Ahlan Arabic fans! Today I am presenting a beautiful love song أُغــْــنــِــيــَّــة  by Kazim Al-Sahir كــَــاظــِـــم الــســَّــاهــِــر . The song is entitled “If only we hadn’t parted, .. لــَــوْ أنــَّــنــَــا لــَــمْ نــَــفــْــتــَــرِق“. It was written by the famous Egyptian poet شــَــاعــِـــر Farouk Gweedah فــَــارُوق جــُــويـــدة . Kazim Al-Sahir is used to composing most – if not all – of his songs. He is also keen on choosing the words and can modify some difficult words from famous poems قــَــصــَــائــِــد by the poets he sings to. Today’s song is just a small part of a longer poem by the poet Farouk Gweedah. The song is about five minutes long and is in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) like most of Kazim Al-Sahir’s songs. The song was released in 2002 within Kazim’s album أُلــْــبــُـــوم of “The Story of Two Lovers قــِــصــَّــة حــَــبــيــبــَــيــْــن“. It has a very beautiful music. I did the English translation of the song and I hope you will enjoy it.

لــــَــوْ أنــَّــنــَــا لــَــمْ نــَــفــْــتــَــرِق

/Law Anna’na Lam Naf’tariq/

If only we hadn’t parted, …

 لــَــوْ أنــَّــنــَــا لــَــمْ نــَـــفــْـــتـــَــرِقْ

If only we hadn’t parted,

 لــَــبــَــقــَـــيــْــتُ بــَــيــْــنَ يــَــدَيــْـــكِ طــِــفــْـــلاً عــَــابــِــثـــًا

I would have remained in your hands a playful child

وَ تــَـــرَكــْــتُ عــُــمــْـــريَ فــِــي لــَــهــِــيــبــِــكِ يــَــحــْــتــَـــرِقْ

And I would have left my days in your fire to burn

 لــَــوْ أنــَّــنــَــا لــَــمْ نــَـــفــْـــتـــَــرِقْ

If only we hadn’t parted,

 لـــَــبــَــقــَـــيــْــتُ بــَــيــْــنَ يــَــدَيــْـــكِ طــِــفــْـــلاً عــَــابــِــثـــًا

I would have remained in your hands a playful child

وَ تــَـــرَكــْــتُ عــُــمــْـــريَ فــِــي لــَــهــِــيــبــِــكِ يــَــحــْــتــَـــرِقْ

And I would have left my days in your fire to burn

لا تــَــســْـــألــِــي الــعــَـــيــْــنَ الــحــَـــزيــنـــَـــةَ كــَــيــْــفَ أدْمــَـــتــْــهــَـــا الــمــُــقــَـــلْ

Don’t ask the sad eye how it was left to bleed

لا تــَــســْـــألــِــي الــطــَّـــيــْــرَ الــشــَّـــريــدَ لأيِّ أســْـــبــَـــابٍ رَحــَـــلْ

Don’t ask the strayed birds why they have departed

لا تــَــســْـــألــِــي الــعــَـــيــْــنَ الــحــَـــزيــنـــَـــةَ كــَــيــْــفَ أدْمــَـــتــْــهــَـــا الــمــُــقــَـــلْ

Don’t ask the sad eye how it was left to bleed

لا تــَــســْـــألــِــي الــطــَّـــيــْــرَ الــشــَّـــريــدَ لأيِّ أســْـــبــَـــابٍ رَحــَـــلْ

Don’t ask the strayed birds why they have departed

رَغــْـــمَ الــرَّحــِــيــلِ .. رَغــْــمَ مــَــا فــَــعــَــلــَــتْ بــِــنـــَـــا الأيــَّـــامُ

Despite the departure and what the days have done to us,

قــَــلــْــبــِـــيَ لــَــمْ يــَــزَلْ يــَــحــْــيــَــا وَحــِـــيـــداً بــِــالأمــَـــلْ

My heart is still living alone with hope

أنــَــا يــَـــا حــَــبــيــبــَـــةَ كــُــلِّ أيــَّــامــِـــي قــَـــتــيـــلــُـــكِ فـــِــي الــهــَـــوى

O, love of my days, I am your love victim

كــُــنــَّــا نــُــعــَــانــِــقُ فــِــي الــظــَّــلامِ دُمــُــوعــَـــنــَـــا

We were embracing our tears in the dark

وَ الــقــَـــلــْــبُ مــُــنــْــكــَـــســِـــرٌ مــِـــنَ الــعــَـــبــْـــرَاتِ

And the heart broken by tears

هــَـــذِي الــنــِّــهــَــايــَـــةُ لــَــمْ تــَــكــُــنْ أبــَــداً لــَـــنــَــا

This end should never have been ours

هــَــذِي الــنــِّــهــَــايــَــةُ قــِــمــَّــةُ الــمــَـــأســَـــاةِ

This end is the top tragedy

مــَــا كــُــنــْــتُ أعــْـــرِفُ وَ الــرَّحــِــيــلُ يــَــشــُــدُّنــَــا

I have never known, while departure was pulling us

إنــِّــي أُوَدِّعُ مــُــهــْــجــَــتــِــي وَ حــَــيــَــاتــِـــي 

That I am saying goodbye to my heart and life

مــَــا كــُــنــْــتُ أعــْـــرِفُ وَ الــرَّحــِــيــلُ يــَــشــُــدُّنــَــا

I have never known, while departure was pulling us

إنــِّــي أُوَدِّعُ مــُــهــْــجــَــتــِــي وَ حــَــيــَــاتــِـــي 

That I am saying goodbye to my heart and life

لــَــوْ أنــَّــنــَــا لــَــمْ نــَـــفــْـــتـــَــرِقْ .. لــَــوْ .. لــَــوْ ..  

If only we hadn’t parted .. if .. just if …

رَغــْـــمَ الــرَّحــِــيــلِ .. رَغــْــمَ مــَــا فــَــعــَــلــَــتْ بــِــنـــَـــا الأيــَّـــامُ

Despite the departure and what the days have done to us,

قــَــلــْــبــِـــيَ لــَــمْ يــَــزَلْ يــَــحــْــيــَــا وَحــِـــيـــداً بــِــالأمــَـــلْ

My heart is still living alone with hope

أنــَــا يــَـــا حــَــبــيــبــَـــةَ كــُــلِّ أيــَّــامــِـــي قــَـــتــيـــلــُـــكِ فـــِــي الــهــَـــوى

O, love of my days, I am your love victim

*****

Check us back soon 

Peace  ســـَــلام  /Salam/