Ja'fari Sufi Dhikr in Egypt (Fully Translated) – Sufi Qasida – Hal Da'ak al-Shawq - Hashim Aziz - 9/23/22

 YouTube Video:https://youtu.be/WCzAUmAthns?si=7X20inzJCwBrWXfY

Highly recommend watching this one until the end. In the process of translating it this qasidah has quickly become a new favourite of mine for how refreshingly unique and moving it is, and in my experience it's very rare to find a qasidah of this unique depth and imagery to be performed in a gathering like this. Don't forget to enable captions/CCs for the translation and change the quality to 1080p. ¹ As in many mystical traditions like Sufism, divine secrets play a large part in Sufi traditions. These traditions hold that there exists a type of knowledge between the material (knowable by all) and the Unseen (knowable only by God), and that God chooses to divulge some of this knowledge to prophets and other men of God. One of the most commonly cited Qur'anic evidences of this view is the mystical Qur'anic figure of al-Khidr, who was not a prophet but had knowledge of things the prophet Moses didn't. In this qasidah the poet seems to imply that the Secret is the love of the Prophet Muhammad and the state of bliss that it leads to, or it could simply be the means to another, greater Secret. ² The House of Allah is a common Qur'anic name for both the Ka'bah and the sanctified ground that surrounds it, known as Masjid al-Haram. Mother of Cities is equally a Qur'anic name for Makkah, the city in which Masjid al-Haram is located, the Prophet Muhammad was born and Islam was first established. ³ The ritual circumambulation around the Ka'bah that is undertaken by Muslims making the pilgrimage to Masjid al-Haram ⁴ In Sufism, the Qutb is one of several saintly ranks, pious men of God who are considered by some Sufis to be second only to the prophets ⁵ A common alternative name for the Prophet Muhammad meaning "one who is praised", derived from the Qur'an and considered by some Sufis to have special esoteric meaning ⁶ As was common of his time and place, the poet assumes a geocentric model of the universe, although modern scholars widely accept the heliocentric model ⁷ Indicating an upright, firm posture ⁸ In this verse and the following, the poet seems to be expressing his desire to have been a part of the story of the Ka'bah, because the story of the Ka'bah is intricately connected to the story and life of the Prophet, and to experience one is to experience the other ⁹ The expansion of the chest is a Qur'anic idiom for the removal of anxiety, which can often feel like a constriction of the chest. It originates from surah (Qur'anic chapter) 94: https://quran.com/94 Hamada and Essam Faruq, descendants of Shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari, perform a qasidah (classical Arabic poem) from his extensive collection at the Markaz of the Ja'fariyyah tariqah (Sufi order) in Aswan, Egypt. This gathering of disciples of the Ja'fari tariqah more than likely took place in 2011. The Ja'fari tariqah is a relatively recent tariqah based on the teachings of Salih al-Ja'fari (1910-1979), who studied the teachings of the Idrisi tariqah founded by Ahmad Ibn Idris al-Fasi, also know as the Ahmadiyyah Muhammadiyyah. He graduated in the sciences of hadith and Qur'anic exegesis from the prestigious al-Azhar University before spending over 40 years teaching in al-Azhar Mosque, and eventually serving as its imam for the last decade of his life. Salih al-Ja'fari was a black Egyptian, due to being from Luxor in Upper Egypt and its close proximity to neighbouring Sudan, and similarly a large portion of the members of the tariqah are also black despite it being based in Egypt, which has a majority Arab population. Thanks to Hiba for helping to translate one of the harder lines. Thanks to Ahmad Diab for uploading the original video here:    • قصيدة هل دعاك الشوق يوما للثرى  

Light of Azhar-Shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari RA -Biography

https://lightoftheazhar.com/biographies/biography-shaykh-salih-al-jafari/