Beautiful qaseedah

Translation by Shaykh Gibril Haddad (May Allah preserve him).

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The Qaseeda written on (now unfortunately painted over in green) The Blessed Chamber of the Beloved Prophet Muhammad sala Allah alayhi wa aalihi wa sallam.

1*

يا سيدي يا رسول الله خذ بيدي
مالي سواك ولا ألوي على أحد

O my master, O Messenger of Allah, take my hand:
I have none besides you, nor will I pause to rely on anyone but you.

2*

فأنت نور الهدى في كل كائنة
وأنت سر الندى يا خير معتمد

For you are the light of guidance in everything that exists
and you are the secret of munificence and the best reliance.

3*

وأنت حقا غياث الخلق أجمعهم
وأنت هادي الورى لله ذي السدد

And you are in truth the helper of all creation,
and you are the guide of mortals to Allah, Owner of help.

4

يا من يقوم مقام الحمد منفردا
للواحد الفرد لم يولد ولم يلد

O you who stand on the Station of Praise, singled out
by the One Who is Single, Who is not begotten and does not beget.

5

يا من تفجرت الأنهار نابعة
من أصبعيه فروى الجيش بالمدد

O you from whose fingers rivers burst forth
so that he quenched the thirst of the numerous army.

6*

إني إذا سامني ضيم يروعني
أقول يا سيد السادات يا سندي

Verily, if I am faced with harm and fearful injustice
I say: O Master of masters, O my support!

7*

كن لي شفيعا من الرحمن من زلل
وأمنن علي بما لا كان في خلدي

Be my intercessor with the Merciful regarding my mistakes
and grace me with what eludes my heart.

8*

وانظر بعين الرضا لي دائما أبدا
واستر بفضلك تقصيري إلى الأمد

And look upon me always and ever with kind eyes,
and cover with your favor my shortcomings all my life.

9*

واعطف علي بعفو منك يشملني
فإنني عنك يا مولاي لم أحد

Kindly bestow on me encompassing forgiveness
for from you, O my master, I was never separated.

10*

إني توسلت بالمختار أفضل من
رقَّى السموات سر الواحد الأحد

I have sought as my means the elect one, the noblest of any
that ascended the heavens, the secret of the Unique One.

11

رب الجمال تعالى الله خالقه
فمثله في جميع الخلق لم أجد

O Lord of beauty! Exalted is Allah Who created him,
for such as him in all creation I have never seen.

12

خير الخلائق أعلى المرسلين ذرى
ذخر الأنام وهاديهم إلى الرشد

The best of creatures, the apex of Messengers,
the treasure of humankind and their guide to integrity!

13*

به التجأت لعل الله يغفر لي
هذا الذي هو في ظني ومعتقدي

In him I have taken refuge: perhaps Allah will forgive me.
This is what I count on and firmly believe.

14

فمدحه لم يزل دأبي مدى عمري
وحبه عند رب العرش مستندي

Therefore his tireless praise shall never cease to be my task
and love of him sustains me in the presence of the Lord of the Throne.

15

عليه أزكى صلاة لم تزل أبدا
مع السلام بلا حصر ولا عدد

Upon him the purest of endless blessings without cease
together with greetings that cannot be stemmed nor counted

16

والآل والصحب أهل المجد قاطبة
وتابعيهم بإحسان إلى الأبد

And upon his Family and Companions, a glorious folk all,
The ocean of forgiveness, the people of generosity and aid

Love of Prophet ﷺ

“Love the belovedﷺ, because he loves you…”
Love for the Prophetﷺ is in truth pain, but it is such a sweet pain that you want more and more. Loving the Prophetﷺ will break your heart; you will yearn to be with himﷺ, speak with him, just sit and look at himﷺ. It is this very love that caused his companion Abū Bakr as-Șiddīq (RadiAllahu Anhu) to die early, he died from a broken heart, he couldn’t stand to be away from the Prophetﷺ, he would weep for himﷺ. It is this very love that made ‘Umar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb (RadiAllahu Anhu) lose his mind, he said he would cut anyone’s head off that said the Prophetﷺ was dead. It’s this very love that caused his beloved daughter, the master of all women, Fāṭimah (as) to shed tears when hearing he would die, but she laughed when she heard she would join him. It was this very love that at first drove Bilāl al-Habashī (RadiAllahu Anhu) away from Madīnah after the Prophetﷺ demise, but then made him return too. It’s this very love that turned the murderous heart of Fudhala into one that overflowed with love for the Messenger of Allāhﷺ within a fraction of a second. It is however important to remember that this love is not limited to human souls, what of the tree that wept when the Prophetﷺ took to the pulpit?

I could go on, and on with more examples, but I think you get my point.

They all loved himﷺ, and we all love himﷺ because heﷺ loved them and heﷺ loves us. Often it is said that we complete our dīn when we marry, but we forget that our status as a believer is complete only when we love Muḥammadﷺ more than our wives, our children, ourselves, more than anything.

And how can we not love himﷺ? Our entire understanding of Islam is because of himﷺ, our realization of Allāh comes from him too. We are because heﷺ was, and still is, Alhamdulillah.

There was a man by the name of Abd Allāh, he would often become so drunk that he had to be brought staggering through the streets before the Prophetﷺ to be sentenced for public drunkenness, and each time, the Prophetﷺ would rule to have the prescribed punishment carried out. This was a common occurrence, after one such episode once ʿAbd Allāh had left after being sentenced, one of the companions declared,

“O Allāh curse him! How often he is summoned for this!”

The Prophetﷺ rebuked that Companion, saying: “Do not curse him, for I swear by Allah, if you only knew just how very much indeed he loves Allah and His Messenger.” [Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī]

Muhammad-PBUH-in-strokes

Heﷺ loved us dearly, so much so that it is difficult to comprehend and fathom. Heﷺ yearned to meet us. It is through his intercession that many of us will enter heaven. Countless aḥādīth exist about the importance of loving himﷺ, and his entire life is a tribute to how much he loved us. Heﷺ would stand all night in prayer for us, he went to the highest heavens several times asking Allāh to lower the number ṣalāh incumbent on us. He was always thinking and praying for us.

His concern and love for us is stated in the Qurʾān:

“A Messenger has come to you from among yourselves. Your suffering is distressing to him; he is deeply concerned for you; he is gentle and merciful to the believers.” [9:128]

Heﷺ isn’t just concerned for us, he is deeply concerned, to such an extent that it distresses him, it hurts himﷺ.

When we can find ourselves in a moment of weakness, a moment where you feel utterly inadequate, as if you don’t matter, you feel alone; it is at this time that we should remember that the Prophet ﷺ prayed for us with an overwhelming sense of love, and awe and reverence and devotion to his community".

“Our love for the Prophetﷺ hasn’t even reached the required threshold. How can some say it’s exceeding the limit?” -— Ḥabīb Alī al-Jifrī

“The title of the Holy Prophet of Islam is Ḥabīb-Allāh, the Beloved of God, love for the Prophetﷺ could be described as the great transformative emotion of Islam.” -— Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ḥakim Murad.