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Qa Idah Al-Burdah Side-By-Side Translation MM
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W I T H S I D E - B Y - S I D E E N G L I S H T R A N S L AT I O N
MALIKI SCHOOL
P U B L I S H I N G
THE SANAD I
CHAPTER 1 - O N WO R D S O F L OV E A N D T H E
I N T E N S E S U F F E R I N G O F PA S S I O N 1
CHAPTER 2 - A CAUTION ABOUT THE
WHIMS OF THE SELF 1
C H A P T E R 3 - P R A I S E O F T H E P RO P H E T 2
C H A P T E R 4 - O N T H E B E S T B I RT H 4
C H A P T E R 5 - O N T H E M I R AC L E S T H AT
C A M E AT H I S B L E S S E D H A N D 4
CHAPTER 6 - ON THE NOBILITY OF THE
QUR’AN AND ITS PRAISE 5
CHAPTER 7 - ON HIS ISRĀ’ & MI’RĀJ 6
C H A P T E R 8 - O N T H E M A RT I A L S T RU G G L E
O F T H E P RO P H E T 7
C H A P T E R 9 - O N S E E K I N G I N T E RC E S S I O N
T H RO U G H T H E P RO P H E T 8
C H A P T E R 1 0 - O N I N T I M AT E
C O N V E R S AT I O N A N D C H E R I S H E D H O P E S 9
THE SANAD
I
QAṣĪDAH AL-BURDAH AL-SHARĪFAH SIDE BY SIDE TANSLATION
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!! !
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Then prayers be upon the one
) '&!%#$!
chosen !
since pre-eternity
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Praise be to Allah, Originator of Creation from non-existence !
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That has left your eyes so red with tears?! Is it the memory of !
neighbours in Dhu Salam
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And the lightning flashing in the black night from Mount I!am? Or is it the wind blowing from the direction of Ka"ima
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Nor
the
would
willow
you
tree
be
and
sleepless
the
remembering
mountain ! If not
over
for love,
traces
your
left
tears
by
would not
your
pour forth
beloved, !
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as weeping and looking gaunt have testified to it against you? ! So how can you deny this love when such honest witnesses, !
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Upon your cheeks, pale as bah!r and red as ‘anam ! The agony of love has inscribed two lines of tears and grief !
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Oh,
of
how
delight
love
with
hinders
its
the tasting
suffering! ! Yes,
by
a vision
night,
of the
and
one
I
I love
could
came
not
to me
sleep, !
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If you
reproach
were truly
me
fair, you
at
would not
all ! O
pure
you who
love,
would
accept
rebuke me
my
for this
excuse !
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From
ever
my
be an
detractors,
end
nor
to
will
my
there
malady ! May
My
you be
secret
spared a
cannot
state
be
such as mine!
concealed !
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The lover
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is quite deaf to those who blame him !
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You gave me sincere good counsel, but I did not hear it,
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When I knew the counsel of old age and grey hair to be above I even suspected the counsel of my own grey hairs rebuking me,
suspicion
! !
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QAṣĪDAH AL-BURDAH AL-SHARĪFAH SIDE BY SIDE TANSLATION
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Just
and
as wild horses are restrained with bridles
reins? ! Who
soul
can
from
hold
the
back
error of
my
its !
headstrong
ways?
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And
do
if
not
it finds
let
the
it
pasture
graze
too delightful,
unchecked ! Keep
grazes
a
in
watchful
the
eye
field
on it
of
as
! it
actions,
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And
be
henceforth let your only diet
regret ! Dry
their
the tears
fill
from
of
eyes that
forbidden
have
! had
things,
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For you know by now the tricks of them both opponents ! Never obey them, whether they oppose or come to arbitrate,
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As though I were ascribing progeny to one who was barren I beg Allah’s forgiveness for saying things I do not do,
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I was not myself upright, so what of my telling you, ‘Be upright!’ I ordered you to be good, but then didn’t heed my own advice,
!
before death comes to take me,
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When were it not for him, the world would never have emerged How could the dire need of such a person draw him
from non-existence? towards the world,
!
QAṣĪDAH AL-BURDAH AL-SHARĪFAH SIDE BY SIDE TANSLATION
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There is no one truer to his word, whether it be ‘yes’ or ‘no’ Our Prophet, who commands the good and forbids the wrong,
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Against all the terrifying things that take us by storm He is the beloved one, whose intercession is hoped for
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Are clinging
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He has called people to Allah, so those who cling to him !
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And none has come close to him in knowledge or in pure
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He surpassed the other prophets both in form and noble
generosity! character,!
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From his ocean, or a draught from his never-ending rain
å They all petition the Messenger for just a handful of water
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As diacritical points upon his knowledge, or vowel marks upon They all come to a halt before him according to
his wisdom their measure,
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Which could be expressed by the tongue of a human being Indeed, the high merit of All h’s Messenger has no furthest limit
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Near and far, they are dumbfounded Mankind is unable to comprehend his true essence,
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world, while they are distracted from him by their dreams? How can people who are asleep perceive his true reality in this
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And that he is the best of all All h’s creation The extent of the knowledge we have of him is that he is a man,
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Manifesting their lights for people in the darkness Surely he is a sun of bounty and they are its planets,
!
QAṣĪDAH AL-BURDAH AL-SHARĪFAH SIDE BY SIDE TANSLATION
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excellent character! So graced with beauty, and radiant of face How generous the creation of a Prophet adorned with !
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Like an ocean in pure generosity and like time itself in strength Like a flower in freshness and a full moon
of resolution in eminence,
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Emerged from both his speech and his radiant smile It was as if shining pearls, protected in their shells,
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Of the onset of misery and disasters! On that day, the Persians realised they had been warned !
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Just as the unity and cohesion of his people was forever lost
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That very night a crack appeared in the Arch of Chosroes,
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And the river was distracted from its course
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And the one who came to drink from it returned raging thirsty ! Saw ’ was troubled as the waters of its lake receded,!
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And water took on the blazing dryness of the fire It was as though, from grief, the fire took on water’s wetness, !
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As the truth was made manifest in both meaning and word ! The jinn were shrieking, and the lights were flashing out, !
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Neither did they see the flash of warning signs ! But blind and deaf, the Persians did not hear the happy tidings, !
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That their crooked old religion could not last ! Even after the people’s own soothsayers had told !
them
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the path of revelation, Following after others as they fled Until even the devils were routed, fleeing from
!
QAṣĪDAH AL-BURDAH AL-SHARĪFAH SIDE BY SIDE TANSLATION
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Walking towards him on trunks that had no feet ! Trees came to him when he called, prostrating, !
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With their branches all along the path! As though they had written lines of beautiful calligraphy !
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Protecting him from the fierce oven of the midday heat ! Like the cloud that moved with him wherever he went, !
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Surely it has a connection with his heart, a true and blessed oath ! I swear by the [Lord of the] moon that was split in two, !
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While every glance of the unbelievers was quite blind to it ! And by the excellence and nobility encompassed in the cave, !
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Those outside said to one another, ‘There is no one in this cave.’ ! The True One and the Truthful One remained in the cave, !
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Or that a spider would spin its web to help the Best of Creation ! They did not suspect that a dove would hover giving protection, !
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To coats of armour and fortresses for his protection ! All h’s solicitude and shelter freed him from the need to resort !
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For refuge, I always found security with him, unharmed ! Whenever the times treated me unjustly, and I turned to him !
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For surely, though his eyes would sleep, his heart never slept ! Do not deny the revelations he received in his dreams, !
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For the dreams of the one who has come of age can’t be denied That was from the time when he attained to prophethood,
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Its value is not lessened when alone, Although a pearl’s beauty is increased when strung among
unstrung others
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Of doing justice to its noble traits and qualities? What hope can the one who tries to praise it have
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Yet Eternal - the attribute of the Pre-eternal One Verses of truth from the Merciful - revealed in time,
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Brought by other prophets, which came, but did not last They have lasted to our time, and outstripped every miracle
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Without retreating at last from the battle, begging for peace No implacable enemy has ever attacked them
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As an honourable man wards off the assailants hand from what Their very eloquence refutes the claim of one
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And go far beyond its jewels in their beauty and value They contain meanings like the sea’s never-ending waves,
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constant repetition ever result in weariness or boredom Their wonders are numberless and incalculable, Nor does their
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have extinguished the heat of the blaze by their cool sweet water If you recite them fearing the heat of the blazing Fire, You
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True justice among men cannot be established from any other Like the ir! , and like the Balance Scales in justice,
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taste of sweet water.!!
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!! For the eye
when it is inflamed,
may reject the sun’s light
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blessings,!On foot and on the backs of laden camels! O best of those to whose courtyards repair the seekers of!
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And the most sublime blessing for the one desiring benefit! O you who are the greatest sign for the one able to perceive,!
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Just as the full moon travels across the pitch-black sky! You travelled by night from one sacred place to yet another,!
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The precedence of a master over those who serve him! Thus all the Prophets and Messengers gave precedence to you,!
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with them,!
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proximity,!Nor any higher station for the one seeking elevation! Until you left no greater goal for the seeker of eminence and!
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a pillar of support and solicitude that can never be destroyed! Glad tidings for us, O assembly of Muslims, For truly we have!
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of peoples Him
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Except if they were the nights of the Sacred Months The nights passed, without them being able to keep count,
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With every brave chieftain ready to rend the flesh of their As if the religion were a guest that had arrived at their!
enemies courtyards,
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Mounting a fierce assault, to fear out unbelief by its roots Each responding to All h’s summons, seeking His good pleasure,
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husband, so that she was neither orphaned Ever protected from her enemies by the best father.
nor widowed And most excellent
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Their pens left no part of the bodies unpointed or unmarked Like writers wielding reed pens for spears,
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Just as a rose differs by a certain perfumed quality Bristling with arms, yet a special quality
from the thorny salam tree distinguished them,
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As the lion settles down with its cubs in its lair He established his community within the fortress of his religion,
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How often has the Clear Proof defeated his opponents in How often have the words of Allah thrown down those who
argument! contended with him,
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It did not use this world to help secure the Next, nor even to Alas for a soul that has met with only loss
embark upon negotiations in its transactions!
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discovers he has been cheated, both in present and future gains Whoever sells his Hereafter in exchange for this world, soon
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keeping trusts my being named
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QAṣĪDAH AL-BURDAH AL-SHARĪFAH SIDE BY SIDE TANSLATION
The following seven verses were not in the original Qaṣīdah al-Burdah al-Sharīfah, but were added at a later date:
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And to ‘Al and ‘Uthm n, the noble and generous And grant Your good pleasure to Ab Bakr and ‘Umar
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forbearance and generosity! Companions and Followers,
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By that which they recite in the Masjid al-Aqsa and al- aram And, O All h, forgive all the Muslims their wrong actions, !
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By the rank of the one whose dwelling is a sanctuary in
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Praise be to All h for its beginning and for its end This Burdah of the Chosen One is now complete,
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Ease, by them, all of our difficulties, O Boundlessly Generous
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verses number one hundred and sixty,
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