Poem from a famous well known poet from al-Andalus, Lisān ad-Dīn ibn al-Khatīb. In this poem it speaking highly of one of the Kings of Al-Andlaus, Garnāda, Abu Hajāj Yusuf ibn Nasir. -
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طابَتْ بوجودِكَ أنْدَلُسٌ
حسُنَتْ بجوارِكَ مُرتَفَقا
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إنْ طافَ بها شيْطانُ عِدىً
يبْغي بسَمائِكَ مُسْتَرَقا
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أو جاسَ خِلالَ منازِلها
قذَفَتْهُ سُعودُكَ فاحْتَرَقا
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طابَتْ بوجودِكَ أنْدَلُسٌ
حسُنَتْ بجوارِكَ مُرتَفَقا
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إنْ طافَ بها شيْطانُ عِدىً
يبْغي بسَمائِكَ مُسْتَرَقا
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أو جاسَ خِلالَ منازِلها
قذَفَتْهُ سُعودُكَ فاحْتَرَقا
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al-Hāfidh ibn Hazm al-Andalusī:
❝If knowledge didn’t have any virtue apart from the fact that ignoramuses would fear you in awe and revere you, and that the scholars would love and honour you, that would’ve been enough for you to be obliged to seek it. What then if we took into consideration all the other virtues of knowledge in this world and the hereafter? -
And if ignorance didn’t have any fault except that the ignorant one harbours severe envy for those who are knowledgable and is likewise jealous of his fellowship of ignoramuses, that would’ve been sufficient for one to be obliged to flee from it. What then if we took into consideration all the other vices and that are linked to ignorance (and their consequences) in this world and the hereafter?❞
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Translation from Abdullah Wafi May Allah grant him firdous amīn.
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❝If knowledge didn’t have any virtue apart from the fact that ignoramuses would fear you in awe and revere you, and that the scholars would love and honour you, that would’ve been enough for you to be obliged to seek it. What then if we took into consideration all the other virtues of knowledge in this world and the hereafter? -
And if ignorance didn’t have any fault except that the ignorant one harbours severe envy for those who are knowledgable and is likewise jealous of his fellowship of ignoramuses, that would’ve been sufficient for one to be obliged to flee from it. What then if we took into consideration all the other vices and that are linked to ignorance (and their consequences) in this world and the hereafter?❞
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Translation from Abdullah Wafi May Allah grant him firdous amīn.
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When the city of Córdoba, Spain, fell to the fell to the Catholic Mushrikin in the 600s A.H., al-Imām Muḥammad al-Qurṭubī was forced to flee to its outskirts for refuge.
He writes in his Tafsīr of the Qur‘ān (10/269):
❝I was running from the enemy and had to change my course. Shortly thereafter, I was followed by two enemy horsemen. I was in an open area with nothing to prevent them from seeing me. I began to recite the beginning of Sūrat Yasīn and some other Qur‘ānic verses. The two horsemen passed me, and then returned and passed me again without seeing me. I heard one of them telling the other: he must have been a Diablo (devil)! Allāh ‘Azza wa Jal blinded them from seeing me, so Al-Ḥamdulilāh for this.❞
He writes in his Tafsīr of the Qur‘ān (10/269):
❝I was running from the enemy and had to change my course. Shortly thereafter, I was followed by two enemy horsemen. I was in an open area with nothing to prevent them from seeing me. I began to recite the beginning of Sūrat Yasīn and some other Qur‘ānic verses. The two horsemen passed me, and then returned and passed me again without seeing me. I heard one of them telling the other: he must have been a Diablo (devil)! Allāh ‘Azza wa Jal blinded them from seeing me, so Al-Ḥamdulilāh for this.❞
Ever wondered how the houses during al-Andalus looked like. Here is a house that belonged to the powerful ruler of Córdoba, al-Andalus, Muhammad ibn Abī Umar.