Beautiful: Sufi poetry, "Saif ul Malook" recited by Shahbaz Qamar Faridi

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    This is a Sufi book of verse written in Panjabi by Mian Muhammad Bakhsh Qadri, an arif billah of the 19th century, from Kashmir, extremely popular in the whole of Panjab. It is a spiritual masterpiece of Sufism like Mawlana's Diwan or Masnavi.

    Here is a sample of some of his most famous verses with my transliteration and translation:

    Awwal hamd sanaa Ilaahi
    Jo maalik har har daa
    Uss da naam chataaran waala
    Har maidaan na har daa

    First, all praise is for Allah
    Who is the Lord of all
    He who recites his Name
    Never will lose in any field!


    Mard Allah day sirr e Ilaahi
    Ay kooii bhaid niraala
    Ikko nazroon saaf banaway
    Mera murshid damree waala

    (Real) Men are the Divine Secret
    This is a strange mystery
    With one gaze he can purify—
    My Spiritual Guide the Damri Wala


    Har mushkil dee kunjii yaaro
    Hath mardaan day aayii
    Mard nigaah karan jis vialay
    Mushkil raway na kaarii

    The key to every difficulty
    Is in the hands of such men
    When they look at you just once
    Difficulties no longer exist!

    Vah kareem Ummat da waali
    Mehr shifaat kardaa
    Jibrail jiehay jisday chaakar
    Nabiyaan da Sarkar da


    Bravo O you gracious protector of your Ummah
    A sun which intercedes
    The likes of Gabriel are his servants
    -The Chief of all the Prophets!


    Nur Muhammad roshan aaha
    Aadam jaddoon na hoya
    Awwal aakhir doway paasay
    Oho mal khalooiya!

    The Light of Muhammad shone
    When Adam was still uncreated
    Both stations of First and Last
    He alone occupies alone!

    [This refers to the Sunni belief that the Prophet was the first creation of Allah and the hadith of the Prophet, “O’ Jabir, the first thing Allah created was the noor of your Prophet” and the hadith, “I was a Prophet whilst Adam was still between water and clay” and many others support this; the verse also alludes to these hadith. The Prophet was thus the first to be created of the Prophets and the last to be sent.]

    Isa khaak unhaan day dar dee
    Gin tayammam kardaa
    Taiheen dast e mubarak usadaa
    Shaafii har zarrar daa

    Jesus takes the dust from his doorstep
    And makes his ablutions with it
    That is why his blessed hand was
    Able to heal all the sick!


    Kee kuchh naat tussadee aakhaan
    Khalqat day sardaara
    Laakh salaat salaam teray tay
    Laakh durood hazaaraa

    How can I laud you?
    O Best of all Creation!
    Millions of blessings upon you!
    Billions of salutations upon you!

    Sukhan nahin koii hunda mehkee
    Terii shaan qadr daa
    Taha tay Yasin Ilaahi
    Sift tusaadee kardaa


    I have no words of praise
    Commensurate with your status
    “Ta Ha” and “Ya Sin” The Lord
    Calls you with these qualities!

    Bahut izzat lawlaakii tehnoo
    Kii main sift sunaawaa
    Aal Ashaab samait salaama
    Hor durood puchaavaa

    ”But for thee” is enough praise for thee
    Which qualities of thine can I add?
    Millions of blessings be upon you
    And upon your Progeny and Companions!

    (This refers to the hadith qudsi, “Lawlaka lawlaka maa khalaqatul aflaka” and “Lawlaka lawlaka maa khalaqtul duniya” (But for thee (O Muhammad sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam) I would not have created the heavens) and in the second version “..the world”.)

    Aal Awlaad terii daa mangtaa
    Main kangaal ziyaanii
    Pao khair Muhammad taiin
    Sadaqa Shah i Jilani!

    I am a mendicant of your descendents
    I am penniless and sinful
    Give me some charity
    For the sake of Shah Jilani!

    (Shah Jilani i.e. Shaykh Abd al Qadir al Jilani al Baghdadi, founder of the Qadiri Sufi Order and the greatest of the awliya by consensus after the Salaf till the coming of the Mahdi alayhisalam.)

    Wah wah meeraaN Shah e Shahaan daa
    Sayyid Do Jahanii
    Ghaus ul Azam Pir piraaN daa
    Hai Mahboob e Rabbani!

    Bravo O Chieftain, King of kings
    Master of Both the worlds
    Ghaus ul Azam is the saint of saints
    And the Beloved of The Lord!

    (Ghaus ul Azam: (Arabic: al-Ghawth al-‘Azam: The Greatest Succour: another title for Shaykh Abd al Qadir al Jilani.)



    Rehmat da miinh paa khudaaya
    baad sukaa kar hariya
    booTa aas umeed meri da
    Karde mevay bhariya

    Send a rain of mercy O’ Lord
    Make the land verdant after being parched
    Cause the plant of my hopes and desires
    To become fruitful again.

    MiTta maiva bakhsh jiya
    Qudrat dee rakh shirin
    jo khaavay ro usdaa jaaway
    door hovay dil geeree

    Give me such sweet fruits
    Place natural sweetness in them
    So that whoever eats thereof, his anger vanishes
    And his sorrowness departs!

    Lakh varii jay itr gulabon
    Toiiyay nit zabaanaa
    Naam unhaa day laaiq nahin
    Ki kalimay da kaana

    If you wash your tongue a thousand times
    With the attar of roses
    It is still not worthy to say His name
    What then of the Kalima?

    Main neevan mera murshid uccha
    Te main ucchiyaa day sang laii
    Sadaqa jaavaan unhaan ucchiyaa taaii
    Jinhaa neviyaan naal nibhaaii

    I am lowly my spiritual guide is high
    And I have linked my end to the high ones
    May I die for such lofty ones
    Who have protected the lowly ones!
     
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