In the summer of 2017 I went to Yemen.
I stayed for two months in a small city called Tarim, in the valley of Hadramawt.
Every morning after the fajr prayer, in the seminary which I was visiting, the people would form lines and walk in single file, shaking everyone’s hands…
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@bahathmag
in 2020.
@BaytAlFann
are you not going to attribute this to the author??
See original article here:
Muslim Kung Fu is an important legacy of Islam in China. It was developed throughout history by Muslim Masters, who trained between physical & spiritual perfection, embedding the uniqueness of Chinese culture with Islam
A thread on the art & heritage of Muslim Kung Fu in China…
As a spouse, your first priority should be to fulfil the rights of your significant other.
Ask yourself, how many times a day am I thinking about my spouse’s comfort, happiness, wellbeing etc and ensuring their needs are met?
Successful marriages are built upon cooperation.
“He was extremely courteous and composed, but there was an air of wildness about him, an intoxicating light that drew people to him, like moths to a flame, and burned away the darkness in one’s soul.”
– Peter Sanders speaking about Habib ʿUmar bin Hafiẓ
Until everyone had shaken everyone else’s hands. This practice, the Musafahah, goes back to the tradition of the Prophet ﷺ in which he said ﷺ:
“The people of Yemen have arrived and they have gentler hearts than you. They are the first to offer the handshake.”
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My master, al-Habib ʿUmar bin Hafiẓ, said:
".الذكر سلاح المريد … لنيل كل ما يريد"
“Remembrance [of Allah] is the weapon of the wayfarer … in achieving what he desires.”
It has been six years since I last took my master’s hand and met his gaze.
The last time I saw al-Habib ʿUmar bin Hafiẓ was in Tarim, Yemen. I took his hand and met his gaze as everyone did as part of the closing ceremony of the summer dawrah…
We need another Muḥammad bin ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Najdī
After you see horrific images like these, you pray for another Muḥammad bin ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, may Allāh have mercy on him.
Here we have an extremely evil and deviant individual, ʿUmar bin Ḥafīẓ, with some misguided Muslims
The Hongi (Māori: [ˈhɔŋi])
The Māori greeting, here between Ḥabīb Kāẓim al-Saqqāf and a member of the Māori community, brother Mujahid, symbolises the sharing of the same breath.
Muhaddith al-Shām, al-Shaykh Nūr al-Dīn 'Itr رحمه الله said:
"The scholars have strongly warned the student of hadith against being negligent in [arabic] language and grammar, including their saying:
The thing I fear most for the seeker of knowledge, if he does not know
He stepped out in front of me and embraced me, tears in his eyes and mine.
That would be the last time I saw him. I never even knew his name, or where he was from, or why he was there.
I still think about that man sometimes and consider the biggest lesson I learnt…
@sharghzadeh
Bro what is wrong with you. You’ve made your entire personality about disparaging Muslims and people from the East under the guise of realism.
Take a break man, jheeze.
A practice of the people is to kiss the hands of those elder than them, or those who are recognised as people of good.
As I would walk in single file, shaking the hands of every worshipper, one man in particular, around 40 years old, would pull my hand and attempt to kiss it…
In sha Allah we will be going through Imam al-Haddad’s Book of Assistance again this Ramadan.
Every day starting at 5:30pm UK time for the first few days and then until the end of Ramadan at 6:00pm UK time.
And each time I would pull my hand away.
I began attempting to kiss his hand, whereupon he would pull his hand away from me.
This battle continued every day for 2 months, until we came to the last day of the program I was attending. This was a morning filled with tears…
Red pill, feminism, salafi, ashʿari, istiwa, beating, polygyny etc
Does a Muslim live for buzzwords? Fighting about random nonsense and pretend you’re “establishing truth and fighting falsehood”?
Give it a rest, you’re tapping on an empty screen.
Allah is Great, you are small.
Tears that contained many meanings, sadness at leaving such a place, hope that we could take something of what we learnt and implement it, wonder if we would ever return.
That morning, as I made my last round of handshakes, I saw him…
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At the end of the day, you never know how Islam will enter a person’s heart.
I had a colleague who would openly sin, but come Ramadan, he would fast every day.
I never asked why, and I know he wasn’t forced to do it, but the traces of iman manifest in beautiful ways.
This man has built his brand on two massive lies:
1. That he is special for being a “young imam”. Most guys who graduate from their seminary programs do so in their early 20s and immediately become imams. This guy is 28.
2. That he is a Muslim.
“When your goal is excellence, you will not rest in your [worldly] journey until you are excellent in your spiritual journey.”
— Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaboubi
Habib Abu Bakr al-ʿAdani arrived in Seiyun tonight.
His janazah will be performed in the morning, before he makes his way to Zanbal where he will be buried amongst the likes of al-Faqih al-Muqaddam, Imam al-ʿAydarus and Imam al-Haddad.
I don’t normally request prayers like this on this platform, but my family live in Srinagar and we’re in dire situations in Kashmir. The lack of sound information is worrying.
اللهم انصرنا على الظالمين
دعواتكم
“In Paradise there is a river of milk for ʿAli, Husayn, and Hasan.”
Allah جل جلاله says in the Qurʾan:
{A similitude of the Garden which those who keep their duty are promised: Therein are rivers of water unpolluted, and rivers of milk whereof the flavour changeth not.}
47:15
The Ba'Alawi 'Syed' (syndicate) charlatans, including the possessed-looking Umar Hafeez and Ali al-Jifri ("I love the Jews)," chant a famous fabricated Sufi poem filled with Rafidi-esque ghuluw and claims about Jannah and Iman that neither Allah nor His Messenger (ﷺ) endorsed.
@rayhanburhan
Opened this book to give it a shot, saw no mention of Allah or His Rasul ﷺ and realised it’s not worth reading.
كيف يكون المحب محبا ولا يذكر إسم المحبوب ﷺ
The qiblah issue:
1. Facing the qiblah is a condition for the soundness of the prayer.
2. If you cannot see the physical kaʿbah, you face it’s direction.
3. You have about 45° of leeway either side to face the qiblah.
Imām al-Ḥaddād said:
❝ Your words are the fruit which you produce. So observe them: are they foul or are they good? What you find is what you are, for they are a part of you. A pure container only pours out that which is pure; and the opposite is true. ❞
Alhamdulillah
We’ve returned after spending a week with al-Habib ʿUmar bin Hafiẓ حفظه الله in Jordan.
We took a group consisting of individuals from London, Cambridge and the US to sit and take from al-Habib.
Allah accept our efforts and increase our connection.
My master, al-Habib ʿUmar bin Hafiẓ said:
“Your state in the prayer is the secret to your state with Allah. Your state in the prayer is a reflection of your condition with your Lord, Transcendent is His Majesty.”
قال سيدي الحبيب عمر بن حفيظ حفظه الله :
"حالتك في الصلاة هي سر حالتك مع الله ، حالتك في الصلاة هي مرآة شأنك مع مولاك تعالى في علاه."
سعادة المعاد والمحيا شرح القصيدة إذا شئت أن تحيا ص. ١٤٠
إذا لم تستحي فافعل ما شئتَ
The Wahhabis are a strange bunch. They throw their religion away so haphazardly.
Anyway, mawlid tomorrow in East London and also a reading of Dalaʾil al-Khayrat in South London!
All are welcome In sha Allah 🤲🏾
Habib Omar is an idol worshippers and one the biggest callers to shirk in Muslim world.
@AbuTaymiyyahMJ
why would you call him shaykh and appologize to him ???
May Allāh protect Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Hanson and Imām Zaid Shakir from all ills. May Allāh place understanding into the hearts of those who would slander scholars and eat their flesh. May Allāh forgive us all for our tremendous shortcomings.
al-Habib ʿUmar said:
“All stations of certainty are foundational upon sincere repentance. Whomsoever does not repent, has no station. And all states of certainty are foundational upon true love. Whomsoever does not love, has no state.”
Dars Mīzān al-ʿAmal | 10 June 2022
Our Shaykh al-Ḥabīb ʿUmar bin Ḥafīẓ said to us :
❝ If you believe Allāh is the truth, then know that He has created in the nations before us and in the nation of Muḥammad, people with enlightened faces, and he who seeks them will be enlightened with them. ❞
I mentioned this before, but a sign of 𝘴𝘰𝘧𝘵 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘧𝘪𝘳 is when a person calls a convert by their birth name instead of their adopted Arabic name (which they are commonly known by).
Not only that, it’s also a means of lessening the Islam of a convert/converts as a whole.
Mawlānā Abu Hasan, regarding a popular social media "scholar" who provides erroneous answers, along with some words regarding Mark Hanson, the idol of pseudo-trads and pseudo-Sufis in the West.
When entering someone’s house, enter blind and leave deaf.
There is no need for you to concern yourself with the particularities of their houses or what you heard within them.
The Prophet ﷺ said:
“From a person’s Islam is leaving that which does not concern him.”
"يقول أحد الأدباء: عليك إذا دخلت بيوت الناس أن تدخلها أعمى، وأن تخرج منها أبكماً.
فلا شأن لك بالنظر لتفاصيل بيوتهم.. ولا شأن لك بما سمِعت عندهم.
قال النبي صلى الله عليه وآله وسلّم:
""من حُسْن إسلام المرء تركُه ما لا يعنيه""
للراقين أمثالكم
@PhDniX
@JonathanACBrown
Incitement to violence? He affirmed the dictates of the shariʿah, you know, the thing you have seemingly failed to study over the course of your university career.
We do not need your opinion to affirm the Law of the Creator, nor your lacking analysis.
Ḥabīb ʿUmar said to us:
❝ The one reliant on Allāh, is a person of status that can't be threatened by the things of the world, because he knows that his affairs are [with God]. ❞
ʿAbd Allah bin ʿUmar reported that the Prophet ﷺ would say:
“Everything has a polish, and the polish for hearts is rememberance of God.”
Bayhaqi mentioned it in al-Daʿawat al-Kabir.
عن عبد الله بن عمر عن النبي ﷺ أنه كان يقول : "لكل شيء صقالة ، وصقالة القلوب ذكر الله."
5 years ago, Ḥabābah Zahrāʾ, the mother of Ḥabīb ʿUmar bin Ḥafīẓ passed away in Tarim, Hadramawt.
These are a few articles and short videos about her.
May Allah have Mercy upon her and allow us to continue to benefit by her.
Sh. Bandar bin ʿAbd al-ʿAziz supplicates with the words of Imam al-Haddad during the qunut in the Haram:
ياعالم السر منا لا تهتك الستر عنا
وعافنا واعف عنا وكن لنا حيث كنا
With regards to trying to race through the prayer:
What need do you have that you will miss, when you are standing in front of the Fulfiller of All Needs.
Sufis, salafis, maturidis, asharis, atharis, dhahiris, deobandis, barelwis,taqleed, ijtihad...
All a bunch of words that mean nothing if you don’t even know how to do wuḍūʾ.
Learn how to clean yourself first then start hollering at dudes about words.
Imām al-Ghazālī said :
❝ The indication of an arrogant person, is that he seeks beautification only when people look at him, and he doesn’t care for it when by himself.
The indication of the seeker of beauty is that he loves beauty in everything, even when in seclusion. ❞
قال الإمام الغزالي رحمه الله تعالى:
(علامة المتكبر أن يطلب التجمل إذ رآه الناس، ولا يبالي إذا انفرد، وعلامة طالب الجمال أن يحب الجمال في كل شيء، ولو في خلوته)
Imām al-Ḥaddād said:
❝ You must be content with Allāh’s decrees, for this contentment is among the most noble consequences of love and gnosis. It is the attribute of the lover to be pleased with the acts of his Beloved, whether they be sweet or bitter. ❞
You are a slave to something whether you realise it or not.
Either you are a slave to sex, to power, to money, to clothes, to fame, to society, to friends etc.
Or...
You are a slave to God.
Slavehood to the One is honour and blessing, slavehood to the plenty is abasement.
Imām al-Ghazālī said :
اعلم خطر اللسان عظيم ، ولا نجاة من خطره الا بالصمت
❝ Know! The dangers of the tongue are immense, and there is no escape from them, save through silence. ❞
I would suggest no one use
@AlharamTravelUK
for any ʿUmrah packages.
They left me and my family in a 2* hotel in Madinah after claiming it was a 4* hotel when we initially booked with them. When we called them to complain, they offered no solutions.
Propping up recent seminary graduates as community leaders can be a dangerous thing.
Give young Imams encouragement, but if you see a kid gaining a fandom simply based on his voice or his way with words, then be wary.
Don’t let your faith fall when he does.
إنا لله وإنا اليه راجعون
The grandson of Ḥabīb ‘Alī Mashhūr, the Muftī of Tarīm, has passed away this morning.
We ask Allāh عز وجل to grant him the highest of stations in Paradise, and to grant ease to his family.
Rabiʿ Readings:
A series of videos which I’ll be adding to this Rabiʿ, sharing some benefits from the scholars regarding the Best of Creation ﷺ
Starting with al-Shifaʾ by Qadi ʿIyad
My maternal grandfather, Abd al-Rahman Naqash, returned to his Lord جل جلاله a few hours ago in our house in Kashmir.
He was a man of taqwa, immense honour, and frequent in worship.
اللهم اغفر له وارحمه وادخله الجنة مع الأبرار ، اللهم اجعل قبره روضة من رياض الجنة .
Imam al-Shurunbulali narrates 13 recommended actions for ʿId al-Fitr:
1. Eating something sweet after fajr and prior to leaving for the place of prayer - preferably an odd number of dates.
2. To bathe and use the tooth stick prior to the ʿid prayer.
3. To use perfume.
Allah curses the one who slanders chaste women and accuses them of adultery.
And yet we have boys who speak disgustingly about our sisters, calling it jest and fun.
Do they think they will escape the penalty?
Allah guide us all.
@ykixoo
Generally,
Tahajjud is to sleep and wake up in the night to pray extra prayers.
Qiyam al-layl is to pray extra prayers in the night without having slept first.
Both are meritorious acts, though tahajjud is better as you arose from the comfort of sleep for the sake of Allah.
Our Shaykh al-Ḥabīb ʿUmar bin Ḥafīẓ said to us :
❝ If you believe Allāh is the truth, then know that He has created in the nations before us and in the nation of Muḥammad, people with enlightened faces, and he who seeks them will be enlightened with them. ❞
Shaykh al-Shaʿrawi gave some advice to his son when he got married. He said:
“O my beloved son, this woman has left her father, her mother, her brother and her sister. She came just to be with you, so be like them all to her!”
مما أعجبني وأثَّر بي بشدةٍ:
نَصَح الشيخُ متولي الشعراوي ابنَه عندَما تزوَّج فقال:
يا بنيَّ، هذه المرأةُ تركت الأبَ والأمَّ والأخَ والأختَ، وجاءت لتكونَ لك وحدَك، فكنْ لها كلَّ هؤلاء !
@PhDniX
@JonathanACBrown
Hamza believes the shariʿah to be divinely ordained.
It is not incitement simply because it is the acknowledgment of a divine edict, where morality is in the Hands of the Creator, not creation.
Why would your ethics trump God’s?
What’s interesting about Abu Taymiyyah’s experiences in Tarim, is that it seems that he didn’t ask any questions.
When he mentions that he was told to accept what the Habaʾib said, he doesn’t mention who told him that.
My experiences in Tarim were completely different.