Imam Nawawi Course Khatam

The Imam Nawawi course by Shaykh Abdul Aziz Ahmed this Month will be on Sunday, 24th August 2008.

Time: 6:30pm (Asr)

Venue: Masjid Khazra, 138 Butterbiggins Road

07886 221 334 / 07815 176 630

www.islamiceventsglasgow.co.uk

Free admission for all, refreshments provided

After Maghrib: An introduction to the 77 Branches of Faith text by Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi.

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The Event of the Year by Shaykh Muhaammad Al Yaqoubi ( teacher of
Shaykh Hamza Yusuf and learned English in few months) See bio below,
he came to Glasgow last year with over 700+ people.

Intention/ context:
Over the last four years, we have been studying the 40 Hadith of Imam
al-Nawawi with Shaykh abdul Aziz Ahmed.

We are honoured that Shaykh Muhammad Al Yaqoubi would teach the last
hadith of the collection and give us some advice.

We would like Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqubi to start off the next
programme of hadith which will be `The 77 Branches of Faith' in its
abridged form.

We have also requested Shaykh Muhammad to bless us by teaching the
first hadith and relaying his sanad to the text, which we will be
greatly honoured.

Some of the brothers in Glasgow with the help of Islamic Village and
Knowledge and Wisdom have produced a translation of Mulla `Ali
al-Qari's collection of forty hadith on the blessings of reading the
Quran entitled Fayd al-Mu'în `ala jam il-Arbaîn fî fadl al-Qurân
al-Mubîn. This has been produced in Braille and in audio and computer
reader accessible text. The book is to be launched at the event and we
would request Shaykh Muhammad to teach the first hadith which is `the
best of you is the one studies Quran and teaches it.' We hope that
Shaykh Muhammad will make dua for the project.

New Venue:
138 Butterbiggins Road,
Govanhill,

Time 6.30pm (after ASr prayer)

For more details contact 07886221334.

Please try to attend as there are lots of blessing in attending a
gathering especially in completion of a famous text. Shaykh Muhammad
will conclude with the Dua inshallah.

refreshments will be served. Free admission.( If you want to donate
towards this event for the food etc you can do so before the event.
We can send you our details or you can send a cheque and be part of
this blessed occasion before ramadhan). approx cost for food per
person is £1.50. expected people approx 500-1000 people. You can
sponsor as many food packs as you want.

all welcome( Bros and Srs)

wa salaams

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Sheikh Muhammad al Yaqoubi descends from a scholarly family whose
lineage goes back to the Prophet, salla Allahu `alayhi sallam,
through his grandson Sayyiduna al-Hasan, radiya Allahu `anhu. Shaykh
Muhammad was born in Damascus on the 13th of DhulHijja in 1382 H. As
a little boy, he crawled in the Grand Omayyad Mosque and the
Darwishiyya Mosque, where his father was an instructor for 40 years,
and sat in the laps of some of the greatest scholars.

Since he was four-years-old, Shaykh Muhammad accompanied his father
in all of his visits, gatherings, and classes, both public and
private, as well as at home and outside. His father took care of him
and was both his teacher and spiritual master. Under his tutelage,
Shaykh Muhammad followed a solid traditional curriculum since the
age of four, studying, step-by-step, the major classical works on
the various disciplines of the Shari'ah as well as the instrumental
disciplines. Shaykh Muhammad dutifully studied with his father over
500 books in the course of 20 years, some of them from cover-to-
cover and others in portions; some are multi-volumes, and others are
small concise works.

Some of the books Shaykh Muhammad studied under his father are as
follows: most of the six books of Hadith, al-Muwatta of Yahya al-
Laythi, most of al-Muwatta of Imam Muhammad with Sharh al-Laknawi,
most of al-Muwaafaqaat of ash-Shaatibi, the first volume and other
sections (of the five volumes) of al-Hashiya of Ibn `Abideen,
Ihya `Ulum ad-Deen, al-Hidaya of al-Marghinani, Mughni al-Labeeb of
Ibn Hisham, Parts of Kitab Seebawayhi, Miyar al-Ilm of al-Ghazali,
several volumes of Sharh Sahih Muslim of an-Nawawi, several volumes
of Irshad as-Saari of al-Qastallaani, half of Madarik at-Taweel of
an-Nasafi, Hashiyat as-Saawi on Tafseer al-Jalaalayn, three volumes
of Mu'jam Maqaayiis al-Lugha of Ibn Faaris, al-Bayaan wat-Tabyeen of
al-Jaahiz, several volumes of Wafayaat al-Ayaan of Ibn Khallikaan,
and Tabaqat ash-Shafi'iyya al-Kubraa of Ibn as-Subki, Maqamaat al-
Hariri. In fact, Shaykh Muhammad wrote a thabat (detailed list) of
the names of the books he studied under his father entitled, The
Concealed Pearls. This book is a testament to his father's labor of
love and of the expenditure of his energy in passing on his
knowledge and experience to his children, a rarity in our modern
times.

Throughout the years of his study, Shaykh Muhammad went through
spiritual training in the Sufi path under his father, who was a
great Waliy and Murshid known for his righteousness and asceticism.
Shaykh Muhammad studied the major works of Tasawwuf under him,
accompanied him, and was his servant, the bearer of his shoes, which
he considers the key to the opening he received. The company of his
father exposed him to a wealth of light, wisdom, and knowledge, an
experience that was far beyond what one may attain from books or
from occasional meetings with teachers.