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So that the women leave before any of the men realize them
لكي ينصرف النساء قبل أن يدركهن أحد من الرجال
I knew if they walked away with that if I heard it
كنت أعلم إذا انصرفوا بذلك إذا سمعته
I knew that the Prophet’s prayer, may God bless him and grant him peace, had ended by reciting the takbeer
كنت أعرف انقضاء صلاة النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم بالتكبير
The people of wealth have attained high degrees and lasting bliss. They pray as we pray and fast as we fast, and they have surplus wealth with which they perform Hajj, perform Umrah, perform jihad, and give in charity.
ذهب أهل الدثور من الأموال بالدرجات العلا والنعيم المقيم يصلون كما نصلي ويصومون كما نصوم ولهم فضل من أموال يحجون بها ويعتمرون ويجاهدون ويتصدقون
ألا أحدثكم إن أخذتم أدركتم من سبقكم ولم يدرككم أحد بعدكم وكنتم خير من أنتم بين ظهراني إلا من عمل مثله تسبحون وتحمدون وتكبرون خلف كل صلاة ثلاثا وثلاثين
At the end of every prayer, you glorify God ten times, praise God ten times, and glorify God ten times
تسبحون في دبر كل صلاة عشرا وتحمدون عشرا وتكبرون عشرا
So we disagreed between us, and some of us said: We praise God thirty-three times, we praise thirty-three times, and we say “Allah Akbar” thirty-four times. So I returned to him and he said: “Glory be to God, praise be to God, and God is great,” until there were thirty-three of them all.
فاختلفنا بيننا فقال بعضنا نسبح ثلاثا وثلاثين ونحمد ثلاثا وثلاثين ونكبر أربعا وثلاثين فرجعت إليه فقال تقول سبحان الله والحمد لله والله أكبر حتى يكون منهن كلهن ثلاثا وثلاثين
There is no god but God alone, with no partner to Him. To Him belongs dominion and praise, and He is capable of all things
لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له له الملك وله الحمد وهو على كل شيء قدير
Oh God, there is no one who prevents what You have given, nor is there a giver of what You have withheld, and there is no benefit to anyone who is serious about You
اللهم لا مانع لما أعطيت ولا معطي لما منعت ولا ينفع ذا الجد منك الجد
Have any of you seen a vision?
هل رأى أحد منكم من رؤيا
So we set out and came upon a man lying on his back, and there was another man standing over him with an iron hook, and when he came to one of the sides of his face, he split his cheek to the back of his head, his nostril to the back of his head, and his eye to the back of it, and it split. Then he turned to the other side and did to it the same as he did to the first side. He did not finish that side until that side was correct as it was, then he returned to it and did the same as he did the first time. He said, I said, Glory be to God, what are these? He said to me, “Go.”
فانطلقنا فأتينا على رجل مستلق لقفاه وإذا آخر قائم عليه بكلوب من حديد وإذا هو يأتي أحد شقا وجه فيشرشر شدقه إلى قفاه ومنخره إلى قفاه وعينه إلى قفاه فيشق ثم يتحول إلى الجانب الآخر فيفعل به مثل ما فعل بالجانب الأول فما يفرغ من ذلك الجانب حتى يصح ذلك الجانب كما كان ثم يعود عليه فيفعل مثل ما فعل المرة الأولى قال قلت سبحان الله ما هاذان قال قال لي انطلق انطلق
So we set off and came to a hole like an oven, and there was noise and noises in it. He said, “So we looked into it, and there were naked men and women in it, and behold, a flame came to them from below them. When that flame came to them, they made a noise,” according to a narration. So we went to a hole like an oven. The top was narrow and the bottom was wide. Under it a fire burned. When it approached, they rose until they were about to go out, and when it died down, they returned to it. He said, “What are these?” He said, “What are these?” They said to me, “Go, go.”
فانطلقنا فأتينا على مثل التنور فإذا فيه لغط وأصوات قال فاتطلعنا فيه فإذا فيه رجال ونساء عراه وإذا هم يأتيهم لهب من أسفل منهم فإذا أتاهم ذلك اللهب ضوضو في رواية فانطلقنا إلى ثقب مثل التنور أعلاه ضيق وأسفله واسع يتوقد تحته نارا فإذا اقترب ارتفعوا حتى كاد أن يخرجوا فإذا خمدت رجعوا فيها قال قلت لهما ما هؤلاء قال قالا لي انطلق انطلق
So we set off and came to a river red like blood, and behold, in the river there was a man swimming, and behold, on the bank of the river there was a man who had collected many stones with him, and behold, that swimmer was swimming as he swam. Then the one who had collected the stones would come and he would have his mouth open and he would throw stones at him. He would go swimming and then return to him. Whenever he returned to him, his mouth would open and he would throw stones at him. I said to them, “What are these?” He said, “Go.” They said to me, “Go.”
فانطلقنا فأتينا على نهر أحمر مثل الدم وإذا في النهر رجل سابح يسبح وإذا على شط النهر رجل قد جمع عنده حجارة كثيرة وإذا ذلك السابح يسبح ما يسبح ثم يأتي ذلك الذي قد جمع عنده الحجارة فيفغر له فاه فيلقمه حجراء فينطلق يسبح ثم يرجع إليه كلما رجع إليه فغر له فاه فيلقمه حجراء قال قلت لهما ما هاذان قال قالا لي انطلق انطلق
So we set off and came upon a man who hates a woman, just as he hates a man seeing a woman, and he has a fire burning it and running around it. He said, “I told them, ‘What is this?’” He said, “They said to me, ‘Go, go.
فانطلقنا فأتينا على رجل كريه المرأة كأكرهما أن تراء رجلا مرأة وإذا عنده نار يحشها ويسعى حولها قال قلت لهما ما هذا قال قالا لي انطلق انطلق
So we set out and came to a dark meadow with all the colors of spring, and there, between the backs of the meadow, was a tall man whose head I could hardly see, so tall in the sky, and if the man was one of the tallest boys I have ever seen in a narration, then we went until we came to a green meadow in which there was a great tree, and at the root of it was an old man and two boys, and there was a man close to the tree with a fire in his hands that he was kindling, and it went up into the tree and they took me into a house that I had never seen better than, in which there were old and young men, women and boys. Then they took me out of it and he climbed the tree with me and took me into a house. It is better and better. It has old men and young people. He said, “I told them, ‘What are these?’ He said, ‘Go, go.’ He said to me.”
فانطلقنا فأتينا على روضة معتمة فيها من كل لون الربيع وإذا بين ظهري الروضة رجل طويل لا أكاد أرى رأسه طولا في السماء وإذا حول الرجل من أكثر ولدان رأيتهم قط في رواية فانطلقنا حتى انتهينا إلى روضة خضراء فيها شجرة عظيمة وفي أصلها شيخ وصبيان وإذا رجل قريب من الشجرة بين يديه نار يوقدها تصعد بي في الشجرة وأدخلاني دارا لم أر قط أحسن منها فيها رجال شيوخ وشباب ونساء وصبيان ثم أخرجاني منها فصعد بي الشجرة فأدخلاني دارا هي أحسن وأفضل فيها شيوخ وشباب قال قلت لهما ما هذا ما هؤلاء قال قال لي انطلق انطلق
So we set out and ended up at a great garden. I had never seen a garden greater or better. He said, “He said to me, ‘Stream in it.’” So we ascended in it, and we came to a city built of bricks of gold and bricks of silver. We came to the gate of the city and asked for it to be opened. It was opened for us. So we entered it, and we met in it men of half of their creation as good as you are a seer and half as ugly as you are a seer. He said to them, “Go and fall into that river.” He said, “And behold, an obstructing river flowing as if its pure water was in the whites.” So they went. So they fell into it, then they returned to us. That evil had gone away from them, and they became in the best shape. He said, “They said to me, ‘This is the Garden of Eden, and this is your home.’ He said, so my sight rose upwards, and when it was shortened like a white cloud, he said, ‘This is your home.’ He said, ‘God bless you both, my offspring.’ So enter it. He said, ‘As for now, no, you are entering it in a narration, so raise your head.’ So I raised my head, and I was above me like a cloud. He said, ‘That is your home.’ I said, ‘He invited me to enter my home.’ He said, ‘You have a life left that you have not completed, so if you complete it, I will come to your home.’”
فانطلقنا فانتهينا إلى روضة عظيمة لم أر روضة قط أعظم منها ولا أحسن قال قال لي ارق فيها قال فارتقينا فيها فانتهينا إلى مدينة مبنية بلبن ذهب ولبن فضة فأتينا باب المدينة فاستفتحنا ففتح لنا فدخلناها فتلقانا فيها رجال شطر من خلقهم كأحسن ما أنت راء وشطر كأقبح ما أنت راء قال قالا لهم اذهبوا فقعوا في ذلك النهر قال واذا نهر معترض يجري كأن ماءه المحض في البيض فذهبوا فوقعوا فيه ثم رجعوا إلينا ذهب ذلك السوء عنهم فصاروا في أحسن صورة قال قالا لي هذه جنة عدن وهذاك منزلك قال فسما بصري صعودا فإذا قصر مثل الربابة البيضا قال قالا لي هذاك منزلك قال قلت لهما بارك الله فيكما ذراني فأدخله قال أما الآن فلا وأنت داخله في رواية فارفع رأسك فرفعت رأسي فإذا فوقي مثل السحاب قال ذاك منزلك قلت دعاني أدخل منزلي قال إنه بقي لك عمر لم تستكمله فلو استكملت أتيت منزلك
I said to them, “I have seen a strange thing since tonight. What is this that I saw in the narration of Tawaftman tonight?” So tell me what you saw. They said to me, “Won’t we tell you?”
قلت لهما فإني قد رأيت منذ الليلة عجبا فما هذا الذي رأيت في رواية طوفتمان الليلة فأخبراني عما رأيت قال قالا لي أما إنا سنخبرك
As for the first man I came upon who had his head pierced with a stone, he was the man who took the Qur’an and rejected it and fell asleep without praying
أما الرجل الأول الذي أتيت عليه يثلغ رأسه بالحجر فإنه الرجل يأخذ القرآن فيرفضه وينام عن الصلاة المكتوبة
As for the man whom you came to with his mouth pointing towards the nape, his nostrils towards the nape, and his eyes towards the nape, he is a man who goes out of his house in the morning and tells lies.
وأما الرجل الذي أتيت عليه يشرشر شدقه إلى قفا ومنخره إلى قفا وعينه إلى قفا فإنه الرجل يغدو من بيته فيكذب الكذبة تبلغ الآفاق في رواية فيصنع به إلى يوم القيامة
As for the naked men and women who are like the building of an oven, they are adulterers and adulteresses
وأما الرجال والنساء العرات الذين في مثل بناء التنور فإنهم الزنات والزواني
هل تدرون ماذا قال ربكم قالوا الله ورسوله أعلم قال أصبح من عبادي مؤمن بي وكافر فأما من قال مطرنا بفضل الله ورحمته في رواية مطرنا برحمة الله وبرزق الله وفضل الله فذلك مؤمن بي وكافر بالكوكب وأما من قال بنوء كذا وكذا في رواية مطرنا بنجم فذلك كافر بي ومؤمن بالكوكب
I mentioned some of the money we had in the narration: I left some money in the house in the house, so I hated that he would detain me, in the narration, whether he should spend the evening or spend the night with us, so I ordered it to be divided.
ذكرت شيئاً من تبر عندنا في رواية خلفت في البيت تبراً من الصدقة فكرهت أن يحبسني في رواية أن يمسي أو يبيت عندنا فأمرت بقسمته
Let none of you dedicate any part of his prayer to Satan, seeing that it is his right not to be helped except to his right. I have often seen the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, turning to his left.
لا يجعل أحدكم للشيطان شيئاً من صلاته يرى أن حقاً عليه ألا ينصر فإلا عن يمينه لقد رأيت النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم كثيراً ينصرف عن يساره
Whoever eats from this tree, meaning garlic, will not come near our mosque
من أكل من هذه الشجرة يعني الثوم فلا يقربنا مسجدنا
Whoever eats a third of garlic or onions will isolate himself from us, or he said, a third will isolate himself from our mosque according to a narration, so he should not visit us in our mosques and should stay at home.
من أكل ثوماً أو بصلا ثل يعتزلنا أو قال ثل يعتزل مسجدنا في رواية فلا يغشانا في مساجدنا وليقعد في بيته
All, for I communicate with those who do not communicate
كل فإني أناجي من لا تناجي
Whoever eats from this tree must not approach us or pray with us
من أكل من هذه الشجرة فلا يقربنا أو لا يصلينا معنا
When was this buried? They said: Yesterday, he said: Did you not inform me? They said: We buried him in the darkness of the night, so we hated to wake you.
متى دفن هذا؟ قالوا البارحة قال أَفَلَا آذَنْتُمُونِيْ قالوا دفنناه في ظلمة الليل فكرهنا أن نوقضك
Bathing on Friday is obligatory for every puberty, and he must cleanse himself and apply perfume, if any
الغسل يوم الجمعة واجب على كل محتلم وأن يستن وأن يمس طيباً إن وجد
Do not prevent God’s handmaidens from God’s mosques in a narration: If your women ask permission to go to the mosque at night, then grant them permission.
لا تمنعوا إماء الله مساجد الله في رواية إذا استأذنكم نساؤكم بالليل إلى المسجد فأذنوا لهن
If the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, had realized what had happened to women, he would have prevented them as he had prevented the women of the Children of Israel. I would have said to his age, “Do they prevent us?” She said, “Yes.”
لو أدرك رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم ما أحدث النساء لمنعهن كما منعت نساء بني إسرائيل قلت لعمره أومنعن قالت نعم
Whoever comes to Friday should take a bath
من جاء إلى الجمعة فليغتسل
What is this hour? He said, “I was busy and did not go to my family until I heard the call to prayer, so I did not do more than performing ablution.” He said, “And ablution as well.” And I knew that the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, used to order ablution in a narration. Did you not hear the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, say, “If one of you goes to Friday prayers, let him perform ablution.”
أي تساعة هذه قال إني شغلت فلم أنقلب إلى أهلي حتى سمعت التأذين فلم أزد أن توضأت فقال والوضوء أيضا وقد علمت أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم كان يأمر بالغسل في رواية ألم تسمع النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال إذا راح أحدكم إلى الجمعة فليغتسل
Whoever performs ablution on Friday, performs ritual ritual ritual impurity, then goes, it is as if he sacrificed his body, and whoever goes in the second hour, it is as if he sacrificed a cow, and whoever goes in the third hour, it is as if he sacrificed a ram, and whoever goes in the fourth hour, it is as if he sacrificed a chicken, and whoever goes in the fifth hour, it is as if he sacrificed an egg. When the imam comes out, the angels are present, listening to the remembrance.
من اغتسل يوم الجمعة غسل الجنابة ثم راح فكأنما قرب بدنه ومن راح في الساعة الثانية فكأنما قرب بقرة ومن راح في الساعة الثالثة فكأنما قرب كبشا أقرا ومن راح في الساعة الرابعة فكأنما قرب دجاجة ومن راح في الساعة الخامسة فكأنما قرب بيضة فإذا خرج الإمام حضرت الملائكة يستمعون الذكر
لا يغتسل رجل يوم الجمعة ويتطهر ما استطاع من طهر ويدهن من دهنه أو يمس من طيب بيته ثم يخرج فلا يفرق بين اثنين ثم يصلي ما كتب له ثم ينصت إذا تكلم الإمام إلا غفر له ما بينه وبين الجمعة الأخرى
They mentioned that the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, said: Take a bath on Friday and wash your heads, even if you are not junub, and apply perfume. Ibn Abbas said: As for washing, yes, but as for perfume, I do not know.
ذكروا أن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال اغتسلوا يوم الجمعة واغسلوا رؤوسكم وإن لم تكونوا جنبا وأصيبوا من الطيب قال ابن عباس أما الغسل فنعم وأما الطيب فلا أدري
O Messenger of God, if I bought this, I would wear it on Friday and for the delegation
يا رسول الله لو اشتريت هذه فلبستها يوم الجمعة وللوفد
إنما يلبس هذه ملا خلاق له في الآخرة
O Messenger of God, you clothed me with it, and you have said what you said about Mercury’s suit
يا رسول الله كسوتنيها وقد قلت في حلة عطارد ما قلت
If it were not that it would be difficult for my nation or the people, I would have ordered them to use the siwak with every prayer
لولا أن أشق على أمتي أو على الناس لأمرتهم بالسواك مع كل صلاة
I used the siwak too much for you
أكثرت عليكم في السواك
There is no god but God. Indeed, death has intoxication
لا إله إلا الله إن للموت سكرات
In the top comrade
في الرفيق الأعلى
The first Friday prayer was gathered after the Friday prayer in the mosque of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, in the Abdul Qais Mosque in Jawathi from Bahrain.
إن أول جمعة جمعت بعد جمعة في مسجد رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم في مسجد عبد القيس بجواثى من البحرين
If only you had been cleansed for this day
لو أنكم تطهرتم ليومكم هذا
We used to wake up early for Friday and take a nap after Friday
كنا نبكر بالجمعة ونقيل بعد الجمعة
Whoever's feet become dusty in the path of God, God will forbid him to go to Hell
من اغبرت قدماه في سبيل الله حرمه الله على النار
That a man rises from his seat and another sits in it, but make room and expand
أن يقام الرجل من مجلسه ويجلس فيه آخر ولكن تفسحوا وتوسعوا
I fear for you after me that the flower and adornment of this world will be opened to you
إني مما أخاف عليكم من بعدي ما يفتح عليكم من زهرة الدنيا وزينتها
Now, by God, I give to a man and I pray to a man, and the one I pray to is dearer to me than the one I give, but I give to people out of anxiety and panic. In the narration, I give to a people whose ribs and anxiety I fear, and the people who are deprived of what God has placed in their hearts of wealth and goodness among them, Omar bin Taghlib.
أما بعد فوالله إني لأعطي الرجل وأدعو الرجل والذي أدعو أحب إلي من الذي أعطي ولكن أعطي أقواما من الجزع والهلع في رواية إني أعطي قوما أخاف ضلعهم وجزعهم وأكل أقواما إلى ما جعل الله في قلوبهم من الغنا والخير فيهم عمر بن تغلب
By God, I do not like the word of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, to have red camels
فوالله ما أحب أن لي بكلمة رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم حمر النعم
As for now, it is not hidden from me where you are, but I feared that it would be imposed on you and that you would be unable to fulfill it
أما بعد فإنه لم يخفى علي مكانكم ولكني خشيت أن تفترض عليكم فتعجزوا عنها
This is your money and this is a gift
هذا مالكم وهذا هدية
Why don't you sit in your father's and mother's house? Your gift will not come to you if you are honest
فهلا جلست في بيت أبيك وأمك لا تأتيك هديتك إن كنت صادقا
As for what follows, I will appoint a man among you to do work from what God has commanded, and he will come and say, “This is your money, and this is a gift given to me.” Why would he not sit in his father’s and mother’s house until his gift comes to him?
أما بعد فإني أستعمل الرجل منكم على العمل مما ولان الله فيأتي فيقول هذا مالكم وهذا هدية أهديت إلي أفلا جلس في بيت أبيه وأمه حتى تأتيه هديته
Oh God, have you reached it?
اللهم هل بلغت
Your people claim that you do not get angry with your daughters, and this is Ali who married the daughter of Abu Jahl
يزعم قومك أنك لا تغضب لبناتك وهذا علي ناكح بنت أبي جهل
If it is the day of the Friday prayer, the angels stand at the door of the mosque, writing down the first, then the first, and the example of one who has migrated is like the one who sacrifices his body, then like the one who sacrifices a cow, then a ram, then a chicken, then an egg. When the imam comes out, they fold their newspapers and listen to the dhikr.
إذا كان يوم الجمع وقفت الملائكة على باب المسجد يكتبون الأول فالأول ومثل المهجري كمثل الذي يهدي بدنه ثم كالذي يهدي بقرة ثم كبشا ثم دجاجة ثم بيضة فإذا خرج الإمام طوا صحفهم ويستمعون الذكر
If one of you comes and the imam is delivering the sermon or has left, he should pray two rak’ahs
إذا جاء أحدكم والإمام يخطب أو قد خرج فليصلي ركعتين
I prayed. He said, “No.” He said, “Get up and pray two rak’ahs.”
أصليت قال لا قال قم فصلي ركعتين