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'Narrated by the glorified scholars' (qasida 15:47) This is the motto of this section, which is for preserving and the knowledge about the valuable books of our great religious predecessors. You can find all special expressions in the Glossary. We need your comments to develop this site for you.
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Great Ancestors' Books
Since we are constantly in need for the non-distorted books of our predecessors, and since some irresponsible groups had intentionally or unintentionally printed distorted books and spread them either in the markets or on the internet, there aroused an insisting need to find reliable sources for the books and knowledge of the virtuous predecessors. So, we are nominating to you some sister sites that choose accurately every book they present. This way you can easily find the books and texts of our predecessors which some people tried to hide and conceal, but Allah will complete His guidance, even if biased people dislike. We will mention some of the books, from these sites, that sheikh Fakhr Eldin quoted from in his books and lessons. More information about these sites are in the library page in our main site.
A book from the library:
The book of the lights of the
revelation & the secrets of interpretations known as the explanation of
al-Baydawi by the scholar Nasereddin
Aboel-Khair Abdullah ibn Umar ibn Mohamed al-Shyrazi al-Shafe'i al-Baydawi,
who died 685 AH. This book is considered one of the
most important book of
interpretations using the
mind-thinking beside the transmitted knowledge. It is also a very accurate
book that combined both the interpretation and the explanation. It
determined the
evidence according to the principals of Sunna.
This book is summarized from the book of al-Kashaf
by al-Zamakhshary who died 538 AH, but the author left aside what were
considered isolations. The Author also derived it from the book of
the key to the unknown by Al-Fakhr al-Razi who died 606 AH. the
author was affected by this book especially when he talked about the cosmos
verses and the physical researches. He also got from the word realization
in the Qur'an interpretation by al-Asfahany who died 502 AH. Al-Baydawi
is also very low on the not-very
trustworthy
narrations that are so called The book’s link in Al-Turath site
Al-Qurtobi
The book of the the Collector
of the Rules of the Qur'an and the explanation of what it contained from
Sunna and separated verses
is written
by Imam Abi-Mohamed ibn Ahmed ibn Abi-Bakr al-Qurtobi who died 671 AH. He is
a
walking encyclopedia
and has many books in different
aspects,
the fact which proves
his vast information and his abundant merits. He
was a ascetic worshiper with his time filled with deep explorations in the
meanings. He collected, in his book, a great deal of the rules of Qur'an. He
simplified the meanings, contained the grammar,
and contained
linguistic, syntactical, and poetic examples. The book also contained
answers to the people with biased unfounded
inclinations. The
Book also showed that the author is fully versed
in all these arts.
He also collected in the book what was narrated about the
collection and sorting of Qur'anic chapters [Sura] and verses, the way dots were set over the letters,
and the declension of the words. He also talked about the credits and merits
of the Suras, the reasons for the revelation of
singular verses, the interpretation with traces The editor did not introduce any changes to the book and he was keen to get everything from its source, yet he did sometimes comment on some parts as being weak or israelis. The comments of the editors are his own opinion and he did not give his evidence, so we prefer the opinion of the author; Imam al-Qurtobi. The book’s link in Al-Turath site
Introduction by the Editors Translated by Ahmed
Note:
to
download & use these books, you need to down the compressed files
(rar
files) of the book and place it in the same
folder
and do not change their names. Then open any compressed file and you will
find the book which may comprise of one (pdf)
file or several ones which in turn will be decompressed to a one folder and
do not change any of their names. Now you open any of them using the
acrobat reader
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A Selection of brother’s readings:
Silence has seven thousand wisdoms that can be collected in seven: It is a worship that needs no effort, a fortress with no walls, a reverence with no power, a rest for the noble writing angels, a cover for the ignorant, a grace for the knowledgeable, and needs less apologies. One of its qualities also is that it refines the thoughts and brings the wisdom if done with thinking. Ahmed ibn 'Amer [AAH] said: "Your enemies are four: - the Devil: his weapon is filling the stomach and his prison is the hunger. - the Worldly life: its weapon is socializing with people and its prison is isolation. - the Inner Self: its weapon is sleeping and its prison is staying awake at night. - the Subjectivity: its weapon is talking and its prison is silence. Sheikh Awraq [AAH] said: the sources of all bad manners are three: Complacency [self-satisfaction] - fear of people or creatures - worrying about sustenance. The first one will give desire, ignorance, and sin. The second will give anger, hatred and envy. The third one will give stinginess, greediness and avarice". Then he said: "To defeat one source of them will be enough to banish them all, and that would be dissatisfaction with oneself under all conditions and being cautious from it at all times". It was told in the old wisdoms that the source of every sin, desire, and negligence is complacency, and the source of every obedience, vigilance, and chastity is self-dissatisfaction. To accompany an ignorant who is not satisfied with himself is better than accompanying a knowledgeable man who is self-satisfied.
It was reported by al-Suhayli a good summary about the self-qualities, including arrogance, conceit, pride, pomp, grudge, fraud, hatred, stinginess, hope, rancor, envy, boredom, fright, panic, greediness, gathering, prevention, cowardice, ignorance, laziness, obscenity, distaste, subjectivity, scorn, ridicule, wishing, disdain, irritability, extravagance, recklessness, hypocrisy, control, oppression, hostility, dispute, tenacity, violation, belligerence, rivalry, backbiting, slander, lying, malicious gossip, madness, mistrust, abandonment, meanness, insolence, treachery, betrayal, immorality, schadenfreude and the likes which are too many to count. Sayydi Abdel-Salam ibn Bashish [AAH] said: "whoever showed you the work exhausted you, whoever showed you the worldly life deceived you, and whoever showed you Allah sincerely advised you". Some wise man said: He whose mind controlled his desires will be like angles or better, and he whose desires controlled his mind will be like animals or worse. Some righteous man said: a whit of a heart's work is better that mountains of body's work. It was also said: Get out of your human qualities, of every quality that contradicts with your slavery to Allah. This way you will be ready to answer the call of the Truth [Allah] and you will be close to his Hadra [presence]. Sahl [AAH] said: the mind has a thousand name and for every name a thousand name. The first one of them is leaving the worldly life. This is supported by the hadith of the Prophet [PPBUH]: (Among the signs of the mind are the disaffection from the world of conceit, the recourse to the world of immortality, the provision for the grave living, and the preparedness for the resurrection day). In another narration by Muslim, he added (and the restriction of hope). Some also said: the seeker of the worldly life is captive, the seeker of the afterlife is a hireling, and the seeker of the Truth [Allah] is a prince. One of the kings said to one of the saints: Ask me anything and I will give it to you. The saint answered: How can I ask you, while you are a slave to my slave? The king said: How is that? The saint said: I renounced the worldly objects so they served me, and you loved the worldly objects so they owned you. They also say: I wonder, O, I wonder of who runs away from something that cannot be separated from him, and asks for what cannot stay with him. It is not their eyes that go blind but their hearts in their bosoms.
From 'Al-Fetouhat al-Elahiya' [The Godly Disclosures] by Imam Ibn Agiba
Edited By Samir Gamal Translated by Mohamed
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