إذا ما قال لي ربي - قصيدة أبكت الإمام أحمد

If my Lord is to ask me- the poem that made Immam Ahmad cry.

[Video] إذا ما قال لي ربي - قصيدة أبكت الإمام أحمد

(إذا ما قال لي ربـــّي )

إذا ما قال لي ربي .. أما استحييت تعصيني
  وتخفي الذنب عن خلقي .. وبالعصيان تأتيني

If my Lord asks me 

 “Have you no shame in disobeying me? 

You hide your faults from my creation  

yet full of sin you come to Me" 

فكيف أجيب يا ويحي .. ومن ذا سوف يحميني

 So what will I answer? O' Woe to me, 

and who shall protect me do you see?

أسلي النفس بالآمال .. من حين إلى حين

I keep forestalling my soul 

 with thoughts of hope from time to time  

وأنسى ما وراء الموت .. ماذا بعد تكفيني

And forgetting what is to come after death,

and after I am warped in the sheets of the dead 

 

كاني قد ضمنت العيش .. ليس الموت يأتيني

As if I have guaranteed living forever, 

 and that death will not overcome me

وجاءت سكرة الموت الشديدة من سيحميني

  Then the harsh drunkenness of death overtakes me,

who now will be able to protect me? 

نظرت إلى الوجوه أليس منهم من سيفديني

I looked at the faces, is there not from amongst them 

who will  ransom me?  

سأسأل ما الذي قدمت في دنياي ينجيني

I will be asked 

 what have I put forth in my life to save myself

فكيف إجابتي من بعد ما فرطت في ديني 

 So what will I answer, 

after I’ve been neglectful regarding my Deen

ويا ويحي ألم أسمع كلام الله يدعوني

O’ woe to me, did I not hear the

Speech of Allah calling  out to me??

ألم أسمع لما قد جاء في ق و يس

Did I not hear what has come in Qaaf'n, wa Yaseen'i

ألم أسمع بيوم الحشر يوم الجمع والدين

Did i not hear of the day the crowds will be summoned, 

the day we will be collected, and the day of al-Deen'i

ألم أسمع منادي الموت يدعوني يناديني

Did I not hear the caller of death 

calling me; seeking me

فيا رباه عبد تائب من ذا سيؤويه

O my lord a slave to you I come repenting, 

who than shall grant me shelter?

سوى رب غفور واسع للحق يهديني

Other than an oft-forgiving Lord, 

to the truth he will guide me

أتيت إليك فارحمني وثقل في موازيني

I  have come to you, so have mercy on me, 

and make heavy my weights

وخفف في جزائي أنت أرجى من يجازيني

And lighten my reckoning you are the best 

of who will bring me to reckoning

Translated by Abu Hamza

Forget

The day of judgment has arrived

The day of judgment has arrived.

For those who have commited sin,

For those who have done good,

or at least strived.

The day of judgment has arrived,

The noise of the trumpets has been heard.

By human, by Jin, by animal, even the bird.

The day of judgment has arrived,
The believer now says,

“just one more time, let me stand to pray, bow to my creator”

Theres no time to pray,
This is judgment day.

The day of judgment has arrived,

The mother drops her newborn and runs,

As the mountains rumble,

And the heat is excruciating from the sun.

The day of judgment has arrived,

People begging,

Please O’ Lord have mercy,

Have mercy on me.

For I have missed my prayers,

Did not give much charity,

For it was mere insanity.

The day of judgment has arrived,

Family is family no more,

Friends flee from you like never before

They flee as far as the eye can possibly see,

The time has now come for all your actions to be judged,

Allah only, is who we will beg for mercy.

The day of judgment has arrived,

Are you prepared to face Allah in the state you are in?

Are you teaching the Quran and the Sunnah to the children?

The day of judgment has arrived,

Please O’ Muslim, remember this day,

Remember if you may.