Category Archives: Sayyidi
و اجمل منك لم تلد النساء
Salam I found the above whilst looking through a manuscript of a sirah work authored by the notable Hanbali scholar: Shaykh Mari bin Yusuf al-Karmi. A rough translation would be as follows: And in reality the daughters of Adam have … Continue reading
Benefits of Making Mention of the Noble Shamail
Salam A blessed Rabi al-Awwal Mubarak to visitors to the blog. I have posted a fair bit on the Mawlid and matters related to the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give peace) on the blog which readers may … Continue reading
And We Exalted For You Your Rememberance وَ رَفَعْنا لَكَ ذِكْرَكَ :Tafsir al-Mazhari
Salam A while back someone mentioned to me the above translation of the verse, what struck me immediately was that it differed with the translations of it which I had long been accustomed to. I have not had the opportunity … Continue reading
Indian Chain for The Dalail al-Khayrat and Qasidah al-Burda
Salam The ‘Dalail al-Khayrat’ and ‘Qasidah al-Burda’ are two devotional texts which continue to be immensely popular in the Indian subcontinent (and in the West by means of the descendants of Muslims from this area). I found some chains of … Continue reading
Anfas al-Arifin: Witnessing The Muhammadan Image
Salam. Looking through the very enjoyable ‘Anfas al-Arifin’ of Shah Waliullah al-Dihlawi I came across the following passage which caught my attention. I had read something similar to it on a discussion on the concept of ‘Tasawwur al-Shaykh’ as practised … Continue reading
Ziyarah al-Nabawiyyah: Mawlana Zafar al-Uthmani and Allamah al-Nimawi
Salam. As some of you may recall I had a post on Adab of Ziyarah according to Allamah Ibn Taymiyyah, followed by a post which mentioned Nawab Siddiq Hasan Khan’s Ziyarah of Madinah followed Insha-Allah by this one. It is … Continue reading
More On Al-Ahsa: Virtues and the Hanafi Madhab
Salam. Please find some more information on the area of al-Ahsa that we may not have mentioned thus far on this blog. Inshallah we hope to compile into one article in the near future the various posts on the topic. … Continue reading
Visit to the Haramain: Nawab Siddiq Hasan Khan
Salam. We made mention of Allamah Ibn Taymiyyah and his advice on the etiquettes of visiting Madinah the Illuminated. I thought I would add to this what Nawab Siddiq Hasan Khan (he scholarly ruler of Bhopal) recorded after his gruelling … Continue reading
Allamah Ibn Taymiyyah on Ziyarah al-Nabawiyyah
Salam. Some of you may be familiar with Allamah Ibn Taymiyyah’s minority and much criticised position regarding the ziyarah of the grave of the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace). However I found the following beneficial quote cited in the introduction … Continue reading
Dying in Madinah by Nawab Siddiq Hasan Khan
Salam. Perhaps ten years ago in the late 1990′s when my Arabic was even weaker than it is at the moment, I along with a friend attended some lessons of the ‘Ikhtiyar’ taught by the Syrian Hanafi jurist Shaykh Ahmad … Continue reading
