Al-Burda

The poem, whose actual title is "The Celestial Lights in Praise of the Best of Creation" (Arabic: الكواكب الدرية في مدح خير البرية, romanized: al-Kawākib al-durriyya fī Madḥ Khayr al-Bariyya), is famous mainly in the Sunni Muslim world.

[3][4] Bānat Suʿād, a poem composed by Ka'b ibn Zuhayr was originally called Al-Burda.

Interspersing the verses is the refrain, "My Patron, confer blessings and peace continuously and eternally on Your Beloved, the Best of All Creation" (Arabic: مولاي صل وسلم دائما أبدا على حبيبك خير الخلق كلهم).

[citation needed] It is memorized and recited in congregations, and its verses decorate the walls of public buildings and mosques.

[citation needed] The Burda was accepted within Sufi Islam and was the subject of numerous commentaries by mainstream Sufi scholars[7] such as Ibn Hajar al-Haytami,[8] Nazifi[8] and Qastallani[9] It was also studied by the Shafi'i hadith master Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (d. 852 A.H.) both by reading the text out loud to his teacher and by receiving it in writing from a transmitter who heard it directly from Busiri himself.