SUFI POETRY IN SOMALI

Text 6.

This anonymous poem speaks first of the joys of Paradise
which God offers to the faithful and then mentions three

11.2.

ways of attaining them: the fasting, which is intensively
practiced during the month of RA~~D.AN, the recitation of
the Quran and the following of the precepts revealed by
the Prophe~. The refrain i~ concerned with glorifying
God.

JaIiiIow AlIa

1. AIbaabkii Jannada
   2. Firdowsa udgoon
   3. Ninkii uriyaa


2. Ayaan badanaa

5. JaIiilow AlIa

6. AlIa Jaliilow

7. Allah!
   ~. Islaamka bishii

:9. Ilaah ku amree

lb. Adkeeyay ayaan

1.1. U soomannahee

Ii. Jaliilow AlIa

13. AlIa Jaliilow

14. AlIa!


15. Ayaadka Quraanka


16. Qofkii akhriyee
    lj. Adeeca RasuuIka