We are honored to release two new updated hardback editions of the Salawat al-Ja'fariyya. The two sizes are the Executive Size (7x10) and Standard size (6x9). They are both adorned with bespoke, traditional illumination design as our previous PU Leatherbound edition. The Standard size is a linen bound hardback with a dust jacket with the cover design printed and the Executive Size the design is standard…
Love of the Prophet Cures Me حُبُّ النَّبِيِّ مِنْ الأَهْوَاءِ يَشْفِينِي Ḥubbu al-nabī min al-ahwā’ yashfīnī Love of the Prophet heals me from all base desires إِلَى المَعَالِي إِلَى الرِّضْوَانِ يَهْدِينِي Ilā al-maʿālī ilā al-riḍwān yahdīnī It guides me to the highest ranks and to Divine pleasure حُبُّ النَّبِيِّ هُوَ الإِيمَانُ يَصْحَبُهُ Ḥubbu al-nabī huwa al-īmān yaṣḥabuhu Love of the Prophet is faith itself that accompanies…
Increase me, through overflowing love for You, in bewilderment يَا رَبِّ صَلِّ عَلَي النَّبِيِّ مُحَمَّدٍ * الطَّاهِرِ بْنِ الطَّاهِرِ بْنِ الطَّاهِرِهِ yā rabb ṣalli ʿalā an-nabiyyi Muḥammad * aṭ-ṭāhiri bni aṭ-ṭāhiri bni aṭ-ṭāhirih O Lord, send prayers upon the Prophet Muḥammad * the pure son of the pure son of the pure. زِدْنِي بِفَرْطِ الحُبِّ فِيكَ تَحَيُّرَا * وَافْتَحْ فُؤَادِيَ بِالعُلُومِ لِيَعْمُرَا zidnī bi-farṭi al-ḥubbi fīka…
The Bountiful Treasure: The Life and Spiritual Methodology of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Jaʿfarī opens a door to one of the Modern Islamic World's most revered modern scholars and spiritual masters. Presented here in English for the first time, this book is a complete translation of al-Kanz al-Tharī, compiled by his noble inheritor, Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Jaʿfarī, and enriched with first-hand accounts from the Shaykh’s closest students.…
21 Characteristics of the Zuhd (7 characteristics for each letter z-h-d) Adornment (zīnah) of the heart with wisdom and knowledge. Disappearance (zuhūq) of falsehood and the imaginations of the world and what is in it. “And say: Truth has come, and falsehood has vanished away. Lo! falsehood is ever bound to vanish.” (17:81) Nearness in rank (zulfa) in this life and the Hereafter, “He has…
Shaykh Salih says in the intro to the print of this poem titled: The Gladdening of the Heart of the People of Love and Affection in the Praise of the Family of the Best of Mankind (also known as Ahlu Bayti 'l Mustafa): (مفرحة الفؤاد لاهل الحب والوداد في مدح آل بيت خير العباد) "Some of the brothers saw Sayyidah Fatimah (peace be upon her) in…
In Volume 4 of the Friday Lessons, Arabic edition, Shaykh Salih says regarding the statement of Allah, “…do not forget your share of the world…”(Quran 28:77): The share for the believer of this world is the Quran and whoever takes it has taken a bountiful share. While whoever forgets the Quran and forgets acting by it has missed his share of the world because…
From the warnings of Sidna Shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari: "From the catastrophes that afflict the murid is his mixing with those who reject [ie tasawwuf, awliya, shaykhs, etc]. Their speech are like rocks and the heart of the murid is like glass, "And the glass that has been broken cannot be repaired." So, whoever presents his heart to them has presented his glass to be broken.…
Shaykh Ahmad Sayih wrote, In the name of Allah the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate On a day of Friday, after Maghrib, while [Shaykh Salih al-Ja’fari] was walking back from the Old Qibla (of the Azhar Mosque, where he led the prayer), his student Hajj Muhammad Ali Yasin came to him. He greeted him and kissed his hand and then said to him, ‘Oh mawlana,…
Shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari speaking of the benefits of the awrad of the path: Our awrad are such that whoever reads them, his Lord will love him and whoever He loves He attracts, and whoever He attracts He draws near, and whoever He draws near He refines, whoever He refines He advances, whoever He advances He honors, whoever He honors He inspires, and whoever He inspires He…