Nur / Light of Muhammad ﷺ Imagine The darkness of pre-eternity Of Allah alone in His Majesty Imagine a Sweet Secret Reality An overflowing Hidden Mystery With no witness. No eye to gaze No tongue to praise No-one to prostrate No earth No slave. Then one day In a time before days Allah called into being A Light so magnificent It could set the universe ablaze Except, the universe had not yet been made. Just the Lord and the light of Muhammad ﷺ Before Adam was between spirit and clay Before the sacred pen was commanded to write And the holy tablet was still a blank page Allah was alone with His beloved ﷺ In a realm of Pure Grace. The knowers say For thousands years he praised The only One worthy to be praised Ahmad is his name in the heavens Because he embodied the essence of praise And from the Light of Allah Came the light of His slave And from the light His slave All of creation was made. Nur of Muhammad ﷺ Draped upon the universe like a cape So when they say “Let there there be Light” We say, that light had a name Ya Muhammad! ﷺ The very same name That Adam saw engraved On the Throne of Al Hayy Through which he sought forgiveness After the slip that he made And after he was forgiven Allah told our father Adam If it were not for Muhammad You would not have been made. Nur of Muhammad ﷺ Poured upon the universe like liquid flames Shards of his light Each of our hearts contain The part of our hearts that remain in praise Even when our limbs have gone astray And we’ve forgotten the way And we struggle to pray.
Ya RasulAllah, We love you
More than we have the ability to articulate
Most times our actions don’t match our claim
Yet still your light, illuminates our way.
And from his light the sun was made Turning darkness to day. There are some who’ve swallowed his flame You can see it in their face Their skin is dripping with his Nur May we always be under their gaze. And on Judgement Day When all are in pursuit of Allah’s shade May we flock to Muhammad ﷺ And may he know our names And may he recognise our face And lead us back to the Presence of Allah And may our paradise Be an existence of perfumed praise
Under God’s Holy gaze.
