Jābir Ibn Samura, one of the Companions of Muhammad, described the Prophet’s face as like the Full Moon in the night sky and this allegory reappears in the following devotional poem by Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse (1900–1975). The poet, inspired by a night of reciting and chanting poetry until tears flowed from his eyes, praises the Prophet and the illumination of his message as his neighbours sleep.
Enslaved in love, the heart turns away from everything else
Bound in longing for the Prophet, bewildered…
