By Novid Shaid, 2011
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Oh Allah thanks and praise be!
For Your tremendous bounties
For the path which You conceived
Which leads us to Your Beauty!
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Chorus: La ilaha illalah
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Oh Allah thanks and praise be!
For Your magnanimity!
Guidance like a sanctuary
Through Nabi Muhammad’s Deen
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La ilaha illalah…
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Oh Allah thanks and praise be!
For the path of Jilani!
Naqshbandi and Shadhili!
And all the paths of certainty!
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La ilaha illalah…
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Oh Allah thanks and praise be!
For Your paths which never cease
When we fell, they hauled us up
When we feared, they strengthened us!
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La ilaha illalah…
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Oh Allah thanks and praise be!
For Your path which carries us
It caught us when we slipped up
It lifted us when we gave up!
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La ilaha illalah…
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Oh Allah thanks and praise be!
For Your path of Remembrance
For the prayers and litanies
Filling us with certainty!
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La ilaha illalah…
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Oh Allah thanks and praise be!
For this path of brotherhood
Joining hearts of different hues
United for Your gratitude!
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La ilaha illalah…
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Oh Allah thanks and praise be!
For this path of instruction
For the ones who You preferred
Teachers of Your blessed Word.
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La ilaha illalah…
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Oh Allah thanks and praise be!
For the light of the Hadra!
Echoes beating like a heart
Stirring words which break our hearts!
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La ilaha illalah…
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Oh Allah thanks and praise be!
Keep us on Your sacred path!
Up until our final breath
Wrap us in its warm embrace.
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La ilaha illalah…
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Oh Allah thanks and praise be!
For Your Nabi Muhammad!
Bless him and his family
And his friends and followers!
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La ilaha illalah…