" ONE GOD" Poem by Walid Lounès Bouzerar

The One God

My name is the newly begotten
And my Lord is He Who begets not
Nor is He begotten nor does He forget
al-Ahad, al-Samad, who Brought Forth and Taught

He Says to a thing “Be” so it is
Reason cannot encompass Him nor can thought
Though He is always found when He is Sought
Blessed is the Name of He in Whose Hands we were Wrought

Allah, al-Hayy, al-Qayyum, al-Muhyi, al-Mumit
al-Wahid, al-Ahad, al-Fard, al-Samad
Through His Providing we drink and we feed
The One Sustainer, our Self-Subsisting God

His Plotting Overpowers every creature's plot
Every man is compelled by He who Created him from a clot
Every intention against His Will leads to naught
Blessed is this Divine Net in which we are caught!

He is All-Pure, All-Perfect, All-Seeing, All-Hearing
Who is heedful of Him is blessed, who is heedless is flawed
He is al-Jabbar, al-Qahhar, blessed are the God-fearing
Who in the day and in the night by His Jalal are awed

And the first creation He Fashioned is a Resplendent Lightﷺ
And thus the first created and the last to be sent is this Messenger of Godﷺ
Muhammad, Ahmad, Mustafa, Mahmood, Creation's Highest Heightﷺ
al-Amin, al-Matin, al-Ra'uf, al-Rahim, whom the Lord did laudﷺ

The oneﷺ not taught by creature's writings nor their flawed thoughts
But directly by hisﷺ Creator, the Infinitely Wise, All-Knowing God
Who was presentﷺ with us on the Day of “We witness You are our God”
And his messageﷺ is an exegesis of this Day of Alast, for those who forgot

Blessed is his existenceﷺ, blessed is what Muhammad has broughtﷺ
Blessed is this Divine Market in which believers' selves are bought
O Allah, bless this Perfect Exemplar for Manﷺ , who errs not
Our Master, the Coolness of our Eyes, the Blessed Messenger of Godﷺ

- Walid Lounès Bouzerar