Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

أنت نزهتنا عن السب والش
تم فلو أمكن الجزاء جزيتك
دير سمعان ل أغبك غيث
خير ميت من آل مروان ميتك
O the son of ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz if the eye would tear for any youngster of the
Umayyads it would tear for you.
You purified us from revilement and denigration. If it was possible for me
to reward you I would reward you.
O Dayr Samʿān 1 may the rain never part from you, for the best deceased of
the Umayyads is the deceased buried in you. 2
2.
Honouring the Hashimids in general and the Alawids in specific, thereby
attempting to preserve the bequest of Nabī H regarding his Ahl al-
Bayt:
أذكركم الله في أهل بيتي أذكركم الله في أهل بيتي أذكركم الله في أهل بيتي
I remind you of Allah regarding my household. I remind you of Allah
regarding my household. I remind you of Allah regarding my household. 3
He would also explicitly acknowledge the merits of ʿAlī I, he would
say:
أزهد الناس في الدنيا علي بن أبي طالب
The most ascetic of people in this world was ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib. 4
1 A place on the outskirts of Shām. Muʿjam al-Buldān 2/517.
2 Dīwān al-Sharīf al-Raḍī 1/206.
3 The reference has passed on p. 45. (add page number)
4 Tārīkh Madīnah Dimashq 42/489; al-Kāmil fī al-Tārīkh 3/265; Tārīkh al-Islām 3/645; al-Bidāyah wa al-
Nihāyah 9/209.
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