video clip- Dust Is My Bed

dust in my bed

do spare ur few minutes for this vid. last year, tasneem gave me an arabic nasheed album all the way from yemen. then, few days back my bro found one of the track's vid clip. after watching it and understanding the lyric, i believe that i must must share this with friends..

Farsyi Al-Turab (Dust Is My Bed)

Dust is my bed,

embracing me, and is my cover

The sands are around me,

engulfing me from all directions

And the tomb recounts [ the story of ]

the darkness of my calamity

And the light has destined that

my pleasure is in meeting [Allaah]

Where is the kindness of kin? They relinquished fidelity

Where are the scores of friends? They dispensed with my brotherhood

Where is the bliss of money? I left it behind

And where is the glory of fame and compliments?

That’s my end; dust is my bed

The beloved bade farewell to his love, and cried my elegy

The tears flow dried out, after crying

The vast universe shrank, narrowing my space

The tomb to my corpse became both my land and my sky

That’s my end; dust is my bed

Fear overwhelms my estrangement and sadness is my ailment

Hoping for steadfastness,

which is – I swear – my remedy

Sincerely supplicating to the Lord;

You are my hope

Hoping- O Allaah – for a paradise,

in which my bliss shall be attained

Translated into English by: I-MAG - www.i-mag.org