Poem
Sayyidi al-Sheikh al-Sayyid Muhammad al-Ya`qubi
by Sidi
Muhammad Shareef in honor of
written in Rajab 30, 1425
(14-Sep-2004) and recited in front of
Sheikh
Muhammad al-Ya`qubi on the
occasion of the sama`
of
Imam al-Tirmidhi's
al-Sham'il al-Muhammadiyya in Pittsfburg, USA, in Shawwal 1425
(November 2004).
The shaykh, the son of shaykhs, the unique one of his time,
Outstanding
above champions,
crowned with sciences, sublime.
Muhammad
al-Ya`qoubi – the son
of Ibrahim, one of the Abdal;
The narrator
of the prophetic
traditions from the reliable Rijaal.
A pure
offspring of the
Prophet, by whom Allah strengthens the Deen
Clarifying
its obscurities
clearing the Path of the matters of the
Unseen.
He discharges
the trust for the
disciples of ash-Shathili the Saalik
He clears
the Trodded Path for
the followers of the Amir, Imam Malik
He gives
coherent legal
decisions based on the madh’hab of an-Nu’maan
Guiding the
mureeds in all the
spiritual paths in the sciences of
al-Ihsaan
He unravels
the secrets of
ash-Shamaa’il of the Gnostic at-Tirmithi
And
transmits the highest sanads
of the Shaykhs Muslim and al-Bukhari.
He has lion
cubs that represent
him, acting on his behalf, with his Ithn
Young lions
resolute in their
awraad, and meticulous in their decisions.
Calling
people
to Allah with
baseera in the east and the west lands,
In Sweden,
in the urban ghettoes
of the US, and in foggy England
In Scotland,
in northern
Nigeria, Pakistan and the radiant Haramaan
He has young
knights transmitting
the noble tradition of ar-Rahmaan
When
collaborating factions
abound with new forms of hypocrisy
He lifts
from the face of upright
religion the dark night of infidelity.
With the
religion in a low
place like a thing made ugly and worthless,
This
youthful Hasani steps
forward spreading wisdom that is priceless:
He does not
kiss up to the
Bushs, nor the Blairs, or any CIA spy ring
He
disseminates the inheritance
from his Beloved ancestor like a king.
He does not
fear in manifesting
the deen of Allah, the people of inkaar-
Those who
give direction to
Allah, full of criticism, who hem and haw.
He manifests
the religion of
Allah in the presence of His sworn enemies
He blots out
their customs with
the sword of good charm and integrity.
He returned
me
back, like an
orphan is returned to its lost mother,
He
reconnected me to the Golden
Chain of my two erudite pious fathers.
I mean by
that
the saint, Ibn
Muhammad, known as Saalih al-Fulaati
The
descendant of Umar from the
hills of Futa in Guinea Conakry
Who spread
the
sacred sciences
in the lands of the Hind and the Hijaaz
And composed
innumerous jewels of
wisdom like his famous Iqaaz,
Who took from
the miraculous
saint, long-lived, firm in the milla
I mean by
that, the erudite
jurists, the Fulani, Muhammad ibn Sinna
Who was from
Bakhouna, west of
Massina, who diffused many ijazaat
Renowned for
his prodigious
memory, his fasting and brilliant karamaat.
For returning
me to my fathers
I am grateful to this youthful Hassani,
This Idrisi,
descendent of the
best of Adnan, Muhammad ibn Abdullahi.
The one of
the
bright face and
brilliant red hair, the smiling waliyyi
The
traveling scholar, the
erudite jurist, Shaykh Muhammad al-Ya`qoubi
May my Lord
give him to drink
and by that make me drink of his love
The milk of
praise from the rain
clouds of Contentment from Above.
By the rank
of
the Messenger of
Allah, the full moon of the Hashim,
Blessings
and peace be upon him
and upon the descendent of Ibrahim.
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