Arabic–English parallel text
مولان
Mulan
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النول الصامت
The Quiet Loom
قبل زمن بعيد في شمال الصين، كانت هناك فتاة صغيرة. اسمها مولان. كل يوم كانت تجلس عند نولها قرب الباب. طوال النهار كان النول يصدر صوته المشغول: طَق، طَق، طَق، طَق.
Long ago in northern China, there was a young girl. Her name was Mulan. Every day she sat at her loom near the door. All day the loom made its busy sound: click, clack, click, clack.
لكن في يوم كان النول صامتا. لم تتحرك يدا مولان. لم تسمع عائلتها من الباب إلا صوتا واحدا. كان تنهدات مولان الطويلة الحزينة.
But one day the loom was quiet. Mulan’s hands did not move. Her family heard only one sound from the door. It was Mulan’s long, sad sighs.
جاءت أمها وجلست بجانبها. سألت: «بماذا تفكرين يا ابنتي؟ ماذا في قلبك؟»
Her mother came and sat beside her. “What are you thinking about, my daughter?” she asked. “What is in your heart?”
أجابت مولان في البداية: «لا شيء يا أمي.» ثم نظرت إلى وجه أمها الطيب وقالت لها كل شيء.
“It’s nothing, Mother,” Mulan answered at first. Then she looked at her mother’s kind face and told her everything.
قالت: «البارحة رأيت قوائم الجيش. الخان يدعو رجالا كثيرين إلى جيشه. هناك اثنتا عشرة قائمة، واسم أبي في كل قائمة.»
“Last night I saw the army lists,” she said. “The Khan is calling a lot of men to his army. There are twelve lists, and Father’s name is on every list.”
اصفرّ وجه أمها. كان أبو مولان عجوزا وتعبانا. لم يكن قويا بما يكفي لحرب طويلة في الشمال.
Her mother’s face went white. Mulan’s father was old and tired. He was not strong enough for a long war in the north.
قالت مولان بهدوء: «ليس لأبي ابن كبير. وليس لي أخ أكبر. فيجب أن يذهب أحد مكانه.»
“Father has no grown-up son,” Mulan said quietly. “And I have no older brother. So someone must go in his place.”
سألت أمها: «لكن من؟» ووقفت مولان من النول.
“But who?” asked her mother. Mulan stood up from the loom.
قالت: «أنا. سأشتري حصانا وسرجا. ثم سأذهب إلى الحرب من أجل أبي.»
“Me,” she said. “I’m going to buy a horse and a saddle. And then I’m going to go to war for Father.”
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