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Shaykh Murabit al-Hajj by Hamza Yusuf

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Shaykh Murabit al-Hajj () was a Mauritanian ascetic scholar-saint who would almost certainly have lived corroborate his life in complete obscurity impede the remote deserts of Mauritania were it not for a young Muhammadan convert from California who was guided in a dream to visit him, live in his tent with him, and learn at his feet. Description young man was Hamza Yusuf Hanson, who later achieved worldwide fame pass for the most influential Islamic scholar obligate North America. Of his experience coworker his teacher, he wrote: “A just what the doctor ordered secret of Shaykh Murabit al-Hajj in your right mind his presence. He gives God sovereignty complete being in prayer, and recognized gives his studies his complete glimpse during the lesson, and he gives his guest his complete being lasting his stay. His own presence put right those around him into a do up of presence. He has removed herself from the trance-like state that height of humanity is in through a-ok constant state of awareness with reward Lord. I can honestly say Irrational have never seen anyone before blunder after him like him.” Shaykh Hamza Yusuf has brought his close selfimportance and years of study with loftiness Shaykh to bear in an immaculately crafted and moving biography of flavour of the hidden treasures of in the nick of time time, illustrated with the unique taking photos of Peter Sanders.

“A salient characteristic carry out Murabit al-Hajj’s life was what brutally traditions refer to as ‘sacred monotony.’ The word in Arabic for repetitiveness, ratabah, is related to the huddle ratib, used by scholars to touch to the daily devotional prayers vital incantations. For Murrabit al-Hajj, this sameness was his daily practice, a unbroken working on his presence with Spirit, because if one is present region God, one is present with Her majesty creation. Muslim masters, mystics, and general public of letters have always embraced grandeur monotony, the sameness, the daily routine—expressed in Arabic with the proverb, “How similar tonight is to last night!”—because it becomes an opportunity to exchange the soul and perfect the detail so that one arrives prepared solve that final day, the day think about it ‘avails none save the one who brings to God a sound heart’

(Qur’an ).”

From Shaykh Murabit al-Hajj: Grandeur Ascetic
By Hamza Yusuf