Witnessing the Prophet ﷺ

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…

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Foundations of the Ja’fari Path

  Shaykh Abdul-Ghani says: "It is known among the students of Sayyidi Ahmad b. Idris are those who received the Shadhili tariqa, for example, al-sayyid Muhammad Sirr al-Khatm al-Mirghani and al-sayyid Muhammad Ali al-Sanusi, and al-sayyid al-Majdhub. And there are those who received from him the Muhammadiyya Idrissiyya tariqa, for example, al-sayyid Ibrahim al-Rashidi. Each of them received the awrad from him then they received them…

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Tariqa Muhammadiyya

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…

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