نُورُ الهُدَى وَافَانَا
The Light of Guidance Has Reached Us
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نُــــــورُ الــــــهُــــــدَى وَافَــــــانَــــــا
بِــــــحُــــــسْــــــنِــــــهِ أَحْــــــيَــــــانَــــــا
nūrul hudā wāfānā
biḥusnihi aḥyānā
The Light of Guidance has reached us,
By his beauty, he has revived us,
وَبِــــــالــــــلَّــــــقَــــــا حَــــــيَّــــــانَــــــا
صَــــــلَّ عَــــــلَــــــيْــــــهِ مَــــــوْلَانَــــــا
wabil llaqā ḥayyānā
ṣalla ʿalayhi mawlānā
By his meeting, he has honored us,
May our Lord send blessings upon him
أَهْــــــلًا بِــــــهِ وَسَــــــهْــــــلًا
قَــــــدْ طَــــــابَ فِــــــيـــــهِ الْــــــمَـــــجْــــلَــــى
ahlan bihi wasahlan
qad ṭāba fīhil majlā
Welcome to him, a heartfelt welcome!
The gathering has become sweet through him,
حَــــــلَّ الــــــهَــــــنَــــــا مُــــــذْ حَــــــلَّ
صَــــــلَّ عَــــــلَــــــيْــــــهِ مَــــــوْلَانَــــــا
ḥallal hanā mudh ḥalla
ṣalla ʿalayhi mawlānā
Bliss arrived the moment he arrived,
May our Lord send blessings upon him
نُــــــورُ الــــــهُــــــدَى وَافَــــــانَــــــا
بِــــــحُــــــسْــــــنِــــــهِ أَحْــــــيَــــــانَــــــا
nūrul hudā wāfānā
biḥusnihi aḥyānā
The Light of Guidance has reached us,
By his beauty, he has revived us,
وَبِــــــالــــــلَّــــــقَــــــا حَــــــيَّــــــانَــــــا
صَــــــلَّ عَــــــلَــــــيْــــــهِ مَــــــوْلَانَــــــا
wabil llaqā ḥayyānā
ṣalla ʿalayhi mawlānā
By his meeting, he has honored us,
May our Lord send blessings upon him
هــــــذَا الْــــــمَــــــلَاذُ الْــــــعَــــــظِــــــيــــــمِ
هــــــذَا الــــــرَّؤُوْفُ الــــــرَّحِــــــيــــــمِ
hdhal malādhul ʿaẓīmi
hdhar rauwfur raḥīmi
This is the great refuge,
The one who is kind and merciful,
أَتَــــــى بِــــــقَــــــلْــــــبٍ سَــــــلِــــــيــــــم
صَــــــلَّ عَــــــلَــــــيْــــــهِ مَــــــوْلَانَــــــا
atā biqalbin salīm
ṣalla ʿalayhi mawlānā
He came with a pure and sound heart,
May our Lord send blessings upon him
نُــــــورُ الــــــهُــــــدَى وَافَــــــانَــــــا
بِــــــحُــــــسْــــــنِــــــهِ أَحْــــــيَــــــانَــــــا
nūrul hudā wāfānā
biḥusnihi aḥyānā
The Light of Guidance has reached us,
By his beauty, he has revived us,
وَبِــــــالــــــلَّــــــقَــــــا حَــــــيَّــــــانَــــــا
صَــــــلَّ عَــــــلَــــــيْــــــهِ مَــــــوْلَانَــــــا
wabil llaqā ḥayyānā
ṣalla ʿalayhi mawlānā
By his meeting, he has honored us,
May our Lord send blessings upon him
يَــــــا رَحْــــــمَــــــةَ الْــــــعَــــــالَــــــمِــــــيــــــن
يَــــــا نِــــــعْــــــمَــــــةً لَا تَــــــمِــــــيــــــن
yā raḥmatal ʿālamīn
yā niʿmatan lā tamīn
O mercy to all the worlds,
O blessing that never falters,
مُــــــطَــــــاعِــــــاً ثَـــــمَّ أَمِــــــيــــــن
صَــــــلَّ عَــــــلَــــــيْــــــهِ مَــــــوْلَانَــــــا
muṭāʿian thamma amīn
ṣalla ʿalayhi mawlānā
He is obeyed and trusted,
May our Lord send blessings upon him
نُــــــورُ الــــــهُــــــدَى وَافَــــــانَــــــا
بِــــــحُــــــسْــــــنِــــــهِ أَحْــــــيَــــــانَــــــا
nūrul hudā wāfānā
biḥusnihi aḥyānā
The Light of Guidance has reached us,
By his beauty, he has revived us,
وَبِــــــالــــــلَّــــــقَــــــا حَــــــيَّــــــانَــــــا
صَــــــلَّ عَــــــلَــــــيْــــــهِ مَــــــوْلَانَــــــا
wabil llaqā ḥayyānā
ṣalla ʿalayhi mawlānā
By his meeting, he has honored us,
May our Lord send blessings upon him
يَــــــا مُــــــدَّعِــــــي حُــــــبَّــــــهُ
بِــــــهِ أَطِــــــعْ أَمْــــــرَهُ
yā muddaʿī ḥubbahu
bihi aṭiʿ amrahu
O you who claim to love him,
Obey his commands and follow him!
غَــــــداً تَــــــنَــــــالَ قُــــــرْبَــــــهُ
صَــــــلَّ عَــــــلَــــــيْــــــهِ مَــــــوْلَانَــــــا
ghadan tanāla qurbahu
ṣalla ʿalayhi mawlānā
Tomorrow, you shall gain closeness to him,
May our Lord send blessings upon him
نُــــــورُ الــــــهُــــــدَى وَافَــــــانَــــــا
بِــــــحُــــــسْــــــنِــــــهِ أَحْــــــيَــــــانَــــــا
nūrul hudā wāfānā
biḥusnihi aḥyānā
The Light of Guidance has reached us,
By his beauty, he has revived us,
وَبِــــــالــــــلَّــــــقَــــــا حَــــــيَّــــــانَــــــا
صَــــــلَّ عَــــــلَــــــيْــــــهِ مَــــــوْلَانَــــــا
wabil llaqā ḥayyānā
ṣalla ʿalayhi mawlānā
By his meeting, he has honored us,
May our Lord send blessings upon him
أَحْــــــمَــــــدُنَــــــا الْــــــمُــــــصْــــــطَــــــفَــــــى
بَــــــحْــــــرُ الــــــصَّــــــفَــــــا وَ الْــــــوَفَــــــا
aḥmadunal muṣṭafā
baḥruṣ ṣafā wal wafā
Our Ahmad, the Chosen One,
The ocean of purity and loyalty,
فَــــــالْــــــمَــــــدْحُ فِــــــيــــــهِ شِــــــفَــــــا
صَــــــلَّ عَــــــلَــــــيْــــــهِ مَــــــوْلَانَــــــا
fal madḥu fīhi shifā
ṣalla ʿalayhi mawlānā
In his praise, there is healing and cure,
May our Lord send blessings upon him
نُــــــورُ الــــــهُــــــدَى وَافَــــــانَــــــا
بِــــــحُــــــسْــــــنِــــــهِ أَحْــــــيَــــــانَــــــا
nūrul hudā wāfānā
biḥusnihi aḥyānā
The Light of Guidance has reached us,
By his beauty, he has revived us,
وَبِــــــالــــــلَّــــــقَــــــا حَــــــيَّــــــانَــــــا
صَــــــلَّ عَــــــلَــــــيْــــــهِ مَــــــوْلَانَــــــا
wabil llaqā ḥayyānā
ṣalla ʿalayhi mawlānā
By his meeting, he has honored us,
May our Lord send blessings upon him
بِــــــحَــــــقِّــــــهِ يَــــــا سَــــــلَام
وَ فَــــــضْــــــل آلِ كِــــــرَام
biḥaqqihi yā salām
wa faḍl āli kirām
By his right, O Giver of Peace,
And the virtue of his noble family,
وَصَــــــحْــــــبِــــــهِ بِــــــالْــــــخِــــــتَــــــام
صَــــــلَّ عَــــــلَــــــيْــــــهِ مَــــــوْلَانَــــــا
waṣaḥbihi bil khitām
ṣalla ʿalayhi mawlānā
And his companions, at the conclusion,
May our Lord send blessings upon him