The Poem Made the Imam Cry

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ 

This poem made Imam Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Hanbal (r.a.) cry, so much so that one of his students said that he almost perished due to him crying so much. 

إذا ما قال لي ربي .. أما استحييت تعصيني

وتخفي الذنب عن خلقي .. وبالعصيان تأتيني

فكيف أجيب يا ويحي .. ومن ذا سوف يحميني

أسلي النفس بالآمال .. من حين إلى حين

وأنسى ما وراء الموت .. ماذا بعد تكفيني

كاني قد ضمنت العيش .. ليس الموت يأتيني

وجاءت سكرة الموت الشديدة من سيحميني

نظرت إلى الوجوه أليس منهم من سيفديني

سأسأل ما الذي قدمت في دنياي ينجيني

فكيف إجابتي من بعد ما فرطت في ديني

ويا ويحي ألم أسمع كلام الله يدعوني

ألم أسمع لما قد جاء في ق و يس

ألم أسمع بيوم الحشر يوم الجمع والدين

ألم أسمع منادي الموت يدعوني يناديني

فيا رباه عبد تائب من ذا سيؤويه

سوى رب غفور واسع للحق يهديني

أتيت إليك فارحمني وثقل في موازيني

وخفف في جزائي أنت أرجى من يجازيني 

“If my Lord Asks me,

‘Have you no shame in disobeying Me?

You hide your faults from My Creation,

Yet full of sin you come to Me’

So what will I answer?  O Woe to me!

And who shall protect me, do you see?

I keep forestalling my soul,

With thoughts of hope from time to time,

And forgetting what is to come after death,

And after I am warped in the sheets of the dead,

As if I have guaranteed living forever,

And that death will not overcome me,

Then the harsh drunkenness of death overtakes me,

Who now will be able to protect me?

I looked at the faces, is there not from amongst them

Who will ransom me?

I will be asked,

What have I put forth in my life to save myself?

So what will I answer,

After I have been neglectful regarding my Diyn?

O woe to me!  Did I not hear the,

Speech of Allah Calling out to me?

Did I not hear what has come in Qaf, and YaSin?

Did I not hear of the day the crowds will be Summoned?

The day we will be Collected, and the Day of ad-Diyn?

Did I not hear the caller of death,

Calling me; seeking me?

O my Lord, a slave to you I come repenting,

Who then shall grant me shelter,

Other than an Oft-Forgiving Lord?

To the truth, He will Guide me.

I have come to You, so have Mercy on me,

And Make heavy my weights

And Lighten my Reckoning; You are the Best

Of Those Who will Bring me to Reckoning?”




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