“The Jaʿfarī ṭarīqa is built upon knowledge and erected upon the acquisition of knowledge and is spread among the people by means of knowledge. Such that its shaykh, Imam al-Jaʿfarī, made attending lessons of knowledge from among its awrād, which the disciples of the ṭarīqa preserve in their gatherings…
The Shaykh clarifies, in a clear picture, that the seeker in this ṭarīqa will not have its secrets revealed nor come close to its fruits except through being attached to knowledge and attending the sessions of knowledge…
Knowledge is the means of elevation which the seeker rises with through the various levels of the ṭarīqa until he reaches its end.”
-Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Jaʿfarī describing the importance of knowledge in the path of his father, Shaykh Salih al-Ja’fari.
