"Sindidi is the name of a particular Qasida of Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba [RA] who was from what today is called the Diourbel region of Senegal at the end of 18th and beginning of 19th gregorian centuries.He fonded a tariqa known as the Muridiya."
Sindidi is entirely in Arabic. It is, however, frequently sung by Wolof speakers in the distinctive Senegalese style (which I first became familiar with via the group 'Super Etoile De Dakar' with whom a young Wolof singer by the name of Youssou N'Dour used to sing).
Sindidi
1. O God! I implore thee by the blessings of Mustapha O God! And by the blessings of thy beloved friend Abraham O God!
2. And by the blessings of thy interlocutor Moses, and Salih, Al Khidr, and by the blessings of Shu’aib, and by the blessings of Ishmael O God!
3. And by the blessings of Solomon, Noah, Jonah, Job, and by the blessings of Zakariah, John, Hud O God!
4. By the blessings of Aaron, Joshua, Elias, Adam, David, by the blessings of Dhul-kifl, Jesus, Lot. O God!
5. By the blessings of Joseph, Isaac, and others among thy apostles and messengers O God!
6. And by the blessings of the unity of the Angels, and those among them encompassed with the purest, Divine Essence such as Gabriel and Michael O God!
7. By the blessings of Israfil who is entrusted with Blowing the Trumpet, and Azrael who shall duly seize the soul of every creature O God!
8. By the blessings of the companions of the Prophet and the friends of God, as well as those who actively practice their knowledge among the people of religious Authority O God!
9. By the blessings of Abu Bakr the truthful, Omar who distinguished truth from falsehood, Uthman the possessor of two lights, and Ali, the father of the two grandsons of the Prophet O God!
10. By the blessings of Imam Malik, the highly distinguished, Imam As Shafi, Imam Abu Hanafi, and the praiseworthy, Imam Ahmad Ibn Anbal O God!
11. By the blessings of the Exalted Pen, the Preserved Tablet, thy Magnificent Throne and Exalted Chair O God!
12. By the blessings of the Quran, the Torah, The Psalms of David, and the Gospel of the Spirit of God O God!
13. Transmit my salutations of peace and blessings upon him ( the Prophet), his family, companions, and wives O God!
14. O Lord! Drop on us the curtain of well being (‘Afia) and bestow upon us our goals in this world and in the Hereafter O God!
15. Open for us all gates of graces that thou hath opened to those endowed with a complete state of piety O God!
16. Impel us to trod on the distinct path of righteousness, Preserve us from the pitfalls and from the Evils of the Jinns and Satan O God!
17. Yield to us all our ambitions, allow us to attain our objectives, bestow upon us any grace we choose O God.
18. Soften for us the hearts of any possessor of reluctance and oppression, smoothen all the hardships O God!
19. Prolong our lives, strengthen our bodies, bestow guidance upon us, and grant us felicity (tawfiq) O God!
20. Destroy any enemy whose intention is to cause harm before he gains access to us O God! O God!
21. Protect us from all kinds of ruin, deliver us from the calamities of the world, all the time O God!
22. Protect us from epidemics, illness, agony, afflictions, vehement earthquakes as well as poverty O God!
23. Protect us from blemishes, insufficiency, from the fury of a tyrant, vileness, debility, hunger and thirst O God!
24. Protect us from all forms of trials, from infectious disease from being burnt in fire, from being drowned in water, from lightning, thunder, theft and vain labor O God!
25. Protect us from excessive heat and cold, from plundering, from oppression, from hostility, from delusion, from grief, and from being paralyzed O God!
26. Protect us from anxiety, from transgression, from stumbling in error, from transmutation, and from defamation O God!
27. Protect us from lack of sustenance, from the influences of evil spirits, and from fading away due to illness O God!
28. Protect us from the evils of this world and of the next as well as their dreadful humiliations O God! O God!
29. O thou who hath power over all things, overwhelming the entire creation, being firmly established in Thine Magnificent Throne of Authority O God!
30. Verily, I beg thee for a fearing heart and a humble one, an extensive knowledge of tremendous use O God!
31. I beg thee for an accepted repentance, a lofty station, a virtuous and pious wife O God!
32. Be our fortress against the evils of the possessor of envy, against the evils of the tongue, as well as against the evils of the eye O God!
33. Be our refuge against the evils of sorcery, the evils of the creatures, men or jinns, and against the evils of venomous creatures O God!
34. O mine confident! I take Thee in this world and in the hereafter as my inaccessible fortress: the one in whom I seek shelter O God!
35. Abandon me not with my own soul (nafs), lest I go astray: be responsive whenever I beseech thee O God!
36. Cause my tongue and my heart to remember Thee and to hold a perfect belief in Thee at the crucial moment of death O God!
37. Establish permanently in mine heart the knowledge of Certainty (Yaqin); Let no fear abide therein, until I passionately love Thy Ultimate encounter O God!
38. Cause my death to be the announcement of good news, and to be a complete rest, and to be a protection against all pain, distress and fear O God!
39. Shield my body against tortures in the grave, whenever the soul is separated from me. Let it not undergo any deterioration nor hardship. O God!
40. Be my Assistant and Companion at the time my body is buried in the grave, where I may become lonely O God!
41. Join me not with that which causes terror in the grave, preserve me from anything that I fear O God!
42. Protect me, my mother and all those who bow to Thy will, Amen O God!
43. Forgive us and my mother, cover our defects, bestow benevolence upon us and her; protect us from terror O God!
44. Grant us complete forgiveness, have mercy on her. She has no one but Thee; and verily Thou art the kind One O God!
45. Be with us in the barrier and in the grave, preserve us from any distress or any kind of fear O God!
46. Do not afflict my mother with that which she can not bear and do not disappoint the hope she has in Thee O God!
47. Quench our thirst and hers in the water of Kauthar, which Thou has reserved for the one whom Thou hath chosen over the entire creation O God!
48. That was he who provided guidance to he who roamed in error, destroyed he who rejected faith and yielded aid to he who had innermost fear in Thee O God!
49. Such a one was Muhammad, the Fine Flower of the elects, who will lead us into the everlasting Paradise on the Day of Resurrection O God!
50. Upon him be Eternal peace and blessings, forever and ever, and upon any who follows him till Doomsday O God!
Another version of Sindidi with French voice-over translation:
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