Category: The Prophet ﷺ

Salawat with Allah’s Beautiful Names: Ya Mughni (the One Who makes people independent)

This prayer is taken from Sayyidi Habib Umar bin Hafiz’s collection of prayers using Allah’s beautiful names in which he calls upon Allah by His beautiful names and then asks Him to bestow prayers upon His Beloved by those names. Finally, he asks Allah for a portion of those attributes which belong to Allah and which He has bestowed upon His Messenger ﷺ. Continue reading Salawat with Allah’s Beautiful Names: Ya Mughni (the One Who makes people independent)

Salawat with Allah’s Beautiful Names: Ya Ghani (the Independent One)

Allah says to His Beloved ﷺ in Surat al-Duha: “Did He not find you in need and make you independent?”

Sayyidi Habib Umar bin Hafiz says about this: “Allah is the One who makes independent all those who realise that they are in need of Him. Due to your inward neediness, Allah made you independent of everything other than Him, for true wealth is the wealth of the soul.” Continue reading Salawat with Allah’s Beautiful Names: Ya Ghani (the Independent One)

Salawat with Allah’s Beautiful Names: Ya Jami’ (the Uniter)

This prayer is taken from Sayyidi Habib Umar bin Hafiz’s collection of prayers using Allah’s beautiful names in which he calls upon Allah by His beautiful names and then asks Him to bestow prayers upon His Beloved by those names. Finally, he asks Allah for a portion of those attributes which belong to Allah and which He has bestowed upon His Messenger ﷺ. Continue reading Salawat with Allah’s Beautiful Names: Ya Jami’ (the Uniter)

Salawat with Allah’s Beautiful Names: Ya Mun’im (Bestower of Blessings)

Sayyidi Habib Umar bin Hafiz teaches us to thank Allah for the immense blessings that He has bestowed upon us, the greatest of those being our beloved Prophet ﷺ . He also directs us to ask for an increase in those blessings, for gratitude and for those blessings to be preserved. Continue reading Salawat with Allah’s Beautiful Names: Ya Mun’im (Bestower of Blessings)

On Spreading Peace

Answered by Sayyidi Habib Umar bin Hafiz (may Allah protect him and benefit us by him)

What is the best way of obeying the Prophetic command to spread peace, feed people, honour the ties of kinship and pray at night?

We do this by not harming any human or animal and by having a good transaction with inanimate objects such that we walk upon the earth in humility. We should look after our relatives and neighbours and speak well whenever we meet anyone. We should pray in the night even if it is only two units of prayer. We should give charity, give people gifts and invite them to our houses.

Indeed with Hardship Comes Ease

At the most difficult of times and in the most testing of circumstances, while the Muslims were being besieged by the Confederates (al-Ahzab), the Prophet ﷺ gave his Companions the good news that Syria and Yemen would be opened to Islam.

Allah’s saying: “Indeed with hardship comes ease” was thus manifested in his noble state.

Similarly, the believer finds deep certainty within himself at times of crisis, and his inner state proclaims:

‘If tribulations increase in severity, they will then depart and the coming of dawn is close.’

—Habib Ali al-Jifri (may Allah preserve him and benefit us by him)

 

Salawat with Allah’s Beautiful Names: Ya Dha’l-Jalal wa’l-Ikram

Allah says: “Blessed be the name of your Lord, the Lord of Majesty and Generosity (55:78).” The Prophet ﷺ would often call upon Allah by this name and it has been narrated that it is Allah’s greatest name. It combines the attributes of majesty and beauty and inspires in the slave both hope and fear. Continue reading Salawat with Allah’s Beautiful Names: Ya Dha’l-Jalal wa’l-Ikram