He has traveled all over the world giving talks on Islam. He received teaching licenses in various Islamic subjects from several well-known scholars in various countries.Īfter ten years of studies abroad, he returned to the USA and took degrees in Religious Studies and Health Care. E., Saudi Arabia, as well as North and West Africa. In 1977, he became Muslim and subsequently traveled to the Muslim world and studied for ten years in the U. Shaykh Hamza Yusuf was born in Washington State and raised in Northern California.

He spent most of his life in Kenya and Saudi Arabia where he taught Islamic jurisprudence and classical Sufism according to the order (tariqa) of the Ba'Alawi sayids. 1720), lived at Tarim in the Hadramaut valley between Yemen and Oman, and is widely held to have been the ‘renewer’ of the twelfth Islamic century.Ī direct descendant of the Prophet, his sanctity and direct experience of God are clearly reflected in his writings, which include several books, a collection of Sufi letters, and a volume of mystical poetry.

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: Prophetic Invocations, al-Haddad Al-Wird al Latif, Ratib ShahirĪrabic - English - Roman Transliteration & Commentary

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