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 "id": "work/qasidat-banat-suad",
 "class": "work",
 "slug": "qasidat-banat-suad",
 "label": {
  "en": "Banat Su'ad (the Burda of Ka'b ibn Zuhayr)",
  "ar": "قصيدة بانت سعاد (بردة كعب بن زهير)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "Ka'b ibn Zuhayr's celebrated apology-ode beginning 'Su'ad has departed, and today my heart is love-sick', recited before the Prophet in Medina; it pleads for pardon and praises the Prophet as a light and an unsheathed sword of God.",
  "ar": "قصيدة كعب بن زهير المشهورة التي أولها «بانت سعاد فقلبي اليوم متبول»، أنشدها بين يدي النبي بالمدينة معتذراً ومداحاً، وفيها وصفه بأنه «نور يستضاء به ومهنّد من سيوف الله مسلول»."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "ideas"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "literature"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "poem",
  "sources": [
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
   "source/ibn-hisham-sira"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin; al-Raheeq al-Makhtum pp. 440-454 (batch 22)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "قصيدة [[person/kaab-ibn-zuhayr|كعب بن زهير]] المشهورة «بانت سعاد فقلبي اليوم متبول»، أنشدها بين يدي النبي معتذراً ومداحاً فصارت تُعرف بالبردة {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq ص446-447}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "خبر القصيدة",
     "markdown": "أنشد كعب القصيدة للنبي في المسجد بعد أن أعلن إسلامه وطلب الأمان {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq ص446-447}. واعتذر فيها من هجائه السابق ومدح فيها النبي فوصفه بأنه «نور يستضاء به ومهنّد من سيوف الله مسلول» {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq ص447}. ومدح فيها المهاجرين من قريش، وعرّض بالأنصار لاستئذان أحدهم في ضرب عنقه، ثم تدارك أمرهم بعد إسلامه بقصيدة في مدحهم {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq ص447}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "قصيدة طويلة جميلة قالها شاعر مشهور يعتذر فيها للنبي ويمدحه، وصارت من أشهر قصائد العرب."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "work/qasidat-banat-suad",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "[[person/kaab-ibn-zuhayr|Ka'b ibn Zuhayr]]'s famous qasida \"Su'ad has departed, and my heart today is love-sick\", which he recited before the Prophet in excuse and praise — it came to be known as the Burda {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq pp. 446-447}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The poem's account",
     "markdown": "Ka'b recited it to the Prophet in the mosque after declaring his Islam and seeking safety {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq pp. 446-447}. In it he excused his former lampooning and praised the Prophet, describing him as \"a light by which guidance is sought, and a drawn Indian blade of God's swords\" {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p. 447}. In it he praised the Muhajirun of Quraysh and hinted at the Ansar — for one of them had sought leave to strike his neck — then made amends with them after his Islam in a poem of praise {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p. 447}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "A long, beautiful poem by a famous poet, excusing himself to the Prophet and praising him; it became one of the Arabs' most famous poems."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "work/qasidat-banat-suad",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 8,
 "contemporaries": [],
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   "to": "person/kaab-ibn-zuhayr",
   "type": "authored_by",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "event/kaab-ibn-zuhayr-pardon-and-burda",
   "type": "mentioned_in",
   "inverse": true
  },
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   "inverse": false
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   "to": "person/kaab-ibn-zuhayr",
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  "person/kaab-ibn-zuhayr",
  "place/medina",
  "person/muhammad",
  "event/khuzaa-appeal-to-medina",
  "event/killing-of-kab-ibn-al-ashraf",
  "person/al-nadr-ibn-al-harith",
  "person/tufayl-ibn-amr-al-dawsi"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}