Al-Uqud al-Durriyya - Ibn Abd al-Hadi - (الكتاب/525)

Among the pieces included here is this poem by Shaykh ʿAbd Allah ibn Khidr ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman, of Rūmī stock, a Damascene from the Ḥarīrī quarter, known as al-Mutayyim—may Allah have mercy on him (1):

They have scorched my heart with the fire of love,
and my very core has melted from the parting of the beloved.

My passion and yearning for their sacred abode have only increased;
longing and burning desire have set my spirit trembling.

How immense are my sorrows and the rapture I feel for them!
How long my yearning for them, how bleak my loneliness.

I have filled every quarter with my lament—and why should I not
mourn for a people who were the best of neighbours (2)?

I have never forgotten the days spent in their nearness;
when they departed, the sweetness of life departed with them.

(1) MSS F, K, and T open with: “In the name of God, the All-Merciful, the Compassionate. This poem was composed by Shaykh Abd Allah … al-Mutayyam as an elegy for Shaykh Taqi al-Din Ibn Taymiyya, one of his companions—may God be pleased with him and grant him His good pleasure.” I have found no biographical notice for this author. (2) In MSS F, K, and T the verse is placed after the one that follows.

ومنها للشيخ عبد الله بن خضر بن عبد الرحمن الروميّ الأصل، الدِّمشقي الحريري، المعروف بالمتيّم، ﵀ (١): لقد عذَّبوا قلبي بنار المَحبَّة ... وذابَ فؤادي من فِراق الأحِبّة وزاد غرامي واشْتياقي إلى الحِمَى ... وهيَّجَ بَلْبالي حنيني ولوعتي فيا عُظْم أحْزاني ووَجْدي عليهمُ ... ويا طولَ أشواقي إليهم ووَحْشَتي ملأتُ النَّواحي مِنْ نُواحي وكيف لا ... أنوحُ على قومٍ هُمُ خير جيرتي (٢) فلم أنسَ أيامًا تقضَّت بقربهم ... ومِنْ عيشتي لمّا تولَّوا تولَّت

(١) (ف، ك، ط): «بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. هذه القصيدة نظم الشيخ عبدالله ... بالمتيم يرثي الشيخ تقي الدين ابن تيمية، وهو أحد أصحابه، ﵁ وأرضاه». ولم أعثر على ترجمته. (٢) البيت في (ف، ك، ط) بعد الآتي.