Qisas al-Anbiya by Ibn Kathir (قصص الأنبياء لابن كثير) — Page 722

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الصَّلْتُ الْجَبِينِ الْوَاضِحُ الْخَدَّيْنِ، الْجَعْدُ الرَّأْسِ، الْكَثُّ اللِّحْيَةِ، الْمَقْرُونُ الْحَاجِبَيْنِ، الْأَقْنَى الْأَنْفِ، الْمُفَلَّجُ الثَّنَايَا، الْبَادِي الْعَنْفَقَةِ، الَّذِي كَانَ عُنُقُهُ إِبْرِيقُ فِضَّةٍ وَكَأَنَّ الذَّهَبَ يَجْرِي فِي تَرَاقِيهِ، لَهُ شَعَرَاتٌ مِنْ لَبَّتِهِ إِلَى سُرَّتِهِ تَجْرِي كَالْقَضِيبِ، لَيْسَ عَلَى بَطْنِهِ وَلَا عَلَى صَدْرِهِ شَعْرٌ غَيْرُهُ، شَثْنُ الْكَفِّ وَالْقَدَمِ، إِذَا الْتَفَتَ الْتَفَتَ جَمِيعاً.

He is smooth-foreheaded, clear-cheeked, curly-haired, thick-bearded, with joined eyebrows, aquiline-nosed, with spaced teeth, and a prominent tuft of hair under his lip. His neck is like a silver pitcher, and it is as if gold flows in his collarbones. He has hairs from his chest to his navel flowing like a rod, with no hair on his stomach or chest other than that. He is thick-palmed and thick-footed, and when he turns, he turns completely.

وَإِذَا مَشَى كَأَنَّمَا يَتَقَلَّعُ مِنْ صَخْرٍ وَيَنْحَدِرُ مِنْ صَبَبٍ، عَرَقُهُ فِي وَجْهِهِ كَاللُّؤْلُؤِ وَرِيحُ الْمِسْكِ يَنْفَحُ مِنْهُ، وَلَمْ يُرَ قَبْلَهُ وَلَا بَعْدَهُ مِثْلُهُ، الْحَسَنُ الْقَامَةِ الطَّيِّبُ الرِّيحِ، نَكَّاحُ النِّسَاءِ ذَا النَّسْلِ الْقَلِيلِ، إِنَّمَا نَسْلُهُ مِنْ مُبَارَكَةٍ لَهَا يَعْنِي فِي الْجَنَّةِ فِي الْجَنَّةِ - مِنْ قَصَبٍ لَا نَصَبَ فِيهِ وَلَا صَخَبَ،

When he walks, it is as if he is pulling himself from a rock and descending from a slope. His sweat on his face is like pearls, and the scent of musk wafts from him. Neither before him nor after him has anyone like him been seen. He is of handsome stature, pleasant-scented, a man who marries women, with little offspring; his offspring is only from a blessed woman who has in Paradise a home of reed, in which there is no fatigue nor noise.

تَكْفُلُهُ يَا عِيسَى فِي آخِرِ الزَّمَانِ كَمَا كَفَلَ زَكَرِيَّا أُمَّكَ، لَهُ مِنْهَا فَرْخَانِ مُسْتَشْهَدَانِ، وَلَهُ عِنْدِي مَنْزِلَةٌ لَيْسَتْ لِأَحَدٍ مِنَ الْبَشَرِ، كَلَامُهُ الْقُرْآنُ وَدِينُهُ الْإِسْلَامُ وَأَتَاهُ السَّلَامُ، طُوبَى لِمَنْ أَدْرَكَ زَمَانَهُ وَشَهِدَ أَيَّامَهُ وَسَمِعَ كَلَامَهُ

You shall support him, O Jesus, in the end of time, just as Zechariah supported your mother. He has from her two offspring who are martyrs, and he has with Me a status that no one among humans has. His speech is the Quran, his religion is Islam, and peace has come to him. Blessed is he who reaches his time, witnesses his days, and hears his speech.

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Vocabulary · المفردات (24 verbs · 90 nouns)

• جَرَى — to flow
• لَيْسَ — to not be
• اِلْتَفَتَ — to turn
• صَلْت — smooth-foreheaded man
• جَبِين — forehead
• وَاضِح — clear