Diwan

By: Shaykh Alawi

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Good news to you, my friends!

News of nearness and drawing near!

You are gathered in security

As long as you are Allah’s party.

Good news to you, my masters!

Good news to you, my lovers!

Good news about what is coming —

You are in the mercy of Allah.

Your being joined is the source of mercy

Your being joined has a wisdom in it

Whoever loves you, rises —

The pleasure of Allah is yours.

The pleased is with good pleasure

And mercy as well as forgiveness.

You are the party of the Merciful

You are the awliya of Allah.

Your tariq does not seep away,

Your lover does not come to nothing.

By Allah! You have manifestation

In all of Allah’s creation.

You stood at His door

You were annihilated in His dhikr

Good news to you of His nearness!

You are in the Presence of Allah!

Among you is the king and the majdhoub,

Among you is the lover and beloved —

The veils have departed from you —

Among you is the one who unifies Allah.

The suns of the tariq are among you

The Rijal of realization are among you,

The annihilated and the lover are among you,

The one with gnosis of Allah is among you.

The Rijal of the beginning are among you,

The lords of presence are among you —

The one from whom the veil has gone

Sees only Allah.

Good news for him! He has obtained his desire!

Good news for him.

He has gained possession of the meaning!

By Allah! He was accepted in Allah’s knowledge.

The full moon of full moons gave me good news

Of victory with manifestation —

Our lover in happiness,

Surrounded by the lutf of Allah.

By Allah, he spoke

The most eloquent word

We helped you in the Assembly

You are in the security of Allah.

The spirit of the Master gave me good news

Al-Buzidi, the one with help,

When he spoke to me with ijtihad

After taking an oath by Allah.

Your lover is secure.

Your murid is safeguarded.

You are the springs of the Merciful

The secret of Allah is in your hands.

The proclamation is in your hands

You can lift the veils!

You are the lords of presence —

You are the awliya of Allah.

We have permission to dispose freely

Of that subtle secret

Oh excellent obligation

For the pleased, may Allah reward him!

His secret is in our being joined together,

His wine is in our cup

His knowledge is in our speech.

By Allah! We are not other than Him.

Our overflowing is from His overflowing

Our secret is from His secret.

Our branch is from His root,

Oh the one who does not understand its meaning.

Secretly and openly

I addressed the people of the journey.

Whoever in my age

Comes to us, finds his desire.

I have counseled all the slaves,

Especially the people of the cities.

Whoever seeks in ijtihad

Desires Allah.

He comes, even if just to test it,

And he has a portion from us.

This is a near road

Which has come to us from Allah’s favor.

We give him counsel in the Path

And he makes me a companion in it

We show him the meaning of realization,

Pure for the face of Allah.

He agrees with me about the days

We do not seek years from him.

If he obtains the desire

He will be a slave of Allah.

I have a cure for creation

I have what will obliterate other

We do not mean to attack it with it

We are rich by Allah’s favor.

I am rich with the goal,

What do I have and what does denial have?

We do not see in existence

Any appearing in tajalli except Allah.

Sometimes we are annihilated in Him,

And we have that meaning.

Sometimes we are rich in Him,

Free from all of Allah’s creation.

Sometimes He appears away from me,

He makes me withdraw from my being.

Who am I and where am I

In the tajalli of the essence of Allah?

Had it not been for the witnessed Messenger,

Had it not been for the lover of the beloved,

We would have wandered from the limits

And divulged the secret of Allah.

May the Lord bless him

And give tajalli with good pleasure

On all the Companions