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Oh, my people, by God, I have sent to kings, and I have sent to Caesar, Kasra, and the Negus. By God, if I have ever seen an angel whose companions venerate him as much as the companions of Muhammad, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, venerate Muhammad, by God, if he exhales expectoration, it falls on the palm of one of them, and he rubs it on his face and skin. And when he commands him, they start a matter, and when he performs ablution, they almost fight over his ablution, and when they speak, they lower their voices before him, and do not look at him out of respect for him.
أي قوم والله لقد وفدت على الملوك ووفدت على قيصر وكسر والنجاشي والله إن رأيت مليكا قط يعظمه أصحابه ما يعظم أصحاب محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم محمدا والله إن يتنخم نخامة إلا وقعت في كف رجل منهم فدلك بها وجهه وجلدة وإذا أمره مبتدروا أمرا وإذا توضأ كادوا يقتتلون على وضوءه وإذا تكلموا خفضوا أصواتهم عنده وما يحدون إليه النظر تعظيما له
He has presented to you a rational plan, so accept it
وإنه قد عرض عليكم خطة رشد فقبلوها
Let me come
دعوني آته
This is so-and-so, and he is one of the people who honor the body, so send it to him
هذا فلان وهو من قوم يعظمون البدن فابعثوها له
Glory be to God, these people should not be kept away from the House
سبحان الله ما ينبغي لهؤلاء أن يصدوا عن البيت
I saw that the body had been trimmed and haired, but I did not think that they would turn away from the House
رأيت البدن قد قلدت وأشعرت فما أرى أن يصدوا عن البيت
As for us, we have not yet laid down our weapons. Shout out to the people. God commands you to do this
أما نحن فلم نضع أسلحتنا بعد انهد الى القوم يأمرك الله بهذا
They do not pray the afternoon prayer except in Bani Qurayda
لا يصلين أحد العصر إلا في بني قريضة
Either you submit to Islam and enter with Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, in his religion, or you kill your descendants and go out and fight until every last one of you is killed, or you attack the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and his companions on Saturday, when the Muslims hoped for your evil, but they rejected it all. So he said to them, “By God, you are red and nothing will accept him.”
إما أن تسلموا وتدخلوا مع محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم في دينه وأما أن تقتلوا ذراريكم وتخرجوا وتقاتلوا حتى تقتلوا عن آخركم وأما أن تهجموا على رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وأصحابه يوم السبت حين يأمل المسلمون شركم فرفضوها كلها فقال لهم والله إنكم حمر ولا شيئة تقبلونه
Go to your master
قوموا إلى سيدكم
Be wise in your loyalty
أحكم في مواليك
It is time for Saad not to be subjected to the blame of the blamer in God
آن لسعد أن لا تأخذه في الله لومة لائم
If a ruling is imposed on them, their fighters will be killed and their descendants taken captive
إن حكم فيهم أن يقتل مقاتلتهم وتسبى ذراريهم
I judged them with the judgment of God
لقد حكمت فيهم بحكم الله
The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, raided the Banu al-Mustaliq while they were raiding
أغار رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم على بني المصطلق وهم غارون
I reject the pre-Islamic claim while I am among you. Leave it, for it stinks
أبي دعوى الجاهلية وأنا بين أظهركم دعوها فإنها منتنة
Or they have done it. They have dissented from us and multiplied us in our country. By God, we and they are nothing but as the first said, “Ghee your dog and he will eat you.” By God, if we return to Medina, the more honorable will expel from it the meaner.
أو قد فعلوها قد نافرونا وكاثرونا في بلادنا والله ما نحن وهم إلا كما قال الأول سمن كلبك يأكلك أما والله لإن رجعنا إلى المدينة ليخرجن الأعز منها الأذل
This is what you did to yourselves. You made them your country and divided your money with them. By God, if you withheld from them what is in your hands, they would have moved to other than your homes.
هذا ما فعلتم بأنفسكم أحللتموهم بلادكم وقاسمتموهم أموالكم أما والله لو أمسكتم عنهم ما بأيديكم لتحولوا إلى غير دياركم
By God, do not enter Medina unless I fight you or the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, gives you permission
والله لا تدخل إلى المدينة إلا وأنا قاتلك أو يأذن لك رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم
O Messenger of God, my father said, “Kit and Kit,” and if you want to kill him, then let me kill him, for I fear that I will see the killer of my father, so I cannot be patient.
يا رسول الله إني أن والدي قال كيت وكيت فإن أردت قتله فدعني أنا أقتله فإني أخشى أن أرى قاتل والدي فلا أصبر
What do you say? We will give a third of the fruits of the city to two young men, provided that they return.
ما تقولان نُعْطِي غَطَفَانَ ثُلُثَ ثِمَارِ المَدِينَةِ على أن يرجعوا
O Messenger of God, if God has commanded you to do this, then listen and obey, and if it is something you do for us, then we have no need for it. We and these people have been polytheists, and by God, O Messenger of God, they do not aspire to eat any fruit from us except by sale or village. So how, when God has honored us with Islam, are we merciful if God honored us with Islam, guided us to it, and honored us through you? We give them our money. No, by God, O Messenger of God, we do not give them anything but the sword.
يا رسول الله إن كان الله أمرك بهذا فسمعاً وطاعة وإن كان شيئاً تصنعه لنا فلا حاجة لنا فيه قد كنا نحن وهؤلاء على الشرك ووالله يا رسول الله لا يطمعون أن يأكلوا منا ثمرة إلا ببيع أو قرى فكيف وقد أعزنا الله بالإسلام أفحين أن أكرمنا الله بالإسلام وهدانا له وأعزنا بك نعطيهم أموالنا لا والله يا رسول الله لا نعطيهم إلا السيف
By God, I would not do that except that I saw that the Arabs have shot you at a loss
والله ما أصنع ذلك إلا أني رأيت أن العرب قد رمتكم عن قوس واحدة
O Messenger of God, I have converted to Islam and I want to fight with you
يا رسول الله إني أسلمت وأريد أن أقاتل معك
Did anyone know about your conversion to Islam?
هل علم أحد بإسلامك
So let us do what you can
فخذّل عنا ما استطعت
O my people, the Quraysh are a treacherous people, and if they defeat Muhammad and take what they want, they will leave and leave you, and then the people of Medina will take revenge on you.
يا قوم إن قريشا قوم غدر وإنهم إذا انتصروا على محمد وأخذوا ما يريدون خرجوا وتركوكم ثم ينتقم منكم أهل المدينة
I only see that you take a ransom from them to guarantee your rights
أنا لا أرى إلا أن تأخذوا منهم فدية تضمنون بها حقكم
Ask them to give you ten of their children, so that if they betray you, you will kill them, and they will not betray you for fear of their children.
أطلبوا منهم أن يعطوكم عشرة من أولادهم حتى إذا غدروا قتلتموهم ولن يغدروا خوفا على أولادهم
You know that the Jews are a treacherous people and that they will betray you
إنكم تعلمون أن اليهود قوم غدر وإنهم سيغدرون بكم
I heard them talking, saying that we will take ten from the Quraysh and give them to Muhammad to prove to him our good intentions, that we are honest, and that we are together.
سمعتهم يتكلمون يقولون إننا سنأخذ عشرة من قريش ونعطيهم لمحمد لنثبت له حسن نوايانا وأننا صادقون وأننا معا
They are busy with the middle prayer, the afternoon prayer. God will fill their graves and homes with fire
شغالون عن الصلاة الوسطى صلاة العصر ملأ الله قبورهم وبيوتهم نارا
This is what the Persians did when they were upset
هكذا كان يفعل الفرس إذا تضايقوا
Oh God, there is no life except the life of the afterlife, so forgive the Muhajireen and the Ansar
اللهم لا عيش إلا عيش الآخرة فاغفر للمهاجرين والأنصار
Oh God, life is the life of the afterlife, so forgive the Ansar and the Muhajir
اللهم إن العيش عيش الآخرة فاغفر للأنصار والمهاجرة
We are the ones who pledged allegiance to Muhammad for jihad as long as we remain
نحن الذين بايعوا محمدا على الجهاد ما بقينا أبدا
Oh God, had you not guided us and not believed us, we would not have prayed, so send down tranquility upon us and make our feet firm, unless we realize that the former have committed transgression against us, even if they intend to tempt our father.
اللهم لولا أنت مهتدينا ولا تصدقنا وما صلينا فأنزلا سكينة علينا وثبت الأقدام إلا قينا إن الأولى قد بغوا علينا وإن أرادوا فتنة أبينا
O Messenger of God, this is a blood money that was offered in the ditch as much as we could afford
يا رسول الله هذه كدية عرضت في الخندق ما نستطيع عليها
God is great. I have been given the keys to Syria. By God, I am looking at its red palaces at the moment
الله أكبر أعطيت مفاتيح الشام والله إني لأنظر إلى قصورها الحمر الساعة
God is great. I was given the keys to Yemen. By God, I can see the gates of Sana’a from where I am
الله أكبر أعطيت مفاتيح اليمن والله إني لأبصر أبواب صنعاء من مكاني
Who will duel me?
من يبارزني
O Omar, you had pledged to God that no man from the Quraysh would invite you to one of the two places except that you would take it from him. He said: Yes. Ali said: I invite you to God and His Messenger and to Islam. He said: I don't need that. He said: I invite you to fight. He said: O my nephew, by God, I do not want to kill you. Ali said: But by God, I would love to kill you.
يا عمر إنك قد كنت عاهدت الله ألا يدعوك رجل من قريش إلى أحد خلتين إلا أخذتها منه. قال: أجل. قال علي: فإني أدعوك إلى الله ورسوله وإلى الإسلام. قال: لا حاجة لي بذلك. قال: فإني أدعوك إلى النزال. فقال: يا ابن أخي فوالله ما أحب أن أقتلك. قال علي: لكني والله أحب أن أقتلك.
Woe to our chance
ويحك فرصتنا
And you will recognize them in the tone of speech
ولتعرفنهم في لحن القول
A group of them asked the Prophet for permission, saying, “Our homes are rough, but they are not bare, if only they wanted to flee.”
ويستأذن فريق منهم النبي يقولون إن بيوتنا عورة وما هي بعورة إن يريدون إلا فرارا
God is Great. O community of Muslims, rejoice in God’s conquest and victory
الله أكبر أبشروا يا معشر المسلمين بفتح الله ونصره
I was afraid to kill him
أخشيت أن أقتله
Let me kneel two rak'ahs
دعوني حتى أركع ركعتين
By God, had you not said, “I am only afraid of Zad.”
والله لولا أن تقولوا إنما بي جزع لزد
O God, count them in number and kill them wastefully, and do not leave any of them alive
اللهم أحصهم عددا وقتلهم بددا ولا تبقي منهم أحدا
The parties have gathered around me, and they have defeated their tribes, and they have gathered all my gatherings, and they have brought their sons and women near, and I have drawn near to God a long, forbidding trunk. I complain of my estrangement after my anguish, and the parties have not gathered for me when I lie down. The Throne has given me patience with what is intended for me. They have cut off my flesh, and my covetousness has been wretched, and they have chosen disbelief and death rather than it. My eyes have shed without tears, and I do not care when I kill a Muslim. By any fault of God, my death was in... The same God, if He wills, blesses the limbs of Shalo Maz’i
لقد أجمع الأحزاب حولي وألبوا قبائلهم واستجمعوا كل مجمعي وقد قربوا أبناءهم ونساءهم وقربت من جذع طويل ممنعي إلى الله أشكو غربتي بعد كربتي وما جمع الأحزاب لي عند مضجعي فذى العرش صبرني على ما يراد بي فقد بضعوا لحمي وقد بؤس مطمعي وقد خيرون الكفر والموت دونه فقد ذرفت عيناي من غير مدمعي ولست أبالي حين أقتل مسلما على أي شق كان في الله مصرعي وذلك في ذات الإله وإن يشأ يبارك على أوصال شلو ممزعي
O Khubayb, would you like that Muhammad is with us and you can behead him and that you are among your family?
يا خبيب أيسرك أن محمدا عندنا تضرب عنقه وأنك في أهلك
No, by God, I am not happy that I am with my family and that Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, is in the place he is in and is struck by a thorn that hurts him.
لا والله ما يسرني أني في أهلي وأن محمدا صلى الله عليه وسلم في مكانه الذي هو فيه يصاب بشوكة تؤذيه
I was among those who attended the killing of Khubayb, and I saw Abu Sufyan throwing me to the ground in defiance of Khubayb’s call
كنت في من حضر قتل خبيب فلقد رأيت أبا سفيان يلقيني إلى الأرض فرقا من دعوة خبيب
Oh Saeed, what is happening to people?
يا سعيد ما هذا الذي يحدث الناس
What are you, O Commander of the Faithful?
وماذاك يا أمير المؤمنين
I killed two people to condemn them
لقد قتلت قتيلين لأدينهما
Oh God, bless Baral, Dhakwan, and Disobedience, for they disobeyed their Lord
اللهم عليك برعل وذكوان وعصية فإنها عصت ربها
Inform our people that we will meet our Lord, and He will be pleased with us and we will be pleased with Him
بلغوا قومنا أن نلقينا ربنا فرضي عننا ورضينا عنه
By God, I will inform you of what you have intended, and that it is a violation of the covenant between us and him
فوالله ليخبرن بما هممتم به وإنه لنقض للعهد الذي بيننا وبينه