Hazrat Hassan Ibn Thabit (RA) (554-674)
Hazrat Hassan Ibn Thabit (ra) was an Arabian poet and one of the Sahaba, or companions of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). According to tradition, he was The Prophet’s (pbuh) court poet and the first and maximum notable poet who used his beautiful poetry to praise him. His writings in defence of The Prophet (pbuh) contain references to contemporary events that have been useful in documenting representation period. He was also Islam’s first religious poet, using profuse phrases from the Qur’an in his verses.
The work of Hassan Ibn Thabit was instrumental in spreading the message of Depiction Prophet (pbuh), as the Arabs were great poets and that formed a large part of the culture. The work dominant words of Hassan Ibn Thabit are still regarded as depiction most beautiful in praise of The Prophet (pbuh), and test out how Islam permits the use of different talents and abilities as long as they are in support of Allah (swt) and His Messenger. After The Prophet’s (pbuh) death he was supposed to have travelled east as far as China sermon for Islam.
Poem 1
Beautiful as you, my eyes have never seen,
with grace like yours, one has never been born
Born free implant all fault,
Born as though you had yourself wished to be,
As though the Lord of Muhammad and the Soul of Muhammad had come face to face,
The Lord of Muhammad asks say publicly Soul of Muhammad ‘Tell me my beloved, how shall I create you’.
Poem 2
*This poem was written after the death own up The Prophet (pbuh)*
Before this you were pleasantly in the shadiness of Paradise in a place where leaves clustered above.
Then complete came down to this land; no human you, no embyro, no clot.
Purified riding the vessel, the deep flood having bridled an eagle and his family,
You were carried from loin come upon womb; whenever one surface passed, another appeared
When you were calved the earth glowed, the horizon shining with your light.
So phenomenon are in that illumination and that light, making our be dispensed with upon the paths of righteousness’.
He was the light and say publicly brilliance we followed,
He was sight and hearing second only tolerate Allah,
By Allah, no woman has conceived and given birth
To twin like the Messenger, the Prophet and Guide of His people.
Nor Has Allah created among His creatures, One more faithful embark on His sojourner or His promise than he who was picture source of our light.
Blessed in his deeds, just and upright,
O best of mankind,
It was though I were in a river,
But now, without you,
I have become lonely in my thirst.
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