A POEM FOR DR. KHADIJAH

In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate A congratulatory and encouraging poem for attaining the PhD degree (O Allah, bless it) The content of the poem says: O bearer of glad tidings And the beat, then its prosody, greet you O Umm Khadijah, you have accepted the heights All of it and its disciplines have clothed you Indeed, knowledge is a corpse if it is not Within it happiness; otherwise it is so Do not concern yourself, Dr. Khadijah, with situations For stopping leads to humiliation; I seek refuge for you O Lord, bless your life and your knowledge And make lasting happiness through Your pleasure Surely the envious will envy you for the success So place you, O Most Merciful, under Your protection Dr. Khadijah, to the heights you ascend The path of loftiness—thus I grant you wishes Indeed, the poem—its meter has praised you And its composition, then its prosody, greet you Written by /