Labbaik....Allaahumma Labbaik

by Asma bint Shameem

As I pack my belongings..... and get ready for this great Journey

I cry with gratitude.....once more You've blessed me

Tears flowing.....in ecstasy my heart flies

My soul sings....my whole being cries

Labbaik....Allaahumma Labbaik

But what are these words..... what do they really mean?

Do I appreciate them?...Do I just repeat what I've seen?

Do I really understand....?

Do I even comprehend....

Labbaik....Allaahumma Labbaik?

Labbaik means I am here, Ya Rabbee.....I respond to Your call

With a heart full of hope....for that Mercy that envelops all

I'm here to serve You......I'm here to comply

To You I submit......until the day I die

Labbaik......Allaahumma Labbaik

Labbaik means total devotion.....submission to Allaah Almighty

Labbaik means sincere obedience and commitment completely

Labbaik means surrender

.....for now and for ever

Labbaik....Allaahumma Labbaik

Labbaik means I'm sorry.....so sorry for all my past

Sorry for my mistakes and my shortcomings of last

I beg You, ya Allaah.....please forgive me

I repent to you, O Maulaa ......do accept me

Labbaik....Allaahumma Labbaik

Labbaik means to change.....so that I live my life for You

Whatever I say and do, from now on will only be to please You

I will give up my evil ways

I will fix my nights and days

Labbaik....Allaahumma Labbaik

But Labbaik also means....... I LOVE you, Ya Rabbee

Nothing else matters....but that You're pleased with me

It’s Your Pleasure that I seek

though I'm so sinful and weak

Labbaik....Allaahumma Labbaik

Head bowed low.... remorseful, and so full of fear

I’m ashamed of my life....repentant, as I stand here

Yearning Your forgiveness

I cry out in wretchedness.....

Labbaik....Allaahumma Labbaik

Will I change for the better....will I turn my life around?

Or will I succumb to temptation, wherever it is found?

When will I even begin to see

The faults that are so obvious in me?

Labbaik....Allaahumma Labbaik

I'll stop dealing in Ribaa..... I'll give up my Haraam earning

I'll wear the Hijaab...... no more lying , no backbiting

Never a single prayer will I neglect

My character, I'll make...upright and erect

Labbaik....Allaahumma Labbaik

Don't let me become heedless, I pray....Don't make me forget

All the promises I've made, Ya Allaah....all the goals that I've set

Keep me strong, keep me steadfast

Let this feeling in me, forever last

Labbaik....Allaahumma Labbaik

For I don't know when I'll die and I don't know where it will be

But I hope I am in Ihraam....when the Angel comes to me

'Cos if in that state I die, the Prophet told you and me

when raised from the dead, my first words'll be.....

Labbaik....Allaahumma Labbaik