Burda I
January 30, 2006
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful and Compassionate
Our Lord bless and greet ever with peace
Your Beloved the best of all beings created
I
Is it the memory of tents near Dhi Salam that
draws tears wed to blood from your eyes -
the squall from Kazima,
lightning out of Idam’s umber?
And eyes, you say, enough yet they water?
Heart, you say, sense yet it soars?
The lover thinks love is hid?
What, by tears and smoking heart?
If not for longing would you cry in ruins?
Fret mere jaw from high and mighty cypress?
How deny love laid bare
by tears and blood, each a just witness?
Love plowed twin furrows in dry flesh,
yellowed your cheeks, bloodied your face.
Comes nightly, yes. Love, pins lid to brow,
and makes a trial out of joy.
You who fault my passion, pardon.
Were you fair you’d tear a strip off none.
My state you see. My secret’s with
the gossip and the crush only tightens.
You warned. I did not heed.
The lover’s deaf to reason.
Wary of counsel,
though the wise be above suspicion.
Første del af Imam al-Busîris Qasidat al-Burdah.
Engelsk oversættelse © Yusuf Zanella.
Lyt til forskellige recitationer af Qasidat al-Burdah.
Foto © Farah Mahbub
Qasida al-burda
January 17, 2006
Første kapitel af Qasidat al-burda som omhandler kærlighed til Sayyidina Rasulullah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam
I dette kapitel omtaler ‘Allama Imâm Busiri sin kærlighed til Allahs elskede sendebud (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam).
Han prøver at tildække denne kærlighed og hvem den elskede er. Af denne årsag har han ikke benævnt Rasulullahs (Allahs fred og velsignelser være med ham) navn direkte i dette kapitel.
Ved at nævne steder og ting i Madinas nærvær, hentyder han til Rasulullah (Allahs fred og velsignelser være med ham). Pga. denne overdrevne kærlighed og hengivenhed for Rasulullah (Allahs fred og velsignelser være med ham) er han blevet fuldkommen rastløs på denne vis præsenterer han denne kærlighed overfor alle.
1. Is it because of your remembrance of the neighbours of Dhi-salam.
2. That tears mixed with blood are flowing (from your eyes).
3. Or is it because of the breeze blowing from Kaazimah.
4. Or it is the lightning struck in the darkness of the night Idam
5. What has happened to your eyes, (the more) you tell them to stop, the more they continue flowing.
6. What is the matter with your heart, (the more) you tell it to come to its senses, (the more it is distracted).
7. Does the lover think that his love can be concealed.
8. While his eyes are shedding tears and his heart is glowing.
9. Had it not been for the love, you would not have shed tears at the ruins (of your beloved).
10. Nor would you become restless at the remembrance of the cypress (tree) the high mountain. 11. How do you deny love after the testimony.
12. Borne against you by (such) reliable witnesses as your yours and your illness.
13. Love has ingrained two lines of fear, and withered your face.
14. On your cheeks like yellow rose and the reddish tree.
15. Yes! Thoughts of the beloved came to me at night and kept me awake.
16. And love transforms pleasure into pain.
17. O you who reproach me, regarding my love, excuse me.
18. From me to you if you do justice, you would not reproach me.
19. My state (of love) has been expressed to you, (now) my secret is no longer concealed.
20. From those who malign (me), nor is there (something to) check my agony.
21. You have sincerely advised me , I did not heed it.
22.For verily a lover is deaf to those who advise him.
23. I regarded with suspicion the advice of the elders in reproaching me.
24. (Wisdom) in the advice of the elders is above suspicion.
Qasidat al-burda al-sharif
January 13, 2006
Qasida Imam Ahmad Mashur al-Haddad
January 8, 2006
The Beloved of the Beneficent,
And the most precious in all creation
Who is present with whoever sends blessings on Him in every age and place,
And on His family and Companions and good followers.
Oh Allah! Bestow Blessings and peace on Sayyidina Muhammad,
The leader of both the worlds,
The light of Jinn and people,
The Grandfather of Imam Hassan & Imam Hussain,
And with this blessing on Him make Him the delight of my eyes,
And Bestow blessings and peace as well
On His family and companions.
Oh Allah! Bestow Blessings and total peace on Sayyidina Muhammad,
The Prophet not taught by any human (but by You, Oh Allah!)
And on His Family,
And I beg forgiveness of Allah, The incomparably Great,
And turn to Him repentant.
Oh Allah! Oh The light of the Heavens and the Earth,
Bestow blessings and peace on the one You created from Your light,
And forgive my sins, and fill my heart with
The light of Your knowledge and the knowledge that is with You,
And (bestow blessings and peace as well)
On His family and companions.
Oh Allah! Bestow blessings and peace on Sayyidina Muhammad,
The one who has the highest position,
The one with special nobility of closeness (to Allah);
Were it not for Him, we wouldn’t exist;
Immerse us in His breath, in reality and in its true meaning,
and (bestow blessings and peace as well)
On His family and companions.
Oh Allah! Bestow blessings and peace on Sayyidina Muhammad
The mention of whose name before anyone who is sick, cures him,
And anyone who is ill and in pain is given good health,
And (bestow blessings and peace as well)
on His family and companions.
Oh Allah! Bestow blessings and peace,
On the bright moon,
The bringer of glad tidings, the warner,
The soul of existence,
And the merciful for all that exists,
And on His Family and Companions and Followers
Till the Promised Day.
Dokumentar om Qasidat al-Burda
December 18, 2005
En virkelig god dokumentar om den fantastiske Qasidat al-Burda af Imam al-Busiri.
Qasida Hassan ibn Thabit
December 7, 2005
In fear I covered my eyes with my palms,
Afraid for my sight because of the beauty of his form.
So I was scarcely able to look at him at all.
The lights from his light are drowned in his light
and his faces shines out like the sun and moon in one.
A spirit of light lodged in a body like the moon,
a mantle made up of brilliant shining stars.
I bore it until I could bear it no longer.
I found the taste of patience to be like bitter aloes.
I could find no remedy to bring me relief
other than delighting in the sight of the one I love.
Even if he had not brought any clear signs with him,
the sight of him would dispense with the need for them.
Muhammad is a human being but not like other human beings.
Rather he is a flawless diamond and the rest of mankind is just stones.
Blessings be on him so that perhaps Allah may have mercy on us
on that burning Day when the Fire is roaring forth its sparks.
