EXCERPTS FROM THE BEAUTIFUL POEM TITLED (ALHAMDU MUTLA’QON)
WRITTEN BY: MAOLANA SHAYKH AL-ISLAM EL-HADJ IBRAHIM NIASSE (RA)
•Purify the cognitive faculties there and thereafter the component elements of the body, By virtue of Suurah AL-MU’MINEEN, and Be my Sufficient Protector against all afflictions, misfortune and calamities.
•Be the Guardian Companion in all endeavor, Oh My Supreme Benefactor, for this servant (Ibrahim Niasse), to whom You are the Most Beloved, For the sake of AN-NUUR and AL-FURQAAN, Support him (Ibrahim Niasse) with Your Divine Inspiration.
•Enrich me with the natural capacity and power of fluent mastery in eloquence and full development By virtue of AL-SHU’ARAA, and highly Set Up the Reformation of The Deen.
•Enrich Your insignificant servant generously from the permissible and blissful bounty By virtue of Suurah AL-NAML without the dubious, corrupt and suspicious wealth.
•Make pleasant and very joyous for him the homes and garments, By virtue of Suurah Al-QASAS likewise our ephemeral forms.
•Maintain friendship with the one who maintains persistent connection and spiritual attachment with me and Severe the relations By the secret power of AL-‘ANKABUUT of those who contentiously detached and got separated from me, Let them be impeded and precluded.
•Empower him by the virtue of AL-RUUM and Make its powers and its banners submissive to me:So that I could direct them in comportment towards my Spiritual Pathand inclinations.
•Keep us oblivious and consistently unaware about the taste and traces of disbelief, oppression and tyranny, Lets be profoundly absorbed in the innermost meanings and perceptions of The QUR’AAN.
—Shaykh al-Islam Ibrahim Niasse (ra)
Interpreted from the Arabic by: Shaykh Ahmed Tijani Ben Omar. https://www.facebook.com/ahmedtijani.benomar.1
Shaykh Ahmed Tijani Ben Omar
Typed and rearranged by: Ahmad Tijani Ibrahim Kalalah
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