منبع الطهر

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يَا مَعْدِنَ الطُّهْرِ يَا أَنْقَى مَعَانِيهِيَا مَنْبِتَ الْعِزِّ يَا أَرْقَى مَبَانِيهِ
لَوْ كَانَ لِلطُّهْرِ بَيْتٌ كُنْتِ مَنْزِلَهُفَمَنْ لِطُهْرِكِ يَرْقَى أَوْ يُدَانِيهِ؟
أَنْتِ الْحَصَانُ الْبَتُولُ التَّرْتَقِي أَلَقًافِي كَوْكَبِ الطُّهْرِ مِنْ أَزْكَى مَرَاقِيهِ
يَا مُنْيَتِي يَا خَيَالًا بَاتَ فِي خَلَدِيأَصْفَى مِنَ الْمُزْنِ حِينَ الْغَيْمُ يَحْوِيهِ
حَتَّى خَيَالِيَ لَا أَرْضَى يُخَالِطُهُعَنْ طُهْرِكِ الدَّهْرَ مَا عَنْهُ يُجَافِيهِ
بِحُبِّ طُهْرِكِ قَلْبِي مُغْرَمٌ وَلِهٌوَلِي بِطُهْرِكِ مَا يَدْعُو إِلَى التِّيهِ
تَرْدَادُ وَصْفِكِ يُشْجِينِي وَيُنْعِشُنِييَزِينُ شِعْرِي وَتَعْلُو قِيمَتِي فِيهِ
تَلَفُّظِي بِاسْمِكِ الْأَزْكَى يَرِفُّ لَهُقَلْبِي رَفِيفًا نِيَاطُ الْقَلْبِ تَدْرِيهِ
صُبِّي لِقَلْبِي طَهُورًا أَنْتِ مَنْبَعُهُيَسْكَرْ بِهِ، إِنَّ بَعْضَ الطُّهْرِ يَكْفِيهِ

Wellspring of Purity

  1. O mine of purity, O purest of its meanings!
    O soil where glory grows, O loftiest of its buildings!1
  2. If purity had a house, you would be the one who dwells there;
    so who could rise to your purity, or even come near?
  3. You are the chaste one, the pure virgin2, who ascends in radiance
    through the star of purity, climbing its purest stair.
  4. O my heart's wish, O image that has settled in my mind,
    purer than rain-water3 while the cloud still holds it!
  5. Not even my imagination would I let, for all time, be touched
    by anything that might estrange it from your purity.
  6. My heart is enamoured, and distraught with love, of your purity;
    and in your purity I find a cause for pride.
  7. To tell of you again and again both moves me and revives me;
    it adorns my poetry, and there my worth is raised.
  8. When I utter your most pure name, my heart
    flutters at it, a flutter that the very heartstrings know.
  9. Pour into my heart a pure, cleansing draught whose wellspring you are,
    and let it grow drunk4 on it: a little purity is enough.

Notes

  1. Maʿānī, 'meanings', and mabānī, 'buildings', are a traditional pair in Arabic: mabnā is also the outward form of a word and maʿnā its sense, so the pair means form and content. The verse balances two halves, purity and meaning in the first, glory and building in the second, so that she is the essence of purity and the loftiest structure of honour. ↩
  2. Al-ḥaṣān is the chaste, virtuous woman, literally 'the well-fortified'. Al-batūl, 'the one devoted and set apart', is an epithet of the Virgin Mary and of Fatima, daughter of the Prophet (PBUH), in Islamic tradition; it carries the sense of perfect chastity and devotion. ↩
  3. Muzn are white rain-clouds. Rain-water still held in the cloud, before it has touched the earth, is the image of absolute purity. ↩
  4. Ṭahūr, ‘pure and purifying’, is the word the Qurʾān uses for the drink of Paradise (76:21, sharāban ṭahūran). Drunkenness normally belongs with wine, the opposite of purity in Islamic terms; here the lover asks to be made drunk on purity itself. The paradox is deliberate, and the closing words temper it: a little of her purity is intoxication enough. ↩

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