Abd el-Hadi Fights Superpower

Abd el-Hadi Fights Superpower
By Taha Muhammad Ali

သူ႔ဘဝမွာ
စာလည္​းမဖတ္​တတ္​သလို
​ေရးလည္​း မ​ေရးတတ္​ပါဘူး။
သူ႔ဘဝမွာ
သစ္​တစ္​ပင္​မွ မလွဲဖူးသလို
ႏြားတစ္​​ေကာင္​မွလည္​း လည္​မလွီးဘူးပါ။
သူဘဝမွာ
နယူး​ေယာ့တိုင္​း အ​ေၾကာင္​း
ကြယ္​ရာမွာ မဟဖူးပါ။
ဘယ္​သူ႔ကိုမွ
​ေအာ္​က်ယ္​ဟစ္​က်ယ္​ မ​ေျပာဖူးပါ၊
"ဝင္​ခဲ့ပါ ခင္​ဗ်ာ့
ခင္​ဗ်ား မျငင္​းဆန္​ႏိုင္​ပါဘူး"ဆိုတဲ့စကားကလြဲရင္​။

ဒါ​ေပမယ္​့
သူ႔အမႈက ​ေမ်ွာ္​လင္​့ခ်က္​မဲ့၊
သူ႔ အ​ေနအထားကလည္​း
အ​ေတာ္​့ကိုဆိုး။
သူ႔အတြက္​​ေပးထားတဲ့
ဘုရားသခင္​ရဲ႕ အခြင္​့အ​ေရး​ေတြဆိုတာက
ပင္​လယ္​ထဲလြင္​့သြားတဲ့
သဲတစ္​ပြင္​့သာ။

ဂ်ဴရီလူႀကီးမင္​းမ်ားခင္​ဗ်ာ
သူ႔ရန္​သူ​ေတြအ​ေၾကာင္​း
က်ြန္​​ေတာ္​့အမႈသည္​ဟာ
တစ္​စြန္​းတစ္​စမွ မသိပါ။
က်ြန္​​ေတာ္​ အခိုင္​အမာ​ေျပာရဲပါတယ္​
တကယ္​လို႔ သူဟာ
​ေလယာဥ္​တင္​ သ​ေဘၤာလုပ္​ငန္​းက
ဝန္​ထမ္​းအားလုံးနဲ႔ ဆုံတယ္​ဆိုလည္​း
ဒီလူ​ေတြကို
ၾကက္​ဥတစ္​ျခမ္​း​ေၾကာ္​နဲ႔
အိပ္​ထဲကထုတ္​လာစ ဒိန္​ခ်ဥ္​
လိုက္​ခ်​ေပးဖို႔ပါ ခင္​ဗ်။

In his life
he neither wrote nor read.
In his life he
didn't cut down a single tree,
didn't slit the throat
of a single calf.
In his life he didn't not speak
of the New York Times
behind its back,
didn't raise
his voice to a soul
except in his saying:
"Come in, please,
by God, you can't refuse."

Nevertheless-
his case is hopeless,
his situation
desperate.
His God-given rights are a grain of salt
tossed into the sea.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury:
about his enemies
my client knows not a thing.
And I can assure you,
were he to encounter
the entire crew
of the aircraft carrier Enterprise,
he'd serve them eggs
sunny-side up,
and labneh
fresh from the bag.