Haul event of Sulthonul Auliya Khwaja Sayyidina Shaykh Abdul Qadir Jilani 19th Oct 2008 and others

1. I am happy to announce that we will be having the Haul of Sulthonul Auliya Khwaja Sayyidina Shaykh Abdul Qadir Jilani r.a., on the 19th October 2008, Sunday - 8am. It will be held insya'Allah at Masjid Darussalam - Clementi. All are welcome to this blessed event. I will post detailed programs of that day as I got the info.

2. Haul Almarhum Ustaz Syed Abdillah Aljufri at Masjid Sultan, Saturday, 25 October, after Asar.

3. Maulidurrasul Saw & Haul Sayyidatuna Khodijah rha at Masjid Hj Muhd Salleh (Makam Habib Noh), Palmer Road,Sunday, 2 November 08, 8am.

Habib Shaykh Habib Salim Bin Abdullah Bin Umar As-Shatiri will be in Singapore this October 2008. He is the Principal of Rubat, an Islamic learning institute that is over 100 years old, based in Tarim, Hadhramaut, Yemen. Habib Umar Bin Hafiz will also have a schedule stop here in January 2009 Insha'Allah. I will update both event soon.

" Illustration of Al-Qutb Imam Ahmad ar-Rifa'i r.a and Al-Ghawth 

ul-Azam Imam Abdul Qadir al-Jilani r.a "

A short Biography Sulthonul Auliya Khwaja Sayyidina Shaykh Abdul Qadir Jilani r.a.

Raised by his mother and grandfather after his father's passing, Jilani was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad from both of his parents - his father was descended from Hasan while his mother was descended from Husayn.[1][2][3] At the age of eighteen he went to Baghdad (1095), where he pursued the study of Hanbali law under several teachers. Abdul Qadir received lessons on Fiqh from Abu Ali al-Mukharrimi, Hadith from Abu-Bakar-bin-Muzaffar, and tafsir from the renowned commentator, Abu Muhammad Jafar.

In Sufism, his spiritual instructor was Shaikh Abu'l-Khair Hammad bin Muslim al-Dabbas. From him, he received his basic training, and with his help he set out on the spiritual journey.
After completion of education, Abdul Qadir Jilani abandoned the city of Baghdad, and spent twenty-five years as a wanderer in the desert regions of Iraq as a recluse.[4] He was over fifty years old by the time he returned to Baghdad in 1127, and began to preach in public. He moved into the school belonging to his old teacher al-Mukharrimii, there he engaged himself in teaching. Soon he became popular with his pupils. In the morning he taught hadith and tafsir, and in the afternoon held discourse on mysticism and the virtues of the Qur'an.

He busied himself for forty years in the service of Islam from 521 to 561 AH. During this period hundreds of people converted to Islam because of him and organized several teams to go abroad for missionary purposes. He arrived in Indian sub-continent in 1128, and stayed at Multan, Pakistan.

He died on Saturday night 1166 (8th Rabi' al-Awwal 561AH on the Islamic calendar) at the age of eighty-nine years, and was entombed in a shrine within his Madrassa in Baghdad.

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