خشوعًا أمام الموت
Channel: tasnim alturki
Date: 2023-05-25

نَصِيبُكَ مِنْ هَذَا الوُجُودِ مَصَائِبُهْ وَدَاءٌ تُقَاسِيهِ وَمَوْتٌ تُحَارِبُهْ
تُسَرُّ بِمَوْلُودٍ وَتَأْسَى لِرَاحِلٍ وَطَالِعُهُ رَهْنُ الفَنَاءِ وَغَارِبُهْ
لَعَمْركَ إِنَّ العَيْشَ صَفْقَةُ خَاسِرٍ إِذَا وُزِنَتْ لَذَّاتُهُ وَمَتَاعِبُهْ
يَمُرُّ لِمَامًا كَالخَيَالِ صَفَاؤُهُ عَلَيْكَ، وَتَبْقَى — مَا بقيتَ — نَوَائِبُهْ
وَتَقْضِي سنيَّ العمرِ سَعْيًا لِمَطْلَبٍ فَتَقْضِي، وَلَا يُقْضَى الَّذِي أَنْتَ طَالِبُهْ
فَمَا أَحْقَرَ الدُّنْيَا وَأَشْقَى نَزِيلَهَا وَمَرْجِعُهُ هَذَا الثَّرَى وَغياهِبُهْ!
خُشُوعًا أَمَامَ المَوْتِ فَالمَوْتُ هَيْكَلٌ مبَاخِرُهُ الأَرْوَاحُ وَالهَوْلُ رَاهِبُهْ

للشاعر اللبناني  فوزي المعلوف

From this existence, your share is its tribulations,
A disease you endure, and a death you resist.
You celebrate a birth, and grieve for a departure,
Yet the birth's fate is subject to the inevitable, and its end uncertain.
Indeed, life is a losing transaction,
When its pleasures and struggles are weighed.
Its clarity passes like a dream,
Leaving behind, as long as you endure, its hardships.
And you spend the best years of your life in pursuit,
And yet, the object of your pursuit is never fully attained.
How despicable is this world, and how wretched its inhabitant,
Whose destiny is this earth and its oblivion!
In reverence before death, for death is a grand edifice,
Its prides are souls, and its awe is its monk.

For the Lebanese Poet Fawzi Al Maalouf

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