Shaykh Salih advises the murid in his book, The Urgent Provision for the Idle Souls: When your nafs speaks to you and says to you that you are better than your brothers or that you know the unseen or that you are a shaykh, know that this is delusion and do not turn to it, and be humble towards your brothers. As Shaykh Abu Madyan said,…
Our master, Shaykh Salih al-Ja’fari says in his book, The Urgent Provision for the Idle Souls: O Murid, it is incumbent on you to continually, always, and perpetually look to the love of the Prophet ﷺ in your heart, and to weigh it with the scale of the Quran and the Sunnah. Do you love him ﷺ more than your own soul, your children, or your…
Shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari describing the blessed Isra and Miraaj. This chapter is taken from his book, 'al-Aqmar al-Nuraniyya' - The Luminous Moons, which we endeavour to publish in a beautiful bilingual (Arabic-English) edition very soon (2021) inshaAllah. English translation available via captions.
O our brother in Allah, it’s incumbent on you to plant the tree of Divine Love in the soil of your heart, based upon His saying, “He loves them and they love Him”. Then water it with the water of spiritual struggle based upon His saying, “Strive for Allah as He deserves”, until the fruit of certainty is produced, then it rises to knowledge of…
HOW TO SEE THE PROPHET (ﷺ) IN ONE'S DREAMS: Sayyiduna Shaykh Salih al-Ja’fari was asked is there a specific supplication to see the Prophet (ﷺ) in your dreams. He answered: There is in the Ahmadiyya spiritual path a supplication to obtain this bounty and it is: اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ بِنُورِ الأَنْوَارِ الَّذِي هُوَ عَيْنُكَ لا غَيْرُكَ أَنْ تُرِينِي وَجْهَ نَبِيِّكَ سَيِّدِنَا مُحَمَّدٍ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِهِ…
Shaykh Salih speaking of the supplications: The Opener of Locks (Fatiha al-Aqfal) , The Supplication for Near Ease (Dawat al-Yusr al-Qarib), and the Procurement of Relief (Jalibat al-Faraj) states that he saw his shaykh, Sayyid Abd al-Aali the son of shaykh Ahmad b. Idris, in a dream. Shaykh Salih said to him, " Teach me a supplication which facilitates ease in ones' affairs." Shaykh Abd…
Shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari says: "The person of remembrance continues the dhikr of la ilaha illa Allah until his heart hears it and responds to it. Thus when the dhikr moves from his tongue to his heart; his limbs, organs and veins all make dhikr along with his heart. This continues until he hears everything in his presence saying: la ilaha illa Allah."
The resplendent moon of the age, Sayyidi Shaykh Abd al-Ghani said: إن تلاميذ الشيخ صالح هم كرامته الكبرى The [committed] students of Shaykh Salih are his greatest miracle. Fom the science of Tasawwuf and indeed the Prophetic Sunnah, we know that knowledge is of the greatest legacy for a person to pass on. It is well known that great Shaykhs have bequeathed…
With heavy hearts, we announce the passing of our teacher, Shaykh Dr. Ahmad Taha Rayyan. Shaykh Ahmad Taha Rayyan (b.1939) was the Shaykh of the Maliki scholars of Egypt and a member of the Council of Senior Scholars of the Azhar. He memorised the Qur‘an and the principles of the religious sciences in his village in Upper Egypt. Shaykh Ahmad graduated from the faculty of Shari‘ah…
Shaykh Muhammad Salih al-Ja’fari said: "All that you want or need, whatever it is, if you want Allah, Sublime and Exalted is He, to listen to you and your supplications, then it must go through the door of “Allahumma salli ‘ala Sayyidina Muhammad”. This is for all your wants and needs! This is our aqida and this is our belief." There was a man who…