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…
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…
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…
Our master and shaykh of tariqa, Shaykh Saliḥ al-Ja’fari said: “Know that every shaykh of ṭariqa has remedies in his awrad for his murids, who are traversing his path; and in them are vitamins that strengthen and nourish [the murid]; and in them is a healing balm; and in them is that which guides the soul and strengthens the spirit. Whoever wants arrival, know, there is…
"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…
“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…