Baqer al-Ulum: Poetry - A Rewritten English Translation

Introduction

Baqer al-Ulum: Poetry
Baqer al-Ulum: Poetry

The Poem

• Scholars are superior to worshippers in the view of Baqer al-Ulum.
• Like the wise, they are fountains of divine knowledge and virtue, originating from the spring of Kawthar.
• They are lower than the people in terms of weakness, restlessness, and laziness.
• People are higher than them in terms of effort, patience, and piety.
• O Baqer al-Ulum, you have unveiled the secrets of the universe with your world-revealing knowledge.
• You have guided followers towards purity of the soul with your evident virtues.
• Patience and forbearance are mixed with the gem of knowledge, as seen in your wisdom.
• You encourage the pursuit of knowledge with your jewel-like guidance.
• Your followers are elevated through the gift of divine knowledge (Kawthar).
• They are more valuable than others in adorning the ethics of believers with divine virtues.
• If people benefit from your blessings, they are more credible to the world.
• If people neglect your guidance, they are more ashamed.
• You consider forgiveness as the cause of purity of deeds in relation to relatives.
• You consider the blessing of receiving wealth and removing calamities through kinship.
• You consider love for piety, trustworthiness, and truthfulness as a purification from secrets.
• You consider kindness as a factor in increasing lifespan through good relations with family and relatives.
• You consider the ultimate perfection to be understanding religion and persevering through hardships, as seen in your wisdom.
• You consider measuring expenses as an aid to the livelihood of life, as seen in your wisdom.
• Forgiveness and humility should be the foundation of two principles of ethics, as seen in your wisdom.
• You consider the benefit of a scholar and a learned person to be in teaching, as seen in your wisdom.
• O Imam of the religion, Baqer al-Ulum, who knows the news of the secrets of God,
• In which moment of the Night of Power do you complete the appearance of the Imam al-Mahdi?
• By which of the Most Beautiful Names and the Greatest Names of God do you swear that your supplication will be answered?
• What words of prayer do you consider to be the factor for the entry of people into the best understanding?
• Sprinkling the fragrance of the flower of Muhammad.

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