Poems of scholars

al-Imaam ash-Shaafi’ee - rahimahullaah used to recite these verses of poetry      - :وكان الإمام الشافعي رحمه اللَه ينشد

  “O my soul! It is not, except a few days of patience;                                                         يا نَـفـسُ مــا هِـــيَ إلاّ صَـــبـــرُ أَيّامِ 

As if the extent were but a few dreams.                                                                                  كَــأَنَّ مُـدَّتَــهـــا أَضــغــاثُ أَحــلامِ

O my soul! Pass quickly on through this world;                                                 يا نَـفْـسُ جـــوزي عَـنِ الـدُنــيا مُـبـادِرَةً

 
And leave it, for indeed life lies ahead of it.”                                                                    وَخَــلِّ عَـنـهـا فَـإِنَّ الـعَـيشَ قُــدامـــي

نَعيبُ زَمانَنا وَالعَيبُ فينا       وَما لِزَمانِنا عَيبٌ سِوانا

وَنَهجو ذا الزَمانِ بِغَيرِ ذَنبٍ       وَلَو نَطَقَ الزَمانُ لَنا هَجانا

وَلَيسَ الذِئبُ يَأكُلُ لَحمَ ذِئبٍ       وَيَأكُلُ بَعضُنا بَعضاً عَيانا

We find fault with the world, while the faults lie in our own selves.
The world is not at fault; except that we are full of flaws.
We make fun of the world for no reason,
But if others spoke about us, we were no better than be mocked at.
A wolf does not eat the flesh of another of its kind,
But we eat the flesh of one anther knowingly

              “Behold! Indeed everything other than Allaah is only falsehood                                                 أَلاَ كُلُّ شَىْءٍ مَا خَلاَ اللَّهَ بَاطِلٌ

And every pleasure no matter what, is bound to cease…”                                                                   وكل نعيـم لا محالـة زائـل

 
                                                                                                                                            [Labid]




 

قال الشافعي رحمه الله:

العِلْمُ مَا نَفَعَ لَيْسَ مَا حُفِظَ.

Knowledge is what benefits

Ash-Shaafi’ee (rahimahullaah) said:

“Knowledge is that which benefits not that which is memorised”

قال الشافعي رحمه الله

مَن أدْعَى أنه جَمَعَ بَيْنَ حُبِّ الدُّنيا وَ حُبِّ خالِقِهَا فِي قلبِهِ فَقدْ كَذبَ

Ash-Shaafi’ee (rahimahullaah) said:

“Whoever claims to have gathered in his heart the love of this world and the love of its Creator (Allaah), has indeed lied.”

الظالم لنفسه

قال الشافعي رحمه الله

أظلم الظالمين لنفسه

مَن تَوَاضَعَ لِمَن لا يُكرمَه

ورَغَبَ فِي مَودّة مَن لا يَنفعُه

وقبل مَدْح مَن لا يَعرِفه

Oppressor of his own self

Ash-Shaafi’ee (rahimahullaah) said:

“The one who oppresses himself the most is:

The one who humbles himself for one who does not honour him
And strives in the friendship of one who does not benefit him
And accepts praise from one who does not know him”

فنون العلم

قال الشافعي رحمه الله

من تعلم القرآن عظمت قيمته

ومن تكلم في الفقه نما قدره

ومن كتب الحديث قويت حجته

ومن نظر في اللغة رقّ طبعه

ومن نظر في الحساب جزل رأيه

ومن لم يصن نفسه لم ينفعه علمه

The Arts of knowledge

Whoever learns Qur’aan, then his value becomes great
Whoever speaks in Fiqh (learns it), his capacity grows
Whoever writes ahadeeth, his evidence strengthens
Whoever examines into language, his nature softens
Whoever contemplates the reckoning, his opinion becomes sound
And whoever does not protect himself, his knowledge does not benefit him

ا

قال الشافعي رحمه الله

من نمّ لك نمّ عليك,

ومن نقل اليك نقل عنك


Whoever slanders to you about others, will slander about you
And whoever reports to you, will soon report about you

Do not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden, do you look at the weeds? Spend more time with the roses and jasmines. (taken into context)
-Maulana Jelaluddin Rumi

To completely trust in God is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him.
–Imam Al Ghazali

Let the Days   

Let the days do as they please 
And be optimistic when destiny decrees 
Do not despair due to the events of nights past 
For the events of this world were not meant to last 

And be a man who, in the face of fear is strong 
With loyalty and forbearance adorned 
And if your mistakes are many amongst the folk 
And you wish to have for those mistakes a cloak 

Then conceal them with generosity as hence 
Every fault is covered as –is said- by benevolence 
And do not show weakness to an enemy 
For dispersion of foes is a calamity 

Generosity cannot be hoped from the miserly 
For no water exists in the Fire for the thirsty 
And your rizq will not decrease though late it may arrive 
And it will not increase though one may slave and strive 

No sadness lasts forever, nor any felicity 
Nor any state of poverty or one of luxury 
If you are the owner of a heart that is content 
Then you and the owner of the world are equivalent 

And for him upon whose horizon death descends, 
No earth can offer him protection, nor any sky defend 
The earth of Allah is certainly vast and infinite 
But if decree descends, then all the sky constricts 

Let the days betray every once in a while 
For there is no medicine that will protect from death

Poem by Imam Shafi (rahmatullahi alayhi) 

For the arabic text: http://www.muftisays.com/blog/muslimah101/1155_08-02-2011/let-the-days.html