تصبّحك الطيور

أوتار مبعثرة
ترجمة إنجليزية
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تُصَبِّحُكِ الطُّيُورُ بِأَلْفِ لَحْنٍوَتَغْرِيدٍ يَفُوقُ جَمَالَ فَنِّي
تَقُولُ لَكُمْ صَبَاحُ الْحُسْنِ يَا مَنْجَمَالُكِ فَاقَ إِشْرَاقِي وَحُسْنِي
تُطَالِعُكِ الشُّمُوسُ كَمُعْجَبَاتٍوَتَحْسُدُكِ الْبُدُورُ بِكُلِّ ضِغْنِ
وَتُمْطِرُكِ الْغُيُومُ عَلَى سَمَاهَابِغَيْثٍ هَاطِلِ النَّجْوَى وَمُزْنِ
تَقُولُ لَكُمْ طُيُورُ الْبَانِ مَهْلًاحَبِيبُكِ يَبْتَغِي ضَمًّا بِحِضْنِ
فَجُودِي لِلْحَبِيبِ بِمُبْتَغَاهُوَلَا تَدَعِيهِ فِي أَسَفٍ وَحُزْنِ

The Birds Bid You Good Morning

  1. The birds bid you good morning with a thousand melodies,
    with warbling lovelier than all the beauty of my art.
  2. They say to you, “A morning of beauty1, you whose loveliness
    has outshone our radiance and our beauty!”
  3. Suns gaze at you like women lost in admiration,
    and full moons envy2 you with all the spite they have.
  4. The clouds rain down upon you from their sky
    a downpour of whispered secrets, and showers from the rain-clouds.
  5. The birds of the bān3 say to you, “Gently, now!
    Your beloved longs to be held close in your embrace.”
  6. So grant your beloved freely what he longs for,
    and do not leave him in regret, with sorrow at his heart.

Notes

  1. Ṣabāḥ al-ḥusn, 'a morning of beauty', is a variation on the everyday greeting ṣabāḥ al-khayr, 'good morning'. The Arabic says 'my radiance and my beauty': the birds speak as one voice, and her loveliness outshines their own brilliance and beauty, just as their song outshone the poet's art in verse 1. ↩
  2. The sun and the moon, the traditional standards of beauty in Arabic poetry, are here outdone: suns admire her like rival women, and full moons are consumed with envy. ↩
  3. Al-bān is the ben tree (moringa), whose tall, slender branches are the classic image of the beloved's figure. Its birds, sheltering in the tree that stands for her, speak up on the lover's behalf. ↩

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