The Golden Chain of Shaykh Salih al-Ja’fari Shaykh Salih al-Ja’fari, may Allah Most High be pleased with him, opened his lessons with a famous introduction known as his ‘Golden Chain’: I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed Satan. In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. All praise belongs to Allah, Lord of all the worlds, and may Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, bless…
Shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari says in his book al-Ilham al-Nafi: Reject from your self what is other than Him in order to rise. No one enters the Divine presence except with a pure heart. If one is successful in purifying it you will taste the sweetness of the dhikr of your Lord. Then the sweetness of other than worship will be removed from the heart. Then 'otherness'…
Shaykh Salih says in his Friday Lessons volume 4: If you want to remove falsehood from your life, then stick to the Quran. If you want knowledge, then stick to the Quran. If you want protection, then stick to the Quran. If you want mercy, then stick to the Quran. All of this is established in the Book of Allah. The Quran is preserved and…
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Shaykh Abd al-Ghani would give special precedence to the days and nights of the blessed month of Ramadan. He would spend his days in service of people, answering their questions and fulfilling their needs. The Shaykh was incredibly generous and would give large sums of money to those in need. He would also check on the brothers on the path and their families, at every…
Shaykh Ali Gomaa narrates an incident regarding Shaykh Salih al-Ja’fari: People would come to Shaykh Salih at the Noble Azhar seeking from him the fulfillment of some of their needs. As the shaykh was the Imam of al-Azhar, they considered it was possible that he had connections to some of the officials, ministers, etc. One day someone came to Shaykh Salih saying, by the honor…
Excerpt from the Diwan of Shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari concerning the Prayer on the Prophet (ﷺ): If conditions of the day depress you - then spend the pre-dawn time sending prayers on Muhammad Allah, the Lord of the throne, will pray 10 times – on the slave who sends a prayer on Muhammad And if he sends 100 prayers Allah recompenses with a…
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.