The Visitations of Iraq ...

The Visitations of Iraq to
the Stations of Interlife :   New,
[A5] Paperback - 127 pages,
by Gibril Fouad al-Haddad,
Published by ISCA.

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"The Visitations of Iraq to the Stations of Interlife" is a travelogue exploring spiritual gravesites in Baghdad and other Iraqi locales. It details a trip taken in June 2002 and includes insights into the lives of those buried in the graves, their virtues, and the benefits of visiting these sites.


This memento is of a spiritual journey to Baghdad (The City of Peace) during the season of the Urs of Ghawth al-A'zam; Shaykh Abd al-Qadir al-Jaylani, may Allah be pleased with him.  The title attempts to capture the spirit of the generic Arabic terms that are used to refer to the subject, such as darih (grave-bed), hadra (presence), maqam (station, residence), marqad (resting place), mazar (visitation), qabr (burial-place), thara (earth) and ziyarah (visitation).


The visit took place in the company of a group of students living in blessed Damascus at the time. A glimpse of the lives of some of those laid to rest are mentioned, as well as their virtues and merits. The book also covers the etiquette and benefits of visiting and being in the company of people of lofty stations in life and after death. 

The account of the journey is arranged into 12 sections :

---[1]. The Momentous Divine Gift to Creation in the Person of the Freinds of Allah, their Descriptions in the Noble Hadiths and the fact that they are the Purpose of Creation,

---[2]. The Fact that the Remembrance of Allah is the Burnishing of Hearts, the Perfect Shaykh being the Most Effective Guide to Him, and the Definition of the Naqshbandi,

---[3]. The Visit to Baghdad; Shaykh Abd al-Qadir al-Jaylani, radi Allahu ta'ala anhu, and the Merits of the City,
-------The Greatness of Iraq, and Its Capital Baghdad,

---[4]. The Life of the Prophets and of the Awliya in their Graves, and what has been authored,
-------What Imam al-Suyuti mentioned in his book Sharh al-Sudur,

---[5]. Belief in the Firmly Established Miraculous Gifts of the Awliya after death, and their God-given Discretion,
-------The Deceased Hear the Living, Recognise Them and Return their Salaam, 
-------Discussion on the Discretionary Power of the Awliya in their Graves,

---[6]. Fatwa's [edicts] of the Ulema [scholars] on vowing and peforming sacrifices,
-------Additional Stirring Hadiths and Reports on the Interlife,

---[7]. The Desirability of the Visitation of the Awliya, its Virtues and Merits,

---[8]. Mawlana Khalid al-Baghdadi on Being with One's Murshid [spiritual guide] at all Times,

---[9]. The Iraq Ziyarah : The Kernel of this Book;
-------1. The Greatest Arch-Helper; Shaykh Abd al-Qadir al-Jaylani,
-----------The Definition of the Sufi, Manners of the Murids book,
-------2. The Resting-Place of Shaykh Maruf al-Karkhi,
-------3. The Resting-Place of Shaykh Sari al-Saqati,
-------4. The Resting-Place of Imam Junaid al-Baghdadi,
-------5. The Resting-Place of Shaykh Mahmud Ahmad Nu'aymi al-Naqshbandi,
-------6. The Resting-Place of Prophet Yusha b. Nun b. Afra'im b. Yusuf,
-------7. The Resting Place of Shaykh Ibrahim al-Khawwas,
-------8. The Resting-Place of Shaykh Buhlul al-Kufi,
-------9. The Resting-Place of Shaykh Salman al-Farisi,
-------10. The Resting-Place of Abdallah b. Jabir al-Ansari,
-------11. The Resting-Place of Shaykh Tahir b. Muhammad al-Baqir,
-------12. The Resting-Place of Hudayfha b. al-Yaman,
-------13. The Resting-Place of Imam Abu Muhammad Sa'id b. Jubayr b. Hisham al-Asadi al-Wabili al-Kufi,
-------14. The Resting-Place of Shaykh Imam Ahmad al-Rifa'i al-Kabir,
-------15. The Resting-Place of the Father of Shaykh Sayyid Ahmad al-Rifa'i, namely Abu'l Hasan al-Sultan Ali b. Yahya,
-------16. The Resting-Place of Sayyid Muhammad Baha al-Din Mahdi al-Sayyidi al-Rifa'i, famed as al-Rawwas,
-------17. The Resting-Place of Imam Anu Hanifa al-Nu'man b. Thabit,
-------18. The Resting-Place of Shaykh Abu Bakr al-Shibli,
-------19. The Resting-Place of Qutb Shaykh Bishr al-Hafi,
-------20. The Resting-Place of Imam Musa al-Kazim b. Jafar al-Sadiq,
-------21. The Resting-Place of Imam Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Hanbal al-Shaybani,
-------22. The Resting-Place of Abdallah b. Ahmad b. Hanbal,
-------23. The Resting-Place of Shaykh Harith al-Muhasibi,
-------24. The Resting-Place of Imam Shihab al-Din Suhrawardi,
-------25. The Resting-Place of Imam Ahmad. b. Ghazali [brother Hujjat al-Islam Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali],
-------26. The Resting-Place of Shaykh Habib al-Ajami

---[10]. Continuation of the Etiquette of Visiting the Graves,

---[11]. The Etiquettes of Spiritual Travel, especially for the Sultan, Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani,
-------The High Manners of Mawlana Shaykh Nazim in Travel,

---[12]. The Neccessity of Clinging to the Righteous, and Attaching Oneself to the Perfect Shaykh.

May this book be of use to the spiritual wayfarer and refresh the heart with the evocation of some of the states of some of those with whom it is believed Allah is pleased. 


 

Dr. Gibril Fouad Haddad was born in Beirut in 1380/1960. He embraced Islam while a graduate student in French literature at Columbia University in New York. Shayh Gibril Fouad Haddad holds scholarly licences (ijaza) from 200 shaykhs and has authored four dozen books and hundreds of artiles on Islamic hermeneutics, doctrine, hadith, tasawwuf, biography and heresiology. 

He currently lives and teaches in Dar al-Salam Brunei. Since 1997 he has published many translations of classical texts by the living masters of the past and present.

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