الصمت

Silence

1. In the language of love, silence is itself a speech,
   for words give out when love begins to rise.
2. Silence is the finest speech that we have mastered,
   and silence is most true when feeling knocks inside.
3. It is loftier, more eloquent than spelling out
   letters that have no meaning and no force behind.
4. The sea of feeling, when it floods, becomes a bridle¹:
   it baffles speech, and leaves explanation tongue-tied.

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