About The Book

This supplication has been tried, tested, and proven to relieve distress and to avert difficult situations, especially when they are societal and concern the affairs of all Muslims. The people of Fez call it “The Sword of Ibn Nasir”.

They used to teach it to the pupils in the Qur’anic kuttabs and they used it to seek refuge with Allah, using various tunes, in the time of the French oppression and occupation of Morocco. That is the custom of the Muslims: to seek refuge with Allah Almighty in times of hardship. Your Lord says, “Call on Me and I will answer you.” (40:60)

About The Author

Shaykh Muhammad – Fatha – ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Husayn ibn Nasir ibn ‘Amr ad-Dar‘i al-Aghlabi (d. 1085 AH). He is buried in his zawiya in Tamagurt. He was involved in many areas of knowledge such as fiqh, Arabic, kalam, tafsir, and tasawwuf. He was a man of worship and of great devotion, scrupulous, and a Zahid, a man who established the tariqa and drank from the source of the Reality.

About The Translator

Aisha Abdurrahman at Tarjumana Bewley is one of today's most prolific translators of classical Arabic work into English. Aisha Bewley not only understands Arabic but she is also aware of the basic meanings and nature of teachings and history of Islam.

Her knowledge is born of experience and direct transmission, not merely academic theory and learning by rote. For more than twenty-five years she has been concerned with making the contents of many classical works in Arabic more Accessible to English-speaking readers for the first time, including Ash-Shifa of Qadi Iyad.