The Advice of Shaykh Ahmad Zarruq (RA)

al-Nasiha (The Advice) by Sidi Ahmad Zarruq
Know (may Allah give you and us success, and rectify
our worldly and other worldly lives and grant us
adherence to way of the truth in our journeys and
in our sojourns) that:
Repentance is a key. And Taqwa [awareness and fear of
Allah] is vast. And Uprightness (Istiqama) is the
source of rectification. Furthermore [...]

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The Hikam of Imam Ibn Ata’illah(RA)

The Kitab al-Hikam ( Book of Wisdom) of Sidi Ahmad Ibn Ata’illah (ra) is one of the classic texts of sufism. In form it is a collection of aphoristic statements in beautiful Arabic. However it is an ocean of meanings whose outer simplicity often veils one from the depth and profundity of its teachings. Masters [...]

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Conversing with God

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Contrasting the Shadhili and Ghazali Ways

Al-Ibriz min Kalam al-Arifbillah Sayyidi Abd al-Aziz ad-Dabbagh ( Pure Gold from the Words of the Knower by Allah my Master Abd al-Aziz Dabbagh) by Sidi Ahmad Ibn al-Mubarak, usually knowm simply as al-Ibriz ,is a famous sufi text from the middle ages. Sidi Abd al-Aziz was a great wali who was granted special knowledge [...]

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The Anguish of Love- A beautiful Burda rendition

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Mercy for the Worlds

One of the great masters said: Our ascension is to reach the noble sandals which have beheld the wonders of the world of realities and any explanation of these realities by any wali or ghawth is a sadaqa of the noble sandals…..to raise one’s sight further is lack of adab.

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Na’layn Sharif- The Noble Sandal

Jo sar pe rakhne ko mil jaye naal-e-paak-e-Huzoor
to phir kehenge ke haan taajdar hum be hein
(If ever I were granted to place the noble sandal on my head
I would then proclaim: yes, I am indeed crowned king)

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Mawlid as-Sharif- Rejoice!

God Most High informs us:
” There hath come unto you a messenger, (one) of yourselves, unto whom aught that ye are overburdened is grievous, full of concern for you, for the believers full of pity, merciful.
Now, if they turn away (O Muhammad) say: Allah sufficeth me. There is no god save Him. In [...]

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The Mediator of Spritual Secrets

The All-Merciful has not sent and sends not
a mercy that ascends or descends
In the Malakut of Allah or His Mulk,
of anything particular or general
But that Taha, the Chosen, Ahmad,
His beloved, His selected Messenger
Mediates it and is its source,
this is known by all men of reason“.

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Mawlid in Morrocco

This is a clip of the annual Mawlid celebration at the Zawiya of Sidi Hamza al-Qadri al-Boutchichi whose tariqa has brought vast numbers of young educated people to the Sufi Path in recent years.

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