Shaykh Uthman Dan Fuduye's Poem of Maddat to Shaykh Abdal-Qadir al-Jilani

Shaykh Uthman Dan Fuduye's Poem of Maddat calling on the Spiritual Help of Ghawth Al-Adhim Shaykh Abdal-Qadir al-Jilani.

The poem is composed in Fulfulde` called ‘Yuqahiru Qadiri’ in 41 stanzas where Shaykh Uthman Dan Fuduye demonstrates his intense love of Shaykh Abdal-Qadir al-Jilani and asked Allah ta`ala by means of the spiritual ranks of the Shaykh to make him and his Jama`at victorious with the religion against the dominant forces of disbelief.

Shaykh Uthman Ibn Fuduye’s Glad Tidings to the Community of Ahmad Regarding the Outstanding Virtues of the Qaadiriyya’; is about our master the Sultan of the Awliyya Shaykh Muhyud-Deen Abdal-Qaadir al-Jilani. Translated by Shaykh Muhammad Shareef of Siiasi.org

O Lord, who knows the inward as well as the outward
Answer the one who calls in the name of `Abdal-Qadir

The blessings of Ahmad in the lands of Allah
Have become universal and abundant by Abdal-Qadir

O Lord, who gives bountifully to His servants
Connect me by means of Your Bounty with Shaykh Abdal-Qadir

Naturally evil people take refuge with those of nobility
So I take refuge with the nobility of Shaykh Abdal-Qadir

If I have not done well, then my master has performed excellently
Verily I am one spiritually affiliated with Abdal-Qadir

Although I do not deserve to be answered, yet answer me
Because my medium is the spiritual rank of Abdal-Qadir

Our beliefs along with Sunna in obedience
Increase me in them by means of Shaykh Abdal-Qadir

And disbelief along with heretical innovation and disobedience
Make them far from me by the abundant prestige of Abdal-Qadir

O Lord increase me in the understanding of beneficial sciences
From the spiritual rank which is named Abdal-Qadir

Make me conquering with Your religion in these lands
From the spiritual ranks of Abdal-Qadir

O Lord then conceal me by Your concealment forever
From the spiritual rank which is name Abdal-Qadir

Preserve me from shaytaan among human beings and
From the jinn by the prestige of Shaykh Abdal-Qadir

And the afflictions of this world and Hereafter save me
From the spiritual rank which is called Abdal-Qadir

Make my affairs excellent in this world and in the Hereafter
By the spiritual place of those who supplicate by means of Abdal-Qadir

O Lord make all hardships easy for me when
Death comes by the spiritual place of Abdal-Qadir

O Lord then make my ending be excellent
From the spiritual rank which is called Abdal-Qadir

O Lord make easy for me the answering of Munkar
And Nakeer by the spiritual place of Abdal-Qadir

O Lord save me from the punishment of the grave
O Lord by the spiritual ranks of Abdal-Qadir

O Lord bless me with the blessings of the grave from
The spiritual ranks of the one named Abdal-Qadir

O Lord save me from the heat of the sun of the Day of Standing
O Lord from the spiritual ranks of Abdal-Qadir

My Lord give me my book in my right hand
O Lord from the spiritual ranks of Abdal-Qadir

O Lord make easy for me the Reckoning during my standing
O Lord from the spiritual ranks of Abdal-Qadir

O Lord make my scales heavy for me Tomorrow
O Lord from the spiritual ranks of Abdal-Qadir

O Lord permit me to pass over the Bridge over Hell
O Lord from the spiritual ranks of Abdal-Qadir

O Lord enter me under the intercession of Ahmad
The best of creatures by the spiritual place of Abdal-Qadir

O Lord give me to drink from the Basin of Ahmad
The best of creatures by the spiritual place of Abdal-Qadir

O Lord redeem me from the Fire and let me enter
Into the Paradise by the spiritual place of Abdal-Qadir

O Lord marry me to Its large eyed virgins
O Lord from the spiritual ranks of Abdal-Qadir

Show me, my Allah, the face of Ahmad my refuge
The best of creatures by the spiritual place of Abdal-Qadir

O Lord regarding the Vision of Your Essence, include me
And answer my supplications by means of Abdal-Qadir

And answer the supplications of our men and our women
O Lord from the spiritual ranks of Abdal-Qadir

As well as the supplications of every believer, accept them
My poetic verses are our means to access Abdal-Qadir

Answer the supplications of the author along with the scribe
O Lord from the spiritual ranks of Abdal-Qadir

Answer the supplications of the one who memorizes it and recites it
O Lord from the spiritual ranks of Abdal-Qadir

Answer the supplications of the one who hears it along with the one made happy
With the poem from the spiritual ranks of Abdal-Qadir

It is completed in the month of Rabi’l-Awwal
The month of Ahmad the grandfather of Abdal-Qadir

According to the history of his hijra basheer (1212), so rejoice
And take as an intermediary Shaykh Abdal-Qadir

I have Arabized what my brother, my Shaykh composed in no- Arabic
Both of us together taking as intermediary Abdal-Qadir

The letters of my poem following exactly the pattern of his letters
Except in a few places, step by step
I hope through my partnership with him for acceptance
Because I am a disciple of the disciple of Abdal-Qadir

The blessings of Ahmad in the lands of Allah
Has become universal and abundant by Abdal-Qadir.”

O Allah by the right of Shaykh Abdal Qadir Jilani we ask You for Success and to make us die in Islam
Allahumma bihaqqi Abdal Qadir Jilani nasalukat-tawfiqa wal mim-maata 'alal-islam.