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He was not just a poet, but rather the founder of a family, a library, and a Sufi order in Jerusalem and Palestine. He is the poet Sheikh Mufti (unordained) Muhammad Badir bin Sirin, known as Ibn Hubaysh al-Shafi’i al-Maqdisi (1747-1805).
He is Muhammad Badir bin Sirin. His family immigrated from Morocco to Egypt when he was seven years old. He read the Qur’an and attended the lessons of Sheikh Issa Al-Barawi and learned it. He spent many years in Cairo studying at Al-Azhar and other educational institutions. He contacted Sheikh Mahmoud al-Kurdi al-Kurani (the Iraqi), the sheikh of the Khalutiyya order, and he took it from him and taught him the secrets of remembrance, and ordered him to go to Jerusalem. He came there in the year 1870 AD and took up residence in the Haram (Palestinian figures in the late Ottoman era - Adel Manna ) .
He taught and guided Al-Aqsa Mosque. He had a sharp mind and was accepted by princes and ministers. His intercession was accepted, but he did not accept official positions. Because he did not enter the arena of competition for official scientific positions, he gained the respect and appreciation of the people. Indeed, Al-Budairi's name was also mentioned alongside Mufti Abu Al-Saud in a large number of royal orders and decrees of the governors of the Levant and Acre during the French campaign.
Al-Budairi gained the respect of the people of Jerusalem and its rulers due to his abundance of knowledge and dignity as a Sufi sheikh and his distance from conflicts over government positions. (The Jerusalem Brigade in the middle of the Ottoman era - Adel Manna).
As the sources mentioned, he taught various sciences, including astronomy, and held dhikr circles in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and in his house adjacent to the wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque on the western side, at the door of the council.
Muhammad Effendi remained in Jerusalem, teaching, preaching, guiding, and performing dhikr until he passed away on November 20, 1805 AD. He was buried in his house, which remained a residence for family members and a corner for Sufis for many generations.
To Muhammad Effendi al-Badiri is attributed Sabil al-Badiri or Sabil al-Sheikh Badir, which is also known as Sabil Othman Bey, in the northwestern part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque courtyard, about 20 meters to the southeast of Bab al-Nazir. Researchers believe that the reason for this name is Sheikh Badir’s ownership and residence in a corner located opposite this road. (Flags of Jerusalem in the thirteenth century - Al-Aqsa Sisters website).
Muhammad Al-Budairi wrote several works on matters of religion and literature, which were preserved as manuscripts in his library, which was later called the Al-Budairi Library, which became one of the prestigious libraries in Jerusalem, in which there were a thousand manuscripts. (See the report: Treasures of Al-Budairi Library - Jerusalem website).
Al-Badiri wrote a lot of poetry that disappeared due to circumstances and the lack of care in printing and copying in those days. What demonstrates his interest in poetry, its importance to him, and his awareness of its influence is that when he wanted to support Al-Jazzar after his steadfastness in Acre against Napoleon, he did not write a letter or a sermon, but rather composed a poem that became famous and spread throughout the countries, which he wrote in praise of Ahmed Pasha Al-Jazzar after his victory over the French, despite his fame as a jurist. And a sheikh of a way.
It is a poem consisting of 157 lines from Bahr al-Basit. The poem was proven by researcher Muhammad Saeed Rumman in his book (News of the French Campaign against Egypt and Palestine in the Records of the Sharia Court of Jerusalem). In it, Al-Budairi spoke about the calamity that befell the Muslims with the arrival of the French in the Levant, and he said that when they headed to Akka, God sent the meteors of His vengeance upon them, and He strengthened their necks with His arrow, so they responded humiliated and lost, and in it He says: God is great, the religion of God. They have been victorious, and victory has shone on the horizons and spread
.
And this, by the grace of God, was expected with the victory of Ahmad Pasha, the master of the ministers.
God is great. Akka and its battle were only like the battle of Badr. He increased it in greatness, and glory
returned to the religion, and an epidemic of disgrace and humiliation grew from those who disbelieved.
The verses of conquest, God made clear and strengthened them with His light. A death was spread over the horizons,
and he did not know that one day he would perish in the calamities of evil therein. He was afflicted with hardship
, and he waded extensively as he reached him, and the most of his wading was short, and he
reached the nearest land of the Levant, and stones of shame resembling rain poured down upon him,
and the earth quaked from him. It was as if bright meteors had come upon it, throwing sparks at it.
So the good Muslims were martyred for it and were dressed in green robes. They won the blessing of God. What they did was an epidemic of loss from the religion. He was deceived. God made him taste the humiliation
of despair since his
hopes departed from him. They were overwhelmed by hardship, and the Al-Budairi family enjoyed the protection and support of the Al-Husseini family, which strengthened the position of this sheikh in the city. His children followed in his footsteps, and Abdullah Effendi was known among them as one of the leaders of the 1834 revolution against Egyptian rule.
What indicates the status of Sheikh Muhammad is that the Al-Budairi family, as mentioned in the study (The Jerusalemite Elite, the City’s Scholars and Notables - Jerusalem Annals), was accepted into Jerusalem society and its elite and was successfully integrated. Such a situation was rare from the late eighteenth century and during the following century.
Al-Budairi's poetry has not reached us, most of which remained in manuscript in his library, but his poetry had a special status that did not appear in his scientific and literary works.
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