Advice to our Brothers,
The Scholars of Najd : New,
[A5] Paperback - 68 pages,
by Sayyid Yusuf Hashim al-Rifa'i [d.1439h],
Introduction by Shaykh M. Sa'id al-Buti [d.1434h],
Transl. & Notes by Gibril Fouad al-Haddad,
Foreword by Asrar Rashid,
Publ by Taftazani Press.
Description :
Advice to our Brothers, The Scholars of Najd ... The Kuwait Minister of Communications then Minister of State, educator, world caller to Allah, learned scholar of Prophetic descent and spiritual guide of the Rifa'i Tariqa as well as lineage, Sayyid Abu Yaʿqub Yūsuf b. Sayyid Hashim b. Sayyid Aḥmad al-Rifa'i al-HusaynI al-ShafiʿI (1351-1439/1932-2018) is the author of al-Radd al-Muḥkam al-Maniʿ ʿala Ibn Maniʿ (The Decisive Refutation of Ibn Maniʿ), also known as Adillat Ahl al-Sunna wal-Jamaʿa (The Proofs of Sunnis Against Wahhabis) originally written in defense of Sayyid Muhammad b. Alawi al-Maliki; al-Sufiyya wal-Tasawwuf (Sufis and Sufism); Khawaṭir fīl-Siyasa wal-Mujtamaʿ (Thoughts on Politics and Society); and al-Imam al-Sayyid Aḥmad al-Rifa'i.
The translator first met Sayyid Yusuf in 1996 at the first International Islamic Unity Conference organized by Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani in Los Angeles, California. He subsequently kept company with him in his diwan of Mezzeh in Damascus and at his side in his visits to the Rifaʿi tribe in Rankus and other areas of Syria from 1997 to 2006. He read with him Imam al-Suyuṭi's al-Khasaʾiṣ al-Ṣughra and Imam al-Shaʿrani's Tanbih al-Ghafilin. He was graced with authorisation from him in the Rifa'i Tariqa and Hadith narration in 1424/2003 and vibrant forewords for two of his books, The Four Imams and Their Schools and The Damascus Answers on the Sufi Issues. ---Shaykh Gibril Fouad al-Haddad.
Review by Imam Muhammad Sa'id Ramadan al-Buti, rahimahullah.
I read this epistle of his. All it took to make me read it was its title that shines with the marks of appreciation for others, purity of purpose, and the motivation of cooperation in the way of seeking Divine good pleasure: Advice to Our Brothers the Scholars of Najd. Had I seen something contrary to these elements in the title I would not have paid any attention to the book nor wasted dearly precious time reading it.
When I began to read it I saw exactly what conformed with the promise of the title and fulfilled it: a quiet, kind reminder and counsels that show true jealous concern over the Religion of Allah as well as pure concern for those brethren lest they stray from the path of Allah.
I reviewed the counsels of my brother, Sayyid Yusuf al-Rifa'i, rahimahullah, to those brothers from the first to the last. Then I weighed those counsels in the scales of the Divine Law as I understand them to be, its proofs, and its source-texts. I found him in the right in all of his advices and warnings to them. More than that, he is truly speaking, in this capacity, in the name of all the Ulema of the Muslims who follow the guidance of the Qur'an and Sunna and tread the path and method of the pious Predecessors, whoever and wherever they are. ---Dr. Muhammad Ramadan al-Buti.
Extract from the Foreword :
Amongst the prominent Ashari 'ulama' was Shaykh Sayyid Yusuf al-Rifa'i, rahimahullah, the author of this book, which was written as a reminder to the 'Ulama of Najd. A reminder that they must give up their excesses in their wanton destruction of Islamic heritage and labelling of Muslims as mushrikin. The book was translated by Dr Gibril Fouad al-Haddad in Damascus. wherein he resided and studied under major 'ulama there. The likes of Shaykh Nur al-Din Itr, Shaykh Adib Kallas, Shaykh Muhammad Sa'id Ramadan al-Buti and inumerable other 'ulama from whim he received ijazat in the sciences of hadith.
We hope that this book benefits many of the younger people who have been brainwashed by the pseudo Salafi-Najdi ideology and have adopted abandonment of the four madhahib, claiming to do ijtihad directly from the books of Sunnah for which they do not have the requisite tools, and also falsely claiming that having attachment to the awliya' entails shirk and bid'ah.---Shaykh Asrar Rashid.
Dimensions : 21.6 x 14cm
