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Sabīl
Qaṣīdat al-Burdah

Chapter 4

الْفَصْلُ الرّابِعُ فِي مَوْلِدِهِ عَلَيْهِ الصَّلَاةُ والسَّلَام
Scholarly review: pending

The text, transliteration and translations are qasidaburda.com’s, as they stood on Wednesday, 21 October 2026. Sabīl has not compared the Arabic with a manuscript and no scholar has reviewed it. The translations are the site’s, not Sabīl’s.

1
أَبَانَ مَوْلِدُهُ عَنْ طِيبِ عُنْصُرِهِ يَا طِيبَ مُبْتَدَإٍ مِنْهُ وَمُخْتَتَمِ
Abāna mawliduhu ʿan ṭībi ʿunṣurihi Yā ṭība mubtadaʾin minhu wa mukhtatami
His birth made the purity of his pedigree evident; O how pure were his beginning and his end!
2
يَوْمٌ تَفَرَّسَ فِيهِ الفُرْسُ أَنَّهُمُ قَدْ أُنْذِرُوا بِحُلُولِ البُؤْسِ وَالنِّقَمِ
Yawmun tafarrasa fīhil fursu annahumu Qad undhirū biḥulūlil buʾsi wan niqami
On that day the Persians intuited that they Had been warned of looming misery and retribution.
3
وَبَاتَ إِيوَانُ كِسْرَى وَهُوَ مُنْصَدِعٌ كَشَمْلِ أَصْحَابِ كِسْرَى غَيْرَ مُلْتَئِمِ
Wa bāta īwānu kisrā wa huwa munṣadiʿun Ka shamli aṣ-ḥābi kisrā ghayra multaʾimi
That night the throne room of Khusraw became cracked, Khusraw’s people, too, crumbled, never to be restored.
4
وَالنَّارُ خَامِدَةُ الأَنْفَاسِ مِنْ أَسَفٍ عَلَيْهِ وَالنَّهْرُ سَاهِي العَيْنِ مِنْ سَدَمِ
Wan nāru khāmidatul anfāsi min asafin ʿAlayhi wan nahru sāhil ʿayni min sadami
The sacred fire, grief-stricken, breathed its last, And the river [Euphrates] dried up out of worry.
5
وَسَاءَ سَاوَةَ أَنْ غَاضَتْ بُحَيْرَتُهَا وَرُدَّ وَارِدُهَا بِالغَيْظِ حِينَ ظَمِي
Wa sāʾa sāwata an ghāḍat buḥayratuhā Wa rudda wāriduhā bil ghayẓi ḥīna ẓamī
Sāʾa was saddened by its lake drying up; the thirsty who went to drink there came back in a rage!
6
كَأَنَّ بِالنَّارِ مَا بِالمَاءِ مِنْ بَلَلٍ حُزْنًا وَبِالمَاءِ مَا بِالنَّارِ مِنْ ضَرَمِ
Ka anna bin nāri mā bil māʾi min balalin Ḥuznan wa bil māʾi mā bin nāri min ḍarami
As if the fire, from sorrow, took on the water’s wetness And water assumed the fire’s quality of blazing.
7
وَالجِنُّ تَهْتِفُ وَالأَنْوَارُ سَاطِعَةٌ وَالحَّقُ يَظْهَرُ مِنْ مَعْنىً وَمِنْ كَلِمِ
Wal jinnu tahtifu wal anwāru sāṭiʿatun Wal ḥaqqu yaẓ-haru min maʿnan wa min kalimi
There were jinn calling out, and dazzling lights As truth was manifested in both word and reality.
8
عَمُوا وَصَمُّوا فَإِعْلاَنُ البَشَائِرِ لَمْ يُسْمَعْ وَبَارِقَةُ الإِنْذَارِ لَمْ تُشَمِ
ʿAmmū wa ṣammū fa iʿlānul bashāʾiri lam Yusmaʿ wa bāriqatul indhāri lam tushami
They were blind and deaf, so the glad tidings proclaimed Went unheard, and the warning lightning-flash was not seen.
9
مِنْ بَعْدِ مَا أَخْبَرَ الأَقْوَامَ كَاهِنُهُمْ بِأَنَّ دِينَهُمُ المُعْوَجَّ لَمْ يَقُمِ
Min baʿdi mā akhbaral aqwāma kāhinuhum Bi anna dīnahumul muʿwajja lam yaqumi
Even after the soothsayers had informed their peoples That their crooked religion would not endure,
10
وَبَعْدَمَا عَايَنُوا فِي الأُفْقِ مِنْ شُهُبٍ مُنْقَضَّةٍ وَفْقَ مَا فِي الأَرْضَ مِنْ صَنَمِ
Wa baʿda mā ʿāyanū fīl ufqi min shuhubin Munqaḍḍatin wifqa mā fīl arḍi min ṣanami
And even after their eyes saw meteors on the horizon Plunging downwards, as idols were toppled on earth;
11
حَتَّى غَدَا عَنْ طَرِيقِ الْوَحْيِ مُنْهَزِمٌ مِنَ الشَّيَاطِينِ يَقْفُوا إِثْرَ مُنْهَزِمِ
Ḥattā ghadā ʿan ṭarīqil waḥyī munhazimun Minash shayāṭīni yaqfū ithra munhazimi
Until devils, routed, from the path of revelation, Fled in the wake of those who had been overpowered.
12
كَأَنَّهُمْ هَرَبًا أَبْطَالُ أَبْرَهَةٍ أَوْ عَسْكَرٍ بِالحَصَى مِنْ رَاحَتَيْهِ رُمِي
Ka annahum haraban abṭālu abrahatin Aw ʿaskarin bil ḥaṣā min rāḥatayhi rumī
Fleeing like the brave warriors of Abraha Or the army pelted by pebbles thrown by his hand,
13
نَبْذًا بِهِ بَعْدَ تَسْبِيحٍ بِبَطْنِهِمَا نَبْذَ المُسَبِّحِ مِنْ أَحْشَاءِ مُلْتَقِمِ
Nabdhan bihi baʿda tasbīḥin bi baṭnihimā Nabdhal musabbiḥi min aḥshāʾi multaqimi
Cast by him after glorifying Allah in the palm of his hand, As he who glorified his Lord was cast from the whale.

English translation: Abu Zahra Foundation, as the site credits it.

Singable English translation: Mostafa Azzam, as the site credits it.

From qasidaburda.com, taken Wednesday, 21 October 2026. · Open qasidaburda.com