الشَّرَابْ الطَّهُورْ
The Purest Drink
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Chapter 3

اَللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ وَسَلِّمْ وَبَارِكْ عَلَيْهْ وَعَلىَ آلِهْ
Allahumma ṣalli wasallim wabārik ʿalayh waʿala ālih
Oh Allāh, send Your mercy, peace and blessings upon him and his Family
فَأَبُوهُ آدَمُ نَالَ تَكْرِمَةً بِهِ
وَلَهُ الْمَلَائِكُ رَبُّنَا قَدْ أَسْجَدَا
fa abūhu ādamu nāla takrimatan bihi
walahul malā’iku rabbunā qad asjadā
Adam, his father, attained distinction through him [Muḥammad],
And our Lord made his angels fall prostrate to him
بِقَوَائِمِ الْعَرْشِ رَأَى اسْمَ مُحَمَّدٍ
مَعَ الإلَهِ فَبَانَ رُتْبَةُ أَحْمَدَا
biqawā’imil ʿarshi ra’ās ma muḥammadin
maʿal ālahi fabāna rutbatu aḥmadā
He [Adam] saw the name Muḥammad [inscribed] on the pillars of the throne
Alongside the Divine, and thus the rank of Aḥmad became manifest
وبِهِ دَعَا مُتَوسِّلاً فَأَجَابَهُ
بِالْوَلَدِ الْأزْكَى قَبِلْنَا الْوَالِدَا
wbihi daʿā mutawssilan fa ajābahu
bil waladil āzkā qabilnal wālidā
And through Muḥammad did Adam supplicate and Allāh responded:
( By the pure child, We accepted (the supplication of) the father)
وَلَمْ يَزَلْ مُتَنَقِّلاً فيِ الْأكْرَمِيـــ
ـــنَ وَكُلَّهُمْ لِلّهِ جَلَّ وَحَّدَا
walam yazal mutanaqqilan fyil ākramī
na wakullahum lillāhi jalla waḥḥadā
He continued journeying through the lineage of the noble,
And all of them affirmed the Divine unity of Allāh the Exalted
وَاللهُ يَكْلَؤُهُ بِعَيْنِ عِنَايَةٍ
حَتَّى تَلَقَّاهُ أَبٌ قَدْ مُجِّدَا
wa Allahu yaklauhu biʿayni ʿināyatin
ḥattā talaqqāhu abun qad mujjidā
Allāh safeguarded (his lineage) with Divine solicitude,
Until his noble father, a servant of the Divine, received him
عَبْدُ الْإلَهِ فَحَمَلَتْ آمِنَةٌ
بِالْمُصْطَفَى فَكَانَ فَخْراً أَمْجَدَا
ʿabdul ālahi faḥamalat āminatun
bil muṣṭafā fakāna fakhran amjadā
Āminah carried the Selected one,
And this was a supreme and glorious privilege
وَلَمْ تَجِدْ ثِقَلًا وَلَا أَلَماً وَكَمْ
قَدْ شَاهَدَتْ آيَاتٍ تَسْمُو سُؤْدَدَا
walam tajid thiqalan walā alaman wakam
qad shāhadat āyātin tasmū su’dadā
She experienced neither toil nor discomfort,
And how many signs she witnessed of ever-increasing sublimity!
حَلَّ السُّعُودُ وَضَجَّتِ الْأَمْلَاكُ عِنْـــ
ـــدَ الْوَضْعِ بِالتَّسْبِيحِ قَد فَاضَ النَّدَى
ḥallas suʿūdu waḍajjatil amlāku ʿin
dal waḍʿi bit tasbīḥi qad fāḍan nadā
At the occasion of the birth, contentment descended and political hegemony fell into disarray
And so, due to Allāh’s transcendence, flowed Divine largesse without measure.
سُبْحَانَ اللهْ وَالحَمْدُ لِلّهْ وَ لا إلَهَ إلَّا اَللهْ وَ اللهُ أكْبَرْ (أربع مرات)
subḥāna Allah wal ḥamdu lillāh wa lā alaha allā Allah wa Allahu akbar ārbʿ mrāt
Glory be to Allāh, all praise is for Allāh, there is no deity save Allāh, Allāh is supreme
وَ لَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ إلَّا بِاللّهِ العَلِيِّ العَظِيمِ فِي كُلِّ لَحْظَةٍ أبَداً عَدَدَ خَلْقِهْ وَ رِضَا نَفْسِهْ وَ زِنَةَ عَرْشِهْ وَ مِدَادَ كَلِمَاتِهْ
wa lā ḥawla walā quwwata allā billāhil ʿaliyyil ʿaẓīmi fī kulli laḥẓatin abadan ʿadada khalqih wa riḍā nafsih wa zinata ʿarshih wa midāda kalimātih
And there is neither power nor strength save in Allāh, the High, the Tremendous, at every moment, eternally, for the number of His creation, the contentment of His being, the weight of His Throne and the extent of His words.
فِي لَيْلَةِ الْإثْنَيْنِ عَامَ الفِيلِ فِي
شَهْرِ رَبِيعٍ أَبْرَزَتْ شَمْسَ الهُدَى
fī laylatil āthnayni ʿāmal fīli fī
shahri rabīʿin abrazat shamsal hudā
On a Monday morning, in the year of the elephant,
In the month of Rabī’, she gave birth to the sun of guidance
فَبَدَا قَطِيعَ السُّرِّ مَكْحُولاً وَمَخْـــ
ـــتُوناً بَهِيًّا لِلْمُهَيْمِنِ سَاجِدا
fabadā qaṭīʿas surri makḥūlan wamakh
tūnan bahiyyan lilmuhaymini sājidā
With a severed umbilical cord, antimony applied to his eyes,
Circumcised, resplendent, prostrating to the Sovereign Lord – Muḥammad was born