# Al Faswlu r-Raabiu · الْفَصْلُ الرّابِعُ

From [Qasida Al Burda · قصيدة البردة](https://qasaaid.zayfir.app/app/qasaaid/691c712ac9a45b73e98077a8) by [Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Sa'id al-Busiri](https://qasaaid.zayfir.app/app/authors/691c70fac9a45b73e980779f)

**1.** أَبَانَ مَوْلِدُهُ عَنْ طِيبِ عُنْصُرِهِ / يَا طِيبَ مُبْتَدَإٍ مِنْهُ وَمُخْتَتَمِ

_Abāna mawliduhu ʿan ṭībi ʿunṣurihi / Yā ṭība mubtadaʾin minhu wa mukhtatami_

His birth made the purity of his pedigree evident;
O how pure were his beginning and his end!

**2.** يَوْمٌ تَفَرَّسَ فِيهِ الفُرْسُ أَنَّهُمُ / قَدْ أُنْذِرُوا بِحُلُولِ البُؤْسِ وَالنِّقَمِ

_Yawmun tafarrasa fīhil fursu annahumu / Qad undhirū biḥulūlil buʾsi wan niqami_

On that day the Persians intuited that they
Had been warned of looming misery and retribution.

**3.** وَبَاتَ إِيوَانُ كِسْرَى وَهُوَ مُنْصَدِعٌ / كَشَمْلِ أَصْحَابِ كِسْرَى غَيْرَ مُلْتَئِمِ

_Wa bāta īwānu kisrā wa huwa munṣadiʿun / Ka shamli aṣ-ḥābi kisrā ghayra multaʾimi_

That night the throne room of Khusraw became cracked,
Khusraw’s people, too, crumbled, never to be restored.

**4.** وَالنَّارُ خَامِدَةُ الأَنْفَاسِ مِنْ أَسَفٍ / عَلَيْهِ وَالنَّهْرُ سَاهِي العَيْنِ مِنْ سَدَمِ

_Wan nāru khāmidatul anfāsi min asafin / ʿAlayhi wan nahru sāhil ʿayni min sadami_

The sacred fire, grief-stricken, breathed its last,
And the river [Euphrates] dried up out of worry.

**5.** وَسَاءَ سَاوَةَ أَنْ غَاضَتْ بُحَيْرَتُهَا / وَرُدَّ وَارِدُهَا بِالغَيْظِ حِينَ ظَمِي

_Wa sāʾa sāwata an ghāḍat buḥayratuhā / Wa rudda wāriduhā bil ghayẓi ḥīna ẓamī_

Sāʾa was saddened by its lake drying up;
the thirsty who went to drink there came back in a rage!

**6.** كَأَنَّ بِالنَّارِ مَا بِالمَاءِ مِنْ بَلَلٍ / حُزْنًا وَبِالمَاءِ مَا بِالنَّارِ مِنْ ضَرَمِ

_Ka anna bin nāri mā bil māʾi min balalin / Ḥuznan wa bil māʾi mā bin nāri min ḍarami_

As if the fire, from sorrow, took on the water’s wetness
And water assumed the fire’s quality of blazing.

**7.** وَالجِنُّ تَهْتِفُ وَالأَنْوَارُ سَاطِعَةٌ / وَالحَّقُ يَظْهَرُ مِنْ مَعْنىً وَمِنْ كَلِمِ

_Wal jinnu tahtifu wal anwāru sāṭiʿatun / Wal ḥaqqu yaẓ-haru min maʿnan wa min kalimi_

There were jinn calling out, and dazzling lights
As truth was manifested in both word and reality.

**8.** عَمُوا وَصَمُّوا فَإِعْلاَنُ البَشَائِرِ لَمْ / يُسْمَعْ وَبَارِقَةُ الإِنْذَارِ لَمْ تُشَمِ

_ʿAmmū wa ṣammū fa iʿlānul bashāʾiri lam / Yusmaʿ wa bāriqatul indhāri lam tushami_

They were blind and deaf, so the glad tidings proclaimed
Went unheard, and the warning lightning-flash was not seen.

**9.** مِنْ بَعْدِ مَا أَخْبَرَ الأَقْوَامَ كَاهِنُهُمْ / بِأَنَّ دِينَهُمُ المُعْوَجَّ لَمْ يَقُمِ

_Min baʿdi mā akhbaral aqwāma kāhinuhum / Bi anna dīnahumul muʿwajja lam yaqumi_

Even after the soothsayers had informed their peoples
That their crooked religion would not endure,

**10.** وَبَعْدَمَا عَايَنُوا فِي الأُفْقِ مِنْ شُهُبٍ / مُنْقَضَّةٍ وَفْقَ مَا فِي الأَرْضَ مِنْ صَنَمِ

_Wa baʿda mā ʿāyanū fīl ufqi min shuhubin / Munqaḍḍatin wifqa mā fīl arḍi min ṣanami_

And even after their eyes saw meteors on the horizon
Plunging downwards, as idols were toppled on earth;

**11.** حَتَّى غَدَا عَنْ طَرِيقِ الْوَحْيِ مُنْهَزِمٌ / مِنَ الشَّيَاطِينِ يَقْفُوا إِثْرَ مُنْهَزِمِ

_Ḥattā ghadā ʿan ṭarīqil waḥyī munhazimun / Minash shayāṭīni yaqfū ithra munhazimi_

Until devils, routed, from the path of revelation,
Fled in the wake of those who had been overpowered.

**12.** كَأَنَّهُمْ هَرَبًا أَبْطَالُ أَبْرَهَةٍ / أَوْ عَسْكَرٍ بِالحَصَى مِنْ رَاحَتَيْهِ رُمِي

_Ka annahum haraban abṭālu abrahatin / Aw ʿaskarin bil ḥaṣā min rāḥatayhi rumī_

Fleeing like the brave warriors of Abraha
Or the army pelted by pebbles thrown by his hand,

**13.** نَبْذًا بِهِ بَعْدَ تَسْبِيحٍ بِبَطْنِهِمَا / نَبْذَ المُسَبِّحِ مِنْ أَحْشَاءِ مُلْتَقِمِ

_Nabdhan bihi baʿda tasbīḥin bi baṭnihimā / Nabdhal musabbiḥi min aḥshāʾi multaqimi_

Cast by him after glorifying Allah in the palm of his hand,
As he who glorified his Lord was cast from the whale.

Source: https://qasaaid.zayfir.app/app/qasaaid/691c712ac9a45b73e98077a8/book/691c7161c9a45b73e98077db/chapter/691c7224c9a45b73e98077f2