The Truth, Be Praised Beyond Compare Poem by Mohammad Younus

The Truth, be praised beyond compare;
Just to know the Truth is my salvation;
My heart is the house of prayer,
For Thy worship! For thy adoration!
Offering and prayer, do I joyfully bring there,
And sing my songs of love and peace;
Psalms of Dedication! Psalms of glorification!

Woe was mine in following the false gods,
(Tyrant Satan had enslaved me) ,
Till Thy mighty out-stretched Hand,
From the Satan's stronghold saved me;
Iblis, envying my honoured position,
Had vowed my swift undoing;
So he let his ferocious hordes to chase me.

That proud boast did not accept my authority;
He rebelled and also worked his tricks,
To make me a rebel too!
From Thy Holy City, the Paradise of Peace,
Therefore I was expelled, to wander in the world.

With false gods I went astray in my exile;
Torn from all that I cherished in the paradise,
Almost had I perished;
But, you saved me from my foes by sending,
Mustafa for my salvation from wilderness;
To restore me to my honoured position!

But the vengeful evil nafs subtly betrays me;
In its snare my nafs catches me to beguile me;
Lord, please speed my restoration to thy presence;
My sincere obedience to you and to Mustafa,
Be my wasilah to thee—
So that on the Day of Judgement, You free me,
From my long probation on earth;
My tribulations shall end by your mercy,
If you decree my salvation on that day!

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