Ya Adheeman (Oh Most Magnificent!)

Album: Fartaqi

- by Ahmed Bukhatir

English Translation

My soul is brightened by a light in my heart

When I praised God of mankind

And my soul is cheered up and the tears were flowing

Oh God! guide my heart to reason

In the tranquility of the night I pray during worshiping

While the black darkness is all around me

Oh Kind! Oh Most Merciful! Oh Most Forbearing!

Oh Kind! Your gifts are endless

Oh All-Hearing! Oh Answerer! Oh Most Magnificent!

Oh Creator of the strong predatory animals! Guide me

Guide me to truth, God

I depend on your guidance today

Oh God of the universe! You are my aid

You are the refuge of man in the afterworld

Here I am God, asking your forgiveness

Forgive me and grant me my wish

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Chorus

Ashraqat nafsi bi noorimin fuaadi

Hinama radattu Ya Rabal ibaadi

Wantashat ruhi wasara damu yajri

Ya Ilaahi khuz bi Qalbi lirrashadi

Fi sukoon il ili ad'oo fis sujoodi

Waddoo jahouli sawaadun fis sawaadi

Ya Raoofun , Ya Raheeman , Ya Haleeman

Ya Kareeman , Malilfadhlika min nafaadi

Ya Samee'an , Ya Mujeeban , Ya Adheeman.

Ihdini ya Khaliqas Saba' Ashshidadi

Chorus

Lil huda walhaqi waffiqni ilahi

Fa'ala tawfiqikalyawma i'timaadi

Ya ilaahalkouni, Ya Aouni, Ya Ghawthi

Ya Maalaazal Khalqi Fi Yawmil ma'aadi

Fahaana Ya Rabbi Arjoo minka a'foowa

Faa'fu A'n Zanbi wa haqiqli muraadi

Chorus

Ya Adheeman, Ya Allah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46bblk-8XPY&feature=related

Stop Being a Glass

The old Master instructed the unhappy young man to put a handful of salt in a glass of water and then to drink it.

"How does it taste?" the Master asked. "Awful," spat the apprentice.

The Master chuckled and then asked the young man to take another handful of salt and put it in the lake.

The two walked in silence to the nearby lake and when the apprentice swirled his handful of salt into the lake,

the old man said, "Now drink from the lake."

As the water dripped down the young man's chin, the Master asked, "How does it taste?" "Good!" remarked

the apprentice. "Do you taste the salt?" asked the Master. "No," said the young man.

The Master sat beside this troubled young man, took his hands, and said, "The pain of life is pure salt;

no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same.

But the amount we taste the 'pain' depends on the container we put it into. So when you are in pain,

the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things.....

Stop being a glass. Become a lake!"