Religion From Sidi Shaykh Muhammad Said

[>] Pictures from Sidi Shaykh Muhammad Sa'id al-Jamal ar-Rifa'i ash-Shadhuli's visit to Del Mar, Southern California, 1st December. 2007. Since 1994 Shaykh visits the United States every year, staying for a few months and traveling the country visiting his beloveds.

Yesterday i had the blessed opportunity to meet the Shaykh, the present guide of the Shadhdhuliyyah Tariqah, affectionately known as Sidi meaning Sir or Teacher. Sidi gave bayat (INITIATION TO SUFI PATH) to new aspirants and i got initiated as well, Alhamdulillah. Shaykh gave each a new sufi name and while gazing lovingly he called me Salim. So there goes my sufi name, Salim. '"Selim"' or '"Salim"' means "PEACEFUL", "SAFE", derived from Arabic salima "TO BE WITH PEACE". Its also the same in Hebrew Salem meaning the same.

During the Bayat the Shaykh blessed the new aspirants and helped them say and do tauba, a spiritual, physical and mental process of turning back to God. Shaykh adorned all new aspirants with a beautiful prayer bead or tasbih (ROSARY) in the initiation ceremony.

Bayat, an Islamic word for allegiance, and the word means "TAKING HAND", a practice mentioned by Quranic Surah 48:10: "VERILY, THOSE WHO GIVE THEE THEIR ALLEGIANCE, THEY GIVE IT BUT TO GOD HIMSELF, GOD'S HAND IS UPON THEIR HANDS...". This tradition of the Prophet himself is thus observed for the initiation ceremony specific to many Sufi orders.

. About the teacher Sidi Shaykh Muhammad Sa'id al-Jamal ar-Rifa'i ash-Shadhuli, the Guide of the peace, the mercy, and the love to the way of God through the Sufi path a guide of the Shadhdhuliyyah Tariqah, founded by as-Shaykh Ali Abu-l-Hasan as-Shadhili in Egypt in the thirteenth century.

The Shaykh is a descendent of the Prophet Muhammad, may God's peace and blessings be upon him, through his ancestor, Shaykh Ahmad ar-Rifa'i. He was born in Tulkum in the Holy Land in 1935. He is the spiritual inheritor through the Shadhili line from his Guide and Master, Shaykh 'Abdu-r-Rahman Abu-r-Risah of Halab in the land of Syria, and is one who has kept Sufism alive and at work as an institution and a school of thought and spiritual knowledge. In 1997 he restored the 1000 year old Sufi Council that served in the Holy Land. He is the Head of this Council in Jerusalem and the Holy Land and has been a teacher and central figure at the Masjid al-Aqsa or the Dome of the Rock for many years.

The Shaykh has been living on the Mount of Olives in the Holy City of Jerusalem since the year 1959. (credit)

. About the Sadhiliya Tariqa Shadhiliya is one of the major tariqa or sufi path, founded by Imam Shadhili, may God sanctify his station, who originated from North East African country. Imam Shadhili was the Shaykh of all Shaykhs and Quthub (THE SPIRITUAL AND ENERGY POLE OF GOD) of his time.

Being the 23rd hereditary grand son of our beloved Prophet Muhammad, the Messenger of God, Shaykh Shadhili was the first in this world to introduce Zikr JAHRI. That is meditating '"Allah"' louder so that to get control over all the five human sensations.

Shadhiliyya Tariqa is known as Thareeqush Shukr (THE PATH OF GRATITUDE) and one of the teachings that Shadhiliyya preaches is to enjoy all (HALAL) permitted matters in the world and thank God always who provided every thing, and Hence the name THAREEQUSH SHUKR.

The Tribute of spreading this Tariqa world wide through His (KARAAMATH - E - JAHRI) exhibited wonders goes to Shaykh Muhammadh Ajwadh Al Fassy, may God be pleased with him, who was the 21st Khaleefa or representative. During his tenure as Khaleefa tariqa with Zikr Jahri, Inshaadh, Auraadh and Hizb was spreaded all over the world. The path also focuses on sufi healing methods. details The University of Spiritual Healing and Sufism.

Today there are 117 countries around the globe where the practices of Shadhiliyya tariqa are being performed. People from all over the world, because of the mixture of their regional languages, pronounce and spell Shazuli(ya) as, Shadhili(ya), Shazili(ya), Shadhuli(ya), Chadhuli(ya), Chadili(ya), Chadhili(ya), Chazuli(ya), chazli(ya) etc., Though it is spelled with various pronunciations and spellings all refers only to this tariqa "SHADHILI(YA)".

. reference. bayat in islamic shariya

. photos: sufi gathering @ Del Mar, California, 1st Dec, 2007. Shaykh Sidi giving his teachings and blessing individuals. God willing i will write later few of the highlights about which Sidi spoke in the gathering.[+] Please visit MysticSaint.Info For full multimedia experience and enjoy special music.

BLESSINGS,

SADIQ

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Dalail Al Khayrat The Story

Dala'il Al-Khayrat: The Story of a Text - By Adam Larson

"God and his angels bless the Prophet.O believers bless him and pray him peace as well"- Qur'an 33:56

The eminent scholar and mystic of fifteenth century Egypt, Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti, tells the story of an early mystic:

One night I fulfilled a number of blessings on the Prophet and I fell asleep.

I was dwelling in a room, and lo, the Prophet came to me through the door, and the whole room was lit up. Then he moved towards me and said: "Give me the mouth that has blessed me so often that I may kiss it." And my modesty would not let him kiss my mouth; so I turned away my face, and he kissed my cheek. Then I woke trembling from sleep and my wife who was by my side awoke, and lo, the house was fragrant with his scent, and the scent of musk from his kiss remained on my cheek about eight days. My wife noticed the scent every day.

This story beautifully illustrates the centrality of the Prophet Muhammad (God bless him and give him peace) to Islamic piety. For hundreds of years Muslims have meditated on and lucidly expressed their deep love for the Chosen Prophet (God bless him and give him peace); they have collected and compiled every available account concerning him, produced immense commentaries detailing his every feature, from the length of his hair and the color of his complexion, to the way he walked, slept, and laughed, and have composed lyrical poetry giving voice to their immense longing for him.

The Prophet (God bless him and give him peace) said, "The person nearest to me is the one who asks for blessings upon me the most." Throughout history Muslims have sought continual presence with the Prophet (God bless him and give him peace), manifesting their love for him by adhering to God's command: "bless him and pray for peace upon him" (The Qur'an, Sura al-Ahzab). In the spirit of this command, Muslim scholars have produced prayer manuals of the utmost beauty and eloquence. These manuals most frequently consist of collections of prayers, supplications, and praise from the Qur'an and hadith, as well as original compositions. Of these prayer manuals, perhaps none have been more successful and widespread than Muhammad b. Sulayman al-Jazuli's masterwork Dala'il al- Khayrat wa Shawariq al-Anwar fi Dhikr al-Salat 'ala al- Nabi al-Mukhtar (The Guide to Blessings and the Advent of Light in Blessing the Chosen Prophet). Composed in Morocco in the fifteenth century, Dala'il al-Khayrat quickly spread throughout the Muslim world, from Turkey, to East Africa, to Sumatra.

WHO WAS AL-JAZULI? Why was Dala'il al-Khayrat so popular? How have Muslims interacted with and experienced the text, both as a performative act and as a physical object? By exploring these questions, it is hoped that the reader may gain a fuller understanding and greater appreciation of this extraordinary text, its author, and its inspiration.

THE CONTEXT AND FORMATION OF DALA'IL AL-KHAYRAT: THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD B. SULAYMAN AL-JAZULI

At the dawn of the fifteenth century, the Marinid dynasty had ruled Morocco for over one hundred and fifty years. The early Marinid period was marked by military campaigns and vigorous architectural activity. They built a variety of structures: new urban centers, zawiyas, fortresses, and mosques. However, their most marvelous architectural contributions were madrasas: four at Fez and one at Sal'e. In the oldest of these madrasas, Madrasat al-Saffarin in Fez, young Muhammad b. Sulayman al-Jazuli received instruction in the religious sciences.

By the mid-fifteenth century, Moroccan society was in chaos. Corruption and immorality were rampant in both the cities and the countryside. Port cities along the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts fell to the crusading Portuguese. Due to internal strife and foreign military pressure, the Marinid state began to fragment. Morocco was in need of religious reform and reorientation. It was precisely at this trying time that al-Jazuli introduced his remarkable work Dala'il al- Khayrat.

Abu 'Abdullah Muhammad b. 'Abd al-Rahman b. Abi Bakr b. Sulayman al-Jazuli al-Samlali was born to a sharif [a descendent of the Prophet Muhammad] family in the southern Moroccan village of Tankarat in the early fifteenth century. He belonged to the Simlala, an important subtribe of the Sanhaja Berbers that lived on the Sus River plain between the High Atlas and Anti-Atlas Mountains. Little detail is known about his life. However, his biographer, Muhammad al-Mahdi al-Fasi (d.), mentions in his work Mumti' al-Asma' a number of anecdotes and pithy expressions, giving a glimpse into the religious world of early modern Morocco.

As a young scholar al-Jazuli left his homeland of Jazula because inter-tribal conflicts made serious study impossible. He traveled to Fez and enrolled at Madrasat al-Saffarin, where his room is still shown to visitors. In Fez he memorized works of usul al-fiqh and Maliki law, such as Ibn al-Hajib's Mukhtasr al-Far'i and Sahnun's Al-Mudawwana al-Kubra. He also met the famous jurist and mystic Sheikh Ahmad Zarruq. As a youth he became known for his piety. Al-Fasi relates a stunning example of al-Jazuli's detachment from worldly concerns:

While he was attending the madrasa, he secluded himself in a house and no one else would enter. This news reached his father who thought the youth's persistence in barring others from entering was because he was hiding wealth, so he set out to visit his son. He requested permission to enter his son's house and was given leave. When he entered he saw written all over the walls: "Death, Death, Death..." He understood what his son was up to. He reproached himself, saying, "Look where he is and look where we are!" Then he left his son and returned home.

Several accounts detail al-Jazuli's inspiration in writing Dala'il al-Khayrat. According to al-Fasi, he collected Dala'il al-Khayrat from The reason for al-Jazuli's writing Dala'il al-Khayrat... was that one day he was late for his prayers, even though it was his custom to seek the approval of God the Exalted by not delaying a prayer beyond the earliest possible time for its performance. When he arose to make his ablutions, however, he was unable to find anything with which to take water out of the well. This preoccupied him greatly and he was very annoyed. While he was in this state a young girl caught sight of him from a high place and said, "Who are you, uncle?" The sheikh then told her about himself, hoping that she would give him a bucket and thus ease his cares and worries. Instead the girl exclaimed, "You are the one whom people praise greatly, yet you are unable to take water from a well in order to purify yourself !"

Then she came down from that high place and spat into the well while reciting the Name of the Lord of Creation. No sooner had she done so than water tasting as sweet as the sweetest sugar poured forth from the well until it spilled over the face of the earth as a miracle from the One who rolls up the scroll of time. The sheikh made his ablution and marveled at this splendid miracle. When he finished, he swore by God Almighty that the girl should reveal to him how she had acquired this great rank. "By making constant prayers on the Best of Creation (may God bless and preserve him) to the number of breaths and heartbeats (bi-'adad al-anfas wa al-daqa'iq)," she replied.

So al-Jazuli resolved at that moment to write a book about the excellence of prayers on behalf of the Chosen Prophet and to include in it many transmitted texts from the mine of prophecy and from those who have drowned in the sea of the effusion of God's abundant generosity. All of this (which was due to what he perceived in this great miracle) would not have been possible had it not been for this girl, who was devoted to reciting prayers on the Adornment of the Last Day (zayn al-qiyama).

Al-Jazuli took the Shadhili tariqa from Abu 'Abdullah Muhammad Amghar al-Saghir (d.) of Ribat Tit-n- Fitr. After taking part in the resistance to the Portuguese at Tangier in, he went into seclusion (khalwa). Some historians claim that he worshiped in isolation for fourteen years; while others maintain that he traveled east for sometime, reciting Dala'il al-Khayrat twice each morning to the Prophet (God bless him and give him peace) in Medina.Upon his reemergence in, al-Jazuli established a zawiya at the Atlantic port city of Asafi.

Al-Jazuli was "frequent in reciting litanies (awrad), observant of God most High in all his states, not exceeding the boundaries God established, and exerting himself in following the Book of God and the example of his Messenger (God bless him and give him peace)." He founded the Shadhiliyya Jazuliyya order, with Dala'il al-Khayrat at its core, and over,disciples received spiritual training (tarbiya) at his hands.

Later writers describe the nature of al-Jazuli's relationship with the Prophet (God bless him and give him peace): there mixed, in his person, "the two loves"-the love one feels for the Prophet due to religion, and the love one feels for one's kinsfolk (mahabba al-diniyya wa al-tiniyya).Al-Jazuli died in while prostrating during the morning prayer, the victim of poisoning. He was later buried at Riyadh al-'Arus in Marrakesh. Known in the local dialect as "Sidi Ben Sliman," he is one of the seven patron saints of Marrakesh. He left Dala'il al-Khayrat as a testament to his immense love and longing for the Prophet (God bless him and give him peace):

O God, I believed in Muhammad but did not see him; do not deprive me in the Gardens of his vision. Bestow his company upon me and cause me to die in his religion. Let me drink from his pool a quenching, pleasant, delightful drink after which we shall never thirst again. You are powerful over everything. O God, convey to the soul of Muhammad my greetings and peace. O God, as I believed in Muhammad but did not see him, do not deprive me in the Gardens of his vision.

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