الْفَصْلُ الرَّابِعُ فِي مَوْلِدِهِ عَلَيْهِ الصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ
Chapter Four: On The Prophet's Birth
Celebrating the blessed nativity of the Prophet ﷺ. Al-Busiri recounts the miraculous celestial portents that shook the ancient world—the trembling and collapse of the halls of Chosroes (Kisra), the sudden drying of the Lake of Sawa, and the quenching of Persia's sacred fires that had burned for a thousand years.
Chapter Four: On The Prophet's Birth
الْفَصْلُ الرَّابِعُ فِي مَوْلِدِهِ عَلَيْهِ الصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ
Theme & Spiritual Context • The Miraculous Birth (Milad un Nabi)
Celebrating the blessed nativity of the Prophet ﷺ. Al-Busiri recounts the miraculous celestial portents that shook the ancient world—the trembling and collapse of the halls of Chosroes (Kisra), the sudden drying of the Lake of Sawa, and the quenching of Persia's sacred fires that had burned for a thousand years.
مَوْلَايَ صَلِّ وَسَلِّمْ دَائِمًا أَبَدًا عَلَى حَبِيبِكَ خَيْرِ الْخَلْقِ كُلِّهِمِ
“Mawlāya ṣalli wa sallim dā'iman abadā 'Alā ḥabībika khayril khalqi kullihimi”
O my Master! Send blessings and peace continually and eternally Upon Your Beloved, the best of all creation.
The sacred refrain traditionally chanted between verses across the Muslim world.
أَبَانَ مَوْلِدُهُ عَنْ طِيبِ عُنْصُرِهِ يَا طِيبَ مُبْتَدَإٍ مِنْهُ وَمُخْتَتَمِ
Transliteration
Abāna mawliduhu ʿan ṭībi ʿunṣurihi Yā ṭība mubtadaʾin minhu wa mukhtatami
English Meaning
His birth made the purity of his pedigree evident; O how pure were his beginning and his end!
يَوْمٌ تَفَرَّسَ فِيهِ الفُرْسُ أَنَّهُمُ قَدْ أُنْذِرُوا بِحُلُولِ البُؤْسِ وَالنِّقَمِ
Transliteration
Yawmun tafarrasa fīhil fursu annahumu Qad undhirū biḥulūlil buʾsi wan niqami
English Meaning
On that day the Persians intuited that they Had been warned of looming misery and retribution.
وَبَاتَ إِيوَانُ كِسْرَى وَهُوَ مُنْصَدِعٌ كَشَمْلِ أَصْحَابِ كِسْرَى غَيْرَ مُلْتَئِمِ
Transliteration
Wa bāta īwānu kisrā wa huwa munṣadiʿun Ka shamli aṣ-ḥābi kisrā ghayra multaʾimi
English Meaning
That night the throne room of Khusraw became cracked, Khusraw’s people, too, crumbled, never to be restored.
وَالنَّارُ خَامِدَةُ الأَنْفَاسِ مِنْ أَسَفٍ عَلَيْهِ وَالنَّهْرُ سَاهِي العَيْنِ مِنْ سَدَمِ
Transliteration
Wan nāru khāmidatul anfāsi min asafin ʿAlayhi wan nahru sāhil ʿayni min sadami
English Meaning
The sacred fire, grief-stricken, breathed its last, And the river [Euphrates] dried up out of worry.
وَسَاءَ سَاوَةَ أَنْ غَاضَتْ بُحَيْرَتُهَا وَرُدَّ وَارِدُهَا بِالغَيْظِ حِينَ ظَمِي
Transliteration
Wa sāʾa sāwata an ghāḍat buḥayratuhā Wa rudda wāriduhā bil ghayẓi ḥīna ẓamī
English Meaning
Sāʾa was saddened by its lake drying up; the thirsty who went to drink there came back in a rage!
كَأَنَّ بِالنَّارِ مَا بِالمَاءِ مِنْ بَلَلٍ حُزْنًا وَبِالمَاءِ مَا بِالنَّارِ مِنْ ضَرَمِ
Transliteration
Ka anna bin nāri mā bil māʾi min balalin Ḥuznan wa bil māʾi mā bin nāri min ḍarami
English Meaning
As if the fire, from sorrow, took on the water’s wetness And water assumed the fire’s quality of blazing.
وَالجِنُّ تَهْتِفُ وَالأَنْوَارُ سَاطِعَةٌ وَالحَّقُ يَظْهَرُ مِنْ مَعْنىً وَمِنْ كَلِمِ
Transliteration
Wal jinnu tahtifu wal anwāru sāṭiʿatun Wal ḥaqqu yaẓ-haru min maʿnan wa min kalimi
English Meaning
There were jinn calling out, and dazzling lights As truth was manifested in both word and reality.
عَمُوا وَصَمُّوا فَإِعْلاَنُ البَشَائِرِ لَمْ يُسْمَعْ وَبَارِقَةُ الإِنْذَارِ لَمْ تُشَمِ
Transliteration
ʿAmmū wa ṣammū fa iʿlānul bashāʾiri lam Yusmaʿ wa bāriqatul indhāri lam tushami
English Meaning
They were blind and deaf, so the glad tidings proclaimed Went unheard, and the warning lightning-flash was not seen.
مِنْ بَعْدِ مَا أَخْبَرَ الأَقْوَامَ كَاهِنُهُمْ بِأَنَّ دِينَهُمُ المُعْوَجَّ لَمْ يَقُمِ
Transliteration
Min baʿdi mā akhbaral aqwāma kāhinuhum Bi anna dīnahumul muʿwajja lam yaqumi
English Meaning
Even after the soothsayers had informed their peoples That their crooked religion would not endure,
وَبَعْدَمَا عَايَنُوا فِي الأُفْقِ مِنْ شُهُبٍ مُنْقَضَّةٍ وَفْقَ مَا فِي الأَرْضَ مِنْ صَنَمِ
Transliteration
Wa baʿda mā ʿāyanū fīl ufqi min shuhubin Munqaḍḍatin wifqa mā fīl arḍi min ṣanami
English Meaning
And even after their eyes saw meteors on the horizon Plunging downwards, as idols were toppled on earth;
حَتَّى غَدَا عَنْ طَرِيقِ الْوَحْيِ مُنْهَزِمٌ مِنَ الشَّيَاطِينِ يَقْفُوا إِثْرَ مُنْهَزِمِ
Transliteration
Ḥattā ghadā ʿan ṭarīqil waḥyī munhazimun Minash shayāṭīni yaqfū ithra munhazimi
English Meaning
Until devils, routed, from the path of revelation, Fled in the wake of those who had been overpowered.
كَأَنَّهُمْ هَرَبًا أَبْطَالُ أَبْرَهَةٍ أَوْ عَسْكَرٍ بِالحَصَى مِنْ رَاحَتَيْهِ رُمِي
Transliteration
Ka annahum haraban abṭālu abrahatin Aw ʿaskarin bil ḥaṣā min rāḥatayhi rumī
English Meaning
Fleeing like the brave warriors of Abraha Or the army pelted by pebbles thrown by his hand,
نَبْذًا بِهِ بَعْدَ تَسْبِيحٍ بِبَطْنِهِمَا نَبْذَ المُسَبِّحِ مِنْ أَحْشَاءِ مُلْتَقِمِ
Transliteration
Nabdhan bihi baʿda tasbīḥin bi baṭnihimā Nabdhal musabbiḥi min aḥshāʾi multaqimi
English Meaning
Cast by him after glorifying Allah in the palm of his hand, As he who glorified his Lord was cast from the whale.