بليت بالحب

أوتار مبعثرة
ترجمة إنجليزية
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بُلِيتُ بِالْحُبِّ أَغْشَى فِي نَوَائِبِهِوَرَاحَ يَرْحَلُ قَلْبِي فِي رَكَائِبِهِ
مَا أَعْذَبَ الْحُبَّ فِي قُرْبِ الْحَبِيبِ وَمَاأَمَرَّهُ حِينَ يَشْتَطُّ الْبِعَادُ بِهِ
إِنْ تَسْعَدِ الْعَيْنُ مِنْ رُؤْيَاهُ يَشْقَ بِهِقَلْبِي.. وَيَشْتَدَّ غَيًّا فِي غَيَاهِبِهِ
وَإِنْ دَنَا لِفُؤَادِي نَاءَ عَنْ مُقَلِينَأْيًا.. وَذَلِكَ بَعْضٌ مِنْ عَجَائِبِهِ
أَشْكُو الْغَرَامَ وَنَارُ الشَّوْقِ تَحْرِقُنِيوَالدَّمْعُ يَهْمِي كَغَيْثٍ مِنْ سَحَائِبِهِ
أَسْلَمْتُ رُوحِي لَهُ طَوْعًا بِلا نَدَمٍوَأَقْبَلُ الضَّيْمَ فِي أَقْسَى تَجَارِبِهِ
فَالْحُبُّ كَالْبَحْرِ يُغْرِينَا بِهَادِئِهِوَيَقْتُلُ الصَّبَّ فِي أَعْتَى غَوَارِبِهِ
حَتَّى تَبَدَّى هِلالُ الْوَصْلِ فِي أُفُقِيلِيَجْمَعَ الشَّمْلَ فِي أَغْلَى مَآرِبِهِ
فَالْعَيْنُ تُبْصِرُهُ.. وَالْقَلْبُ يَسْكُنُهُوَزَالَ مَا كَانَ يُشْقِي مِنْ مَتَاعِبِهِ
وَأَقْبَلَ السَّعْدُ يَمْحُو كُلَّ لَوْعَتِنَاوَأَشْرَقَ الْحُبُّ فِي أَسْمَى مَرَاتِبِهِ
فَوَدَّعَ الصَّبُّ أَحْزَانًا يُكَابِدُهَاوَبَاتَ بِالْوَصْلِ يَجْنِي مِنْ رَغَائِبِهِ
فَلا فِرَاقٌ يَرُوعُ الرُّوحَ بَعْدَ غَدٍوَلا شَقَاءٌ لِصَبٍّ فِي مَطَالِبِهِ

Afflicted with Love

  1. I have been stricken with love; I plunge into its calamities,
    and my heart set off to travel in its caravan train.
  2. How sweet is love when the beloved is near, and how bitter
    when separation carries him too far away!
  3. If my eye is gladdened at the sight of him, my heart
    is made wretched, straying deeper in its dark domain1.
  4. And if he draws near my heart, he goes far from my eyes,
    far indeed: and that is only one of love’s wonders.
  5. I complain of passion, while the fire of longing burns me,
    and my tears pour down as its clouds pour down their rain.
  6. I have surrendered my soul to it willingly, with no regret,
    and I accept injustice in the harshest of its trials.
  7. For love is like the sea: it lures us with its calm,
    and kills the ardent lover in its most violent crests2.
  8. Till at last the crescent of union3 rose upon my horizon
    to bring us back together, the dearest aim it sought to gain.
  9. Now the eye sees him, and the heart makes its home in him1,
    and gone are all its torments, all the misery and pain.
  10. Happiness came forward, erasing all our anguish,
    and love shone out, attaining its loftiest rank.
  11. So the ardent lover bade farewell to the sorrows he endured,
    and spent his nights in union, reaping what he longed to gain.
  12. No parting, in the days to come, to strike the soul with dread,
    and no more misery for a lover in all he seeks to obtain.

Notes

  1. Verses 3 and 4 describe love’s paradox: when the eye has the beloved, the heart suffers, and when the heart has him, the eye loses him; eye and heart can never possess him at once. Verse 9 resolves it: in union ‘the eye sees him, and the heart makes its home in him’. In verse 3, ghayyan fī ghayāhibihi, ‘straying in its darkness’, pairs two words of similar sound (ghayy, ‘going astray’; ghayāhib, ‘deep darkness’). ↩
  2. Ghawārib are the crests of waves; the word also means the withers of a camel, so the waves rear up like beasts. Love is a sea that invites with its calm surface and drowns those who venture out. ↩
  3. The hilāl, the new crescent moon, announces the start of a new month and, in the Muslim calendar, the coming of festivals such as the Eid. Its appearance on the lover’s horizon heralds a new and joyful season, the end of the long night of separation. ↩

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