Qasida By Imam Ali bin Husayn al-Habashi.What good is an increase in wealth when life grows ever shorter? Therefore be joyous only for an increase in knowledge or in good works, for they are your two companions who will accompany you in your grave when your family, wealth, children, and friends stay behind. Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and, once gone, can never be retrieved.ĭo not be like the deceived fools who are joyous because each day their wealth increases while their life shortens. It is nothing other than your life, and your life is the capital that you make use of to reach perpetual felicity in the proximity of God the Exalted. This is how to bring out the spiritual blessing (baraka) in each period.īut if you leave yourself adrift, aimlessly wandering as cattle do, not knowing how to occupy yourself at every moment, your time will be lost. You should not neglect your time or use it haphazardly on the contrary, you should bring yourself to account, structure your litanies and other practices during each day and night, and assign to each period a fixed and specific function. Imam Al-Ghazali (may God's mercy be on him) wrote in his book The Beginning of Guidance: Discussion between Dr Yusuf Patel of Cape Town and Abdul-Rehman Malik of SeekersGuidance Global.Prophetic Invocations, al-Haddad Al-Wird al Latif, Ratib ShahirĪrabic - English - Roman Transliteration & Commentary A brief history of how Islam flowered in the Cape, despite the colonial ban.In this very special recording, you’ll hear the following: Little did his slavemasters know that through him would spring forth the birth of Islam in this part of the world. The Ratib came to this part of the world with the Muslim scholar, Shaykh Yusuf Makassar, exiled by the Dutch colonisers of 17th century Indonesia. The Ratib al-Haddad is recited by hundreds of millions across the Muslim world but the Cape Malays of South Africa have an extraordinary history with it. Our qari (Qur’an reciter) for the month of Ramadan is a young hafidh (one who has has memorised the Qur’an) from the heart of the Cape Malay tradition of South Africa.Īt a special gathering at SeekersGuidance Toronto, Hafidh Abdullah Francis recited the Ratib al-Haddad, which is a collection of invocations and supplications from the Qur’an and the sayings of the Prophet, compiled by Imam Sayyid Abd Allah ibn Alawi al-Haddad (1634-1720), may Allah have mercy on him. : Play in a new window | Download to your device (16.3MB)
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