Amina

The Song of Jerusalem in the Holy Land

By Shaykh Muhammad Sa'id al-Jamal ar-Rifa`i

I am a child from Jerusalem who sends the voice
Of this Holy City for all who love God.

Jerusalem has sent me an order to speak with her tongue
To all who love her, because she is the bride,

The bride who carries the essence of the secret love.
Listen to the song of her flute as she says,

"This is my voice which is ancient from the beginning of time,
I am the spirit and I am the heart,

The heart that contains the blood of all the prophets.
My story is from when God created me,

And said, 'You are My garden and I have chosen you
From all the worlds to be My home because You are My bride.'

For anyone who lives inside Me and drinks My holy water,
And listens to My voice and follows My song, not refusing My word,

there is no killing and no fighting,
These are My true children who live inside Me.'

Say, yes to love, peace, and mercy;
And to freedom for everyone who loves God.

I am paradise and I am the ocean;
I am full of beauty and wonder and the song of God.

I am the Heart of all the world which cries for her children,
Full of suffering with their land taken and their homes destroyed,

By those who do not accept His word.
My heart is full of pain and sickness.

How can the world find peace, love and mercy anywhere
If my heart has lost these things?

O my lovers from everywhere, help me,
For my line is full of blood and its colour is red.

It needs all of you who have hearts full of real love and peace,
To work for me before the Time has past away.

If people do not listen to my song
Then I lose hope. But God will send His order

To build me once again in His way,
And His hand is very strong.

He will judge everyone in this world,
Because they did not listen to my words.

Wake up! Oh all you people of God wherever you are,
Look towards your real Heart from which your Souls were born.

It is very important for everyone to know
That I am the City of the Gathering and the Sending Out.

Inside me is the Holy Rock and the Third Mosque.
Wake up! Oh Community of one religion of the truth and love

For it is here in my heart, and from her
That the Final Call will come.

Remember when God will ask all people on the Last Day
'Why did you not help Me? Why did you not send love and peace?'

Then what will you answer your Lord?
My children, I hope you can hear My song

And follow what I say and listen to what I ask.
I want everyone to sacrifice himself for me.

Then I accept him to be the Bride for my heart and my spirit,
Just as the prophets, saints and martyrs gave for those crying here."

Jerusalem is sending her voice from inside the Prison of Disbelief.
Stand up! Oh People of the One God to bring about her release."