The Andalusia city of Seville fell to Christian castle in 1248, after over 500 years of being a Muslim city. Abu AL Baqa’ al-Rundi was a contemporary Andalusian poet from the city of Ronda in southern Iberia who wrote to lament about the fall of the once great city 1269. He alluded to ancient Arabian and Persian history in his poem, hoping to inspire Muslims to rise up and recapture the city.
Read the poem below( the English translated version)
Everything declines after reaching perfection, therefore let no man be fooled by sweetness of a pleasant life.
As you witness, these are that change: he whom a single moment has made happy has been harmed by many other moments.
And this is the abode that will show pity for no man, nor will any condition remain in its state for it.
Time irreversibly destroys all armour when Mashrifi swords and spears glance off without effect.
It ( Time) unsheathes each sword (person) only to destroy it even if it be an Ibn Dhi Yazan and the scabbard Ghumdan (great warriors).
Where are the crowned Kings of Yemen and where are their jewel-studded diadems and crowns?
Where are [the buildings] Shaddad raised in Iran and where [the Empire] the Sassanians ruled in Persia?
Where is the gold Qarun once possessed; where are Ad and Shaddad and Qahtan?
An irreversible decree overcame them all so that they passed away and the people came to be as though they had never existed
And what was of the kingdoms and Kings became like a dream vision, a sleeper would speak of.
Time turned against Darius as well as his slayeer, and as for Khosrau, no vaulted palace offered him protection.
It is as if no cause had ever made the hard easy to bear, and as if Solomon had never ruled the world.
The misfortunes brought on by Time are of many different kinds, while Time has causes of joy and of sorrow.
For the events (of calamity) there is a comfort that makes them easy to beat, yet there is no comfort for what has befallen Islam.
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