This Time :Hazrat Ali ul Murtada Karamallahu wajhul kareem

This is a time, when brothers, o man, are not not brothers, When brothers all are unjust - they have two tongues and two faces. He meets you with a smiling face, but in his heart there is a disease which he secretly hides, Until you are out if his sight - then he throws after you falsehood and lies Such are the people of this time - there are not two are true in love. O man, live then your life alone, do not seek the company of other men. Live side by side with people, but keep yourself safe within house and walls.

The Benefits of reciting Surah Al-Mulk/The Dominio...

Sheikhy Notes: The Benefits of reciting Surah Al-Mulk/The Dominio...: It was revealed in Mecca, it is thirty passages long, consisting of three hundred and thirty words and one thousand three hundred lette...

Your Treasures

Know that your treasuries are full, for you have ears that hear, eyes that see, hands that grasp, feet that walk, a tongue that speaks, and a mind that thinks. Spend then of your hearing on the best of speech... As for your eyes, use them to look at the realms of the skies and the Earth... As for your hands, spend from them in assisting and supporting the weak.... As for your legs, use them to walk to the mosques... As for your tongue, use it to encourage people to do good and to stay away from evil, and to teach the Muslims... As for your mind, use it to contemplate the creations of God... You must, O brother in God, spend many precious breaths in the beholding of God, in His remembrance, and in the teaching of wisdom by speaking beneficial words. Know that the more you spend of your knowledge, the more God gives you of it. He who spends goodness from his limbs, God will bring down goodness on him, and the reward of the next life is greater... And know that you will not arrive at what the serious ones achieved until you make all of your limbs sources of pure goodness, and you are constantly aware of God's sight of you, and you teach yourself good manners, thus making your soul grow. - Shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari Summarised from Reassurance for the Seeker, commentary on Hadith 21: Charity

PRAYERS (SALAT) :Reward

O my foolish soul! Is this duty of worship without result, and is its recompense little that it causes you weariness? Whereas if someone was to give you a little money, or to intimidate you, he could make you work till evening, and you would work without slacking. So is it that the prescribed prayers are without result, which in this guest-house of the world are sustenance and wealth for your impotent and weak heart, and in your grave, which will be a certain dwelling-place for you, sustenance and light, and at the Resurrection, when you will anyway be judged, a document and patent, and on the Bridge of Sirat, over which you are bound to pass, a light and a mount? Are their recompense little? Someone promises you a present worth a hundred liras, and makes you work for a hundred days. You trust the man who may go back on his word and work without slacking. So if One for Whom the breaking of a promise is impossible, promises you recompense like Paradise and a gift like eternal happiness, and employs you for a very short time in a very agreeable duty, if you do not perform that service, or you act accusingly towards His promise or slight His gift by performing it unwillingly like someone forced to work, or by being bored, or by working in half-hearted fashion, you will deserve a severe reprimand and awesome punishment. Have you not thought of this? Although you serve without flagging in the heaviest work in this world out of fear of imprisonment, does the fear of an eternal incarceration like Hell not fill you with enthusiasm for a truly light and agreeable act of service? The Words ( 278 )

Defeat is part of war.

Defeat is a part of war. Life may be hard sometimes, but it does not matter how many battles you have lost; there still be a bunch of possibilities to win the entire war. Life is all about preparation. Just dreaming would take us nowhere. Everyone has a vision, but many have failed to attain their ambitions because of lack of preparation. Only being lucky is not enough, without a lucid plan at the end of the day, our fortunes may turn into miseries. Take your chances; hope for the best, get ready for the worst. Imagination leads creation, however, only hard work can make the difference. Life is a competition, your first worst opponent is you: yourself. Enjoy taking responsibility,however, just patience and determination can lead us to a final, complete, undoubted victory here as well as hereafter. Slogan is not a program; get a program.

People 'The Have' and 'The Have Not'

Because we are living on the Earth that includes two groups of people: the "Have" and the "Have not". The two groups are living in one planet, but different worlds. The "Have" only the sky is their limit. Great wealth or luxuriousness everywhere; meanwhile, the "Have not" are crying out for leavened breads. They are living in a nightmare i mean. Their unique neighbor that they hate so much is poverty, which brought them up diseases and insecurity. Nevertheless, life will never be sweet as a candy, until the "Have" help the "Have not". Helpfulness is a path to love; love is the door to peace; peace is the key of life; life is the source of mankind. Not helpfulness, nor love, neither peace, nor life.

Virtues Of Visitin Shrines(Maqams) Of AhlulBayah and Auliya'Allah

The reason that at the door of Imam al-Husayn's maqam there are two ring-shaped door handles (may God be pleased with him) is that he used to have an iron ring on his house door that visitors would knock to be let in; it was a large door. A poor bedouin came to him once from the mountains and held onto the ring and recites these lines: He is not disappointed in his hopes in you who moves the ring on your front door You are generous, you are reliable your father was a king, the killer of deviants Were it not for your predecessors hell would be surrounding us from every angle. He (may God be pleased with him) was a man of a lot of extra devotions. When he finished what he was doing, he opened the door and sat the man beside him, then he called his servant and said: O servant! Get me the pouch from the chest - and in it was his allowance from the Treasury House- and the servant brought it. The bedouin thought that imam al-Husayn (may God be pleased with him) would open it and give him a few dinars, but when he pushed the entire purse to him, the bedouin said: By God, I bear witness that you are the son of the Prophet (may God bless him and his family). By God, no one can do such an act, or give such a giving, but a man from the family (Ahlul Bayt) of the Prophet (may God send peace and blessings upon him and his family). Shaykh al-Shinqiti the great hadith master and mufti of Mecca (who had moved to Egypt) said: I read those lines when I was teaching my children commentaries on Ibn Hisham in grammar and I remembered that our master al-Husayn is present and alive, and how he gave that bedouin what he gave in his lifetime, and he is now alive in his maqam. So I entered his maqam with one of my students and grabbed the ring and recited these same lines. Then I said: "My master! I am not permitted to travel, but I want to travel to Mecca." A man who was wearing a long coat and fez, and was holding a sibha, said to me: "O Shaykh, not at this time!" I said to him: "What is not at this time?" He said: "Travel." I said: "When?" He said: "In a month's time." A month later, the man came to me in the same place and said: "Place your trust in Allah, it is time to travel!" Then I went to the British ruler of Egypt and said: "I am travelling to Mecca and I heard that the way is through you." He said: "Go bring us your passport." So I said to myself: "God has made it possible!" Shaykh Muhammad Bakhit al-Muti'i the Mufti of Egypt was my friend. I said to him: "I will travel to Mecca by the permission of God." He said to me: "You must tell me the secret by which you were allowed to travel. You people of the maghreb (the Muslim west- the shaykh was from Mauritania) have your secrets!" I said to him: "By God, I am not travelling except by the blessing of our master al-Husayn (may God be pleased with him)" and I told him the story as it happened. --------- This is the speech of a great shaykh, a hadith master, but now we see people say: visiting (maqams) is forbidden! I attended his lessons for fifteen years, he taught me. - From the Friday Lessons of shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari (may God be pleased with him and his teachers).

Shaykh Syed Salih Al-Jafri's Permission for Doing Hajj

Shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari (may God be pleased with him) performed the Hajj 27 times. It all started when he began composing his famous poem The Garden of the Hearts and Souls (aka Radeena Ya Bani al-Zahra) at the shrine of our lady Zaynab, sister of our masters al-Hasan and al-Husayn. He saw her in a dream, giving him an authorisation to go to Hajj, and ever since he went every year until he passed away. But one of those years, the Egyptian government made a new law that no one who has been to Hajj before can go this year. Shaykh Salih tells us in one of his Friday lessons what happened next: -- I went to our master al-Husayn (may God be pleased with him) after the Noon Prayer, and greeted him. Then I said, "How could I not be allowed to go Hajj while you are present in Egypt? Who can rule over your decision?!" I then fell asleep and I saw a big bed, and on it was our master al-Husayn (may God be pleased with him), asleep. His hand was very wide. He stood up and spoke, so I seized the opportunity to kiss his hand. He said to me: "Where are your beautiful roses?" That is because I used to bring him roses from Bahrain (their famous Muhammadi Rose, pictured below). I said: "I am busy, and I want to visit your grandfather, may God's peace and blessings be upon him." He said, "You and the one with the sunglasses." (He was thus known because he used to always wear sunglasses, and would only take them off when he entered the presence of shaykh Salih). (When I woke up) I said to my brothers: "Good news, my brothers! InshaAllah, God will make it easy." At that moment, Ibrahim (the one with the glasses) came, ecstatic. He said: "By God I just did such and such a thing, to apply for Hajj!" I said to him: "Go and make me an application too." So he went and applied for me, on the basis that I had not been to Hajj before through the government. But then the boat left, and Ibrahim took it, and I had to apply to get a place on the airplane, and I travelled by plane. As soon as I arrived in Medina, I went to greet the Prophet (may God's peace and blessings shower down upon him and his family). I said: "Greetings of peace unto you from your grandson al-Husayn (may God be pleased with him), and then greetings of peace from me to you." After that I saw Ibrahim there. The reply to my request came on the same day, and the very same hour! "How could I not be permitted to go to Hajj while you are present?!" * Kings, but kings are their servants And for their servant, the whole world becomes a servant

Bright proof For Celeberating Mawlid

"A scholar from Medina came to the Sudan. The people of Sudan said to him: 'We celebrate the Mawlid of the Prophet (may Allah bless him and his family and grant them peace) every year, and we want to ask you for an evidence for this.' He said: 'Your evidence is right in front of you, and you hear it every hour! Allah (most high) said, {And all We relate to you of the stories of the Messengers is that with which We make your heart firm} (11:120) So if the life stories of the Messengers and their news make firm the heart of the master of the messengers and of all the worlds, how could the memory and mention of the birth of the Prophet (may Allah bless him and his family and grant them peace) not make firm the hearts of the Muslims?" - Shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari, The Friday Lessons, vol 8, p. 21.

To Abode of Eternity:By Shaykh Syed Salih Al'jAfri(rahimahumullah)

To the abode of eternity we have come And the elect one we have visited And in the Garden we have prayed And we have seen Rasulallah. I saw the people in droves The sea of their love surge like waves The tears of longing like cool rain All in love with Rasulillah So we visited him the Pure-hearted Of greatest rank and nearness to Allah Whoever bears him loyal love Becomes filled with Rasulillah Seeing him is joy followed by joy While incense wafts and overflows There the people of love reveal their states And Rasulullah pardons them Light surrounds us the secret is revealed Goodness arrives piety is achieved The people of Allah are fed and quenched By witnessing Rasulallah The night of separation is gone away The morning of connection dawns to stay The light of al-Mustafa highlights Our foremost guide Rasulallah Drinks of paradise go round from hand to hand And in the cups lights overflow And with this drink perfumed and filled Rasulullah is quenching us The hearts obtain what they had hoped When they visit after their pilgrimage One throng after another says Salaamun Ya Rasulallah See them in their place of prayer The God of the Throne giving them gifts Habibullah is meeting them They visited Rasulallah Gifts of forgiveness and secrets For whoever visits al-Mustafa Upon them glow sparkles of light Coming from the Guide Rasulillah The armies of nafs went away The moons of guidance have risen Rain-clouds hail filled with good For the visitors of Rasulillah The sun of religion guides us To the Creator who made us Rasulullah is calling us We have come Ya Rasulallah The beauty of al-Mustafa shows Welcoming us and cheering us It has perfumed the soul of this valley We have witnessed Rasulallah We have obtained intimacy By Divine grace without the veils We visited the Arabian liegelord Abu al-Qasim Rasulallah Souls are swayed by their Creator Before the Chosen One their guide They have received their dearest hopes At witnessing Rasulallah We left love of all that perishes, At al-Mustafa’s doorstep we arrived The connection of hearts is sealed With the guide Rasulillah The Gardens of Paradise we obtained By coming and greeting TaHa The soul of love enlivened them With help from Rasulillah The blessings of Allah like rain On the Elect of highest fame And Companions all radiant chiefs And the House of Rasulillah For as long as al-Ja’fari writes And al-Mustafa’s praise is sung, And the faces of lovers beam With light from Rasulillah!

Those who walk on Earth and souls fly in air

'How wondrous it is that there are those who walk on the Earth and yet their bodies and souls soar and fly in the air with the angels. {Those of you who believe, and are granted knowledge, Allah elevates by several degrees} (58:11).... Whoever acquires understanding of the religion gains a wing. If he acts upon what he knows, he gains another wing. Now he can soar with those wings in the skies of elevation like the noble angels.' - Shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari

The Secrets Of La IlahIlallah

The number of letters in (La ilaha illa Allah) is twelve, an allusion to the number of the months in each year. Allah (most high) said: {the number of months with Allah is twelve months...} (9:36). So whoever says the Word of Tawhid has filled his twelve months with reward, and his days will bear witness to him for goodness as per the hadith: 'Every day calls out: O son of Adam, I am a new creation, and I am a witness over your actions.' From these twelve, four are for the letters of Allah's Greatest Name, 'Allah.' This is an allusion to His (most high)'s saying: {...among them, four are sacred} (9:36). - Shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari

The Sanad Miracle Of Shaykh Syed Salih Al-Jafri(rahimahumullah)

Shaykh Salih al-Ja’fari (may Allah be pleased with him), though he was the Imam of the Noble Azhar Mosque, did not always lead the Friday Prayers. Very often the great Shaykh Muhammad al-Ghazali (may Allah have mercy on him) would lead the Prayers and give the Friday Khutba, and then Shaykh Salih would start his famous Friday Lesson after the Prayers, as he usually did. Shaykh al-Ghazali had a reformist and rationalistic approach to the religion, and on one Friday, he dedicated his khutba to this one topic: that scholars should no longer mention the chains of transmission of the hadith that they are quoting in their lessons or books. He argued that most people today did not know most of the names in the chains of transmission, let alone have the mental ability to analyze the chain. Therefore, he argued, a scholar should simply say the hadith, and in which hadith collection it could be found, and whether he believed it to be authentic or not. After the prayers, Shaykh Salih al-Ja’fari stood up on his chair to begin his Friday Lesson as usual. He would start every lesson with certain verses of the Qur’an and the following, “[I teach you] Through a connected chain to the scholars of the noble Azhar and others, in Qur’anic recitations, Hadith, and Qur’anic exegesis, may Allah most high be pleased with them and benefit us and you by them and by their knowledge. Amen.” This time, however, Shaykh Salih began reciting one of his chains of transmission, scholar by scholar, all the way until Imam al-Bukhari, and from him, all the way until the Follower who narrated it, and then the Companion, and then the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace). Among those attending the lesson was Shaykh Muhammad Ismail al-Nimr, a Shaykh from the Bayyumi Tariqa, who founded a branch and organization within that Tariqa called The Lovers of the Muhammadan Purity (Ahbab al-Safaa’ al-Muhammadi). This Shaykh was a man of spiritual unveiling, and this is what he said: When the Shaykh began reciting his chain of transmission, every time he mentioned a scholar, the soul of this scholar would appear next to him! Scholar by scholar, came to join him, and each one shone with more light than the one mentioned before him, as the Shaykh was getting closer and closer to the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace)! Finally the Shaykh reached the level of the Followers of the Followers, and then the Followers, and then the Companion, and each of them appeared with an even more powerful light than the one before. Finally he mentioned the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace), and suddenly the Messenger of Allah appeared with such a great force of light that I thought I was going to melt!

In his bookAsrar al-Siyam)The Secrets of Fasting(, the Azhari imam, Shaykh Salih al-Ja’fari, writes:

They have mentioned that the Abdal have four characteristics: 1( Silence 2( Hunger 3( Seclusion 4( Wakefulness. Now Silence is brought about by Hunger, and so is Wakefulness. And what remains is Seclusion, which is its fruit, because it is brought about by the lights ofdhikr, for they cause one to find intimacy and comfort in the company of Allah )al-uns billah( and a lack of it in the company of all other than Him )al-wahsha ‘an siwah(. So Hunger is the basis for the )other( three, and it happens while Fasting. It has also been said that the medicine for a heart when it hardens is five things: 1( Emptying the stomach 2( Reciting the Qur’an 3( Being up before dawn, supplicating and crying 4( Tahajjud prayers at night 5( Keeping the company of the people of good and righteousness The four after emptying the stomach cannot all be done )completely( except through emptying the stomach, so it is also a basis for them, and emptying of the stomach happens while Fasting. Therefore, the station of the Abdal, and the removal of the heart’s hardness are achieved through the emptiness of the stomach, which, as is known, happens during Fasting. How great are the benefits of this Fast, and how many are its blessings upon mankind, so in it }let the competitors compete!{ )83:26(

Mankind has Two Origins

Mankind has two origins, earth and spirit. Whoever gravitates to the ground and follows his desires, returns to his earthly origin. Whoever purifies himself and illuminates himself with the lights of knowledge and action )upon that knowledge(, returns to his spiritual origin. - Shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari

Best Rememberance (Zikr)

Al-Hasan al-Basri (may Allah be pleased with him) said: 'The best remembrance of Allah is in the presence of what was forbidden by Allah.' The best remembrance (dhikr) is not to repeat 'La ilaha illa Allah, la ilaha illa Allah' with your tongue only. True dhikr is when your nafs speaks to you about committing a sin, and you remember that Allah is with you, looking at you. This thought that comes into your heart is better than the world and all that is in it. - Shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari

The Wonders of the Qur'an

Shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari says that a scholar from Dongola related to him how Shaykh ʿAbd al-ʿĀli used to give lessons every morning and night like his father Shaykh Ahmad ibn Idris. He used to teach according to the way of the Moroccans, which was to have a reciter who would recite a verse to him, and then he would explain it. One time, the reciter, ʿAbdullāh Klamsid, recited to him the verse, {Exalted is He Who made the constellations in the heavens and made therein a sun and a shining moon} (25:61), and the shaykh explained it. The next day, a scholar asked the reciter to repeat the same verse to see if the Shaykh could give a new commentary on it. The Shaykh is said to have given a new and excellent explanation. When the third day came, it was Shaykh ʿAbd al-ʿĀli himself who recited the same verse and then proceeded to give a new commentary on it that astounded the listeners. Shaykh Klamsid kissed his hand and began to cry. Shaykh ʿAbd al-ʿĀli said to him, "What makes you cry, our brother shaykh Abdallah?" He said, "My master, I cry because you came to our town when I was already old, and I wish that I was still a strong young man so that I could receive this knowledge." The Shaykh replied, "If I stayed with you as long as Noah stayed with his people I would have given you a new explanation every day." - Reassurance for the Seeker, pp. 39-40.

Taste Of Qur'an :By Shaykh Syed Salih Al-Jafri rahimahumullah

"Do you not see the orange? Do you know an orange? When you eat an orange you find that it is sweet. Likewise, every verse of the Qur’ān does the same to the spirit! There is no doubt that your body will feel pleasure along with your spirit from this verse." Sheikh Sayyid Sālih al-Ja'fari )may Allah be pleased with him(

Visit of Imam Syed Salih Jafri(rahimahumullah)

}It )the Qur'an( is clear verses, in the chests of those who have been given knowledge{ )Qur'an 29:49( ***** Before I came to al-Azhar, someone from town brought a volume of al-Nawawi's commentary on Sahih Muslim, so I borrowed it from him and began to study it. I saw )i.e. in a dream vision( my master Abd al-Aali al-Idrisi sitting on a chair, and with him his travel belongings, and I heard someone saying, "The sayyid wants to travel to Egypt, to al-Azhar." I went and greeted him and kissed his hand, and he said to me sharply: "Knowledge is taken from the chests of men, not from books!" And he repeated it. I woke up from my sleep and was inspired by my Lord to travel to al-Azhar. When I first reached it I found the hadith scholar Shaykh Muhammad Ibrahim al-Samaluti teaching al-Nawawi's commentary on Sahih Muslim! - Shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari )may Allah be pleased with him(, Imam of the Azhar ]from Reassurance for the Seeker[

See The Lights Of Prayer

' Were you to see to see the lights of prayer, or smell the perfumes of prayer, or see the angels that surround you, you wouldn't leave the prayer for an hour! But he hid that from you so that you could be tested. "So that Allah knows who fears Him in secret )even though they cannot see Him( ." )Quran 5.94( ' Sheikh Sayyid Sālih al-Ja'fari )may Allah be pleased with him( ~ Jummu'ah Durus.