SUFI POETRY IN SOMALI

(Chris Devlin) #1
Shcekh Suu'fi


  1. a trusted Imam of the saints, a you who hear the man
    who calls you

  2. a king of the saints who alleviates hardships; a
    harbinger of good news to those who invoke him

  3. a beautiful one, a crown of the saints; the man who
    follows your path succeeds


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  1. a most respected one, a master of Xamar; I want from
    you a portion of the fruit of Paradise

  2. a path which leads to the Paradise of God; satisfy the
    man who yeains for you, [lik~ a camel when it craves for
    salt]
    ~. 0 you who have deep knowledge of the precepts of the
    Faith; liberate those who invoke you


7. 0 you who give blessings to the man who joins you in


KHALAWAH
~. a cure of the Muslims, a prop of the Faith; help us to
achieve what we want


9. My words are true, for the man who performs Remembrance


frequently will cease to doubt



  1. a mercy of God, which has been despatched to the people;
    the man who comes to your homestead no longer has to


struggle


It. The man wh a comes to you on pilgrimage but once , receives
your answer quickly


  1. You are the carrier of the spiritual lineage of the
    QADIRIYYAH which hangs on you and whose base never
    gets broken
    lj. 0 you are the shaikh who illumines the Islamic law and
    who has become famous in the land

  2. 0 you are the Sufi of the Lord, who endured hardships
    and whose words were poison to Satan


15. 0 cloud of knowledge which has brought rain on the land,


o you who hung over it an umbrella, with a vast shade
l~. a shaikh who promotes the unchangeable Q.i\D1RIYYAH doctrine of Order the


  1. a illuminator of darkness, 0 revealer of the Law, 0 you


who placed us within the edge of the shade of Paradise

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