poetry · Issue No. 8, September 1948 · p. 33
To the World of Beauty
الى عالم الجمال · ناهده فضلي
Feeling and beauty:
To the world of love and beauty — come with me, come!
Come with me, toward a world the very opposite of this world of ours!
Oh, what joy! How delighted I am with you, my companions!
Why, then, this lagging behind, O maidens?
Smile, for the maidens of that world welcome us.
And what maidens they are! Nay, they are the sisters of the full moon, who never set. By God, how sweet their smiles, and how tender their talk! Nay, how beautiful their eyes! They overflow with tenderness. My Lord, what is this beauty?! And why did You favor those maidens with it? Glory be to You — how just You are!
Why, then, do they gaze upon everything with tenderness? Do they, think you, love everything? Indeed they do! They adore all that is in their world, just as we loathe all that is in ours. Happy are they!
Beauty and love, delicacy and sweetness! Tenderness and affection! This is their life, and this is their world.
O maidens, turn back, O maidens, for here is no refuge for us. To the world of evil — come with me, come!
عاطفة وجمالاً :
الى عالم الحب والجمال هيا معي ، هيا !
هيا معي ، نحو عالم نقيض لعالمنا هذا !
وافرحتاه ! لشد ما انا مغتبطة بكن ايتها الرفيقات !
ترى لِمَ هذا التخلف يا عذارى ؟
ابتسمن فعذارى ذاك العالم يرحبن بنا
وأي عذارى هن ؟ بل هن شقيقات البدر اللاتي لا يأفلن ابداً فلله ما أعذب ابتساماتهن أو ما ارق احاديثهن ! بل ما اجمل اعينهن ! انهن يفضن حناناً ، ربي ما هذا الجمال ؟! ولمَ آثرن به أولئك ؟ سبحانك ما اعدلك !
اذاً ما بالهن يتطلعن الى كل شيء بحنان أتراهن يعشقن كل شيء ؟ بلى ! فهن يهمن بكل ما هو في عالمهن كما اننا نبغض كل ما في عالمنا . فهنيئاً لهن ! :
جمال وحب ارقة وعذوبة ! حنان وعطف ! هذه هي حياتهن وهذا هو عالمهن .
فيا عذارى ارجعن يا عذارى فما هنا مأوانا ، فالى عالم الشر هيا معي ، هيا !
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