Free Downloads Reassurance For The Seeker: A Biography And Translation Of Salih Al-Jafari's Al-Fawaid Al-Ja Fariyya, A Commentary On Forty Prophetic Traditions (Three Spiritual Luminaries Of Twentieth-Century Cairo)
This book is a unique collection of 40 Prophetic Traditions by one of the most celebrated teachers and spiritual masters of the Azhar Mosque, Sunni Islam's leading institution of knowledge and its most authoritative voice. It provides a glimpse into the scholarly and spiritual traditions of Islam carried forth into our day. Some may have concluded that the saints and sages of Islam ended with such names as Rumi and Ibn Arabi. The knowledge and spiritual depth reached in past centuries does, in fact, continue into the present day. The book includes a biography of the author, a description of his main teachers, and a beautiful treatise by the author's main teacher on a single Prophetic statement in which the Prophet summarizes his own spiritual states. This volume also deals with death, the afterlife, the waking visions of the Prophet, his ability to pray for and intercede for those alive, and nearness to and friendship with God.
Series: Three Spiritual Luminaries of Twentieth-Century Cairo (Book 1)
Paperback: 260 pages
Publisher: Fons Vitae (January 1, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1887752986
ISBN-13: 978-1887752985
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 9.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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There are people who, without showing it in their outward conduct, are nevertheless haunted by the thought of God. Such people, living their lives in this secular and materialistic culture, are unable to shake themselves free from the sense that there is a hidden order behind the sensory world of appearances, a realm of power and intelligence of which this world is just a shadow... this realm itself being just a shadow of the Eternal One, Possessor of Majesty and Nobility. If you feel this way,you have found your guide in Shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari; this work is a very accurate and scholarly introduction to the Shaykh's message and life, the first of its kind in the English language. Like Rumi, Shaykh Salih was a spiritual master with whom everyone seemed to fall in love, the pious as well as the impious, the old as well as the young, non-Muslims as well as Muslims. He combined intellectual rigour and briliiance on the one hand with the heights of spiritual experience and witnessing on the other; and he put both these qualities in the service of guiding seekers throughout his career. The book contains an indispensable introduction to the Shaykh's life, (the only biography of him in English), and a translation of the Shaykh's collection of forty hadiths, together with his commentary. In the same way that Imam Nawawi's collection of forty hadiths are a guide to the basics of Islam, this collection of forty hadiths is a guide to the basics of the path of self-purification in Islam. I am not aware of any collection of hadiths better for this purpose than this one.
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