Qatari Arabic Curriculum — Grade 10, Term 1 (اللغة العربية قطر) — Page 20

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Line-by-line translation · المعاني

الْقِرَاءَةُ: مَدْرَسَةُ الْحَيَاةِ، عَبْدُ اللهِ الْبَرَدُّونِيُّ.

Reading: The School of Life, Abdullah Al-Baradouni.

الْوَحْدَةُ الْأُولَى.

Unit One.

التَّعْرِيفُ بِالشَّاعِرِ: عَبْدُ اللهِ صَالِحٌ حَسَنٌ الشَّحْفُ الْبَرَدُّونِيُّ (1929 - 1999)، شَاعِرٌ يَمَنِيٌّ، وَنَاقِدٌ وَمُؤَرِّخٌ، أُصِيبَ وَهُوَ فِي الْخَامِسَةِ مِنْ عُمْرِهِ بِمَرَضِ الْجُدَرِيِّ، فَأَفْقَدَهُ نِعْمَةَ الْبَصَرِ، وَلَكِنَّهُ لَمْ يُفْقِدْهُ الْقُدْرَةَ عَلَى نَقْلِ الْوَاقِعِ الْيَمَنِيِّ وَالْعَرَبِيِّ؛ لِهَذَا أُطْلِقَ عَلَيْهِ لَقَبُ: «الرَّائِي الْمُبْصِرُ».

Introduction to the Poet: Abdullah Saleh Hassan Al-Shahf Al-Baradouni (1929-1999) was a Yemeni poet, critic, and historian. At the age of five, he contracted smallpox, which cost him his eyesight, but it did not cost him the ability to convey the Yemeni and Arab reality; for this reason, he was given the title: 'The Seeing Seer'.

تَجَاوَزَتْ شُهْرَتُهُ الْيَمَنَ، وَعُدَّ مِنْ كِبَارِ شُعَرَاءِ الْعَرَبِ فِي الْقَرْنِ الْعِشْرِينَ الَّذِينَ تَرَكُوا بَصْمَةً وَاضِحَةً فِي الْقَصِيدَةِ الْعَرَبِيَّةِ الْحَدِيثَةِ، وَيَغْلِبُ عَلَى شِعْرِهِ الْحِسُّ السَّاخِرُ، وَمَزْجُ الرُّومَانْسِيَّةِ بِالطَّابِعِ الْقَوْمِيِّ.

His fame transcended Yemen, and he was considered one of the greatest Arab poets of the twentieth century who left a clear mark on the modern Arabic poem. His poetry is dominated by a satirical sense and a blending of romanticism with a national character.

أَلَّفَ اثْنَيْ عَشَرَ دِيوَانًا شِعْرِيًّا، مِنْهَا: «مِنْ أَرْضِ بَلْقِيسَ»، وَ«كَائِنَاتُ الشَّوْقِ الْآخَرِ»، وَ«فِي طَرِيقِ الْفَجْرِ»، وَغَيْرُهَا.

He authored twelve poetry collections, including: 'From the Land of Bilqis', 'Creatures of the Other Longing', 'On the Path of Dawn', and others.

مَاذَا يُرِيدُ الْمَرْءُ؟! مَا يَشْفِيهِ؟ يَحْسُو رَوَاءَ الدُّنْيَا وَلَا يَرْوِيهِ.

1- What does a person want?! What heals him? He sips the nectar of the world, yet it does not quench his thirst.

وَيَسِيرُ فِي نُورِ الْحَيَاةِ وَقَلْبُهُ يَنْسَابُ بَيْنَ ضَلَالِهِ وَالتِّيهِ.

2- He walks in the light of life, while his heart drifts between its misguidance and bewilderment.

وَالْمَرْءُ لَا تُشْقِيهِ إِلَّا نَفْسُهُ حَاشَا الْحَيَاةَ بِأَنَّهَا تُشْقِيهِ.

3- A person is made miserable only by his own self; far be it from life to be the cause of his misery.

وَيَظُنُّ أَنَّ عَدُوَّهُ فِي غَيْرِهِ وَعَدُوُّهُ يُمْسِي وَيُضْحِي فِيهِ.

4- He thinks his enemy is someone else, while his enemy dwells within him, evening and morning.

يَرْمِي بِهِ الْحُزْنُ الْمَرِيرُ إِلَى الْهَنَا حَتَّى يَعُودَ هَنَاؤُهُ يُرْزِيهِ.

5- Bitter sorrow casts him toward happiness, until his happiness returns to bring him grief.

وَلَكُمْ يُسِيءُ الْمَرْءُ مَا قَدْ سَرَّهُ قَبْلًا وَيُضْحِكُهُ الَّذِي يُبْكِيهِ!

6- How often a person is harmed by what once pleased him, and how often he is made to laugh by what makes him cry!

مَا أَبْلَغَ الدُّنْيَا وَأَبْلَغَ دَرْسَهَا وَأَجَلَّهَا وَأَجَلَّ مَا تُلْقِيهِ.

7- How eloquent the world is, how eloquent its lesson, how majestic it is, and how majestic is what it imparts.

وَمِنَ الْحَيَاةِ مَدَارِسُ وَمَلَاعِبُ أَيُّ الْفُنُونِ يُرِيدُ أَنْ تَحْوِيَهُ؟!

8- Life has schools and playgrounds; which arts does it wish to contain?

قُمْ يَا صَرِيعَ الْوَهْمِ وَاسْأَلْ بِالنُّهَى مَا قِيمَةُ الْإِنْسَانِ؟ مَا يُعْلِيهِ؟

9- Rise, O victim of illusion, and ask with reason: What is the value of a human being? What elevates him?

وَاسْمَعْ تُحَدِّثْكَ الْحَيَاةُ فَإِنَّهَا أُسْتَاذَةُ التَّأْدِيبِ وَالتَّفْقِيهِ.

10- Listen, and life will speak to you, for it is the master of discipline and instruction.

وَانْصَبْ فَمَدْرَسَةُ الْحَيَاةِ بَلِيغَةٌ تُمْلِي الدُّرُوسَ وَجَلَّ مَا تُمْلِيهِ.

11- Stand ready, for the school of life is eloquent; it dictates lessons, and how majestic is what it dictates.

سَلْهَا وَإِنْ صَمَتَتْ فَصَمْتُ جَلَالِهَا أَجْلَى مِنَ التَّصْرِيحِ وَالتَّنْوِيهِ.

12- Ask it, and if it remains silent, the silence of its majesty is clearer than explicit declaration and allusion.

Vocabulary · المفردات (35 verbs · 65 nouns)

• أَصَابَ — to afflict
• أَفْقَدَ — to cause to lose
• أَطْلَقَ — to launch/apply
• تَجَاوَزَ — to exceed
• عَدَّ — to count/consider
• تَرَكَ — to leave
• غَلَبَ — to prevail
• أَلَّفَ — to author
• أَرَادَ — to want
• شَفَى — to heal
• حَسَا — to sip
• رَوَى — to quench
• سَارَ — to walk
• اِنْسَابَ — to flow
• أَشْقَى — to make miserable
• ظَنَّ — to think
• أَمْسَى — to be/become
• أَضْحَى — to be/become
• رَمَى — to throw
• عَادَ — to return
• أَرْزَى — to afflict with misfortune
• أَسَاءَ — to do evil
• سَرَّ — to please
• أَضْحَكَ — to make laugh
• أَبْكَى — to make cry
• أَلْقَى — to cast/deliver
• حَوَى — to contain
• قَامَ — to stand
• سَأَلَ — to ask
• أَعْلَى — to elevate
• سَمِعَ — to hear
• حَدَّثَ — to tell
• نَصَبَ — to toil
• أَمْلَى — to dictate
• صَمَتَ — to be silent
• قِرَاءَة — reading
• مَدْرَسَة — school
• حَيَاة — life
• وَحْدَة — unit
• تَعْرِيف — definition
• شَاعِر — poet
• نَاقِد — critic
• مُؤَرِّخ — historian
• مَرَض — disease
• جُدَرِيّ — smallpox
• نِعْمَة — blessing
• بَصَر — sight
• قُدْرَة — ability
• وَاقِع — reality
• لَقَب — title
• رَائِي — seer
• مُبْصِر — sighted person
• شُهْرَة — fame
• كَبِير — elder/great one
• قَرْن — century
• عِشْرِين — twenty
• بَصْمَة — imprint
• وَاضِح — clear
• قَصِيدَة — poem
• حَدِيث — modern
• حِسّ — sense
• سَاخِر — sarcastic
• مَزْج — mixing
• رُومَانْسِيَّة — romanticism
• طَابِع — character
• قَوْمِيّ — nationalist
• دِيوَان — collection of poems
• شِعْرِيّ — poetic
• أَرْض — land
• كَائِن — being
• شَوْق — longing
• آخَر — other
• طَرِيق — path
• فَجْر — dawn
• رَوَاء — abundant water
• دُنْيَا — world
• نُور — light
• قَلْب — heart
• ضَلَال — straying
• تِيه — bewilderment
• نَفْس — self
• عَدُوّ — enemy
• حُزْن — sadness
• مَرِير — bitter
• هَنَاء — happiness
• دَرْس — lesson
• مَلْعَب — playground
• فَنّ — art
• صَرِيع — victim
• وَهْم — illusion
• نُهَى — intellect
• قِيمَة — value
• إِنْسَان — human
• أُسْتَاذ — professor
• تَأْدِيب — discipline
• تَفْقِيه — instruction
• بَلِيغ — eloquent
• تَصْرِيح — declaration
• تَنْوِيه — allusion
• جَلَال — majesty