Hardships and Crises: From the Life of the Prophet ﷺ — Page 14

Arabic text · النص

Line-by-line translation · المعاني

أَتْمِمْ حَدِيثَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ.

Finish Abu Talib's account.

لَقَدْ تَمَثَّلَ الرَّسُولَ وَهُوَ يَخُوضُ بِأَصْحَابِهِ غَمَرَاتِ الْمَوْتِ.

He pictured the Messenger wading with his companions through the depths of death.

فَلَا يَلْبَثُ رُؤَسَاءُ قُرَيْشٍ وَصَنَادِيدُهُمْ أَنْ يُصْبِحُوا أَذْنَابًا.

It would not be long before the leaders and chiefs of Quraish became mere followers.

وَدُورُهُمْ خَرَابًا، وَضُعَفَاؤُهُمْ سَادَةً وَأَرْبَابًا.

Their houses would fall to ruin, and their weak would rise as masters and lords.

لَقَدْ تَحَقَّقَ ظَنُّهُ.

His intuition was proven right.

أَصْبَحَ يَقِينًا، لَا يَتَسَرَّبُ إِلَيْهِ الشَّكُّ.

It became a certainty, beyond any doubt.

كَأَنَّمَا كَانَ يَقْرَأُ الْغَيْبَ فِي كِتَابٍ مَسْطُورٍ!

It was as if he were reading the unseen in a written book!

ثُمَّ مَاذَا قَالَ؟

Then what did he say?

وَإِذَا أَشَدُّهُمْ تَعَظُّمًا عَلَيْهِ أَحْوَجُهُمْ إِلَيْهِ.

The most arrogant among them toward him are the ones most in need of him.

وَأَبْعَدُهُمْ مِنْهُ أَحْطَاهُمْ عِنْدَهُ.

The furthest among them from him are the most lowly in his eyes.

فَقَدْ مَحَضَتْهُ الْعَرَبُ وِدَادَهَا، وَأَصْفَتْ لَهُ فُؤَادَهَا، وَأَعْطَتْهُ قِيَادَهَا.

The Arabs have given him their sincere affection, devoted their hearts to him, and entrusted him with their leadership.

إِنَّ مِنَ الْبَيَانِ لَسِحْرًا!

Indeed, there is magic in eloquence!

أَلَمْ أَقُلْ لَكُمَا: إِنَّ عَمَّهُ كَانَ يَتَحَدَّثُ وَكَأَنَّمَا يَنْطِقُ بِلِسَانِ الْغَيْبِ؟

Did I not tell you both that his uncle spoke as if he were voicing the unseen?

كَانَ أَلْمَعِيًّا.

He was a man of sharp intuition.

مَاذَا تَعْنِي بِالْأَلْمَعِيِّ؟

What do you mean by that?

الْأَلْمَعِيُّ، كَمَا تَعْرِفُهُ الْعَرَبُ، هُوَ الذَّكِيُّ النَّافِذُ الْبَصِيرَةِ، الَّذِي يَظُنُّ فَلَا يُخْطِئُ ظَنُّهُ.

A man of sharp intuition, as the Arabs define him, is someone intelligent and insightful, whose hunches are never wrong.

وَيَتَعَرَّفُ، مِنْ مَنْطِقِ الْحَوَادِثِ وَأَسْبَابِهَا، مَا تَنْتَهِي إِلَيْهِ مَصَايِرُهَا وَغَايَاتُهَا.

From the logic and causes of events, he discerns their ultimate outcomes and ends.

يَتَحَدَّثُ عَمَّا لَمْ يَرَهُ.

He speaks of things he has not seen.

حَدِيثَ مَنْ رَأَى وَسَمِعَ.

He speaks like one who has seen and heard.

الْأَلْمَعِيُّ الَّذِي يَظُنُّ بِكَ الظَّنَّ كَأَنْ قَدْ رَأَى وَقَدْ سَمِعَا!

He is the one whose intuition is as clear as if he had seen and heard it all himself!

شَدَّ مَا تَحَمَّلَ الرَّسُولُ فِي دَعْوَتِهِ، وَطَالَمَا صَبَرَ فِي رِسَالَتِهِ!

How much the Messenger endured for his cause, and how long he remained patient in his mission!

كَثِيرًا مَا رَفَعُوا أَصْوَاتَهُمُ الْمُنْكَرَةَ.

They often raised their hideous voices.

يَشْغَبُونَ عَلَيْهِ بِالْمُوَاءِ وَالْعُوَاءِ.

They harassed him with caterwauling and howling.

وَمَرْذُولِ السِّبَابِ.

And with vile insults.

وَنُبَاحِ الْكِلَابِ.

And the barking of dogs.

طَالَمَا قَذَفُوهُ بِالْحِجَارَةِ.

How often they pelted him with stones.

Vocabulary · المفردات (27 verbs · 53 nouns)

• أَتَمَّ — to complete
• تَمَثَّلَ — to imagine
• خَاضَ — to wade through
• لَبِثَ — to remain
• أَصْبَحَ — to become
• تَحَقَّقَ — to come true
• تَسَرَّبَ — to leak
• قَرَأَ — to read
• قَالَ — to say
• مَحَضَ — to act sincerely, to give pure devotion
• أَصْفَى — to purify
• أَعْطَى — to give
• تَحَدَّثَ — to speak
• نَطَقَ — to speak
• عَنَى — to mean
• عَرَفَ — to know
• ظَنَّ — to think
• أَخْطَأَ — to err
• تَعَرَّفَ — to recognize
• انْتَهَى — to end
• رَأَى — to see
• سَمِعَ — to hear
• تَحَمَّلَ — to endure
• صَبَرَ — to persevere
• رَفَعَ — to raise
• شَغَبَ — to cause trouble
• قَذَفَ — to throw
• شَدِيدَة — hardship
• أَزْمَة — crisis
• حَدِيث — speech
• رَسُول — messenger
• صَاحِب — companion
• غَمْرَة — depth
• مَوْت — death
• رَئِيس — leader
• صِنْدِيد — chief
• ذَنَب — tail
• دَار — house
• خَرَاب — ruin
• ضَعِيف — weak person
• سَيِّد — master
• رَبٌّ — lord
• ظَنٌّ — thought
• يَقِين — certainty
• شَكٌّ — doubt
• غَيْب — unseen
• كِتَاب — book
• مَسْطُور — written
• تَعَظُّم — arrogance
• عَرَب — Arab
• وِدَاد — affection
• فُؤَاد — heart
• قِيَادَة — reins
• بَيَان — eloquence
• سِحْر — magic
• عَمٌّ — paternal uncle
• لِسَان — tongue
• أَلْمَعِيٌّ — brilliant person
• ذَكِيٌّ — intelligent person
• نَافِذ — penetrating
• بَصِيرَة — insight
• مَنْطِق — logic
• حَادِثَة — event
• سَبَب — cause
• مَصِير — destiny
• غَايَة — goal
• دَعْوَة — call
• رِسَالَة — message
• صَوْت — voice
• مُنْكَر — disapproved
• مُوَاء — meowing
• عُوَاءٌ — howling
• مَرْذُول — despicable
• سِبَاب — insult
• نُبَاح — barking
• كَلْب — dog
• حَجَر — stone
• قِيَاد — leadership, reins
• أَبْعَد — farther
• أَحْوَج — more in need