Those Who Love Allah vs. Those Who Allah Loves The muḥibbūn (lovers) refer to those who love Allāh, so He in turn loved them. And the maḥbūbūn (beloveds) refer to those whom Allāh loved, so in turn they loved Him. Regarding the muḥibbūn, creation recognizes them by the permission of Allāh. Regarding the maḥbūbūn, creation might recognize them, but they might not recognize them also. This…
In Volume 4 of the Friday Lessons, Arabic edition, Shaykh Salih says regarding the statement of Allah, “…do not forget your share of the world…”(Quran 28:77): The share for the believer of this world is the Quran and whoever takes it has taken a bountiful share. While whoever forgets the Quran and forgets acting by it has missed his share of the world because…
Shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari says in his book, al-Ilham al-Nafi: Recitation of the Qur’an has been for us a cause for the rending of the veils and the fastest in raising in levels. So, do not be heedless of these words of mine, and stick to the recitation of the Qur’an as it will open the locks for you. We have not found anything faster for…
Reading the Qur‘an with the barakah of Shaykh Salih One of the prominent scholars of the Azhar related a story: “In 1965, I entered the Azhar and I saw Shaykh Salih al-Ja’fari, and from that day I regularly attended his Friday lessons and the hadra. I would also attend the dhuhr prayer a lot, just to listen to him. One day, we were sitting with…
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…
"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…
Beautiful supplication of Shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari about the Qur'an by the letters of the Arabic alphabet. Link has Arabic and English https://lightoftheazhar.com/files/dua_by_the_letters_in_Quran.pdf