This Qasidah is by Sayyidi Imam Abdullah ibn Alawi al-Haddad (1044-1132 AH) raDiyallahu ta'ala anhu: ———- ilzam bāba rabbik * wa’truk kulla dūn wa’s-al’hu’s salamah * min dāri’l futūn lā yađīq şadruk * fa’l ĥādith yahūn Allāhu’l muqaddir * wa’l áālam shu’uun lā yakthur hammuk * mā quddir yakūn hold fast, the doorstep of your Lord * and...

This prayer is mentioned in Adhkār of Imam Nawawi [#369] We narrate from Kitāb Ibn al-Sunnī  from Abū Mūsā al-Ashárīy rađiyAllāhu ánhū that he said: RasūlAllāh  şallAllāhu álayhi wa sallam said: “When one is stricken with melancholy or sadness, he should recite this duáā: [O Allāh!] I am Your slave, the son of Your bondsman; the son of Your bondsmaid; [We are] in Your Power; my...

hamza hanson, a.k.a. hamza yusuf in a speech said that he must 'defend' dante. he later said that by 'defend' he meant, 'explain'. dante is on his recommended reading list for years now. and dante is notorious for his insulting the Nabiy SallAllahu alayhi wa sallam. muhammad danyal, a student of shaykh asrar, the young scholar from UK started the blog adoptingorthdoxy, where he analysed hamza's positions and his...

a person in the UK known as a scholar recently attended a gathering where he permitted music and claimed that it is proven from hadith and that he can himself prove it from fatawa ridawiyyah. my nerve snapped and i went for the jugular. FIRST POST tell pir saqib sahib to write a word by word refutation of the issue* alahazrat's masayil e samaa. if he cannot do it, his challenge is an empty boast and can impress only the jahil...

wa kam lillāhi min sirrin khafiyyin yadiqqu khafāhu án fahmi’dh dhakiyyu وكم لله من سر خفي يدق خفاه عن فهم الذكي

shakawtu ilā wakīyin sū-a hifžī fa arshadanī ila tarki’l máāşī wa akhbaranī bi anna’l ílma nūrun wa nūrullāhi lā yuhdā li áāşī i complained to wakiy of a failing memory he advised me to stay away from sins and told me that knowledge is a light and a sinner is not guided to this light   These lines are attributed to Imām Shāfiýī, in his...

This is a book on the principles of listening to melodies (Sama'a) by Shaykh Fakhruddin Zarradi, a prominent khalifah of Shaykh Nizamuddin...