The Poetry of the Imam
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
A man came to Imam Abu ‘Abd ar-Rahman ‘Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak (r.a.) and said to him, “May Allah be Pleased with you! Describe for me those who are wild and distracted by love of Allah.”
He replied, “They are as I will tell you:
Alert, on mounts as if they were a
caravan desiring to pass,
That is how they are
moved.
Their limbs are restrained from every foul action.
Truthfulness is their school, as well as zuhd and fear.”
Another person asked him to describe the fearful. He said:
“When the night is darkest, they
endure it,
And it travels from them
while they are still bowing.
Fear dispelled their
sleep, so they stood alert while the people of security
In this world were
sleeping peacefully.
While they are
prostrating under the cloak the darkness,
Their groan pierces their
ribs.
They are mute in the day by the length of their silence.
They have tranquillity from their humility.”
He also composed:
“Seize the two raka’at of nearness if you are free and at rest.
When you desire to speak
about the false, put glorification in its place.
Seizing silence is better than plunging,
Even if you are eloquent in speech.”
Imam ibn al-Mubarak (q.s.) had a lot of poetry on more than
one subject. He had a short poem in rajaz metre on the companions and the
followers and long qaswa’id on
constancy and jihad which are
famous. He wrote Kitab ar-Raqa’iq which is famous, and “The Book of the Objectives
of Jihad.”
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