حبيبة قلبي

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حَبِيبَةُ قَلْبِي فَوْقَ كُلِّ لَعُوبِبِشَرْقٍ وَغَرْبٍ أَمْ شِمَالِ جُنُوبِ
أَضَاءَ مُحَيَّاهَا مَجَاهِيلَ مُهْجَتِيكَشَمْسٍ تَبَدَّتْ دُونَ أَيِّ غُرُوبِ
عُسَيْلِيَّةُ الثَّغْرِ اللَّذِيذِ رُضَابُهُوَإِنْ تَبْدُ فَالْأَنْسَامُ نَفْحُ طُيُوبِ
سَمَائِيَّةُ الْعَيْنَيْنِ بَدْرِيَّةُ السَّنَىرَمَتْنِي بِسَهْمٍ رَائِشٍ وَمُصِيبِ
أَقَاحِيَّةُ الْأَسْنَانِ لُعْسٌ شِفَاهُهَاوَخُصْلَاتُ شَعْرِ الرَّأْسِ سَيْلُ صَبِيبِ
تَرِفُّ كَفَرْطِ الْعِقْدِ مِنْهَا ابْتِسَامَةٌتَبَدَّتْ بِثَغْرٍ مُفْلَجٍ وَشَنِيبِ
تُدَغْدِغُنِي بِالْهَمْسِ مِنْ دُرِّ نَظْمِهَاتُذِيبُ فُؤَادِي، إِنَّ ذَاكَ نَصِيبِي
وَتَطْلُبُ مِنِّي أَنْ أَخُطَّ مَشَاعِرِيوَشِعْرِيَ لَا يُهْدَى لِكُلِّ حَبِيبِ
ضُرُوبٌ مِنَ الْأَشْوَاقِ تُلْهِبُ مُهْجَتِيوَأَسْكُبُهَا فِي الطِّرْسِ سَكْبَ لَبِيبِ
تَهَيَّبْتُ قَبْلَ الْيَوْمِ ذِكْرَ تَشَوُّقِيفَكَيْفَ تَرَانِي إِذْ أَخُطُّ وَجِيبِي
أُغَازِلُ مِنْهَا الطَّرْفَ وَالثَّغْرَ وَاللَّمَىمَشُوقًا وَمَا شَوْقِي لَهَا بِغَرِيبِ
وَهَلْ أَنَا إِلَّا مُسْتَهَامٌ بِحُبِّهَافَيَا وَيْحَ دَائِي مَنْ تُرَاهُ طَبِيبِي
«فَوَاللَّهِ إِنَّ الْحُبَّ خَيْرُ مَحَاسِنِيوَوَاللَّهِ إِنَّ الْحُبَّ شَرُّ عُيُوبِي»(1)
«أَرَى الشَّوْقَ يَشْكُوهُ الْمُحِبُّونَ كُلُّهُمْفَيَا رَبِّ قَرِّبْ دَارَ كُلِّ حَبِيبِ»(2)
أَفَاطِمَ مَا عِنْدِي سِوَاكِ أَنِيسَةٌبِلَيْلِي وَصُبْحِي فِي ضُحًى وَمَغِيبِ
وَلَسْتُ كَمَا تَدْرِينَ فِي الشِّعْرِ بَارِعًاوَلَكِنَّ بَعْضَ الشِّعْرِ نَبْضُ قُلُوبِ
لِنَجْوَاكِ قَدْ أَمْلَيْتُ مَا تَقْرَئِينَهُوَمَالِيَ مِنْ شَخْصٍ سِوَاكِ رَقِيبِي
أَقُولُ لِعَيْنِي فِي رُبَاكِ تَفَسَّحِيوَلِلنَّفْسِ مِنْ ذِكْرَاكِ بَعْدَكِ ذُوبِي
  1. (1) اقتباس من قصيدة مصطفى صادق الرافعي
  2. (2) اقتباس من قصيدة العباس بن الأحنف

مقدشو – الصومال

Beloved of My Heart

  1. The darling of my heart outshines each coquette
    in east or west, in north or south: she stands apart.
  2. Her face has lit the uncharted reaches of my soul,
    like a sun that dawned and never set, and never will depart.
  3. Her mouth is honey-sweet1, its dew delicious;
    and when she shows herself, the breezes breathe perfume.
  4. Her eyes are of the sky2, her glow the full moon’s own;
    she shot me with a feathered shaft that pierced me to the heart.
  5. Her teeth are camomile, her lips a dusky red3,
    the tresses of her hair a torrent pouring down.
  6. A smile flits over her like pearls from a snapped string,
    shown in a mouth whose teeth are gleaming, fine-edged, set apart4.
  7. She tickles me with whispers from the pearls she strings5;
    she melts my heart: and such is my allotted part.
  8. She asks me to set down in writing what I feel,
    and yet my verse is not a gift for every sweetheart.
  9. All kinds of longing set my soul ablaze,
    and I pour them on the page with a wise man’s art.
  10. Before today I shrank from even speaking of my longing;
    how, then, do you see me now, as I write the pounding of my heart?
  11. I court her glance, her mouth, her lips’ dark red,
    with longing; and my longing for her is nothing strange.
  12. What am I but a man distracted by her love?
    Alas for my disease! Who, I wonder, is the doctor for my heart?
  13. “By God, love is the finest of my virtues;
    and by God, love is the very worst of my faults.”(1)
  14. “I see that all who love complain of longing;
    so, Lord, bring near the home of every sweetheart.”(2)
  15. Fatima6, I have no companion but you,
    through my nights and my mornings, at forenoon and when the day departs.
  16. I am not, as you know, a master of verse;
    but some poetry is the beating of hearts.
  17. It was to whisper to you that I dictated what you read,
    and I have no one watching over me but you7.
  18. I tell my eye to wander freely on your hills,
    and tell my soul to melt at your memory when we’re apart.
  • (1) A quotation from a poem by Mustafa Sadiq al-Rafiʿi8.
  • (2) A quotation from a poem by al-ʿAbbas ibn al-Ahnaf9.

Mogadishu, Somalia

Notes

  1. Verses 3 to 5 describe her in a string of adjectives formed with the Arabic suffix -iyya (‘of, belonging to’): ʿusayliyya, from ʿusayl, a diminutive of ʿasal, ‘honey’; samāʾiyya, ‘of the sky’; badriyya, ‘of the full moon’; aqāḥiyya, ‘of camomile’. The effect is of a catalogue of her beauties, each tied to a thing of nature. Ruḍāb is the moisture of the mouth, which classical love poetry praises as sweeter than honey or wine. ↩
  2. Samāʾiyyat al-ʿaynayn, literally ‘sky-eyed’, may mean eyes with the clear colour of the sky or eyes that are heavenly in their beauty. The arrow is her glance. Rāʾish, ‘feathered’, describes an arrow fitted with feathers so that it flies straight, and muṣīb one that hits its mark. ↩
  3. Uqḥuwān, camomile, whose small white petals are a classical simile for fine, white, evenly set teeth. Luʿs describes lips with a dusky red, almost dark, tinge (lamā, the word used again in verse 11), a colour prized in the old ideal of beauty. ↩
  4. Farṭ al-ʿiqd is the scattering of a necklace’s pearls when the thread breaks, a classical image for a smile that reveals the teeth. Mufallaj describes front teeth with slight, graceful gaps between them (‘set apart’), and shanīb teeth that are white, sharp-edged and fresh; both were marks of beauty in the classical ideal. ↩
  5. Naẓm means both the stringing of pearls on a thread and the composing of verse or well-ordered speech. ‘The pearls she strings’ are thus her words, which may be her own verse, and the image picks up the pearl necklace of the previous verse. ↩
  6. The call a-Fāṭima, ‘O Fatima’, with the vocative particle a-, recalls a famous verse of Imruʾ al-Qays’s Muʿallaqa, the most celebrated of pre-Islamic odes, which begins in exactly the same way: ‘Fatima, gently, a little less of this coquetry!’ The name thus sets the poet’s own beloved in a long line of addressees of Arabic love poetry. ↩
  7. In Arabic love poetry the raqīb is the watcher or spy who guards the beloved and keeps the lovers apart. The poet reverses the figure: the only raqīb he has is she herself, the one who reads what he writes and holds him to account. ↩
  8. Mustafa Sadiq al-Rafiʿi (1880–1937) was an Egyptian writer and poet, known for his ornate prose and his meditations on love. ↩
  9. Al-ʿAbbas ibn al-Ahnaf (d. c. 808) was a poet of the Abbasid court in Baghdad under Harun al-Rashid, who wrote almost nothing but love poetry, chaste in tone and simple in diction. ↩

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