Qaṣīdat al-Burda
The Poem of the Mantle (transliteration)
Chapter One: Nostalgic Rhapsody and Love Complaint
1 Amin tadhakkuri jīrānin bi dhī salami Mazajta damʿan jarā min muqlatin bidami
2 Am habbatir rīhu min tilqāʾi kādhimatin Wa awmaḍal barqu fīẓ ẓulmāʾi min iḍami
3 Famā li ʿaynayka in qultakfufā hamatā Wa mā li qalbika in qultastafiq yahimi
4 Ayaḥsabuṣ ṣabbu annal ḥubba munkatimun Mā bayna munsajimin minhu wa muḍṭarimi
5 Lawlal hawā lam turiq damʿan ʿalā ṭalalin Wa lā ariqta li dhikril bāni wal ʿalami
6 Fakayfa tunkiru ḥubban baʿda mā shahidat Bihi ʿalayka ʿudūlud damʿi was saqami
7 Wa athbatal wajdu khaṭṭay ʿabratin wa ḍanā Mithlal bahāri ʿalā khaddayka wal ʿanami
8 Naʿam sarā ṭayfu man ahwā fa arraqanī Wal ḥubbu yaʿtariḍul ladhdhati bil alami
9 Yā lāʾimī fīl hawal ʿudhriyyi maʿdhiratan Minnī ilayka wa law anṣafta lam talumi
10 ʿAdatka ḥāliya lā sirrī bi mustatirin ʿAnil wushāti wa lā dāʾī bimunḥasimi
11 Maḥḥaḍtanī nuṣḥa lākin lastu asmaʿuhu Innal muḥibba ʿanil ʿudhdhāli fī ṣamami
12 Innit tahamtu naṣīḥash shaybi fī ʿadhalī Wash shaybu abʿadu fī nuṣḥin ʿanit tuhami
Chapter Two: Warnings about the Caprices of the Ego
1 Fa inna ammāratī bis sūʾi mat taʿaẓat Min jahlihā bi nadhīrish shaybi wal harami
2 Wa lā aʿaddat minal fiʿlil jamīli qirā Ḍayfin alamma bi raʾsī ghayra muḥtashimi
3 Law kuntu aʿlamu annī mā uwaqqiruhu Katamtu sirran badālī minhu bil katami
4 Man lī biraddi jimāḥin min ghiwāyatihā Kamā yuraddu jimāḥul khayli bil lujumi
5 Falā tarum bil maʿāṣī kasra shahwatihā Innaṭ ṭaʿāma yuqawwī shahwatan nahimi
6 Wan nafsu kaṭṭifli in tuhmilhu shabba ʿalā Ḥubbir raḍāʿi wa in tafṭimhu yanfaṭimi
7 Faṣrif hawāhā wa ḥādhir an tuwalliyahu Innal hawā mā tawallā yuṣmi aw yaṣimi
8 Wa rāʿihā wa hiya fīl aʿmāli sāʾimatun Wa in hiyastaḥlatil marʿā falā tusimi
9 Kam ḥassanat ladhdhatan lil marʾi qātilatan Min ḥaythu lam yadri annas summa fid dasami
10 Wakhshad dasāʾisa min jūʿin wa min shibaʿin Farubba makhmaṣatin sharrun minat tukhami
11 Wastafrighid damʿa min ʿaynin qadimtalaʾat Minal maḥārimi walzam ḥimyatan nadami
12 Wa khālifin nafsa wash shayṭāna waʿṣihimā Wa in humā maḥaḍākan nuṣḥa fat tahimi
13 Wa lā tuṭiʿ minhumā khaṣman walā ḥakaman Fa anta taʿrifu kaydal khaṣmi wal ḥakami
14 AstaghfiruLlāha min qawlin bilā ʿamalin Laqad nasbtu bihi naslan lidhī ʿuqumi
15 Amartukal khayra lākin māʾtamartu bihi Wa māstaqamtu famā qawlī lakastaqimi
16 Wa lā tazawwadtu qablal mawti nāfīlatan Wa lam uṣalli siwā farḍin wa lam aṣumi
Chapter Three: Praise of the Prophet ﷺ
1 Ẓalamtu sunnata man aḥyādh ẓalāma ilā Anishtakat qadamāhuḍ ḍurra min warami
2 Wa shadda min saghabin aḥshāʾahu wa ṭawā Taḥtal ḥijārati kash-ḥan mutrafal adami
3 Wa rāwadat-hul jibālush shummu min dhahabin ʿAn nafsihi fa arāhā ayyamā shamami
4 Wa akkadat zuhdahu fīhā ḍarūratuhu Innaḍ ḍarūrata lā taʿdū ʿalal ʿiṣami
5 Wa kayfa tadʿū ilad dunyā ḍarūratu man Lawlāhu lam tukhrajid dunyā minal ʿadami
6 Muḥammadun sayyidul kawnayni wath thaqalay- -ni wal farīqayni min ʿurbin wa min ʿajami
7 Nabiyyunal āmirun nāhī falā aḥadun Abarra fī qawli lā minhu wa lā naʿami
8 Huwal ḥabībul ladhī turjā shafāʿatuhu Li kulli hawlin minal ahwāli muqtaḥami
9 Daʿā ilaLlāhi fal mustamsikūna bihi Mustamsikūna biḥablin ghayri munfaṣimi
10 Fāqan nabiyyīna fī khalqin wa fī khuluqin Wa lam yudānūhu fī ʿilmin wa lā karami
11 Wa kulluhum min rasūliLlāhi multamisun Gharfan minal baḥri aw rashfan minad diyami
12 Wa wāqifūna ladayhi ʿinda ḥaddihimi Min nuqṭatil ʿilmi aw min shaklatil ḥikami
13 Fa huwal ladhī tamma maʿnāhu wa ṣūratuhu Thummaṣṭafāhu ḥabīban bāriʾun nasami
14 Munazzahun ʿan sharīkin fī maḥāsinihi Fa jawharul ḥusni fīhi ghayru munqasimi
15 Daʿ maddaʿat-hun naṣārā fī nabiyyihimi Waḥkum bimā shiʾta mad-ḥan fīhi waḥtakimi
16 Wansub ilā dhātihi mā shiʾta min sharafin Wansub ilā qadrihi mā shiʾta min ʿiẓami
17 Fa inna faḍla rasūliLlāhi laysa lahu Ḥaddun fa yuʿriba ʿanhu nāṭiqun bifami
18 Law nāsabat qadrahu āyātuhu ʿiẓaman Aḥyaʾsmuhu ḥīna yudʿā dārisar rimami
19 Lam yamtaḥinnā bimā taʿyal ʿuqūlu bihi Ḥirṣan ʿalayna falam nartab wa lam nahimi
20 Aʿyal warā fahmu maʿnāhu falaysa yurā Fīl qurbi wal buʿdi fīhi ghayru munfaḥimi
21 Kash shamsi taẓ-haru lil ʿaynayni min buʿudin Ṣaghīratan wa tukilluṭ ṭarfa min amami
22 Wa kayfa yudriku fid dunyā ḥaqīqatahu Qawmun niyāmun tasallū ʿanhu bil ḥulumi
23 Fa mablaghul ʿilmi fīhi annahu basharun Wa annahu khayru khalqiLlāhi kullihimi
24 Wa kullu āyin atar ruslul kirāmu bihā Fa innamat taṣalat min nūrihi bihimi
25 Fa innahu shamsu faḍlin hum kawākibuhā Yuẓ-hirna anwārahā lin nāsi fidh ẓulami
26 Akrim bikhalqi nabiyyin zānahu khuluqun Bil ḥusni mushtamilin bil bishri muttasimi
27 Kaz zahri fī tarafin wal badri fī sharafin Wal baḥri fī karamin wad dahri fī himami
28 Ka annahu wa huwa fardun min jalālatihi Fī ʿaskarin ḥīna talqāhu wa fī ḥashami
29 Ka annamal luʾluʾul maknūnu fī ṣadafin Min maʿdinay manṭiqin minhu wa mubtasami
30 Lā ṭība yaʿdilu turban ḍamma aʿẓumahu Ṭūbā li muntashiqin minhu wa multathimi
Chapter Four: On The Prophet's Birth
1 Abāna mawliduhu ʿan ṭībi ʿunṣurihi Yā ṭība mubtadaʾin minhu wa mukhtatami
2 Yawmun tafarrasa fīhil fursu annahumu Qad undhirū biḥulūlil buʾsi wan niqami
3 Wa bāta īwānu kisrā wa huwa munṣadiʿun Ka shamli aṣ-ḥābi kisrā ghayra multaʾimi
4 Wan nāru khāmidatul anfāsi min asafin ʿAlayhi wan nahru sāhil ʿayni min sadami
5 Wa sāʾa sāwata an ghāḍat buḥayratuhā Wa rudda wāriduhā bil ghayẓi ḥīna ẓamī
6 Ka anna bin nāri mā bil māʾi min balalin Ḥuznan wa bil māʾi mā bin nāri min ḍarami
7 Wal jinnu tahtifu wal anwāru sāṭiʿatun Wal ḥaqqu yaẓ-haru min maʿnan wa min kalimi
8 ʿAmmū wa ṣammū fa iʿlānul bashāʾiri lam Yusmaʿ wa bāriqatul indhāri lam tushami
9 Min baʿdi mā akhbaral aqwāma kāhinuhum Bi anna dīnahumul muʿwajja lam yaqumi
10 Wa baʿda mā ʿāyanū fīl ufqi min shuhubin Munqaḍḍatin wifqa mā fīl arḍi min ṣanami
11 Ḥattā ghadā ʿan ṭarīqil waḥyī munhazimun Minash shayāṭīni yaqfū ithra munhazimi
12 Ka annahum haraban abṭālu abrahatin Aw ʿaskarin bil ḥaṣā min rāḥatayhi rumī
13 Nabdhan bihi baʿda tasbīḥin bi baṭnihimā Nabdhal musabbiḥi min aḥshāʾi multaqimi
Chapter Five: The Prophet's Miracles
1 Jāʾat li daʿwatihil ashjāru sājidatan Tamshī ilayhi ʿalā sāqin bilā qadami
2 Ka annamā saṭarat saṭran limā katabat Furūʿuhā min badīʿil khaṭṭi bil laqami
3 Mithlal ghamāmati annā sāra sāʾiratan Taqīhi ḥarra waṭīsin lil hajīri ḥamī
4 Aqsamtu bil qamaril munshaqqi inna lahu Min qalbihi nisbatan mabrūratal qasami
5 Wa mā ḥawal ghāru min khayrin wa min karamin Wa kullu ṭarfin minal kuffāri ʿanhu ʿamī
6 Faṣ ṣidqu fīl ghāri waṣ ṣiddīqu lam yarimā Wa hum yaqūlūna mā bil ghāri min arimi
7 Ẓannul ḥamāma wa ẓannul ʿankabūta ʿalā Khayril bariyyati lam tansuj wa lam taḥumi
8 WiqāyatuLlāhi aghnat ʿan muḍāʿafatin Minad durūʿi wa ʿan ʿālin minal uṭumi
9 Mā sāmanid dahru ḍayman wastajartu bihi Illā wa niltu jiwāran minhu lam yuḍami
10 Wa laltamastu ghinad dārayni min yadihi Illāstalamtun nadā min khayri mustalami
11 Lā tunkiril waḥya min ruʾyāhu inna lahu Qalban idhā nāmatil ʿaynāni lam yanami
12 Wa dhāka ḥīna bulūghin min nubuwwatihi Fa laysa yunkaru fīhi ḥālu muḥtalimi
13 Tabārak Allahu mā waḥyun bi muktasabin Wa lā nabiyyun ʿalā ghaybin bi muttahami
14 Kam abraʾat waṣiban bil lamsi rāḥatuhu Wa aṭlaqat ariban min ribqatil lamami
15 Wa aḥyatis sanatash shahbāʾa daʿwatuhu Ḥattā ḥakat ghurratan fīl aʿṣurid duhumi
16 Bi ʿāriḍin jāda aw khiltal biṭāḥa bihā Sayban minal yammi aw saylan minal ʿarimi
Chapter Six: The Nobility of the Qur’an and its Merit
1 Daʿnī wa waṣfī āyātin lahu ẓaharat Ẓuhūra nāril qirā laylan ʿalā ʿalami
2 Fad durru yazdādu ḥusnan wa huwa muntaẓimun Wa laysa yanquṣu qadran ghayra muntaẓimi
3 Famā taṭāwulu āmālil madīḥi ilā Mā fīhi min karamil akhlāqi wash shiyami
4 Āyātu ḥaqqin minar raḥmāni muḥdathatun Qadīmatun ṣifatul mawṣūfi bil qidami
5 Lam taqtarin bizamānin wa hيya tukhbirunā ʿAnil maʿādi wa ʿan ʿādin wa ʿan irami
6 Dāmat ladaynā fafāqat kulla muʿjizatin Minan nabiyyīna idh jāʾat wa lam tadumi
7 Muḥkamātun famā tubqīna min shubahin Lidhī shiqāqin wa mā tabghīna min ḥakami
8 Mā ḥūribat qaṭṭu illā ʿāda min ḥarabin Aʿdal aʿādī ilayhā mulqiyas salami
9 Raddat balāghatuhā daʿwā muʿāriḍihā Raddal ghayūri yadal jānī ʿanil ḥurami
10 Lahā maʿānin ka mawjil baḥri fī madadin Wa fawqa jawharihi fīl ḥusni wal qiyami
11 Famā tuʿaddu wa lā tuḥṣā ʿajāʾibuhā Wa lā tusāmu ʿalal ikthāri bis saʾami
12 Qarrat bihā ʿaynu qārīhā fa qultu lahu Laqad ẓafirta bi ḥabliLlāhi faʿtaṣimi
13 In tatluhā khīfatan min ḥarri nāri laẓā Aṭfaʾta ḥarra laẓā min wirdihash shabimi
14 Ka annahal ḥawḍu tabyaḍḍul wujūhu bihi Minal ʿuṣāti wa qad jāʾūhu kal ḥumami
15 Wa kaṣṣirāṭi wa kalmīzāni maʿdalatan Falqisṭu min ghayrihā fin nāsi lam yaqumi
16 Lā taʿjaban liḥasūdin rāḥa yunkiruhā Tajāhulan wa huwa ʿaynul ḥādhiqil fahimi
17 Qad tunkirul ʿaynu ḍawʾash shamsi min ramadin Wa yunkirul famu ṭaʿmal māʾi min saqami
Chapter Seven: The Prophet’s Miraculous Night Journey and Celestial Ascension
1 Yā Khayra man yammamal ʿāfūna sāḥatahu Saʿyan wa fawqa mutūnil aynuqir rusumi
2 Wa man huwal āyatul kubrā limuʿtabirin Wa man huwan niʿmatul ʿuẓmā limughtanimi
3 Sarayta min ḥaramin laylan ilā ḥaramin Kamā saral badru fī dājin minaẓ ẓulami
4 Wa bitta tarqā ilā an nilta manzilatan Min qābi qawsayni lam tudrak wa lam turami
5 Wa qaddamatka jamīʿul anbiyāʾi bihā War rusli taqdīma makhdūmin ʿalā khadami
6 Wa anta takhtariqus sabʿaṭ ṭibāqa bihim Fī mawkibin kunta fīhi ṣāhibal ʿalami
7 Ḥattā idhā lam tadaʿ shaʾwan limustabiqin Minad dunuwwi wa lā marqan li mustanimi
8 Khafaḍta kulla maqāmin bil iḍāfati idh Nūdīta bir rafʿi mithlal mufradil ʿalami
9 Kaymā tafūza biwaṣlin ayyi mustatirin ʿAnil ʿuyūni wa sirrin ayyi muktatami
10 Fa ḥuzta kulla fakhārin ghayra mushtarakin Wa juzta kulla maqāmin ghayra muzdaḥami
11 Wa jalla miqdāru wā wullīta min rutabin Wa ʿazza idrāku mā ūlīta min niʿami
12 Bushrā lanā maʿsharal islāmi inna lanā Minal ʿināyati ruknan ghayra munhadimi
13 Lammā daʿāLlāhu dāʿīnā liṭāʿatihi Bi akramir rusli kunna akramal umami
Chapter Eight: The Prophet’s Jihad
1 Rāʿat qulūbal ʿidā anbāʾu biʿthatihi Kanabʾatin ajfalat ghuflan minal ghanami
2 Mā zāla yalqāhumu fī kulli muʿtarakin Ḥattā ḥakaw bil qanā laḥman ʿalā waḍami
3 Waddul firāra fakādū yaghbiṭūna bihi Ashlāʾa shālat maʿal ʿiqbāni war rakhami
4 Tamḍil layālī wa lā yadrūna ʿiddatahā Mā lam takun min layālil ash-huril ḥurumi
5 Ka annamad dīnu ḍayfun ḥalla sāḥatahum Bi kulli qarmin ilā laḥmil ʿidā qarimi
6 Yajurru baḥra khamīsin fawqa sābiḥatin Yarmī bi mawjin minal abṭāli multaṭimi
7 Min kulli muntadibin liLlāhi muḥtasibin Yasṭū bimustaʾṣilin lil kufri muṣṭalimi
8 Ḥatta ghadat millatul islāmi wahya bihim Min baʿdi ghurbatihā mawṣūlatar rahimi
9 Makfūlatan abadan minhum bi khayri abin Wa khayri baʿlin fa lam taytam wa lam taʾimi
10 Humul jibālu fasal ʿanhum muṣādimahum Mādhā raʾā minhumu fī kulli muṣṭadami
11 Wa sal ḥunaynan wa sal badran wa sal uḥudan Fuṣūla ḥatfin lahum adʾhā minal wakhami
12 Almuṣdiril bīḍi ḥumran baʿda mā waradat Minal ʿidā kulla muswaddin minal limami
13 Wal kātibīna bi sumril khaṭṭi mā tarakat Aqlāmuhum ḥarfa jismin ghayra munʿajimi
14 Shākis silāḥi lahum sīmā tumayyizuhum Wal wardu yamtāzu bis sīmā ʿanis salami
15 Tuhdī ilayka riyāḥun naṣri nashrahumu Fataḥsabuz zahra fīl akmāmi kulla kamī
16 Ka annahum fī ẓuhūril khayli nabtu ruban Min shiddatil ḥazmi lā min shiddatil ḥuzumi
17 Ṭārat qulūbul ʿidā min baʾsihim faraqan Famā tufarriqu baynal bahmi wal buhami
18 Wa man takun birasūliLlāhi nuṣratuhu In talqahul usdu fī ājāmihā tajimi
19 Wa lan tarā min waliyyin ghayri muntaṣirin Bihi wa lā min ʿaduwwin ghayri munqasimi
20 Aḥalla ummatahu fī ḥirzi millatihi Kal laythi ḥalla maʿal ashbāli fī ajami
21 Kam jaddalat kalimātuLlāhi min jadilin Fīhi wa kam khaṣamal burhānu min khaṣimi
22 Kafāka bil ʿilmi fīl ummiyyi muʿjizatan Fīl jāhiliyyati wat taʾdībi fīl yutumi
Chapter Nine: Seeking Intercession through the Prophet ﷺ
1 Khadamtuhu bi madīḥin astaqīlu bihi Dhunūba ʿumrin maḍā fish shiʿri wal khidami
2 Idh qalladāniya mā tukhshā ʿawāqibuhu Ka annanī bihimā hadyun minan naʿami
3 Aṭaʿtu ghayyaṣ ṣibā fīl ḥālatayni wa mā Ḥaṣaltu illā ʿalal āthāmi wan nadami
4 Fayā khasārata nafsin fī tijāratihā Lam tashtarid dīna bid dunyā wal lam tasumi
5 Wa man yabiʿ ājilan minhu bi ʿājilihi Yabin lahul ghabnu fī bayʿin wa fī salami
6 In āti dhanban famā ʿahdī bimuntaqiḍin Minan nabiyyi wa lā ḥablī bimunṣarimi
7 Fa inna lī dhimmatan minhu bi tasmiyatī Muḥammadan wa huwa awfāl khalqi bidh dhimami
8 In lam yakun fī maʿādī ākhidhan bi yadī Faḍlan wa illā faqul yā zallatal qadami
9 Ḥāshāhu an yaḥrimar rājī makārimahu Aw yarjiʿal jāru minhu ghayra muḥtarami
10 Wa mundhu alzamtu afkārī madāʾiḥahu Wajadtuhu likhalāṣī khayra multazimi
11 Wa lan yafūtal ghinā minhu yadan taribat Innal ḥayā yunbitul azhāra fīl akami
12 Wa lam urid zahratad dunyal latiqtaṭafat Yadā zuhayrin bimā athnā ʿalā harimi
Chapter Ten: Intimate Discourse and the Petition of Needs
1 Yā akramal khalqi mālī man alūdhu bihi Siwāka ʿinda ḥulūlil ḥādithil ʿamimi
2 Wa lan yaḍīqa rasūlaLlāhi jāhuka bī Idhal karīmu tajjalā bismi muntaqimi
3 Fa inna min jūdikad dunyā wa ḍarratahā Wa min ʿulūmika ʿilmal lawḥi wal qalami
4 Yā nafsu lā taqnaṭī min zallatin ʿaẓumat Innal kabāʾira fīl ghufrāni kal lamami
5 Laʿalla raḥmata rabbī ḥīna yaqsimuhā Taʾtī ʿalā ḥasabil ʿiṣyāni fīl qisami
6 Yā rabbi wajʿal rajāʾī ghayra munʿakisin Ladayka wajʿal ḥisābī ghayra munkharimi
7 Walṭuf biʿabdika fid dārayni inna lahu Ṣabran matā tadʿuhul ahwālu yanhazimi
8 Waʾdhan lisuḥbi ṣalātin minka dāʾimatin ʿAlan nabiyyi bimunhallin wa munsajimi
9 Mā rannaḥat ʿadhabātil bāni rīḥu ṣaban Wa aṭrabal ʿīsa ḥādil ʿīsi bin naghami
10 Thummar riḍā ʿan abī bakrin wa ʿan ʿumarin Wa ʿan ʿaliyyin wa ʿan ʿuthmāna dhil karami
11 Wal āli waṣ ṣaḥbi thummat tābiʿīna fahum Ahlut tuqā wan naqā wal ḥilmi wal karami
12 Yā rabbi bil muṣṭafā balligh maqāṣidanā Waghfir lanā mā maḍā yā wāsiʿal karami
13 Waghfir ilāhī li kullil muslimīna bimā Yatluna fīl masjidil aqṣā wa fīl ḥarami
14 Bijāhi man baytuhu fī ṭaybatin ḥaramun Wasmuhu qasamun min aʿẓamil qasami
15 Wa hādhihi burdatul mukhtāri qad khutimat Walḥamdu liLlāhi fī badʾin wa fī khatami
16 Abyātuhā qad atat sittīna maʿ miʾatin Farrij bihā karbanā yā wāsiʿal karami