In the Name of Allah, the All-beneficent, the All-merciful
O Allah, bless Muhammad and the Family of Muhammad
((The Sacred Moment))
Text of the Versified Urjuza on the Haydari Birth, 4-6-2-12, corresponding to 13 - Rajab - 1433
A poem whose opening is drawn from this narration :
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Al-Hafiz al-Kanji al-Shafiʿi, in (Kifayat al-Talib, p. 260), in a long hadith from Jabir ibn ʿAbd Allah, who said: I asked the Messenger of Allah (s) about the birth of ʿAli ibn Abi Talib, and he said: (You have asked me about the best newborn ever born in the likeness of the Messiah (a). Indeed Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, created ʿAli from my light and created me from his light, and both of us are from one light).
Al-Kanji has mentioned in his Kifaya,
from Jabir, and he said in his narration—
and it is beyond this hasty piece
to expound, so listen to his words;
I cite from it and see the indication,
and what thought has turned over in it—
From Jabir: he said, I asked the Chosen One—
may Allah bless him, and the Family He chose—
about the birth of the son of Shaybat al-Hamd, ʿAli,
and he said to me—and excellent is what he said to me—:
“You have asked me about the best newborn ever born
in the likeness of the Messiah”—and the aspect meant
is other than what was from the Virgin (al-Batul)
and what passed in the pregnancy in detail.
For when her appointed time drew near,
the birth took her far from her people;
she withdrew from her family to a distant place,
and Allah made freshly picked dates grow for her;
and Jesus, her son, the Messiah, came to be,
eloquent, reciting the most eloquent of signs.
Likewise was Fatimah bint Asad,
the mother of ʿAli al-Murtada, when he was born:
Allah had favored her with nearness to Him,
and what faced the door of the House split open.
For when she came near the Kaaba
with longing, gnosis and love,
raising a palm, imploring, in tears,
mercy descends while she is humbly submissive;
then the wall split open for her,
and Gabriel ushered her in; then they were bewildered:
al-ʿAbbas and Ibn Quʿnub were bewildered,
and the wall closed up again—O how wondrous!
The people gathered to open the door;
they had reckoned on one sort of means,
but after they had cast their gaze about,
they knew the wisdom from the Lord of destiny.
And she, inside the noble Kaaba,
has lofty tables brought to her:
from the foliage of Paradise, every fruit;
she is provided with the finest, in splendid honor,
until the sacred moment came to her:
she bears a boy—among mankind, how holy he is!
Allah sent down for her what He sent down,
the angels came to her, and the light shone forth,
served in the House of the Lord of Might—
and whoever loves his Lord, He honors him.
So what of the one who was enfolded in her womb:
the firmest handle and the best of the chiefs,
and the Gate of Hitta, which whoever enters
is saved from perdition and the questioning;
the rope of Godwariness and the firm peg,
the leader of the radiant ones, the father of al-Husayn;
he who spent the night in the bed of the best of messengers,
ransomed him with his self—and his self is ʿAli;
and the Verse of the Private Counsel was revealed for him,
a clear showing of truthfulness; after it, it was abrogated;
so he was the most entitled of people to the Messenger—
so turn away from the spiteful and the ignorant.
And the day of Badr, and what followed it,
and Khaybar—none climbed but he;
the remnants of the army walked upon his palm—
this, while the conquest was the flash of his sword.
And the one through whom Marhab was bewildered and went mad—
“This is Haydara!”—and so Marhab fled;
but he inclined toward Satan,
who suggested to him: Haydar is a second person:
one is the trusted husband of al-Batul,
and another is the father of al-Husayn and al-Hasan.
Abu Murra betrayed that companion of his
and deluded him, when he called him out to single combat;
so he came like a bull, stirring up the dust,
and the daring horseman following his track;
and the dust of that battle had not cleared
before he had severed the head of Marhab
and split him in two halves, each to a side;
the Flinger of the Gate sent him headlong to the Fire.
So where were they at that time—the Companions,
the men of conquests and the lions of the thicket?
So say to whoever finds fault concerning Abu al-Hasan:
is it not more fitting for you to follow the established ways?
Hadiths from him have been mass-transmitted, in which
the city of knowledge—ʿAli is its gate;
the twin-branch of the Messenger, his brother, his son-in-law—
how excellent, by Allah, is his twin-branch, and how excellent is he!
Israfil took him as a brother in its heights,
the first who took him as a brother in its heaven;
Michael followed him, and Gabriel followed,
and the bearer of the Throne was tried with love of him;
and the keeper of Paradise was enthralled by him—
so winning Paradise, if it is achieved, is through him.
“The remembrance of ʿAli is, for mankind, worship,”
ʿAʾisha said, and no more.
And listen to what Abu Hurayra said:
the Prophet once asks him;
he said, pointing: “Do you know who this is?”
He said: “ʿAli.” At that he proclaimed:
“This is the great, surging sea,
a long sea that has no end;
his palm is like the Euphrates in generosity,
and his heart is wider than every expanse.”
So what, I wonder, is the excuse of one who hates him?
Is there not in that a reminder and an admonition?
So scoop from knowledge through him at length:
from Ibn ʿAbbas: he came to ʿAli—
“What is the first of the Qurʾan?” he said, when he came
by night, as he had deferred him so that the murk might clear;
he answered him as to what he meant: al-Fatiha;
he said: “What is its first?” So he opened to him:
“Its first, if you seek it, is: In the Name of Allah”;
then until dawn he recited a radiant knowledge
on the baʾ of bism, which drinks its fill from him;
the errant night is lit up by his exposition.
And he said: “Were a night added, I would have added for you,”
scooping from a sea at which the celestial sphere is bewildered.
So knowledge—its gates open to him,
and he is the dot of the baʾ of the Basmala,
and the gate of the house of recited wisdom;
sufficient for him in merit is the Hadith of al-Manzila.
So the first of the Qurʾan, if you will, is ʿAli,
and he is my guardian to guidance, the best of guardians.
So “Hal Ata” is of him, and of him “Hal Ata” came,
and the Verse of Purification—both were said concerning him.
Mankind, in thirst, drinks its fill from his Kawthar,
the musk of a person's seal after his gathering.
Invoke blessings on the Chosen One, Taha—and sufficient
as an honor is his Family, the best of mankind.
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Shaykh Muhammad Hasan Al Ibrahim
