Thanks for being a Hymnary.org user. You are one of more than 10 million people from 200-plus countries around the world who have benefitted from the Hymnary website in 2024! If you feel moved to support our work today with a gift of any amount and a word of encouragement, we would be grateful.

You can donate online at our secure giving site.

Or, if you'd like to make a gift by check, please make it out to CCEL and mail it to:
Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 3201 Burton Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546
And may the promise of Advent be yours this day and always.

إني أحب الرب لا لأربح النعيم

Representative Text

1 - إني أحب الرب لا
لأربح النعيم
ولا لكي أنجو من الــ
ــعذاب في الجحيم
لكن أحبه لأن
لي حبه يحلو
وهو الذي من فضله
أحبني قبل

2 - ذاك الذي من أجلنا
أهين كالعبد
واحتمل الصليب والـــ
ــهجوع في اللحد
وهو غني عاش في
دنياه كالفقير
من أجل أعداء فهل
لذاك من نظير

3 - أبَعد ذا أعبد من
أزال أوزاري
لطمع في جنةٍ
والخوف من نارِ
كلا وإنما كما
أحبني ربي
وقد سمت صفاته
يحبه قلبي


Source: ترانيم الإيمان #270

Author: Edward Caswall

Edward Caswall was born in 1814, at Yately, in Hampshire, where his father was a clergyman. In 1832, he went to Brasenose College, Oxford, and in 1836, took a second-class in classics. His humorous work, "The Art of Pluck," was published in 1835; it is still selling at Oxford, having passed through many editions. In 1838, he was ordained Deacon, and in 1839, Priest. He became perpetural Curate of Stratford-sub-Castle in 1840. In 1841, he resigned his incumbency and visited Ireland. In 1847, he joined the Church of Rome. In 1850, he was admitted into the Congregation of the Oratory at Birmingham, where he has since remained. He has published several works in prose and poetry. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872… Go to person page >

Translator: اسعد الشدودي

Asaad Ibrahim alShdudi, 1826-1906 A Lebanese-born Mathematician, who studied and later worked at the American University of Beirut. أسعد إبراهيم الشدودي Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: إني أحب الرب لا لأربح النعيم
English Title: My God, I Love Thee
Author: Edward Caswall
Translator: اسعد الشدودي
Place of Origin: Lebanon
Language: Arabic
Publication Date: 1873
Copyright: This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before 1929.

Tune

[إني أحب الرب لا]


SOLEMNIS HAEC FESTIVITAS


ELLACOMBE

Published in a chapel hymnal for the Duke of Würtemberg (Gesangbuch der Herzogl, 1784), ELLACOMBE (the name of a village in Devonshire, England) was first set to the words "Ave Maria, klarer und lichter Morgenstern." During the first half of the nineteenth century various German hymnals altered the…

Go to tune page >


Timeline

Instances

Instances (1 - 6 of 6)

اصنع بنا نهضتك #511

TextAudioPage Scan

ترانيم الإيمان #270

تسابيح الرجاء #187

تسابيح المحبة #489

رنموا للرب #155

TextPage Scan

نظم المرامير #407

Include 7 pre-1979 instances
Suggestions or corrections? Contact us
It looks like you are using an ad-blocker. Ad revenue helps keep us running. Please consider white-listing Hymnary.org or getting Hymnary Pro to eliminate ads entirely and help support Hymnary.org.