The Imam of the Azhar Mosque, Shaykh Salih al-Ja’fari (d. 1979), may Allah be pleased with him and please him, wrote: “Among the favours of Allah – most high- upon me is that I was once sitting in the Noble Rawda between the Maghrib and Isha prayers, my eyes closed, invoking blessings upon the Prophet, ﷺ. I heard his voice – ﷺ – from the…
In the name of Allāh, the Beneficent, the Merciful. May Allāh bestow blessing upon our Master Muḥammad in every breath and glance, to the number of everything encompassed by the knowledge of Allāh. Our aim at www.lightoftheazhar.com is to bring the treasure troves of guidance from the works of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Jaʿfarī to the English-speaking audience. In keeping with that intention, we are offering…
This is a document with ~100 pages of shaykh Salih's handwritten supplications. مخطوطات سيدي الشيخ صالح الجعفري
SANAD of the PATH Shaykh Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ al-Jaʿfarī (current head of the Tariqa) Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ghanī Ṣāliḥ al-Jaʿfarī Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Jaʿfarī Muḥammad al-Sharīf al-Idrīsī ʿAbd al-ʿĀlī al-Idrīsī Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Sanūsī Aḥmad b. Idrīs ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Tāzī ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Dabbāgh ʿUmar b. Muḥammad al-Hawwāri al-ʿArabī al-Qashtālī Muḥammad b. Nāṣir Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-Hajj al-Darʿī Abī l-Qāsim al-Ghāzī ʿAbd al-Ālī al-Ghaylānī al-Rāshidī Aḥmad Zarrūq Aḥmad b.…
A Sudanese man visited Shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari and said, "I am going to visit our master Imam al-Husayn before the Hadra", to which the Shaykh replied, "stay here, our master Imam al-Husayn will come to us and be present for the Hadra". So the man sat down for the gathering and saw our master Imam al-Husayn and the Ahlul Bayt. He rejoiced with great joy…
During the mawlid of our master al-Husayn, Shaykh Salih relates: “I entered the maqam of my master al-Husayn and stood in the direction of the qibla and said, ‘Yesterday I came (here) but I did not find you’, to which our master al-Husayn replied ‘I am here for you, o lovers of the Ahlul Bayt! I am here for you! I am watching you when…
Shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari quoting his teacher shaykh Muhammad Habibullah al-Shinqiti, in the book al-dhakhira al-mu'ajjala: "Whoever takes the path and perseveres in it with zeal, it is incumbent on him to struggle and read the books of the guides of the sufis, because in that will be an opening for him, if Allah wills. As for our path, the Muhammadiyya Ahmadiyya, our shaykh, the knower of…
Surah Ya-Sin: The Dua of Healing Al-Sayyid al-Shaykh Muhammad Salih b. Abd al-Ghani b. Salih al-Ja’fari Shaykh of the Ja’fariyya Ahmadiyya Muhammadiyya tariqa in Egypt and the Islamic World We saw Mawlana Shaykh Abd al-Ghani praying for his noble mother (the wife of Shaykh Salih al-Ja’fari) when she was sick. He would encourage his family and the brothers to adopt this methodology to pray for those…
Shaykh Salih describes for us the state of the perfected people of sufism, in a beautiful, pure, and illuminating way. He says, describing the people of Allah and His elect: ‘Days and nights pass by them, but the one from among them does not care about anyone other than his Lord. They serve their Owner, such that kings serve them. There is no pauper or…
One of the driving goals of www.lightoftheazhar.com is to bring the legacy, works and teaching of Sayyid Shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari to the English speaking audience. To that end these are the projects we hope to bring to fruition. Please pray for us that we are granted Divine success in these endeavors. Forthcoming Publications permalink: https://lightoftheazhar.com/forthcoming-publications/ 2021 THE LUMINOUS MOONS (al-Aqmar al-Nuraniyya) Summarized Sira\Mawlid…