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My friendsصَحبي **
Abdusattar Alnuaimi**عبدالستارالنعيمي
ترجمة الأستاذ الهويمل أبو فهد** Translated by\
Al-Huwaimel Abu Fahd
يا أيهــا الأمطـــارُ بالقـُرب ِ **هلاّ دنوتِ من ثــرى جدبي
Oh, nearby rains, would you please / approach closer to my arid soil?
قفـراءُ روحي تشتكي ظمــأ** كي ترتوِي من قطركِ العذبِ
Barren my soul bemoans, longing to your pure drops to quench ’ts thirst.
إنّي رجوتُ الناس ريّ ظما** سدّوا السبيلَ‘وسيّـما صَحبي
I sought the help of people and trusted friends; they only locked all doors!
غطيتهمْ في القـرّ من هـدبِي*** أطعمتهم من وذرة القلبِ
Alas! Under my eyelashes I protected them from cold/ for hunger, I fed them pieces of my heart.
لكنهم كذبــــوا الوفـــاء لنا ** ما سهـّلوا شيئًا من الصعبِ
They betrayed my trust / nor did they help make easy any snags
مطـرًا جهــامًا كان قولهمُ *** لم يحــوِ إلاّ خُـلـّب السُحبِ
Torrential rain, they promised they’ll be/ only to prove they are naught but rainless clouds
ويح الصدُوقيون ما اتعظــوا** مــن صحبـة الآرام للــذئبِ
Woe to the honest who flout the mortal kinship the wolf does bear the herds of deer.
كم يشهد العـذالُ موت هوى** قد بات دهرًا صادقَ الحـبّ ِ
How often those who never loved attest the demise of love, though true, for a time, that love endured.
فشهيدُ أهــل الحبّ في دمهِ *** بخسٌ وقــاتــلـهُ بلا ذنبِ
Martyrs of love have held their spelt blood less dear/ than to accuse their soulmates of any crimes
إني على عهـد الهوى أبـدًا** ما زلّني التغييرُ عـن دربي
To the bond of love, constant I ever remain/ no change has yet to lead me amiss
فالتبرُ بين الطين محتفظ ٌ *** بصفاته وبريقـهِ العـذبِ
Nuggets (of gold) in dirt still enjoy their esteemed substance and spellbinding brilliance.
صاحبْ خليلاً فيه فائــدةٌ**كالخَـلِّ لا كالخمرِ في الشربِ
In friendship choose the reliable, who— in a drinking metaphor— is a tasteful vinegar rather
than a sweet wine.
يحضرْكَ في الشدّاتِ منتصرًا*ومنجـّدًا في الموقف الصعبِ
In bad times, he is the backing you may need/ in the worst of situations, he is the saviour.
فالمـرؤ مقـرونٌ بصحبتهِ** لو أخصبوا يأتي على خِصبِ
One is only part of his bosom friends:/ as part or whole, they all fare either well or ill.
كم ماتَ منـّا خازنٌ ذهبًا ** من شرقة ٍ بالمـاء أو حَربِ
How many a gold treasurer had choked to death by a trivial amount of water or in war!
فغدا إلى الرمس انطوى ونُسي * وكأنه لم يغـنَ من كسبِ
Folded, taken down into a grave, he is soon forgotten/as if he were never rich
فهناك كل ولايـــةٍ فردتْ ** في الكونِ دون الخلْقِ للربّ ِ
He is now spirited to where all matters are— sans creatures— up to the Almighty’s justice,
فلربهم أبصارُهم خشعتْ** وتذلـّلوا مــن شدة الخطْـْب ِ
where all, by this grave state, will be awed, and to their Lord their eyes will be humbled and humiliated.
ِ فرعـونُ موسى كان قائدهُم** للنار والغسلين والحضْب ِ
The Pharaoh of Moses had been their leader/ To the flames of hell, where common to the skin is the oozing pus, and to the ears the crackles of firewood.
ومن العـُروبة فالفراعنُ قد *استأسدوا وجنوا على العـُرب ِ
Of Arabs, some lionized pharaohs have committed atrocities against their kith and kin.
وكأنما الدنيـا لهم مُلكتْ ** شيطانهُم في الشرقِ والغـَرب ِ
Acting as if having possessed the sublunary world, their devil straddled the west and east.
يـومًا تـراهُم جـُندلوا جسدًا** يأوي ثقيلَ الحِملِ والذنب ِ
One certain day they’ll lay lifeless, mere corpses loaded with heavy crimes and sins.
ويقول يا ليت التراب أنا *** أتحمّل النيرانَ من قربي
‘Would that I were dust’, he says, well acquainted with and close to fires
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