Died: 327 A.H.
This poem has 160 couplets.
قم ذميما الى الجحيم خزيا
مذودا عن الهدى مزويا
و فطيما وراضعا وغذيا
شرح الاسماء والمكنيا
في الفلك اذعلا الجوديا
سبق الحاضرين والبدويا
مشكلا عن سبيله ملويا
حجه كنت عن سواها غنيا
لم يكن خاملا هناك دنيا
تماما دجنه او دجیا
وعاد الذي يعادي الوصيا
ايها اللائمي لحبى عليا
الخير الانام عرضت لازلت
اشبه الانبياء كهلا وزولا
كان في علمه كادم اذ علم
و کنوح نجا من الهلك من سير
و على لما دعاه اخوه
“لم یکن امره بدوحات “ختم
ان عهد النبي في ثقليه
نصب المرتضى لهم في مقام
علما قائما كما صدع البدر
قال هذا مولى لمن كنت مولا
1. O one, who condemns me for being devoted to Ali (a.s.): go to Hell as you deserve condemnation and are degraded. 2. Do you attack the best of creatures? You will always be away from guidance and you will be prohibited. 3. He is similar to the prophets during his youth as well as old age. And during infancy and as a grown up. 4. In his knowledge, he is like Adam when he was taught the explanation of the names and divine secrets. 5. He is like Nuh, who saved from destruction everyone who boarded the Ark, when it reached the top of Mt. Judi. 6. His story at Ghadeer Khum was not difficult and is not deviated from his path. 7. Indeed the promise of Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) regarding the two heavy things and I am needless of anyone other than them. 8. He appointed Murtada at the position, which had no scope of any degraded or nameless character. 9. He handed him the standard and a sign: just as a full moon reappears from behind the clouds. 10. He said: This Ali is the master of one, whose master I am and he declared this aloud an openly. 11. O God, love those, who love him and help those, who help him and be inimical to one, who is inimical to his successor.
Explanation
This panegyric (Qasida) is famous as ‘Ashbah’. Hamawi has mentioned in
the biography of Mufajjah that he has composed a Qasida in praise of Ali. He has
taken traditions about excellence of Ali (a.s.) and composed Qasida on those
issues. This Qasida comprises of 160 verses.
In Mojamul Odba,1 Hamawi says at the beginning of his biography:
“He has written a Qasida named ‘Ashbah’ in which he has extolled Ali.”
Then he writes:2
“He has written a Qasida, which comprises of similarities of Ali (a.s.) with
prophets; and from this aspect it is called as ‘Zaatul Ashbah’ (having
similarities), which Abdul Razzaq narrated from Muammar from Zuhri from
Saeed bin Musayyab from Abu Huraira, who says: The Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.)
declared among the companions:
“If you want to see Adam in his knowledge, Nuh in his valor, Ibrahim in his
morals, Moosa in his secret prayers, Isa in his practice3 and Muhammad in his
conduct, manners and forbearance. Thus look at the one who is approaching.”
People looked up and did not see anyone other than Ali Ibne Abi Talib.
Mufajjah has versified this incident in his poem