ثملت بكاس الحب

أوتار مبعثرة
ترجمة إنجليزية
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ثَمِلْتُ بِكَاسِ الْحُبِّ فَانْتَفَضَ الْقَلْبُوَقُلْتُ فِدَاكِ الْقَلْبُ يَا مَنْ لَهَا الْحُبُّ
تَقُولُ لِيَ امْهِلْنِي إِلَى الْعِيدِ إِنَّمَايُعَيِّدُ قَلْبِي كُلَّمَا عَشِقَ الصَّبُّ
تَقُولُ إِلَى الْعِيدِ انْتَظِرْ كَيْ تَقُولَهَامَتَى اخْتَارَ تَوْقِيتَ الْهَوَى وَانْتَقَى الْقَلْبُ؟
يُعَيِّدُ قَلْبِي عِنْدَ بَثِّكِ لَهْفَتِيوَأَشْوَاقُ قَلْبِي فِي لِقَائِكُمُ تَرْبُو
دَعِينِي أُعَبِّرْ عَنْ هَوَايَ فَإِنَّنِيأَرَى الْحُبَّ إِيمَانَ الْمُحِبِّ الَّذِي يَصْبُو
وَلَيْسَ لَهُ وَقْتٌ وَحِينٌ لِبَثِّهِهَوَاهُ فَكُلُّ الْوَقْتِ فِي بَالِهِ حُبُّ

Drunk on Love’s Cup

  1. I grew drunk on the cup of love, and my heart leapt,
    and I said: “My heart be your ransom, you who own all love!”
  2. She tells me, “Give me time until the Eid1”; yet my heart
    keeps Eid whenever the ardent lover is in love.
  3. She says, “Wait for the Eid to say it.” Since when
    has the heart picked out and timed its hour for love?
  4. My heart keeps Eid when you give voice to my yearning2,
    and my heart’s longings swell whenever I meet you.
  5. Let me put my love in words, for I see
    love as the faith of the lover who yearns,
  6. and he has no set time or hour to pour out
    his passion: every moment, in his mind, is love.

Notes

  1. The Eid is the Muslim festival, whether the feast that ends Ramadan or the feast of the sacrifice. She asks him to wait until the Eid before declaring his love; he answers with the verb yuʿayyidu, ‘to celebrate the Eid’: for his heart, every moment of loving is a festival, so there is no need to wait for one. ↩
  2. Ladā baththiki lahfatī, literally ‘at your pouring out of my yearning’: the beloved speaks out the longing he feels, that is, she answers it with her own. ↩

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