Lights from the Blessed Birth (أضواء من المولد السعيد) — Page 11

Arabic text · النص

Line-by-line translation · المعاني

سَلَامَتُهَا مِنَ الْأَقْدَارِ!

May she be spared by fate!

أَضْوَاءٌ مِنَ الْمَوْلِدِ السَّعِيدِ

Lights from the blessed birth.

أَيُّ أَقْدَارِ؟!

What fate?

عِبَادَةُ الْأَصْنَامِ

Idol worship.

أَلَيْسَتِ «الْكَعْبَةُ» بَيْتَ اللَّهِ؟

Is the Kaaba not the house of God?

بَلَى.

Indeed.

فَهَلْ كَانَتِ الْأَعْرَابُ يَعْبُدُونَ، بَيْنَ جُدْرَانِهِ، رَبَّ ذَلِكَ الْبَيْتِ؟

Did the Bedouins really worship the Lord of that house while standing within its walls?

الْآنَ فَهِمْتُ.

Now I understand.

فَقَدْ كَانَتِ الْوَثَنِيَّةُ، حِينَئِذٍ، مُتَفَشِّيَةً فِيهِمْ، فَحَشَدُوا فِي ذَلِكَ الْبَيْتِ الْمُقَدَّسِ مَجْمُوعَةً كَبِيرَةً مِنْ أَصْنَامِهِمْ وَأَوْثَانِهِمْ، وَشُغِلُوا بِهَا عَنْ عِبَادَةِ اللَّهِ.

Paganism was rampant among them at the time; they had filled that sacred house with a vast collection of their idols and statues, letting them distract them from the worship of God.

لَعَلَّ اللَّهَ سُبْحَانَهُ، قَدْ بَعَثَ إِلَيْهِمْ أَصْحَابَ الْفِيلِ، لِيَكُونَ فِي قُدُومِهِمْ إِنْدَارٌ لَهُمْ بِغَضَبِهِ عَلَى الْعَرَبِ، بَعْدَ أَنْ فَتَنَتْهُمْ أَصْنَامُهُمْ.

Perhaps God, glory be to Him, sent the People of the Elephant to warn them of His wrath against the Arabs, now that their idols had led them astray.

ثُمَّ مَنَّ عَلَيْهِمْ بِالنَّجَاةِ مِنَ الْخَطَرِ، تَكْرِيمًا لِمَوْلِدِ الرَّسُولِ الْمُنْتَظَرِ.

Then He granted them salvation from that danger, honoring the birth of the awaited Messenger.

وَكَانَ خَلَاصُ الْكَعْبَةِ، كَمَا قُلْتُ، هُوَ الْفَوْزَ الْأَوَّلَ.

The deliverance of the Kaaba, as I said, was the first victory.

فَأَيُّ فَوْزٍ تَلَاهُ؟

What victory followed it?

مَوْلِدُ الرَّسُولِ الَّذِي طَهَّرَ الْبَيْتَ مِنَ الْأَرْجَاسِ.

The birth of the Messenger who purified the house of all abominations.

الْفَوْزُ الْأَكْبَرُ

The greatest victory.

لَا رَيْبَ أَنَّ هَذَا كَانَ الْفَوْزَ الْأَكْبَرَ.

There is no doubt that this was the greatest victory.

وَلَكِنْ خَبِّرْنَا، يَا رَشَادُ: أَكَانَ الْحَادِثَانِ السَّعِيدَانِ فِي عَصْرٍ وَاحِدٍ؟

But tell us, Rashad: did these two happy events occur in the same era?

كَانَا فِي عَامٍ وَاحِدٍ، وَلَعَلَّهُمَا حَدَثَا فِي يَوْمٍ وَاحِدٍ.

They happened in the same year, and perhaps even on the same day.

تَعْنِي أَنَّ الرَّسُولَ ﷺ وُلِدَ فِي ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ الَّذِي نَجَّى اللهُ فِيهِ بَيْتَهُ مِنْ أَعْدَائِهِ، بَعْدَ أَنْ أَهْلَكَ أَصْحَابَ الْفِيلِ، وَجَعَلَ كَيْدَهُمْ فِي تَضْلِيلٍ وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ؟

Do you mean the Messenger (peace and blessings of God be upon him) was born on the very day God saved His house from its enemies, after destroying the People of the Elephant, thwarting their plot, and sending flocks of birds against them?

إِنْ لَمْ يَكُنِ الرَّسُولُ ﷺ قَدْ وُلِدَ فِي ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ نَفْسِهِ، فَإِنَّ مَوْلِدَهُ – كَمَا يَقُولُ الْمُؤَرِّخُونَ – لَمْ يَتَجَاوَزْهُ بِأَيَّامٍ.

If the Messenger (peace and blessings of God be upon him) was not born on that exact day, historians say his birth was only a few days removed from it.

Vocabulary · المفردات (19 verbs · 47 nouns)

• عَبَدَ — to worship
• فَهِمَ — to understand
• حَشَدَ — to gather
• شَغَلَ — to occupy
• بَعَثَ — to send
• فَتَنَ — to tempt
• مَنَّ — to bestow
• قَالَ — to say
• تَلَا — to follow
• طَهَّرَ — to purify
• خَبَّرَ — to inform
• حَدَثَ — to happen
• عَنَى — to mean
• وَلَدَ — to give birth; to beget, generate, produce
• نَجَّى — to save
• أَهْلَكَ — to destroy
• جَعَلَ — to make
• أَرْسَلَ — to send
• تَجَاوَزَ — to exceed
• سَلَامَة — safety
• قَدَر — fate
• ضَوْء — light
• مَوْلِد — birth
• سَعِيد — happy
• عِبَادَة — worship
• صَنَم — idol
• كَعْبَة — Kaaba
• بَيْت — house
• أَعْرَابِيّ — Bedouin
• جِدَار — wall
• رَبّ — Lord
• وَثَنِيَّة — paganism
• حِين — time
• مُتَفَشٍّ — widespread
• مُقَدَّس — sacred
• مَجْمُوعَة — group
• كَبِير — large
• وَثَن — idol
• صَاحِب — companions
• فِيل — elephant
• قُدُوم — arrival
• إِنْذَار — warning
• غَضَب — anger
• عَرَبِيّ — Arab
• نَجَاة — salvation
• خَطَر — danger
• تَكْرِيم — honoring
• رَسُول — messenger
• مُنْتَظَر — awaited
• خَلَاص — deliverance
• فَوْز — victory
• أَوَّل — first
• رِجْس — abomination
• أَكْبَر — greatest
• رَيْب — doubt
• حَادِث — event
• عَصْر — era
• وَاحِد — one
• عَام — year
• يَوْم — day
• عَدُوّ — enemy
• كَيْد — plot
• تَضْلِيل — misguidance
• طَيْر — bird
• إِبَّاوَل — flocks
• مُؤَرِّخ — historian