The Burda is divided into 10 chapters and 160 verses all rhyming with each other.
I provided him with a copy, and he began telling others of his vision. It greatly pleased the prophet, and I saw him thrust his cloak on the one who wrote it!" He then recited its opening lines saying, "By God, I heard it in a vision last night recited in the presence of God's messenger, upon him and his family blessing and peace. He said, "The one you wrote during your illness." On the road, I met a fellow spiritual wayfarer, who said to me, "I want you to give me a copy of the poem you wrote in praise of the Prophet, upon him be prayers and peace."
I had told no one of my poem nor of anything I had been doing prior to that. He wiped over my face with his blessed hand and thrust upon me his cloak. During that time, while sleeping, I saw the Prophet, upon him and his family be prayers and peace. I was repeating it often, singing it, calling upon God through it, and seeking intercession with it. I began to contemplate writing a poem in the qasida form, and soon after, I did so as a way of interceding by it with the Messenger of God to God, the Exalted, hoping that he might heal me. The original Burdah is not as famous as the one composed by Imam al-Busiri even though Muhammad had physically wrapped his mantle over Ka'b not in a dream like in the case of Imam al-Busiri.Īl-Busiri narrated the circumstances of his inspiration to write the Burdah: Muhammad was so moved that he removed his mantle and wrapped it over him. He recited this poem in front of Muhammad after embracing Islam. īānat Suʿād, a poem composed by Ka'b bin Zuhayr was originally called as Al-Burdah. It is entirely in praise of Muhammad, who is said to have been praised ceaselessly by the afflicted poet, to the point that the Prophet appeared in a dream and wrapped him in a mantle or cloak in the morning the poet discovers that God has cured him.
The poem whose actual title is al-Kawākib ad-durriyya fī Madḥ Khayr al-Bariyya ( الكواكب الدرية في مدح خير البرية, "The Celestial Lights in Praise of the Best of Creation"), is famous mainly in the Sunni Muslim world. Qasīdat al-Burda ( Arabic: قصيدة البردة, "Ode of the Mantle"), or al-Burda for short, is a thirteenth-century ode of praise for the Islamic prophet Muhammad composed by the eminent Sufi mystic Imam al-Busiri of Egypt. A verse from the Qaṣīdat al-Burda, displayed on the wall of al-Busiri's shrine in Alexandria