"The Beloved ﷺ would guide the people with religious lessons and the Magnificent Quran, and our shaykh Ahmad b. Idris followed him in that, and he guides the people by the Noble Quran and 'ilm and he persisted in that until he met his Lord. I have asked Allah to make me in conformity with what our shaykh was upon. So it is necessary for our…
On an occasion, Sidi Shaykh Abd al-Ghani brought his family to Cairo to visit his father, Shaykh Salih al-Ja’fari. Arriving at the Azhar; they came across the Shaykh al-Azhar, Shaykh Abd al-Haleem Mahmoud, who greeted them and asked what they were doing in Cairo; to which Sidi Abd al-Ghani replied “We came to visit the Kaaba of Ilm” – in reference to the noble Azhar itself. Shaykh…
Shaykh Dr. Fathi Hijazi, the head of the faculty of Arabic language at the Azhar university, shares a memory of his teacher, Shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari; speaking with a man who declared that the Qur'an is sufficient and there is no need for the Sunnah. English translation in CC
“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…
Beautiful supplication of Shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari about the Qur'an by the letters of the Arabic alphabet. Link has Arabic and English https://lightoftheazhar.com/files/dua_by_the_letters_in_Quran.pdf