Rabi Ul Awwal 1446AH is nearly here!
Mawlid gatherings from around the world: A thread that’ll be added to throughout this blessed month for the lovers of the Prophet ﷺ
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Image: A Mawlid gathering at SultanAhmet Camii in 1760 during the reign of Sultan Mustafa III.
Recitation of Salawat before the Tarawih prayers at the Ayasofya Camii in Istanbul. (Ramadan has started in Turkey). This is the first tarawih in the Ayasofya Camii in 88 years!
The picture of the hand with the Tasbih is of Mahmut Durusoy, a deputy of Shaykh Osman Nuri Topbaş. According to his friends and colleagues he was reading his morning litanies after praying Tahajjud during the time of the earthquake. May Allah grant him Jannah & his family Sabr.
The Imam of Campus Mosque in Konya playing hide and Seek with children.
“If you don’t hear children making noise at the back of the Masjid, fear for your future generations.”
- Ottoman/Turkish saying
إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون
The Mujaddid Shaykh Mahmud Efendi Al-Naqshbandi has left this temporarily world.
Truly a huge loss for the Ummah. May Allah be pleased with his efforts and allow us to benefit from his students. Ameen
Al-Fatihah
On this day nine years ago, Shaykh Ramadan Al-Bouti was martyred during a class at the Al-Iman mosque in Damascus. 42 others were also killed. May Allah accept the Shaykh’s efforts and May Allah shower his mercy upon him
“One of the greatest acts of worship at the end of time, and one which breaks through the veils that are between the slave and his lord, is striving to fulfil people’s needs.”
— Shaykh al-Habib AbdulQadir as-Saggaf
Rabi Ul Awwal 1444AH has arrived!
Mawlid gatherings from around the world: A thread that’ll be added to throughout this blessed month for the lovers of the Prophet ﷺ
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(Image: Mawlid celebrations in Makkah during Ottoman Rule)
حب النبي والآل ديني
ومذهبي حقاً ويقيني
Love of the Prophet and his Family is my Din,
my true Madhhab and conviction
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A true lover of our prophet ﷺ
Al-Fatiha
Palestinian Muslims (Shafi’i Madhab) prayed the Salat Al-Gha’ib funeral prayer for those that have passed away in todays earthquake in Türkiye and Syria
Rabi Ul Awwal has arrived!
Mawlid gatherings from around the world: A thread that’ll be added to throughout this blessed month for the lovers of the Prophet ﷺ
Scenes from Masjid al-Aqsa and the Dome of the rock today at Jummah prayer. Completely empty due to the excessive Israeli restrictions on the Palestinian people.
This scene would’ve haunted Muslim leaders but of course it’s 2023 and they don’t care.
254 Students completed their Hifdh in Trabzon, Turkey. The Huffadh were paraded in the city with an Ottoman Mehter Military band. (Used to be an active military band during the Ottoman era and is now mostly found at events.)
Rabi Ul Awwal 1445AH is nearly here!
Mawlid gatherings from around the world: A thread that’ll be added to throughout this blessed month for the lovers of the Prophet ﷺ
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Picture: A mawlid celebration parade in Ottoman/Khedivate Cairo in the year 1904:
Muhammad Sameh, a man that regularly gave out coffee and food every day at Fajr (especially during the Rabi Ul Awwal Mawlid period) in Masjid Al-Aqsa while reciting Salawat passed away recently due to a Stroke. May Allah accept his efforts
The 15th of Ramadan marks the date Shaykh Muhammad bin Alawi al-Maliki left this world.
May Allah allow us to benefit from him and his son, Sayyid Ahmed bin Muhammad bin Alawi al-Maliki حفظه الله and May allah accept the efforts of Shaykh Muhammad bin Alawi al-Maliki رحمه الله
Shaykh Hasan Efendi حفظه الله the successor of Shaykh Mahmud Efendi رحمه الله and the Shaykh of the Naqshbandiyya Khalidiyya Tariqah performed Umrah recently.
The birthplace of our Prophet ﷺ.
A mosque was built here by earlier rulers. Ottoman Sultan, Kanuni Sultan Suleyman had rebuilt the Mosque above the blessed place. This was demolished and then replaced with a library after the fall of the Ottomans.
May Allah be pleased with Shaykh AbdulQadir al-Geylani, May Allah help us with him, May Allah allow him to help us and May Allah allow us to benefit from his knowledge. Amīn.
يا نُورَ العين ... يا طَـهَ الزين.
O light of the eye ...O adornment of Taha.
اشفع لي غدًا عندَ الله ... خايف مِنَ النيرانِ.
Intercede for me, tomorrow with Allah ... for I’m afraid of the fire
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Recited by the lover of the Prophet ﷺ Sidi Mu’az al-Nass
Recitation of the Qasidah Burdah by Habib Abu Bakr Al-Adani رحمه الله in the presence of Habib AbdulQadir as-Saqqaf رحمه الله at a Mawlid gathering in Makkah.
Al-Fatihah