Posts from the ‘Amin Buxton’ Category
Sayyidi al-Habib `Umar bin Hafiz (may Allah preserve him and benefit us by him) was asked: “How do we attain true love for our shaykh?” He replied: “By asking for that from Allah and pleading with Him to be given it. We should also study how the Companions were with the Messenger of Allah, and [...]
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Please find below the latest information on the Annual Dowra Summer Intensive in Tarim, the Annual Visit of Prophet Hud (peace be upon him), and enrollment at Dar al Mustafa and Dar al-Zahra. Dar al-Mustafa Summer Dowra 2012 Anyone who wishes to apply for the 2012 Summer Dowra at Dar al-Mustafa [...]
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم To Allah we belong and to Him we shall return. It has reached us that al-Sayyid al-Habib Abu Bakr bin al-Shaykh Abu Bakr bin Salim had passed away today on the 20th of Jumad al-Awwal in Aynat. He was the father of Habib Ali bin Abu Bakr, who teaches in Dar [...]
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بسم الله الرحمن لرحيم Sayyidi al-Habib Umar bin Hafiz (may Allah preserve him) said: If you wish to follow this path, you must know that you call people to Allah from the platform of the Sacred Law—meaning that you try to bring them to Allah by reminding them of Allah’s orders and prohibitions, by [...]
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم On 14thJumad al-Awwal, we commemorate the life of one of the great imams of our times, Habib Ibrahim bin `Aqil bin Yahya. Habib Ibrahim was one of Habib `Umar’s teachers, and Habib Umar would often visit him in the years he spent in al-Bayda in North Yemen. Some of us who [...]
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم On the 20th of Rabi` al-Thani (which falls on Tuesday, March 13, in Tarim), we commemorate the life of the great Saint and Scholar, Habib ‘Ali bin Muhammad al-Habashi. In commemoration of his life and passing, we present to you a biography of the great Lover of the Beloved Prophet ﷺ, as [...]
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم On 19th Rabi` al-Thani we commemorate the life of the great Imam, Habib `Abdulqadir al-Saqqaf, the shaykh of all our shuyukh. It is two years since he passed away but his memory lives on. We present two short videos with English subtitles filmed on a visit he made to Oman in 1988. In [...]
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم On the 17th of Rabi al-Thani (which falls on Saturday, March 10 in Tarim) we will commemorate the life of a great teacher and saint, al-Habib Abdullah bin Husayn bin Tahir (may Allah have mercy on him, elevate him to the highest stations in Paradise and sanctify his secrets). Kindly find below [...]
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم “Mercy descends when the Righteous are mentioned and remembered.” ~ Abdullah ibn Mubarak (may Allah be well-pleased with him) On 8thof Rabi` al-Thani, we commemorate the life of one of Habib Umar’s main teachers, Habib Muhammad al-Haddar. Please find below a couple of beneficial handouts, including a brief biography and a [...]
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Sayyiduna `Abdullah bin Mas`ud (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: “the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) said to me: “Recite [the Qur’an] to me.” I replied, “O Messenger of Allah, you wish for me to recite to you and you are the one to whom the Qur’an was [...]
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