Sirat Ibn Hisham 1185
The Messenger's glad tidings to the Muslims of the expedition against Quraysh
شِعْرُ كَعْبٍ فِي الرَّدِّ عَلَى ضِرَارٍ أَجَابَهُ كَعْبُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ، أَخُو بَنِي سَلِمَةَ، فَقَالَ: وَسَائِلَةٍ تُسَائِلُ مَا لَقِينَا وَلَوْ شَهِدَتْ رَأَتْنَا صَابِرِينَا صَبَرْنَا لَا نَرَى لِلَّهِ عَدْلًا عَلَى مَا نَابَنَا مُتَوَكِّلِينَا وَكَانَ لَنَا النَّبِيُّ وَزِيرَ صِدْقٍ بِهِ نَعْلُو الْبَرِيَّةَ أَجْمَعِينَا نُقَاتِلُ مَعْشَرًا ظَلَمُوا وَعَقُّوا وَكَانُوا بِالْعَدَاوَةِ مُرْصِدِينَا نُعَاجِلُهُمْ إذَا نَهَضُوا إلَيْنَا بِضَرْبٍ يُعْجِلُ الْمُتَسَرِّعِينَا تَرَانَا فِي فَضَافِضَ سَابِغَاتٍ كَغُدْرَانِ الْمَلَا مُتَسَرْبِلِينَا وَفِي أَيْمَانِنَا بِيضٌ خِفَافٌ بِهَا نَشْفِي مُرَاحَ الشَّاغِبِينَا بِبَابِ الْخَنْدَقَيْنِ كَأَنَّ أُسْدًا شَوَابِكُهُنَّ يَحْمِينَ الْعَرِينَا فَوَارِسُنَنا إذَا بَكَرُوا وَرَاحُوا عَلَى الْأَعْدَاءِ شُوسًا مُعْلَمِينَا لِنَنْصُرَ أَحَمْدًا وَاَللَّهَ حَتَّى نَكُونَ عِبَادَ صِدْقٍ مُخْلِصِينَا وَيَعْلَمَ أَهْلُ مَكَّةَ حِينَ سَارُوا وَأَحْزَابٌ أَتَوْا مُتَحَزِّبِينَا بِأَنَّ اللَّهَ لَيْسَ لَهُ شَرِيكٌ وَأَنَّ اللَّهَ مَوْلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَا فَإِمَّا تَقْتُلُوا سَعْدًا سَفَاهًا فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ خَيْرُ الْقَادِرِينَا سَيُدْخِلُهُ جِنَانًا طَيِّبَاتٍ تَكُونُ مُقَامَةً لِلصَّالِحِينَا كَمَا قَدْ رَدَّكُمْ فَلًّا شَرِيدًا بِغَيْظِكُمْ خَزَايَا خَائِبِينَا خَزَايَا لَمْ تَنَالُوا ثَمَّ خَيْرًا وَكِدْتُمْ أَنْ تَكُونُوا دَامِرِينَا بِرِيحِ عَاصِفٍ هَبَّتْ عَلَيْكُمْ فَكُنْتُمْ تَحْتَهَا مُتَكَمِّهِينَا
Translation
✧ The poem of Kaʿb in reply to Ḍirār: Kaʿb b. Mālik, the brother of Banū Salimah, answered him and said: “A questioner asks what we encountered; had she witnessed it, she would have seen us steadfast, patient, seeing no equal to God in what befell us, trusting in Him. The Prophet was to us a minister of truth, through whom we rise above all creation. We fight a people who did wrong and broke bonds, and who had lain in wait for us in enmity. We hasten against them, when they advance upon us, with a blow that outstrips the hasty. You see us in ample, flowing coats of mail, like the pools of the open plain, clad in them; and in our right hands white, swift swords by which we heal the rancor of the troublemakers. At the gate of the two trenches, like lions whose thickets guard the lairs, our horsemen, when they set forth morning and evening, are grim and marked against the enemies. That we may aid Aḥmad and God, until we become sincere servants of truth; and that the people of Makkah, when they marched, and the confederates who came banded together, may know that God has no partner and that God is the protector of the believers. If you slay Saʿd in folly, God is the best of those who decree; He will admit him to goodly gardens that shall be the abode of the righteous. Just as He turned you back in rout and flight, with your rage, disgraced and disappointed—disgraced, having gained no good there, and you nearly perished utterly by a violent wind that blew upon you, so that you were blinded beneath it.”
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