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Jawharat al-Kamal, The Jewel of Perfection

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بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ   اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ وَ سَلِّمْ عَلَى عَيْنِ الرَّحْمَةِ الرَّبَّانِيَةِ Allahumma swalli wa sallim ‘alaa ‘ayni ar-Rahmatir ar-Rabbaaniiyati O Allah, Bestow Your Benedictions and Your peace upon the Source of Divine Mercy وَ الْيَاقُوتَةِ الْمُتَحَقِّقَةِ الْحَائِطَةِ بِمَرْكَزِ الْفُهُومِ وَ الْمَعَانِي Wa al-yaaquwtati al-mutahaqqiqati al-haa’ithatihi bimarkazi al-guhuumi wa al-ma’aanii The True Ruby enclosed in the citadel of every understanding and meaning وَ نُورِ الْأَكْوَانِ الْمُتَكَوِّنَةِ الْآدَمِي صَاحِبِ الْحَقِّ الرَّبَّانِي Wa nuuri al-akwaani al-mutakwwinati al-adamii swaahibi al-haqqi ar-rabbanii And the Light of the Creatures becoming human beings, the Possessor of the lordly truth الْبَرْقِ الْأَسْطَعِ بِمُزُونِ الْأَرْبَاحِ الْمَالِئِةِ لِكُلِّ مُتَعَرِّضٍ مِنَ الْبُحُورِ وَالْأَوَانِي al-Barqi al-asthaa’ bimuziin al-arbaahi al-maali’iti likulli muta’arridhin min al-buhuuri wa al-awaanii The Brightest Li...
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Abjad for “Jim”

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بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Arabic numerology is known as abjad .   This article is about the spiritual meaning of the letter, Jim .   The Arabic letter “ Jim ” is equivalent to the letter “J” in the English alphabet.   It is the fifth letter in the Arabic character set.   “ Jim ” has the value of 3.   In the Qur’an, there are exactly three chapters that have names starting with the letter “ Jim ”.   These three chapters are Chapter 45, al-Jatsiyah; Chapter 62, al-Juma’ah; and Chapter 72, al-Jinn.   The first chapter with its name starting with the letter “ Jim ”, al-Jatsiyah, means to crouch, or bow, specifically to Allah ( s.w.t. ).   سُوۡرَةُ الجَاثیَة وَتَرَىٰ كُلَّ أُمَّةٍ۬ جَاثِيَةً۬‌ۚ كُلُّ أُمَّةٍ۬ تُدۡعَىٰٓ إِلَىٰ كِتَـٰبِہَا ٱلۡيَوۡمَ تُجۡزَوۡنَ مَا كُنتُمۡ تَعۡمَلُونَ (٢٨)   And you will see every nation bowing the knee: every nation will be called to its Record: “This Day shall you be recompensed for all th...
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A Dawn Breaking

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بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Imam al-Mugits Husayn ibn Manswur al-Hallaj ( q.s. ) said, in a poem:   “The long-awaited revealing of a well-kept secret, Is becoming clear to you. A dawn is breaking on your darkness. Your own heart is the veil covering the Secret. If you had kept yourself, He would not have been Revealed to you. But when you destroy your own heart, He Enters it and Discloses His Divine Revelation. So, guarded by this Revelation, An ever-nourishing dialogue will follow; Its verse and prose delicious to Us both.”
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Benedicte Cave Maledictionem

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بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ The following was taken from “ Benedicte cave maledictionem ,” “Benedict Beware of Malediction!” by Shaykh Abu Faydhan Faridi Muhammad Harun Riedinger, and published in Women’s Own, in the October 2006 issue.   Once again, a potentially heavy thunderstorm is building up in the skies over the Muslim world.   This time not caused by the profane vulgarities of an ignorant cartoonist, but by the insensible remarks of someone who should have known better.   To set the record straight, in the related issue, the Pontiff himself actually did not make the derogatory remarks about Islam, and jihad , which he is being decried for by Muslim leaders all over the world, but “only” quoted someone else’s remarks, remaining totally non-committal about them himself – or at least giving this impression …   The situation is somewhat like this: A teacher says in class that he read somewhere that someone had accused an ancestor of one of his stu...
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The Sharing Group Discussion: Is Swalah al-Khusuf a Superstition?

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بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Brother Naushad Omar posted, on The Sharing Group, on the 26 th September 2015: “Some lady on Facebook said that there will be a lunar eclipse on the 28 th September, and the Prophet ( s.a.w. ) said, according to Swahih al-Bukhari , that we must hasten to make two raka’at of swalah .   My response was: It is not necessary to make swalah now for an eclipse, since we are not superstitious anymore.   The Jahilliyah Arabs were superstitious because they had all kinds of weird beliefs about comets, eclipses and other heavenly aberrations.   Prophet Muhammad ( s.a.w. ) advocated swalah to wean the Arabs off this superstition.   It is totally unnecessary and weird that we make swalah now for eclipses.   Rather make swalah for the wars, poverty, corruption and mass migrations afflicting the ummah .”   Brother Terence Helikaon Nunis : That is not true.   Are you saying that for 1,400 years, we have performed a s...
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