صباح الفلّ

أوتار مبعثرة
ترجمة إنجليزية
شارك:
صَبَاحُ الْفُلِّ يَا حُبَّ الْأَمِينِبِفَوْحِ الْعِطْرِ رَيَّا الْيَاسَمِينِ
يُضَمِّخُكُمْ صَبَاحًا مَعْ شُرُوقٍلِشَمْسِ الْحُبِّ فِي الْأُفُقِ الْمُبِينِ
وَتُؤْنِسُكُمْ أَشِعَّتُهَا وَتُزْجِيلَكُمْ مِنَّا تَحَايَا مَعْ حَنِينِ
لِضَمٍّ مِنْكُمُ يَشْفِي ضُلُوعًابَرَاهَا الشَّوْقُ لِلصَّدْرِ الْحَنُونِ
وَلَيْسَ لَهَا سِوَاكُمْ مِنْ دَوَاءٍفَدَاوُوهَا وَقُوهَا مِنْ جُنُونِ

A Jasmine Morning1

  1. A jasmine morning to you, love of al-Amīn2,
    with wafting scent, the fragrance of the jasmine,
  2. anointing you3 this morning, as love’s sun
    comes rising on the clear horizon’s line4.
  3. Its rays keep you company, and speed to you
    from us our greetings, and our yearning, intertwined,
  4. for an embrace from you to heal these ribs
    that longing for your tender breast has worn so thin.
  5. They have no remedy but you: so heal them, then,
    and shield them from the madness closing in.

Notes

  1. Ṣabāḥ al-full, ‘a morning of full’, is a popular Egyptian morning greeting. Full is Arabian jasmine (Jasminum sambac), a small, intensely fragrant white flower; the verse then adds yāsamīn, common jasmine, so the greeting is wrapped in two kinds of jasmine. ↩
  2. Al-Amīn, ‘the faithful, the trustworthy’, is the poet’s own name (Mohamed al-Amin). ‘Love of al-Amīn’ thus signs the greeting with his name, while the word itself also calls the lover faithful. ↩
  3. The plural ‘you’ (-kum) throughout is the plural of respect and affection used for a single beloved. ↩
  4. Al-ufuq al-mubīn, ‘the clear horizon’, is a Qur’anic phrase (81:23), where it is the horizon on which the Prophet (PBUH) saw the angel Gabriel. The echo gives love’s sunrise a luminous, almost sacred clarity. ↩

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