In the Shade of the Light: Translated by Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi from a poem of Imam Muhammad Abu Al-Hasan Al-Bakri (d.925H) No mercy the Allah has sent or will send, None that may ascend, descend or transcend In the realm of Allah or in His Sovereignty, Whether it is specific or comes in totality, Except that Taha, His Servant, the Elect His Prophet, the Preferred, whom He verily has sent Is certainly the channel of as well as the source; A fact that every man through reason can course. So beseech Him always for everything you need For He is the Shafi’ who accepts all who plead. Take shelter in Him from all distress, For Safety is He as well as Fortress. Put down the loads of hope at Him there; He is the refuge, the One who will bear In a state of hardship, when calamities fall Do not despair and upon Him call. O Most Esteemed of what Allah may create And the best by whom to Him we supplicate. How many a time You removed grave grief, And this is what afflicted me again in brief. More helpless than me there will never exist What strength do I have or stamina to persist? By He who made you in the world sublime And raised You to a rank no one can climb Disencumber me from all my hardships and pain; Whom do I solicit if You ever refrain? At loss am I; my patience is gone. I have not a clue of what next to be done You’re the Door to Allah; whoever finds a way To travel without You will be surely turned away. Prayers on You as the winds of the North Swiftly shake hands with the flowers that come forth With salam from Allah as the odor of the Houses Smells sweet, and the fragrance of incense arises With the family, the companions so long as a pigeon Whose twig is succulent coos loudly in the region.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 21:50:55 +0000
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