem1, I have implored the dignity in you to stretch and spread.
  2. Mankind has chafed beneath the fetter; humiliation lies scattered.
  3. Here you are, gone past all I could imagine, toward the far horizon's end.
  4. O free one, the resolute aim at nothing but the Farqad2 overhead.
  5. Here are your sons, and they were not as the enemy supposed.
  6. They swore, their oath held true, and on toward sacrifice3 they strode.
  7. They cried out with a single voice that filled the worlds, and thundered.
  8. And truth filled throats that had grown drunk upon that call they loved4.
  9. The roar of the voice rose high, clamouring, and the echo answered.
  10. Their cries came one upon another, over all of them… repeating:
  11. “God is greatest!”5: a roar, a chant, through all the lands it spread.
  12. Then the great fetter shattered, and you were no longer… fettered.

Notes

  1. Jerusalem is al-Quds, 'the Holy'. Throughout the poem the city is addressed in the masculine (anta, 'you'; banūka, 'your sons'), personified as a man, and in line 4 it is called ḥurr, 'free one'. ↩
  2. Al-Farqad is one of al-Farqadān, the two bright stars that circle close to the Pole in the Little Bear. In Arabic they are proverbial for height and constancy: the resolute aim at nothing lower than the stars. ↩
  3. Fidāʾ is ransom: giving oneself, one's life, to redeem another. The sons go forward to offer their lives as the ransom of Jerusalem. ↩
  4. Dhayyāka is an affectionate diminutive of dhāka, 'that': 'that dear call'. Ṣidq, here rendered 'truth', is sincerity, truthfulness of heart; the throats are drunk on the call, and what fills them is sincere. ↩
  5. Allāhu akbar, 'God is greatest', the takbīr: it opens the call to prayer and is the cry of believers in joy, in war and in protest. These are the words the crowd repeats at the end of line 10. The verb sarā means to travel by night: the cry spreads like a night traveller, unseen, until it reaches every place. ↩

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