"Kitab Shifa" by al-Qadi Iyyad
The Imam, Hafidh, al-Qadi Abul Fadl Iyyad (may Allah be pleased with him) opens his great work of the biography of the Holy Prophet Sidna Mohammed (peace and blessing be upon him) with an introduction saying: Praise be to Allah who is alone in possessing His most splendid Name, and is the Owner of unconquerable might. Praise be to Allah who is Unique having the highest Names, the Owner of tremendous might, having neither beginning nor end. He is apparent, not by imagination or guesswork. He is the hidden out of purity, not out of nonexistence who has encompassed... [More]
Sayyida Fatima Zahra: Chieftain of Womankind
"O family of the House, Allah only wishes to distance fault from you and cleanse you." (Quran 33:33) “Yes, I swear it by the Moon, and by the night when it retires, and by the dawn when it rises, this Sign is one of the greater Signs, one of those...[More]
Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib: Light of the Worlds
"We were, me and Ali, two lights before Allah and then He left us in the loin of Adam and kept moving us from loin to loin until we reached our grandfather Abd al-Muttalib. Then I moved to the loin of Abdellah and he moved to those of Abu Talib...[More]
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This page concentrates on the merits of anyone who attaches himself to the Shaykh of the Tariqa Tijaniya Sidi Ahmed Tijani (may Allah be pleased with him) ... Continue Reading
The
Concealed Pole: a Chronology
In
the words of his Greatest Beloved and Successor and Representative, Mawlana Abul
Hassan Ali Harazem (d. 1218/1803 in Badr, Medina), "Know that our
Shaykh is the great Imam the understandable sea, the one with the higher signs,
the clear worship...[More]
The Grand Tijani Zawiya of Fez: The World Mother Sanctuary
"The city emerges from the matte, earth-toned foothills of Morocco's Middle Atlas Mountains, surrounded by countryside that, in the cold of mid-winter, seems devoid of life: There are few trees, grass is close-cropped by herds...[More]
patron saints of the Maghreb
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Patron Saints | Tariqa | Chain | Chronology | Bibliography| Gallery |
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Seal of Saints, Source of Authority and Sainthood, the Concealed Pole and Known Mohammedian Seal, Cosmos of Cosmoses Imam of the Sages, Pole of Poles, Sharif, |
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Patron Saint
of Morocco,
Father of the Shadhiliya, the Mohammedian Axis,
(d. 622/1207) |
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Patron
Saint of Syria, the Greatest Master, the Crown of Knowledge, the
Mohammedian Axis, (d. 636/1221) |
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Patron Saint
of Marrakech, Author of Dalail al-Khayrat, the Noted Support, al-Imam, the
Mohammedian Axis, Sidi
Mohammed b. Sulayman al-Jazouli (d.
869/1454) |
In the history of Islam, there are numerous Sufi types. The universality of Sufi tradition balks at any attempt to reduce it to a signal, controllable pattern. Over the last centuries of the time, however, there has emerged a unique type of Sufi Shaykh who embodies in his...[More]
An important step in establishing the Shadhiliya in the Maghreb was taken when Abul Hassan inherited the title of Axis of the Age (Qutb az-zaman) from the Moroccan Sufi Sidi Abul Hajjaj al-Uqsuri ("Sabti al-'Hussayni"; d. 642/1244)...[More]
The Khalwatiya Path
One of the most widespread and ramified orders of Sufism is that of the Khalwatiya, which remained for generations one of Islam’s most important orthodox paths along with the Shadhiliya, the Qadiriya, and the Naqshbandiya...[More]
Pan Ties of Qadiri-Shadhili Branches
The Qadiriya Sufi Order, so named after Shaykh Moulay Abdellqadir Jilani (d. 561/1166), occupies a pre-eminent place in Moroccan Sufism. Although its organizational..[More]
sufism: heart of islam
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Saints |
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The Concealed Pole, Sidna Shaykh Abil Abbas Ahmed Tijani (may Allah sanctify his precious secret) said, “Oh Seeker on the Path to Allah, Oh the One who yearns for Divine Love and Divine Presence, know that this Path has three stations...[More]
Moroccan
Kingdom: Hub of Sufism Par Excellence
Al-Maghreb al-Aqsa (present-day Morocco) has long been one of the most important crucibles of Islamic mysticism. Moroccan religious and intellectual movements often created ebb tides of intellectual and cultural influence that flowed toward the Muslim East...[More]
Concept of Revitalization in Islam
“Man”, noted Ibn Khaldun cautions in his Muqaddima, "should not trust the suggestion that his minds makes, that it is able to comprehend all existing things and their causes and to know all the details of existence. Such a...[More]
Shrines: Bridegrooms of Morocco
Welcome to Morocco: Kingdom of Sainthood and Authority!! Mushroomed over the years on hills and mountains, oases and caves, villages and cities, shrines and sanctuaries are in here a million in number...[More]
