Qasidatu muhammadiyyah

Written by Imam Sharaf-ud-Din al-Busiri   Qasida Muhammadiya by Imam Sharaf-ud-Din al-Busiri, the famous author of the world renowned Qasida Burdah

Maqaam and haal

Maqaam Not to be confused with Maqam. Maqaam (also known as maqām) or maqaamat (plural), translating to “stations” in Arabic, is the various stages a Sufi‘s soul must attain in its search for God. The stations are derived from the most routine considerations a Sufi must deal with on a day-to-day basis and is essentially an embodiment of both mystical

Ma’rifa

Ma’rifa In Sufism, ma’rifa (Arabic: معرفة‎, romanized: ma‘rifah, lit. ‘knowledge’) describes the mystical intuitive knowledge of spiritual truth reached through ecstatic experiences, rather than revealed or rationally acquired. A seeker of ma’rifa is called ‘arif, “the one who knows”. In one of the earliest accounts of the Maqamat-l arba’in (“forty stations”) in Sufism, Sufi master Abu Said ibn Abi’l-Khayr lists ma’rifa as the 25th station: “Through all the creatures of the two worlds, and through

Prominent sufis

Abdul-Qadir Gilani Geometric tiling on the underside of the dome of Hafiz Shirazi’s tomb in Shiraz Abdul-Qadir Gilani (1077–1166) was an Mesopotamian-born Hanbali jurist and prominent Sufi scholar based in Baghdad, with Persian roots. Qadiriyya was his patronym. Gilani spent his early life in Na’if, a town just East to Baghdad, also the town of his birth. There, he pursued the