Al-Uqud al-Durriyya - Ibn Abd al-Hadi - (الكتاب/523)

Al-Uqud al-DurriyyaIbn Abd al-Hadi

and it drenched the graves that lie contentedly beside his beneath the earth—a billowing cloud of pardon (1).

Blessed is the one who now rests next to his dust; for his sake even the closest neighbor is shown honor (2).

The night he was laid there, a wedding was held beneath the earth, while above it the very same spot was a funeral (3).

All the while the angels of heaven surround him every day, never tiring and never growing weary.

O earth, through him you have become like a garden of Paradise; for your guest every day is a festival.

People may tear their collars for others, yet for him the rending of one’s garment (4) is truly obligatory.

Happy is the land whose tomb now shelters him as one dead—though this “dead man” is alive and honored.

His soul has been carried to the Gardens of Eden, where houris and youthful attendants serve him.

His body lies beneath the open sky, but his spirit delights in “a seat of truth” amid Divine good-pleasure.

If the grave that encloses his body were, one day, granted a tongue that could speak (5),

you would hear it proclaim its glad tidings (6) of the finest guest ever to grace its courtyards.

He dwells in the noblest neighborhood—God’s own—and God is kinder and more merciful to His servants than all.

The seven circuits of tawaf and the saʿi, the Hijr, the Ancient House, and Zamzam all weep for him (7).

(1) In the margin of MSS F and K the reading “Kh: jood” is noted. The adjective muthjam comes from the verb athjamati al-sama, used when rain falls continuously. (2) MSS F and K read al-mujawir. The word al-musaqib means “neighboring, adjacent.” (3) MSS F, K, and T have “fina” (“among us”). (4) MS F reads “al-qulub” (“the hearts”). This wording is an unwarranted hyperbole, for tearing one’s garments (shaqq al-juyub) is forbidden. (5) MSS F and K read “kana lil-qabr …” (“it belonged to the grave …”); MS F also has “yawman lisanan” (“once a tongue”). (6) MS F has “bishara’.” (7) MSS F, K, and T read “tabki lahu” (“weeps for him”); MSS K and T add “al-sab‘” (“the wild beast”).

وسقى قبورًا جاوَرْته من الرِّضا ... تحتَ التّرابِ سَحابُ عَفْو (١) مُثْجَمُ طُوبى لمن أمسى مُجاوِر تُرْبه ... من أجلها الجارُ المصاقِبُ (٢) يُكرمُ أمسى وتحتَ الأرضِ عُرْسٌ إذ ثوى ... فيها وفوق الأرض فيها (٣) مأتمُ هذا وأملاكُ السماءِ تَحُفُّه ... في كُلِّ يومٍ لا تملُّ وتَسْأمُ يا أرضُ صِرْتِ به كروضة جنَّةٍ ... لنزيلها في كلِّ يومٍ موسِمُ لسواهُ تَشْقيقُ الجيوبِ وإنما ... شقُّ الجيوب (٤) عليه مما يَلْزمُ سَعِدتْ به أرضٌ أقام برَمْسِها ... ميتًا وهذا الميتُ حيٌّ مُكْرَمُ نُقِلَتْ إلى جنّاتِ عَدْنٍ رُوحُه ... والحورُ والولدانُ فيها تَخْدِمُ جُثمانه تحت العراء وروحُه ... في مَقْعد الصِّدق الرِّضا تتنعَّمُ لو كان للجَدَث المحيط بجِسْمه ... يومًا لسانٌ ناطقٌ يتكلمُ (٥) لسَمِعتَ بُشراهُ (٦) بمن وافى إلى ... عَرَصاته من خيرِ ضيفٍ يَقْدَم هو في جوار الله أشرفِ منزلٍ ... والله أرأفُ بالعباد وأرْحَمُ يَبْكي له سبعُ الطَّوافِ وسَعْيهُ ... والحِجْرُ والبيتُ العتيقُ وزمزم (٧)

(١) في هامش (ف، ك): «خ: جود». ومثجم: من أثجمت السماء، إذا دام مطرها. (٢) (ف، ك): «المجاور». المصاقب: المجاور. (٣) (ف، ك، ط): «فينا». (٤) (ف): «القلوب». وهذا من المبالغة غير المحمودة، فشق الجيوب منهيّ عنه. (٥) (ف، ك): «كان للقبر .. »، (ف): «يومًا لسانًا». (٦) (ف): «بشراء». (٧) (ف، ك، ط): «تبكي له»، (ك، ط): «السبع».