Dear Islamic sisters! When someone has immense devotion for someone, then the devotee often uses poetry to express her sincere feelings and to praise her beloved as one can express her hearty feelings very well through poetry. That’s the reason A’la Hadrat رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه also adopted the way of Na’atiyyah poetry to express his devotion. Hadaiq-e-Bakhshish, a Na’atiyyah collection filled with deep love and devotion, is a great achievement of A’la Hadrat’s poetry. Every couplet written by A’la Hadrat رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه is absolutely according to the Shari’ah.

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب           صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Also keep in mind that not everyone can write Na’atiyyah poetry, nor does everyone have permission for this. For Na’atiyyah poetry, in addition to the principles of the art of poetry, the wealth of Islamic knowledge and the company of righteous Islamic scholars etc., are also essential. Many poets who are matchless in the worldly poetry, when they started writing Na’atiyyah poetry, due to being deprived of the Islamic knowledge and the company of Islamic scholars, they faced such problems that ‘اَلامَان وَالْحَفِیْظ’! Anyways, it is safer that ordinary people should exclude the idea of writing Na’atiyyah poetry from their minds because it is not an easy task.

May I be sacrificed on the cautious approach of A’la Hadrat رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه that despite being perfectly competent to write Na’at and having expertise in the principles of the art of poetry, he رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه would still consider writing blessed Na’at to be a difficult task. He himself has stated: ‘In reality, to write a blessed Na’at is an extremely difficult task which is considered easy by people. In it, one has to walk on the edge of a sword.’

(Malfuzaat-e-A’la Hadrat, pp. 227)

Ameer Ahl-e-Sunnat دَامَـتْ بَـرَكَـاتُـهُـمُ الْـعَـالِـيَـه has stated regarding Na’atiyyah poetry on page number 232 of his book ‘Kufriyah Kalimat kay baaray mayn Suwal Jawab’: ‘It is the Sunnah of the blessed companions رَضِیَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَنْهُم, i.e. writing Na’atiyyah poetry has been proven by some companions رَضِیَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَنْهُم such as Hassaan Bin Saabit رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ and Sayyiduna Zayd رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ. Anyhow, keep