SUFI POETRY IN SOMALI

9b. Do not listen [to the words which say]: 'The earth will be [thoroughly] soaked by the dew rind damp mist of last night. I 14 ...

142. The man who tries to master the world will not triumph, and his inheritance will be a grave where he is laid upon his bre ...

143. 125. 0 people why don't you abandon sleep, for we shall be laid in a tight grave 126. A man died here and a woman was burie ...

Line 5~. Line 64. Line 7~. 144. past fought over grazing areas and water holes. Here the Chair and the Throne signify the Throne ...

Line 106. Line 113. Line 124. Line 130. 145. This is an allegoric description of difficulties in one!s life on this earth: when ...

Text 11 The Islamic tradition says that, without Muhammad, the world would not have been created. According to that tradition, t ...

Adi daraaddaa, ayaa duunyo 100 a1kumay ~. Boqor Quraysh 1aga dhashoo, uunka lagu bayiniyow lb. Barakaday shamsadu, noogu soo b ...

~7. Rasuulkii Maxamed baa, 100 ratibay amaan 38. Rag iyo dumar 00 dhan baa, dhegaha loogu riday 3~. Rugaha soo shiriya, iyo reer ...

6~. Farax na sii maalintaa, laysu fiirsan doono 6~. Qabriga goortaan galee, luxudka laygu qariyo ey Malagga qawlkaan u celin, i ...

Weliga weyn ee khalqiga, 100 wakiishayow Warqadihii khayrka, waagaasi noo wafee 99. Hilin san uu bixiyay, sharcigiisu hadirno ...

1:3. [Without you] the seas and all the lands and the mountains would not have been created 0 grace, for whose sake the sun alw ...

34. We invoke you, so lead us by the hand on the Day of Resurrection 0 gold which is In Paradise for us and which cannot be see ...

5~. On the Day of Resurrection, put the light-shedding umbrella over us 15.3 • 0 righteous one, last of the Prophets, the path ...

ts. Triumphant shall be the people Hho will be brought to the assembly with the Prophet 154. 79. When creatures are assembled at ...

155. 0 leading-rope of the Faith, guide tis towards sincerity All the time it is the best thing to recite hymns to the Prophet ...

Line 55. According to Islamic tradition, the Prophet was covered with the shade of clouds from the heat of the sun as he travell ...

157. Text· 1·2·. In this short poem Khadiija Faarax Maxamuud also emphasizes the original essence of Muhammad (NUR 'L-MUHAMMADIY ...

III Poems in Praise of the Saints According to the level of their spiritual attainments and powers of intercession, the saints, ...

159. Text 13 FATIMAH, the daughter of the Prophet, who married cALI IBN ABI TALIB, the Prophet's cousin, and by whom she had thr ...

Dawooy Muslin dayrka tii u xidhee, Dayaan darajeeyay baad tahay 160. Dahabo digrigaaga oon badiniyo, dar janno annagay dan no ...