THE PICTURE OF IBRAHIM WILL REMAIN A REMINDER!

A poem Mawlana Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse (RA) composed upon witnessing a picture of himself!

فَصُورَةُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ تَبْقَى تَذَكُّرَا 

The picture of Ibrahim will remain a reminder!

 إِذَا آبَ لِلْمَوْلَى الْعَلِي وَ تَفَكُّرَا

After he returns to His Lord Most High and is remembered!

مَتَى دَفَنُونِي فِي التُّرَابِ تَحَدَّثُوا

And surely after they bury me in the sand, they will say:

 لَقَدْ كَانَ يَنْوِي الْخَيْرَ لَوْ كَانَ مُقْصِرًا

He intended well only, despite (human) shortcomings!

 أُجَاوِرُ رَبَّا وَاهِبًا مُتَفَضِّلاً

I’ll be in my grave then, in the company of a Most Generous & Graceful Lord…

 وَ يُعْطِي الْعَبْدَ مَا الْكُلَّ حَيَّرَا بِقَبْرِي

Who granted me that which has baffled all (Mankind)!

حيَاتِي رُمُوزٌ كُلُّهَا وَ إِشَارَةٌ

Indeed, my life was just (Divine) codes & signs….

 تُفَسَّرُ مَهْمَا ذَاكَ الْقَبْرُ بُعْثِرَا

that will continue to be interpreted till I’m resurrected from that grave!

 وَ كُنْتُ حُرُوفًا عَالِيَاتٍ وَ أَسْطُرَا

And indeed I was but Sublime Letters & Sentences (from God Himself)…

 فَوَقَعَهَا شَخْصِي مَتَى قَامَ مُظْهِرَا

That were manifested in my person when I appeared!

Fully Transcribed and Translated by 

Imām Fakhruddin Owaisi (South Africa)