Mulla Ali al Qari (d. 1014 H. i Makka)
Posted: 30 Nov 2011, 05:38
Mulla Ali al-Qari (d.1014 H.)
Imam Mullah Ali al-Qari Rahmatullahi alayh was one of the great Hanafi masters of hadith and Imams of fiqh, Qur'anic commentary, language, history and tasawwuf, he authored several great commentaries such as al-Mirqat on Mishkat al-masabih in several volumes, a two-volume commentary on Qadi 'Iyad's al-Shifa', and a two-volume commentary on IMAM AL GHAZALI'S abridgment of the Ihya entitled 'Ayn al-'ilm wa zayn al-hilm (The spring of knowledge and the adornment of understanding). His book of prophetic invocations, al-Hizb al-a'zam (The supreme daily dhikr) forms the basis of Imam al-Jazuli's celebrated manual of dhikr, Dala'il al-khayrat, which along with the Qur'an is recited daily by many pious Muslims around the world.
He writes in the foreword to his commentary on al-Ghazali:
Reproduced with permission from Shaykh M. Hisham Kabbani's The Repudiation of "Salafi" Innovations (Kazi, 1996) p. 397-398.
Notes:
[1]. al-Qari, Sharh 'Ayn al-'ilm wa zayn al-hilm 1:1.
[2]. Ibid. 1:78.
[3]. Ibid. 2:354-355.
Imam Mullah Ali al-Qari Rahmatullahi alayh was one of the great Hanafi masters of hadith and Imams of fiqh, Qur'anic commentary, language, history and tasawwuf, he authored several great commentaries such as al-Mirqat on Mishkat al-masabih in several volumes, a two-volume commentary on Qadi 'Iyad's al-Shifa', and a two-volume commentary on IMAM AL GHAZALI'S abridgment of the Ihya entitled 'Ayn al-'ilm wa zayn al-hilm (The spring of knowledge and the adornment of understanding). His book of prophetic invocations, al-Hizb al-a'zam (The supreme daily dhikr) forms the basis of Imam al-Jazuli's celebrated manual of dhikr, Dala'il al-khayrat, which along with the Qur'an is recited daily by many pious Muslims around the world.
He writes in the foreword to his commentary on al-Ghazali:
- I wrote this commentary on the abridgment of Ihya' 'ulum al-din by the Proof of Islam and the Confirmation of Creatures hoping to receive some of the outpouring of blessings from the words of the most pure knowers of Allah, and to benefit from the gifts that exude from the pages of the Shaykhs and the Saints, so that I may be mentioned in their number and be raised in their throng, even if I fell short in their following and their service, for I rely on my love for them and content myself with my longing for them.[1]
- The greatest of the great (al-akabir) have striven to pray only two rak'at without conversing with their ego about dunya in the midst of their prayer, and they were unable to do this. Therefore there is not any such ambition for us of ever achieving this. Would that one saves only half of his prayer, or only a third, from the whisperings and the passing thoughts turning over in the mind. He is like him who mixes good and bad, like a glass full of vinegar into which water is poured: inevitably vinegar is spilled in proportion to the water poured and the two amounts never coexist. We ask for Allah's help! [2]
Reproduced with permission from Shaykh M. Hisham Kabbani's The Repudiation of "Salafi" Innovations (Kazi, 1996) p. 397-398.
Notes:
[1]. al-Qari, Sharh 'Ayn al-'ilm wa zayn al-hilm 1:1.
[2]. Ibid. 1:78.
[3]. Ibid. 2:354-355.