Al Mahabbah Awards

Poem on the Prophet SAW by Ibn Juzayy al-Kalbi

Poem on the Prophet SAW by Ibn Juzayy al-Kalbi

I desired to praise the Chosen One and was hindered

By my own inability to grasp the extent of his glory.

How can one such as I measure an ocean, when the ocean is vast?

And how can one such as I count the stones and the stars?

If all of my limbs were to become tongues, even then –

Even then I could not begin to praise him as I desired.

And if all of creation gathered together in an attempt

To praise him, even then they would stint in his due.

I have altogether ceased trying – awestruck, clinging to courtesy,

Tempered by timidity, glorifying his most exalted rank.

Indeed, sometimes silence holds within it the essence of eloquence,

And often speech merely fodder for the faultfinder.

http://sandala.org/blog/2012/02/05/if-you-don%E2%80%99t-like-the-mawlid-watch-out/