أنت لها أنا

ترجمة إنجليزية

أُحِبُّكِ يَا هَمْسَ الْهَوَاجِسِ وَالْمُنَىوَيَا خَاطِرَ الْعَانِي وَأُنْشُودَةَ الْهَنَا

مُزِجْتِ بِرُوحِي، فَانْتَشَتْ يَوْمَ أَنْ سَرَتْبِهَا رُوحُكِ الْأَنْقَى، فَكُنْتِ لَهَا السَّنَا

فَأَنْتِ لِرُوحِي الرُّوحُ تَعْشَقُ نَفْسَهَاأَنَا أَنْتِ فِي ذَاتِي وَأَنْتِ لَهَا أَنَا

تَلَذُّ لِيَ الْآمَالُ إِذْ أَنْتِ جَذْوَتِيالَّتِي أَذْكَتِ الْأَفْرَاحَ فِي خَاطِرِ الْعَنَا

وَأَسْكَرْتِنِي بِالْوَصْلِ يَا رَاحَ رَاحَتِيوَصَوْتُكِ فِي نَفْسِي بِحُبِّكِ دَنْدَنَا

You Are Its ‘I’¹

I love you, O whisper of my musings and my hopes,
O thought of the lover held captive, O song of delight!
You were blended with my soul, and it grew drunk the day
your purer soul flowed through it, and you became its light.
For my soul you are its very soul, a soul in love with itself:
I am you within my self, and you are its ‘I’.
Hopes grow sweet to me, for you are the live coal
that kindled joys within a mind worn thin by trial².
You have made me drunk with union, O wine of my repose³,
and in my soul your voice has softly hummed your love.

The title comes from the end of the third verse, anā anti fī dhātī wa-anti lahā anā: 'I am you within my self, and you are, for it, I'. The language of two souls blended into one recalls a famous line of the Sufi al-Ḥallāj: 'I am the one I love, and the one I love is I; we are two spirits dwelling in one body.' ↩
The poem begins with al-ʿānī, 'the captive, the suffering lover', and here ends a verse with al-ʿanā, 'hardship, weariness', from the same root. The echo ties the captive lover to the hardship he endures, into which she brings joy like a live coal. ↩
Rāḥa rāḥatī pairs two words of similar sound (jinās): rāḥ is wine, and rāḥa is ease, rest and repose (also the palm of the hand). The beloved is the wine that intoxicates and, at the same time, the rest that soothes. ↩

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