Say: If you love Allah, then follow me (the Messenger of Allah),
Allah will love you and forgive you your faults, and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

 

Hajj 2007

Pictures from Ethiopia

 

The Conditions Governing the Statement: There is no god but Allah

 

In the name of Allah, the Merciful the Compassionate

First: Knowledge (‘ilm) of both its negative and positive meanings.

Second: Certainty (yaqīn) complete knowledge of it negating doubt and uncertainty.

Third: Sincerity (ikhlāş) banishing doubt.

Fourth: Truthfulness (şidq) banishing deceit and defending one from hypocrisy.

Fifth: Love (maĥabbah) for this statement and for what it indicates with joy.

Sixth: Submitting to its rights the required actions sincere to Allah and seeking what pleases Him.

Seventh: Acceptance of its truth no matter what follows.

 

 Blessedness of the Mawlid

         

In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate

           

Surely Allah and His angels bless the Prophet: O you who believe! Call for divine blessings on him and salute him with a becoming salutation.

 

Welcome O Mawlid of the Chosen One breaking forth

            Dazzling the intellects with radiant lights.

We welcome your approach wholeheartedly

            Bringing good fortune, blessings, and secrets.

 

O Mawlid of the Chosen One

     O Dawning of Lights,

O Mine of Secrets

     O Breaking of Dawn,

O Gathering of All Blessings

     O Spring of Goodnesses,

O Home of Mercies

               O Apex of the Age:

In You the guidance dawns

     Like the morning, for mankind;

The souls enlivened with it

   As it spreads its fragrance like eternity.

O Mawlid of the Chosen One

     O Season of Good People,

O Joining of the Moons

     O Separation of Eternity,

O Mawlid of the Guide:

     In You, how many a singer sings;

In You, how many a camel driver chants

     For Souls and Minds;

In You, how many rejoice;

     In You, how many mend themselves;

In You, how many sing praises of the Prophet

     Like shining stars.

O Night of the Birth

     O Night of Joys,

O Night of Spiritual Guidance

     O Night of Good,

O Story of the Chosen One’s Life

     O Best of Evening’s Entertainment,

O Pleasure of Night Companions

     In the Most Fragrant of Remembrance.

O Story of al-Kawnain*

     O Perfection of the Two Descriptions,          

O Beauty of the Two Abodes**

     O Highest of Status,

O Flower of the Creator

     O Holy Book of the Reciter,

O Guiding Star of the Night Traveler

     On land and sea,           

O Most Noble of Mother and Father

     O Possessor of Honor from Both,

O Ka‘bah of the Haramain

     O Rising of the Full Moon,

You are the intercessor

     At that Gathering

When mankind is in panic

     From the distress of the Reminder.

Allah blesses you

     In prose and in poetry.

How individuals are enriched!

     O Lord, honor us!

You are without need of us

     While mankind is in want.

Send down to us provision

     And pardon us gently.

O Lord, let us not fall into wretchedness.

               O Causer of Harm,

O Creator of Worlds

     O You Who Inspire Iman,

O Far-Reaching of Perfection

     O Possessor of the Command.

 

* the Two Worlds

** the physical and spiritual

Salatu al-Fatih

O Allah, bestow upon our master Muhammad - the opener of what had been closed, the seal of what had been revealed before, the helper to the Truth by the Truth, the guide to Your straight path - and upon his family, blessings befitting his vast worth!

 

Imam Abdu al-Qadir al-Jilani

Imam al-Junayd (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "All of Sufism is character (akhlaq); whoever increases you in character increases you in Sufism.

Imam Ahmad al-Badawi

Imam Ahmad al-Rafa'i

 Imam Ibrahim al-Dasuqi

The Mawlid of the Noble Prophet

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