About The Book
This is the definitive guide to visiting the Messenger of God, may peace and blessings be upon him, with high adab and courtesy the book takes the visitor to the Radiant City of Madina, and the Blessed Mosque of the Messenger of God, and onwards through to presenting oneself in front of the Best of Creation, may peace and blessings be upon him.
En route the authors dedicate chapters to;
- The Merits of the Possessor of the Tremendous Character,
- The Shariah position of visiting him,
- Recommendations for the Visitor,
- How to Visit him upon whom be peace and blessings,
- The Good Manners in Standing in front of the Chosen One.
Attributes of the City of Madina An indispensable guide to visitors and a spirit lifting read for those aspirations are to be close to the Best of Creation, may peace and blessings forever be upon him.
About The Translator
Dr. Mostafa Badawi was born in Cairo in 1948. He graduated from Cairo University Medical School in 1971 and thereafter completed his postgraduate training in the United Kingdom in 1985. He has been practicing as a consultant psychiatrist since then. Dr. al-Badawi has authored several books in English, including Man and the Universe: An Islamic Perspective, The Prophetic Invocations, and Sufi Sage of Arabia: Biography of Imam al-Haddad.
He is a distinguished authority on the history and teachings of the Ba 'Alawi Sayyids. He studied under many shaykhs, foremost among whom is the late Habib Ahmad Mashur al-Haddad.
Dr. Badawi is one of the leading contemporary translators of Islamic books from Arabic to English and has authored several books in Arabic. In addition, he has translated from the original Arabic into English several of Imam Abdallah ibn Alawi al-Haddad's works, including The Book of Assistance, The Lives of Man, Gifts for the Seeker, Wisdom and Knowledge, Good Manners, and Mutual Reminding. He also translated into English Habib Ahmad al-Haddad's Key to the Garden as well as Shaykh Abd al-Khaliq ash-Shabrawi's Degrees of the Soul.
