The Koran and the life of the Prophet Muhammad by Kåre Bluitgen
Author:Kåre Bluitgen [Bluitgen, Kåre]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tøkk
Published: 2013-08-27T22:00:00+00:00
A sister ’s elegy
Al-Nadr the poet was killed because he had made derogatory remarks about Muhammad. But an elegy was composed in honour of the murdered bard. It was al-Nadr ’s sister in Mecca, Qutayla bint al-Harith, who foun d the words to express her pain:
I believe thou wilt reach al-Safra, O knight,
By the fifth day ’s first glimmer of light,
If that is what fortune dost decree.
Greet a dead man there for me.
Swift camels do ever bear,
Tidings from me to him there.
Tell of the tears I ceaselessly shed,
Or which end in sobbing instead.
Can al-Nadr hear me ever,
When it is him whom I do call?
Can a dead man hear at all,
When he can do no talking?
Worn out and weary and short of breath,
He was lead out to a cold-blooded death,
A captive in chains treated no better,
Than a beast when it is fettered,
With its forelegs bound together,
To his demise al-Nadr came walking.
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