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Tarawih: Literally, "to rest", which refers to resting between every four cycles of prayer. Salat Al-Tarawih are prescribed superogatory prayers recited during Ramadan, after the night prayers.
Tariqa: Literally, "Path" or "Way". In Sufi terminology, a tariqa is a Sufi brotherhood or order, composed of disciples (murideen) who follow the teachings of a spiritual master (murshid), or shaykh. A Sufi Tariqa can be large, with thousands or even millions of followers, as in the Shadhili or Tijani orders, or smaller with dozens or hundreds of followers.
Tawaf: Circumambulation of seven circuits around the Holy Kaaba, a ritual practice for Muslims visiting the Holy Mosque in Makkah, tracing back to the time of Abraham, and forming an essential part of the Greater and Lesser Pilgrimages (Hajj and Umrah). The area surrounding the Ka’aba is called the Mataf, (literally, "the place of Tawaf).
Umrah: The Lesser Pilgrimage, wherein the Muslim dons the ihram and performs the tawwaf and sa’ee. Umrah is an integral part of the Hajj.
Wajd: Usually translated as ecstasy. Al-Hujwiri wrote, "Wajd is a mystery between the seeker and the Sought, which only revelation can expound.”
Wali’ullah (plural Awliya‘ullah): Literally, Friend of God, signifying a man of deep spiritual knowledge and attainment – a Saint. In Islam saints are not canonized as in the Christian tradition, but "recognized" by other gnostics. Some Awliya’ullah are completely hidden.
Wird (plural Awrad): A prescribed litany recited regularly. In explaining the wird in his book "Realities of Sufism", Shaykh Abdul Qadir 'Isa refers to the Arabic lexicon al-Misbah, which defines a wird as: "A daily regimen of reading...The Sufis employ this word to refer to the formulas of remembrance that a Shaykh orders his students to recite in the morning after the morning (fajr) prayer and the evening after the sunset (magrhib) prayer.”
Wudhu: The act of ritual purification prescribed by the Prophet ohamed, peace be upon him, to precede the act of ritual prayer.
Zawiya: literally "Corner": The gathering place for the dhikr of a Sufi order. (Also known in Persian and Turkish as Tekkiya, Khanaqah, or Durga.)
Ziyara: a visit. In the Sufi context ziyara is a visit to a sacred place, which could be the grave of one of the saints or to a living saint or gathering of fuqara.
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PHOTOGRAPHY
Cover – Peter Sanders
Appearances – Shems Friedlander
The Hidden – Peter Sanders
The Caretaker – Shakir Massoud-Priest
A Black Ant on a Black Stone – Peter Sanders
All Night Long – Peter Sanders
The Glance – Peter Sanders
The Unseeen – Peter Sanders
The Illuminated – Unknown (Courtesy Peter Sanders)
First Light – John Gulliver (Courtesy Peter Sanders)
The Beacon – Peter Sanders
Twenty-Four Hours – Peter Sanders
The Centenarian – Unknown (Courtesy Peter Sanders)
Transmission – Unknown
The Cure – Unknown
Majesty – Peter Sanders
River of Heaven (Courtesy Shaykh Abdul Ghani Saleh Al-Ja’fari)
Three Hundred – Unknown
The English Saint – Shems Friedlander
Gazing at the House – Unknown
The Beloved – Peter Sanders
Ambassador Extraordinaire... – Peter Sanders
Song and Dance – 2 photos by Shems Friedlander
The Living – Peter Sanders (Grave of Habib Ahmad Mashhur Al Haddad)
Direct from Paradise – Unknown (Courtesy Peter Sanders)
The author sleeping – Peter Sanders
Full Circle – Peter Sanders
About the Author – Abu'l Qasim Spiker
Calligraphy in the Introduction by Hajj Mahmoud Ibrahim Salama
Calligraphy of the Divine Name in Transfigured Night by Soraya Syed
* Fussilat 41:53.
** Speech of the Birds (Mantiqu t-Tair), translated by Peter Avery.
*** Kitab Lata’if Al-Minan fi Manaqib Abu’l Abbas Al Mursi wa Shaykhihi Abu’l Hassan,, translated by Nancy Roberts.
* Letters of a Sufi Master: The Shaykh Ad-Darqawi, translated by Titus Burkhardt..
* Letters of a Sufi Master: The Shaykh Ad-Darqawi, translated by Titus Burkhardt.
* The Diwan: “Withdrawal into the Perception of the Essence”.
* Farid Al-Din Attar, Memorial of the Saints (Tadhkirat Al-Auliya) translated by A.J. Arberry.
* The Subtle Blessings in the Saintly Lives of Abu Al-Abbas Al-Mursi and His Master Abu Al-Hasan, translated by Nancy Roberts.
* The Speech of the Birds (Mantiqu’t-Tair), translated by Peter Avery.
* Al-Hikam translated by Victor Danner.
* Al-Hikam, translated by Victor Danner.
* Qasida in Nun in The Way of Abu Madyan, translated by Vincent Cornell.
* Mishkat al-Anwar of Ibn ‘Arabi translated Stephen Hirtenstein and Martin Notcutt.
* Futuh Al Ghaib, translated by M. Aftab-ud-din Ahmad
** Ibid.
*** See First Light, here.
**** From The Realities of Sufism, translated by Suraqah Abdul Aziz
* The Subtle Blessings in the Saintly Lives of Abu Al-Abbas Al-Mursi and His Master Abu Al-Hasan, translated by Nancy Roberts.
* The Diwan of Mohamed ibn Al-Habib, the Introduction..
Mishkat al-anwar of Ibn ‘Arabi, translated by Stephen Hirtenstein and Martin Notcutt..
* Al-Hikam translated by Victor Danner.
* Al-Hikam, translated by Victor Danner.
* Kashf Al-Mahjub by Ali Uthman Al-Hujwiri, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson.
* The Speech of the Birds (Mantiqu’t-Tair), translated by Peter Avery.
* Told to the author in conversation.
* “Light of the Shadowless One” from Sparrow on the Prophet’s Tomb.
* Mishkat al-anwar of Ibn ‘Arabi, translated by Stephen Hirtenstein and Martin Notcutt.
* The Diwan – “The Greater Song”.
* Awarif Al-Ma’arif, translated by Wilberforce Clark.
* From the Epistle of Qushayri, included in Realities of Sufism by Shaykh Abd Al-Qadir Isa, transated by Suraqah Abdul Aziz.
* The Ninety-Nine Beautiful Names of God (al-Maqsad al-asna fi sharh asma’ Allah al-husna), translated by David B. Burrell and Nazih Daher.
* Al-Wabil al-Sayyib min al-Kalim al Tayyib (“The Invocation of God”) translated by Michael Abdurrahman Fitzgerald and Moulay Youssef Slitine.
Photo left: Shaykh Mohamed ibn Al-Habib
* From Key to the Garden by Habib Ahmad Mashhur Al-Haddad, translated by Mostafa Al Badawi.
* Tirmidhi and Bayhaqi, in Shu’ab al-Iman.
* Al-Hikam, translated by Victor Danner.
* From the Diwan, translated by William C. Chittick.
* Al-Hikam, translated by Victor Danner.
* From Al Ratib Al Shahr, the litany of the Saadatu l‘Alawiyya.
* Key to the Garden, translated by Mostafa Al-Badawi.
* Kashf Al Mahjub, translated by Reynold Nicholson
* Futuhat Al-Makkiyah (Makkan Revelations) cited in Voyage of No Return by Claude Addas.
* Al-Hikam, translated by Victor Danner.
* From Kitab nasab al-khirqa by Esad Effendi, related in Quest for the Red Sulfur: The Life of Ibn ‘Arabi by Claude Addas.
* From “The Secret of God’s Mystical Oneness”, translated by John O’Kane.
* From What is Sufism?.
* From The Realities of Sufism, translated by Suraqah Abdul Aziz
* Sahih Al-Bukhari
* In a letter to his disciples, translated by Ezzad’ine Bettache
* Sura Taha, 20:25-28, translation by Nawawi Foundation
* The Realities of Sufism, translated by Suraqah Abdul Aziz.
* Letter to a Disciple (Ayyuha’l-Walad), translated by Tobias Mayer.
* The Unveiling of Love, translated by Muhtar Holland.
** Kashf Al-Mahjoub, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson.
*** Qasida in Nun from the Way of Abu Madyan, translated by Vincent J. Cornell.
Photo left: Shaykh Muzaffer Ozak Al-Jerrahi leading the hadra
Photo left: Shaykh Sefer Effendi and another dervish absorbed in hadra
* Realities of Sufism, translated by Shuraqah Abdul Aziz.
* related by Ali bin Uthman Al-Hujwiri in Kashf Al-Mahjub, translated by Reynold Nicholson.
* The Diwan of Hafiz (The Green Sea of Heaven), translated by Elizabeth T. Gray Jr.
* Abu Musa Al-Ashari, Sahih Al-Bukhari.
** Said to have been found under a pillow after his death, translated by Martin Lings
Photo left: The grave marker of Habib Ahmad Mashhur Al Hadad in Al Maala in Makkah
* The Autobiography of Shems-i-Tabriz, translated by William C. Chittick.
* Reported by Abu Huraira in Sahih Al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim.
* Al-Hikam, translted by Victor Danner.
* Sahih Al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim.
* Orison of the Sea (Hizb Al-Bahr), translated by Nurad-din Durkee.
* Letters of a Sufi Master: The Shaykh Ad-Darqawi, translated by Titus Burkhardt
* From Kashf Al-Mahjub, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson
* From the Autobiography (Fahrasa), translated by Jean Louis Michon.
Above: The author with Moulay Hashem Balghiti
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