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A gathering in Noorul Islam Mosque, Bury, UK after the weekly Khatm i-Khwajagan. The poems recited are ‘In Jabartum’ by Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nablusī and ‘Qad Kafanī’ by Imam ʿAbdullah al-Haddad.
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Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ghani was born in Damascus in 1641. His father, Shaykh Ismaīl, was a well-known scholar and was the Qadi of Siphon, Lebanon for 12 years. He supervised Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ghani’s early education but passed away in 1653, when Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ghani was 12. He studied in a Madrassa and before he was 20, Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ghani was giving Fatwas. He was a Qadirī and studied extensively on Sufī Tariqahs. In the famed Umayyad Mosque, he regularly gave lessons and was renowned in Syria as a scholar and a famed poet. Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ghanī’s poems are legendary in terms of the language. During his youth, he composed a poem in praise of the Prophet ﷺ that scholars say was on level with the Burdah of Imam al-Busirī. He passed away in 1731, at the age of 90 and was buried in a mosque near Shaykh Ibn al-Arabī’s tomb.
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Imam ʿAbdullah ibn Alawī al-Haddad was born in Tarim, Yemen, in 1634. He lived his whole life in Tarim and passed away there. When he was a child, Imam Haddad was afflicted with smallpox, taking away his vision. Despite this, he memorised the Qur’an and was trained as a scholar from a young age. His foremost teacher was Habīb ʿUmar al-Attas, although he studied with many of the Ulama of Hadramaut. From a young age, Imam Haddad chose the ascetic path and would recite a quarter of a Juz in the mountains of Tarim. The Imam would often recite Surah Ya-Sīn and would weep often, reciting it. His spiritual opening was from Surah Ya-Sīn. When he was 17, the Imam went into Khalwa (seclusion). He also was married in the same year. Every night, he would pray 700 Ra’kahs. When Imam Haddad was 25, Hadramaut was captured by the Qasimi Zaydis from Upper Yemen. They would get their freedom when Imam Haddad was 81. Imam Haddad passed away in 1720 at the age of 86. He was buried in Zanbal Cemetery near his master, Habib ʿUmar. They say the area between these two saints’ tombs is an area where Duas are accepted.
May Allah ﷻ have mercy on these two Saints and raise their ranks
۞ | Al-Fatiha for their blessed souls
Translation of Qad Kafanī:
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