Professor James D.Frankel ( Harun Abd al-Latif ar-Rahman ):Director at Centre for the Study of Islamic Culture - CSIC, CUHK- Journey to Islam & his Books
Professor James D.Frankel's Journey to Islam:
The Naqshbandiya Foundation for Islamic Education (NFIE) is a non-profit, tax exempt, religious and educational organization dedicated to serve Islam with a special focus on Tasawwuf(Sufism),
Professor James D.Frankel's Journey to Islam:
YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf1eqKoTWMA
In this episode, Ustadh Amjad Tarsin delves into the ways in which we can protect our hearts from worldly matters. He outlines the harms of putting worldly success as the metric of our lives and how that effects our relationship with Allah. Ustadh Amjad discusses how each of us should cultivate our souls to seek nearness to Allah, and His Messenger rather than busying ourselves with social media and people's opinions.
The Kingdom of the Heart : Habib Umar bin Hafiz , Amjad Tarsin (translator) - Al-Maqasid - Mecca Books
This book uniquely shows the direct correlation between outward actions and the heart, giving us insights into how various actions impact the state of our hearts. Ultimately, it gives us a way to internalize the wisdom and purpose of acts of devotion, resulting in the purification of the heart and nearness to Allah ﷻ"Within every human being is a Kingdom. The heart is the ruler of this Kingdom, and the rest of the body are its subjects. If the heart rules with justice and excellence, the body will perform good actions and the Kingdom will flourish.
YouTube Video: Paul Williams interviews Dr. Francesca
https://youtu.be/xPgTeq8d8tg?si=FO5Ph2vK5-Awk-3H
Chapters:
00:00:00 Introduction 00:05:10 Early European Interpretations of Islam 00:10:15 Goethe's Connection to Islam 00:15:15 Islamic Influence in Goethe's and Hegel's Works 00:20:55 Hegel and Marxism: The Illegitimate Child 00:25:46 Ignored Aspects of Moral Philosophy 00:31:46 Colonialism and Orientalism in Academic Studies 00:36:10 The Romantic Movement's Reaction to Newtonian Physics 00:41:18 The Misunderstood Legacy of "1001 Nights" and Orientalism 00:46:16 The Myth of a Final Philosophy 00:51:20 The Role of Sharia in Modern Context 00:56:27 The Monsterification of Muslims in the Middle Ages
Dr Francesca Bocca-Aldaqre Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/bocca.aldaqre/
Dr Francesca Bocca-Aldaqre's Articles:
Comparing Goethe's and Hagel's Veiws of Islam: A Thematic Approach PDF - Academia
https://www.academia.edu/67665337/Comparing_Goethes_and_Hegels_views_on_Islam_A_thematic_approach
Islam,Prophet, Hegira: Islamic Vocabulary in Goethe's Letters, Diaries & Autobiography PDF Academia
Dr. Francesca Bocca-Aldaqre, born in Piacenza in 1987, is a theologian who teaches Arabic language and culture in Milan and serves as a Professor of Islamic Theology at the Italian Institute of Islamic Studies. With a PhD from Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, she specializes in the relationship between Islam and Western thought. She writes a column on theology, neuroscience, and current affairs for Civiltà delle Macchine and directs the Averroes Institute of Islamic Studies in Piacenza.
Source:https://www.islamicity.org/102384/islam-in-italy-literature-identity-and-the-legacy-of-orientalism/
YouTube Video:https://youtu.be/n-Hwt5LY0nA?si=qfa1xYe1TFy0t6pY
Maqam : Bayati Poem and melody from Omani Traditional Music “The Malad” Lilaashiq filhawa Dalail poem is for Mulla Othman Almawsili Performed live for Royal Opera House Muscat , Season 2022/2023 Ramadhan & Inshaad Prise from the Sultanate of Oman || APRIL 2023 in Muscat
Lyrics in English: Praise be to Allah who grants a great reward for those who praise Him. His greatness and sovereignty dominate all of His creations. He is the everlasting after all of His creations, surely He is the most Great and the Grand. He is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-wise. All creatures and universes could never disobey a single order by Him. Praise be to Allah, He is surely the all-generous God and the all-powerful king. He sees atoms in the darkest nights and blesses us with darkness to be a rest and cover. He determined time for us into days and months and preferred some of them over others out of knowledge and wisdom. He indicated His days of blessings in the divine-protected tablet. He ordered the crescent of Rabei Al- Awwal to rise with great blessings, as He chose it to be the month in which our beloved prophet Muhammad was born. The angels chanted praises and glorifications to their Lord loudly and silently. The angel Ridhwan was instructed to refine the heavens and paradise. O, Allah .. O, Allah .. O, Allah. Say, O, Allah .. Pray blessing upon Ahmad the exalted standard of all good O, Allah. Say, O, Allah .. A lover has proof for his love … He never listens to a reproacher … He is still humble at your glorious door … Tears are running down his cheeks. My body went skinny waiting at your door out of love … Just look with sympathy to a lover of the honest messenger of the divine evidence. O, Allah .. O, Allah .. There is no God but Allah … O, Allah, your poor servant has gone astray … My eyes never rest out of love …. You are my Lord, You are all my words … Take me to Wadi Al-Aqeeq to chant before the grave of your messenger.. He is the chosen prophet; he is Allah’s beloved Blessings of Allah are upon you, You are the chosen prophet of Adnanis. You are the best of Allah’s creation
Areej Ensemble :https://fesfestival.com/2019/en/produit/areej-sufi-ensemble-sultanat-doman/
The Sultanate of Oman is anchored in a great Arab tradition that turns majestically to the immensity of the Indian Ocean towards Zanzibar and Persia. Its high villages in ochre colours, its proud mountain escarpments, its population of mythical gazelles and leopards make this country the last ecological paradise of the Arabian Peninsula.During the Sumerian period, Oman was known as Magan. Its incense was sold in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia and from India to Dilmun (today’s Bahrain). Oman was Islamised during the lifetime of Mohammed in the 7th century. In the following century, following the schism between Sunnis and Shi’ites, Oman was one of the rare regions that took another path, and soon became the principal region of Ibadi theology, r.During the time of the Ayyubid dynasty, Omanis took control of the major Swahili ports of the east African coast: Mombasa, Kilwa, Zanzibar and Pemba, which certainly explains the great similarity of gestures between the Sufi rituals of Zanzibar and of Oman during the Mawlid, the celebration of the birth of the Prophet. The influence of songs and gestures of the pearl fishers are also affirmed in this ritual.
Poem by Mullah Uthman Al-Musili -Forgotten Giant. Biography -History of Iraq Blogspot
https://iraqshistory.blogspot.com/2010/10/forgotten-giant-mullah-uthman-al-musli.html
YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/aeKqPv2KV_o?si=Zki3QNAEq2MxBv_h
Don't forget to enable captions/CCs for the translation and change the quality to at least 720p. This gathering took place in 2018 in the Hazratbal Mosque and Shrine, which is located on the banks of the beautiful Dal Lake in Srinagar, Kashmir. This invocation of salawaat (prayers on the Prophet) is recited in the mosque after every Jumu'ah (Friday prayer), and is taken from Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani's Awraad-e-Fathiyya. Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani was a 14th-century Sufi shaykh and scholar of Iranian origin belonging to the Kubrawi tariqah (Sufi order) who spread Sufism throughout South Asia and had a lot of influence on Kashmir. I'm not sure what tariqah (Sufi order) the mosque follows. Thanks to Faheem Chishti for the original video, which can be found here: • Video Thanks to Ahlul Suffiyah for identifying the Awraad-e-Fathiyya as the source of the salawaat.
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/