Qutb Al Aqtab | Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi | Praise of Imam Hasan ash-Shadhili | Arabic w/ English

Qutb Al Aqtab is written by Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi in praise of al-Imam Abul Hasan ash-Shadhili.

Imam Abul Hasan ash-Shadhili. Also known as Sheikh al-Shadhili was an influential Moroccan Islamic scholar and Sufi, founder of the Shadhili Sufi order. Al-Shadhili was born near Ceuta in the north of Morocco, also known as the Rif region, in 1196. A Sharif, a descendant of the Arab Idrisids, was born to a royal family among the Berber Ghomara tribe.He was a Maliki in jurisprudence and wandered far afield in search of knowledge. Immensely learned, even as a young man, he was famous for his ability to engage in legal argumentation with the religious scholars of his day. As a young man, Abul Hasan was hesitating between living the life of an ascetic in the wilderness in order to give himself up totally to worship and invocation, or to return to the towns and settlements to be in the company of the scholars and the righteous. He studied in Fes and moved to Alexandria in 1244.In Iraq, he met the Sufi master al-Wasiti, who advised him that he could find his Spiritual Master in the country Abul Hasan had traveled from, Abd as-Salam ibn Mashish, the great Moroccan spiritual master. Under his guidance, Abul Hasan attained enlightenment and proceeded to spread his knowledge across North Africa, especially in Tunisia and Egypt, where he is buried.

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