From the introduction of The Friday Lessons Volume 1 by Shaykh Abdul-Ghani Salih al-Ja'fari, the son and inheritor of Shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari: "We were not eager to present these lessons but for the following reasons, of the most important of them are: Knowledge is the only way to properly recognize Allāh and His rights over His servants, and the only way people can be firm-footed…
Listen, O’ servant of Allāh, and listen well with the ear of your soul. May Allāh guide you and me to His secrets of the Universe, as Sayyidī Abū Madyan said, “Allāh has secrets in the universe through which He can be seen.” Being “with” is of various types. The first type is sensory, when you are at their graves. The second type is metaphorical…
Shaykh Ṣāliḥ says: ‘It is necessary for every disciple travelling on this path to rush to review the books of his guide in order that he attains harmony between the two souls, and they are pulled together. “Between them is a barrier they cannot transgress” . He will attain experiential knowledge which is not in books. It is necessary for you to search for the reality…
The Treasure of Remembrance is a collection of adhkar utilized by the Ja'fari spiritual path, primarily for our weekly gatherings, along with a few supplemental supplications important for the spiritual nourishment of the student. We are publishing this work to also benefit the general Muslim audience who are not affiliated to the Ja'fari spiritual path, as was the habit of Shaykh Salih to benefit the…
Shaykh Salih relating from his shaykh, Sayyid Muhammad al-Sharif: ‘I heard from my teacher and shaykh, who was the reason for much good and who I took the covenant with over thirty-five years ago [around 1347 AH, when he was nineteen years old]. I accompanied and served him a lot and saw miracles and blessings from him. He is Sayyid Muhammad ʿAbd al-ʿĀlī, titled “al-Sayyid…
From forthcoming book The Bountiful Treasures, in the chapter of not going to extremes in speech and belief, Shaykh Abdul-Ghani says: "Among this is delving into matters of the unseen and frequently talking about visions and miracles. This leads delusion into the heart and steals away the characteristic of hiddenness and obscurity, which are from the most important characteristics of the travellers. Shaykh Salih says:…
THE INTERCESSION OF THE BELOVED ﷺ IS FOR THE SINNER Sidna Shaykh Muhammad Salih al-Ja'fari was approached by a man who looked extremely distressed. If a person were to see him, it could easily be assumed that this man did not know happiness. The man greeted our Shaykh and said, "Mawlana, I can not sleep at night. I can not taste food nor do I have…
In the introduction to the Diwan vol 1 (Arabic version) Shaykh Abdul-Ghani says: "From him (shaykh Salih) are very many odes (qasa'id) in the praise (madh) of the Prophet, al-Mustafa ﷺ...Whoever recites or listens to these odes their soul will ascend and it will long for the Prophet ﷺ and by his love ﷺ , one will become (spiritually) realized. And that is the way…
Shaykh Salih al-Ja’fari commenting on the lines from the Salat al-Azeemiyya: ...and join him with me, just as You joined the spirit with the soul, outwardly and inwardly, in wakefulness and in sleep and make him, O Lord, a soul for my body in every aspect... Join, in my essence, between his perfect attributes ﷺ and my deficient egotistical attributes, like you joined between the perfect…
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.…