Sirat Ibn Hisham 1106
What was said in poetry about the Banū al-Naḍīr
[ شِعْرُ ابْنِ مِرْدَاسٍ فِي الرَّدِّ عَلَى خَوَّاتٍ يوم بني النضير ] فَأَجَابَهُ عَبَّاسُ بْنُ مِرْدَاسٍ السُّلَمِيُّ، فَقَالَ: هَجَوْتَ صَرِيحَ الْكَاهِنَيْنِ وَفِيكُمْ لَهُمْ نِعَمٌ كَانَتْ مِنْ الدَّهْرِ تُرْتُبَا أُولَئِكَ أَحْرَى لَوْ بَكَيْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ وَقَوْمُكَ لَوْ أَدَّوْا مِنْ الْحَقِّ مُوجَبَا مِنْ الشُّكْرِ إنَّ الشُّكْرَ خَيْرٌ مَغَبَّةً وَأَوْفَقُ فِعْلًا لِلَّذِي كَانَ أَصْوَبَا فَكُنْتَ كَمَنْ أَمْسَى يُقَطِّعُ رَأْسَهُ لِيَبْلُغَ عِزًّا كَانَ فِيهِ مُرَكَّبَا فَبَكِّ بَنِي هَارُونَ وَاذْكُرْ فِعَالَهُمْ وَقَتْلَهُمْ لِلْجُوعِ إذْ كُنْتَ مُجْدِبَا أَخَوَّاتُ أَذِرْ الدَّمْعَ بِالدَّمْعِ وَابْكِهِمْ وَأَعْرِضْ عَنْ الْمَكْرُوهِ مِنْهُمْ وَنَكِّبَا فَإِنَّكَ لَوْ لَاقَيْتَهُمْ فِي دِيَارِهِمْ لَأُلْفِيتَ عَمَّا قَدْ تَقُولُ مُنَكِّبَا سِرَاعٌ إلَى الْعَلْيَا كِرَامٌ لَدَى الْوَغَى يُقَالُ لِبَاغِي الْخَيْرِ أَهْلًا وَمَرْحَبَا
Translation
✧ [ The poetry of Ibn Mirdās in reply to Khawwāt on the day of Banū al-Naḍīr ] ʿAbbās b. Mirdās al-Sulamī answered him, saying: You satirized the pure stock of the two priests, while among you they had favors that, from time, were firmly established. Those were more worthy, had you wept over them— and your people, had they rendered the due of the truth incumbent— of gratitude, for gratitude is best in outcome and more fitting in deed for what was most right. You became like one who at evening cuts off his own head to attain a glory that was fixed within him. So weep for the Banū Hārūn and recall their deeds, and their killing for hunger when you were barren. O Khawwāt, measure tear for tear and weep for them, and turn aside from the disliked of them and swerve away. For you, had you met them in their abodes, would have been found swerving away from what you say. They are swift to the heights, noble in battle; it is said to the seeker of good: welcome and greeting.
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