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بيتي أنا بيتك ...وما إلي حدا

من كتر ما ناديتك وسع المدى

نطرتك ع بابي و ع كل البواب

كتبتلّك عذابي ع شمس الغياب

لا تهملني لا تنساني

ما إلي غيرك

لا تنساني

بلدي صارت منفى

طرقاتي غطّاها الشوك

 و الأعشاب البرّيّه

ابعتلي بهالليل من عندك حدا

يطلّ عليّي

لا تهملني لا تنساني

 يا شمس المساكين

من أرض الخوف منندهلك

يا شمس المساكين

من إيام المظلومين

من لفتات الموعودين

عم إندهلك خلّي يضوّي

صوتك عليِّ

أنا عالوعد و قلبي طاير

صوبك غنّيّه

أنا زهرة من زهورك

باركني ساعدني

بالدمع بتزرعني بالفرح بتحصدني

عدلك فاض عليّي

كرمك ضوّاني

إذا كلّن نسيوني و حدك ما بتنساني

ناديتك من حزني

عرفت إنّك معي

وسعي يا مطارح

و يا أرض اركعي

 

My Home is at your Place

I have no where else to go

I called upon you so much

That the horizon became wider

I waited for you at my door and

At every door

I wrote to you my suffering on the sun of the dusk

Don't neglect me , don't forget me

I have no one but you , don't forget me

My nation has become an exile

My road are covered with thorns and wild plants

Send me in this night some one from your part

To keep me company

My Home is at your Place

I have no where else to go

I called upon you so much

That the horizon became wider

Don't neglect ne , do not forget me

Oh You Sun of the pitiable

From the land of fear I call upon you

Oh You Sun of the pitiable

From the days of the oppressed

From the looks of those you have given your promise

I call Upon you ,

Let you light shine on me

I am keeping my promise

And my heart is a song flying up to you

I am a rose among your roses

Bless me ! Help me !

With tears you plant me

And with Joy you harevest me

Your Justice has overwhelmed me ,

You Generosity has lightened me

If they all forget me

You alone will remember me

I called to you from my sorrow

I knew You were with me

Oh places may you become wider

Oh land may you kneel

 

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I every Play of theirs' the Rahbanis turn their hands up to the Lord in a new prayer , that takes us farther to the heart of the Lord, in the Play Natouret EL Mafateeh (Guardian of the Keys ) the king raises the Taxes so much that the people can't afford any more , so they all decide to leave the country for this tyrant , Only Fairouz (Zad el Kheir ) doesn't agree and remains in her Land , she becomes the guardian of the keys , and the only member in the kingdom of the dictator, and at the end when she , the last member of the kingdom , decides to Leave , the king comes down from his thrown , and asks the people to come back . No wonder why this play in its integrality is forbidden in many Arabic regimes , and its dialogues are never broadcasted on the radios there .

Any way , in this play this prayer that Fairouz presents is one of the deepest prayers ever written in Arabic , after 1000 years of literature where prayers were written in rude hard cold words , the Rahbanis come to write a song with the softest words looking towards the Lord with the eyes of a person who knows who his savior is , a person who Knows that his God has a place for him what ever he does , like it says in:

{ In my Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.}

And Zad el Kheir in this song knows that God will not forget her even if every one else did , and she knows that God is with her , that's why she calls for him from her sadness  because he told her so :

{come me unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.}

But the songs not only lies on the religious background the rahbanis have , but also on the rich popular literary heritage , for they are using one very known metaphor of the public literature :

من كتر ما عنّيت , ورم سقف البيت

( I moaned so much that the ceiling became bigger ) If you like to read the books of the great author Salam Al Rassi (Sheikh al Adab Al Cha3bi) you find the description of this old metaphor which has erupted from the knowledge of simple village people , and that the Rahbani Brothers took and embellished and made of a song that widened the horizon with the voice of Fairouz and made prayer more pleasurable .

If you have time , listen to this play "Guardian of the keys" ناطورة المفاتيح    enjoy its concepts and its prayers For it is one of the classics in the world literature.

 

 

 

 

Hicham

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