Kitab Wafayat ALA'Yan. Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary Transl. by (Guillaume) B(aro)N Mac-Guckin de Slane Volume 1 (9781235954788)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt: ...towards the lribla (43) and said: "O my God! he " relieved me from the wants of this world; relieve him from the pains of the " next!"--On the death of Jaafar, a great number of elegies were composed on him by the poets, in which they deplored his loss and the misfortunes of his family; the following verses on the subject were composed by ar-Rakashi (44): Those whose hearts were free from anguish such as mine, enjoyed quiet and repose; but sleep is not suited for my eyes. The passionate lover is wakeful, but it is not love which prevents my eyes from closing. Those sad events have awoken me; and when others yield to slumber, sleeplessness is mine. It was a heavy blow for me to lose those princely stars by whose generous showers we were watered when the skies withheld their rain. Let beneficence and the world now say adieu to the glory of the Barmekides! Before thy fall, O son of Yahyal I never saw one sword cut by another (45). By Allah! were it not through fear of informers, and of the khalif's eye which sleepeth not, we should walk around thy gibbet (as round the Kaaba), and kiss it as men kiss the sacred stone (46). I62 The same_poet said, in a lament on the death of Jaafar and of his brother al-Fadl: _ Behold how the cutting sword of the Barmekides has been broken by that of the Hashimites. Now that Fadl is dead, tell the camels that they may repose ((+7), and tell misfortunes to come renewed each day. Dibil Ibn Ali al-Khuzai said, on the same subject: __ On seeing the sword fall upon Jaafar, and on hearing the khalif's herald cry ven-geanee on Yahya, Iwept for the world (of which they were the ornament), and I felt how true it was that the goal of human life is the quitting of the world. And Salih lbn Tarif said of them: O...

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• Format Paperback
• Dimensions 189 x 246 x 16mm | 544g
• Publication date 01 May 2012
• Publisher Rarebooksclub.com
• Publication City/Country Miami Fl, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note black & white illustrations
• ISBN10 1235954781
• ISBN13 9781235954788

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