Qasidah:Mawlana Khalid al-Baghdadi (r.a)

Mawlana Khalid al-Baghdadi (Kuddisa sirruh),

the mujaddid of the thirteenth century expressed his love as follows:
O the most beautiful of the beautiful,

you burn me with your love!

I care nothing; always with your dream is my mind!

You are the Shah of "Kaba Qawsain", and me a disobedient slave,

How can this confused speak of being a guest of you?

When you glanced once with pity, you enlivened dead hearts,

Refuging your endless mercy, I knocked at your door.

The source of goodness, the ocean of pity you are!

Favor me a drop, I am at a loss of remedy!

Everybody comes to Mecca, Kaba, Safa and Marwa.

As for me, for you I passed over mounts and hills.

Last night I dreamt of my head touching the skies,

I felt as if your servants had stepped on my neck.

O Hadrat Jami, the nightingale of my darling!

From amongst your poems, I selected this couplet:

'Like many dogs, with tongues hanging down,

Hoping a tiny drop, to your ocean of favor I came'."