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A Spiritual Note

Edition 194 - March 6, 2009 - Rabi ul-Awwal 9, 1430

Assalamu alaikum (Peace be upon you)

Included in this Note is a poem in commemoration of Milad un-Nabi,
birthday of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).
9 March 2009, Rabi ul-Awwal 12, 1430.

The song and Urdu poem can be downloaded here.

Muhammad, my Beloved

He who is our guide,
In whom all lights abide.
Muhammad is his name,
My beloved, excels all in fame.

All prophets are spotlessly pure,
Excel each other for sure.
But the Most Exalted has decreed,
That he should in excellence exceed.

Amongst all prophets he shines out bright,
Like a moon in a full moon night.
All eyes seek him so they may stay aright,
Shining like a moon he changes darkness to light.

The banks previously by all beseeched,
Only with his help were reached.
I could lay my life for him with pride,
The ship he steers I would safely ride.

He removes the veils that our hearts cover,
So we get close to the inner abode of our Lover.
He helps us get near to our True Friend,
When needed his hand he will always lend.

A Friend, who by confines is not bound,
A Beloved, who by our senses is not found,
I have been able to Him behold,
By following the path he had told.

He is the king of all faiths that were revealed,
He’s been crowned and prophethood sealed.
His purity and honesty, in him trust raised,
For these qualities by all he was praised.

To all commands by Truthful God revealed,
He submitted with an utmost yield.
Of all the hidden treasures that were foretold,
My beloved’s advent stood out bold.

His eyes saw far and beyond,
His heart was with God in bond.
To guide to faith he held the light,
By which he gave the blind new sight.

The aspects of faith difficult to understand,
Through practice he unravelled with his hand.
Like a generous king he distributed wealth,
That gave his followers a spiritual health.

I have fallen in such a love with flame of his light,
Like a moth I would fly to death for it, feeling no plight.
Compared to his existence there is no significance to my life,
I have decided, for him I could sacrifice mine without strife.

My beloved you can with no one compare,
Of knowledge he was blessed an incomparable share.
To possession of perfect knowledge many people claims lay,
Only his knowledge was spotless and that is how it will stay.

All that we have was through him bestowed,
God, You are witness, he the path showed.
He who guided us to our duty,
Was possessor of an outstanding beauty.

When he in blindness his people found,
Their hearts in hundreds of shackles bound.
He removed the locks from the shackles and set them free,
God selected him to raise their souls and make them see.

He who is our guide,
In whom all lights abide.
Muhammad is his name,
My beloved, excels all in fame.

Poem by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
English translation by Prof. Dr. Abdul Karim Saeed, Ameer-i-Jama‘at, AAIIL
The song and Urdu poem can be downloaded here.

Urdu vocals by Sharda Ahmadali-Doekhie
English narration by Amir Aziz
Music arrangement, recording and mixing by Riaz Ahmadali
Paramaribo, Suriname, S.A., February 2009

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Quranic quotations in the Notes are from the English translation of the Holy Quran by Maulana Muhammad Ali, which you can read at http://www.muslim.org/english-quran/index.htm (with footnotes) and http://aaiil.org/text/hq/trans/ma_list.shtml (without footnotes).