فاقت أمانة ربي الأوصاف

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1- فاقت أمانة ربي الأوصاف
لا تتغير ولا تحول
دوما يجدد لنا الألطاف
لا تتبدل ولا تزول

القرار
وفاؤك عظيم وفاؤك عظيم
كل صباح وفير جديد
كل إعوازي أعدت لي يدك
سام وفاؤك لي ومجيد

2- صيفا شتاء ربيعا حصادا
كل النجوم بالصمت تذيع
كل الوجود أحياء جمادا
يوما فيوما تنادي الجميع

3- إن حضورك معي مرشدي
يهب الصفح ونور اليقين
قوة اليوم وهدى للغد
يمنحُ الكل لنا كل حين


Source: تسابيح الرجاء #475

Author: Thomas O. Chisholm

Thomas O. Chisholm was born in Franklin, Kentucky in 1866. His boyhood was spent on a farm and in teaching district schools. He spent five years as editor of the local paper at Franklin. He was converted to Christianity at the age of 26 and soon after was business manager and office editor of the "Pentecostal Herald" of Louisville, Ky. In 1903 he entered the ministry of the M. E. Church South. His aim in writing was to incorporate as much as Scripture as possible and to avoid flippant or sentimental themes. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)… Go to person page >

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First Line: فاقت أمانة ربي الأوصاف
English Title: Great Is Thy Faithfulness
Author: Thomas O. Chisholm
Language: Arabic
Refrain First Line: وفاؤك عظيم وفاؤك عظيم
Publication Date: 2000
Copyright: This text may still be under copyright because it was published in 2000.

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FAITHFULNESS (Runyan)

William Marion Runyan (b. Marion, NY, 1870; d. Pittsburg, KS, 1957) composed FAITHFULNESS for Chisholm's text in Baldwin, Kansas, in 1923. Twenty years later Runyan wrote: Mr. Chisholm and I were devoted co-workers, and I wrote harmonies to some 20 or 25 of his poems. This particular poem held such…

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