With the Inkwell - Till the Grave

One Ramadan, about 1200 years ago

Fell upon Imam Ahmed Bin Hanbal- a great sorrow

Lashed nearly to death

While fasting almost to his last breath

For standing up to the Mu’tazillah

On the Abbasid Khalifah’s grand stage

Imprisoned-he still wrote to share his knowledge

While the righteous warden snuck out each page

Qalam in hand - even in old age

We can’t forget that statement he made

“With the inkwell to the grave”

An ummah indebted to him for contributions to fiqh and hadith he gave

A scholar who sacrificed the skin off his back

For a blasphemous statement about Quran he refused to say

So that this ummah’s beliefs wouldn’t stray

from the prophetic way

-Basira Robinson

 

 

 

 

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