Qasidah Burdah Shareef-_The Noble Cloak of Hazrat Imaam Busiri of Egypt

 The Noble Cloak...

Qasidah Burdah Shareef

The following lines of Arabic poetry are excerpts from the

famous Burdah Shareef [The Noble Cloak] which is the world

renowned masterpiece of the great Egyptian scholar and Sufi

Saint of the 13th century CE, Imaam Sharafuddin Muhammad Al-Busiri

[Rahmatullahi Alaieh] 

 

The Cloak refers to the Cloak of the Holy Prophet Muhammad

صلّی اللہ علیہ وسلم

which he placed on the paralyzed body of Imaam

Busiri in a dream as a result of which he was cured. This

Poem in praise of the Holy Prophet 
صلّی اللہ علیہ وسلم
is therefore almost 800 years old.

This poem is a masterpiece of Arabic literature and contains 10 sections and a total of a 160 verses. The chorus,

'Maula Ya Salli Wa Sallim Da`Iman Abadan Ala Habibika Khayrin Khalqi Kullihimi' 

Ottoman Manuscript -Burdah Sharif

[O Lord send peace and blessings for eternity Upon Your Beloved the Best of all Creation]

is read everywhere in the Muslim world where traditional Sunni Muslims are present from Morocco to Malaysia. 

It has been translated into every language of the Muslim world and also into many European languages.

It has the following 10 sections:

Love for Prophet صلّی اللہ علیہ وسلم 

A warning against the desires of the nafs [ego]

Praise of the beloved Prophet صلّی اللہ علیہ وسلم

Events occurring on his birth

His miracles

Praise of the Glorious Qur`aan

The 'Isra' and 'Mi`raj' of the noble Prophet

 صلّی اللہ علیہ وسلم

His battles repentance's, asking forgiveness of Allaah Almighty and seeking intercession of the beloved Prophet صلّی اللہ علیہ وسلم

Supplication to Allaah Al Kareem.

Each verse ends in the Arabic letter Meem and the poem is also known thus as a 'Meemiya'.

Maula Ya Salli Wa Sallim Daa`Iman Abadan

‘Aala Habeebi Ka Khayril Khalqi Kullihimi

My Master, send blessings and peace forever and eternally

Upon Your Beloved , The Best of all creation

Muhammadun Sayyidul Kawnayni Wath Thaqalayn

Wal Fareeqayni Min ‘Urbyun Wa Min ‘Ajami

Muhammad صلّی اللہ علیہ وسلم  is the Master of the two worlds,(Present & Hereafter) & the two beings (Humans & Jinn).

And of the two groups: Arabs and non-Arabs.

Huwal Habeeb Ulladhi Turja Shafaa’Atuhuhu

Li Kulli Hawlim Minal Ahwaali Muqtahimi

 

He is the Beloved whose intercession one hopes for

From every form of distress that one falls into...