SUFI POETRY IN SOMALI

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i3. The angels shall record whatever I do good and evil


i4. Do pious deeds, for there is danger to come, and the


unbelievers shall despair through following Satan


3.5. The world is like the blowing wind and like a place


from which a dust-devil rises


3~. We shall be raised to exalted ranks in the abode of


Paradise if we follow our Prophet


13.8.

3). The rejection of the unbelievers shall wane at the place


where the Everlasting One judges people


3~. To boast that you belong to Dir or to Daarood and to


amass possessions, will have no advantage at the end


3'9. The world of the old [generations] perished, because


of constant warfare and squabbles about land


4b. The dead, who built them and died, are the sign that
[all] the houses in this world shall fall



  1. The Angel ~f Death] is awaiting to seize the soul-of
    a man, even if he surrounds himself with gold and forts


4,2. 0 Lord, make us follow our Prophet for the comforts of


this world do not last
4,3. Those of you who are hustling and are busily engaged [in
the affairs of this world]; it is ~ll] just like a
dream from which you shall awaken


44. 0 prophesy to those who set out on a journey: the time


is up and [the world] is to be brought to a stop!


45. The man who learns about the word of God and preserves


the faith shall be rewarded


4~; 'A sign which always appears, but which no one examines


is the row [of people] who are buried every morning
4'7. Honoured are those to whom God,The Rewarder, shows
mercy on the Day of Assembly


  1. A man who has no endurance is not worthy; have patience


and prostrate yourselves before God



  1. A man who does not fast shall be despatched on the way to


dark Hell when the Trumpet is blown


50. Stop mischief and guard yourselves against Satan, for


among people, he misleads the man who gives in to him

5). In the abode of Paradise, couches are spread for the


man who abounds in fidelity to God


5'2. Abandon oppression, for in the other worlel, the man who


is unjust to the Muslims, shall be cast into Hell

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