In qila zurtum - If we are asked...


Oh Allah bless Muhammad,
Oh my Lord, bless him and send peace upon him.
 
[A man went to visit the holy Prophet (sall Allah aleihi wa sallam) in Madina,
and, standing in front of him in the Rawda, he said:]

If people ask us: "You went to visit (Madina) - what did you bring back?"
Oh noblest of mankind, what shall we say?

[Then he heard a voice from the chamber of the Prophet (sallAllah áleihi wa sallam repying):]

Say: "We return with all good, 
the branches have been reunited with the roots". 

Were it not for you, oh adornment of all existing,
there would be no good in my life nor in my existence.

I would (have) nothing (to) recite in my prayers,
nor in my bowing or my prostration.  

Oh nights, in which good pleasure (poured down) over us,
return, that green leaves may sprout from my wood.

Return to us with all good, 
by the Chosen one, the most generous.

Blessings be over our Prophet,
and his Family, who bow and prostrate.