Hardships and Crises: From the Life of the Prophet ﷺ — Page 12

Arabic text · النص

Line-by-line translation · المعاني

شَدَائِدُ وَأَزَمَاتٌ.

Hardships and crises.

وَيَرْقُصُونَ.

They dance.

لَقَدْ نَسُوا الْحِكْمَةَ الْقَائِلَةَ: «مَنْ يَضْحَكُ كَثِيرًا، مَنْ يَضْحَكُ أَخِيرًا».

They have forgotten the old adage: 'He who laughs much, laughs last.'

أَتَذْكُرَانِ قَوْلَ الشَّاعِرِ: فَإِنْ نَعِشْ نُبْصِرِ الْبَاكِينَ قَدْ ضَحِكُوا وَالضَّاحِكِينَ، لِفَرْطِ الْجَهْلِ، بَاكِينَا!

Do you remember the poet's words: 'If we live, we shall see the weepers laughing, and the laughers, in their ignorance, weeping!'

فَمَاذَا صَنَعَ الْحَاقِدُونَ؟

What did his enemies do?

أَمْعَنُوا فِي الْكَيْدِ لَهُ.

They redoubled their plots against him.

وَرَاحُوا يُشْرِفُونَ فِي السُّخْرِيَةِ مِنْهُ.

They began to mock him relentlessly.

فَرَاحَ بَعْضُهُمْ يَقْذِفُهُ بِالتُّرَابِ تَارَةً.

Some would pelt him with dust.

وَرَاحَ آخَرُونَ يَتَهَكَّمُونَ بِهِ، وَيَصْرُخُونَ فِي وَجْهِهِ.

Others jeered at him and screamed in his face.

فَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَشْتُمُهُ.

Some hurled insults at him.

وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ يُقَابِلُهُ بِالْمُوَاءِ، وَالْعُوَاءِ.

Others greeted him with meows and howls.

كَمَا تَمُوءُ الْقِطَطُ.

Just as cats meow.

وَكَمَا تَعْوِي الذِّئَابُ.

And as wolves howl.

كَانَ مَوْتُ عَمِّهِ خَسَارَةً لَا تُعَوِّضُ.

His uncle's death was an irreplaceable loss.

كَانَ يَحْمِيهِ، وَيَدْفَعُ عَنْهُ الْأَذَى فِي حَيَاتِهِ.

He had protected him and warded off harm throughout his life.

طَالَمَا دَفَعَ غَائِلَةَ الْمُعْتَدِينَ.

He had often fended off the aggression of his enemies.

كَمَا دَافَعَتْ عَنْهُ عَشِيرَةُ السَّيِّدَةِ خَدِيجَةَ.

Just as Lady Khadija's clan had defended him.

كَانَتْ جَلِيلَةَ الْقَدْرِ، وَاسِعَةَ النُّفُوذِ.

She was a woman of great stature and vast influence.

الْحَلِيلَةُ.

His wife.

كَانَ الْكَثِيرُونَ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ يَخْشَوْنَ أَنْ يَجْهَرُوا بِعَدَائِهِمْ لَهُ، مُجَامَلَةً لِعَشِيرَتِهَا.

Many in Quraish feared openly declaring their hostility toward him out of respect for her clan.

طَالَمَا كَفَّ رِبَاطُ الْمُصَاهَرَةِ مِنْ أَذَاهُمْ.

The bonds of marriage had long kept their malice at bay.

أَيُّ رُكْنَيْنِ عَظِيمَيْنِ سَخَّرَهُمَا اللَّهُ لِحِمَايَتِهِ!

What two mighty pillars God had provided for his protection!

فِي أَوَّلِ دَعْوَتِهِ.

At the dawn of his mission.

Vocabulary · المفردات (25 verbs · 45 nouns)

• رَقَصَ — to dance
• نَسِيَ — to forget
• ضَحِكَ — to laugh
• ذَكَرَ — to remember
• عَاشَ — to live
• أَبْصَرَ — to see
• صَنَعَ — to make
• أَمْعَنَ — to persist
• رَاحَ — to go
• أَشْرَفَ — to overlook
• قَذَفَ — to throw
• تَهَكَّمَ — to mock
• صَرَخَ — to scream
• شَتَمَ — to insult
• قَابَلَ — to meet
• مَاءَ — to meow
• عَوَى — to howl
• عَوَّضَ — to compensate
• حَمَى — to protect
• دَفَعَ — to push
• دَافَعَ — to defend
• خَشِيَ — to fear
• جَهَرَ — to declare
• كَفَّ — to stop
• سَخَّرَ — to harness
• شَدِيدَة — hardship
• أَزْمَة — crisis
• حِكْمَة — wisdom
• قَائِلَة — speaker (female)
• كَثِير — much
• أَخِير — last
• قَوْل — saying
• شَاعِر — poet
• بَاك — weeper
• فَرْط — excess
• جَهْل — ignorance
• حَاقِد — hater
• كَيْد — plot
• سُخْرِيَةٌ — mockery
• تُرَاب — dust
• تَارَة — time
• آخَر — other
• وَجْه — face
• مُوَاء — meowing
• عُوَاءٌ — howling
• قِطَّة — cat
• ذِئْب — wolf
• مَوْت — death
• عَمٌّ — paternal uncle
• خَسَارَة — loss
• أَذًى — harm
• حَيَاة — life
• غَائِلَة — calamity
• مُعْتَدٍ — aggressor
• عَشِيرَة — clan
• سَيِّدَة — lady
• جَلِيل — majestic
• قَدْر — status
• وَاسِع — wide
• نُفُوذ — influence
• حَلِيلَة — wife
• عِدَاء — hostility
• مُجَامَلَة — courtesy
• رِبَاط — bond
• مُصَاهَرَة — affinity
• رُكْن — pillar
• عَظِيم — great
• حِمَايَة — protection
• أَوَّل — beginning
• دَعْوَة — call