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Chapter Four

TANBEEHI'L ANAAM
Of: Shaykh 'ABDUL JALIL BIN 'AZOOM AL-MAGHRIBI
Rahmatullahi 'Alaih

An Appreciation by Siddiq Osman Noormuhammad

RECITE THESE SALAWAAT WHILE FASTING

Welcome to Tanbeehi'l Anaam (Exhorting Mankind), a book of more than 10,000 salawaat (blessings) and salaams (salutations) on our beloved Prophet Sayyidina wa Mawlana Hadhrat Muhammad al-Mustafa Sallallahu 'alaihi wa Sallam by Shaykh 'Abdul Jalil bin 'Azoom Rahmatullahi 'alaih of Qairawan, Tunisia. This book is also popularly known as Shifaa' al-Asqaam wa Mahwa'l Aathaam Fi's-Salaat 'Alaa Khairi'l Anaam (The Healing of the Sick and the Erasing of Sins Through Offering Salaat on the Best of Mankind).

Let us recall that Allah Sub'hanahu wa Ta'ala has appointed seventy thousand angels to invoke salawaat and salaams on the Holy Prophet Sallallahu 'alaihi wa Sallam at his tomb (lovingly referred to as Rawdah or Paradise) any one day, and the next day another seventy thousand angels come and offer salawaat and salaams, and so on. Those angels who obtain such an opportunity once never obtain it again, because Allah Ta'ala in His Love and Justice wants to provide such an opportunity to all the angels. And let us remember that the angels neither eat nor drink nor sleep (La akla la shurba wala naumun lahum). So, transform yourself into an angel, that is, do not eat or drink and approach Tanbeehi'l Anaam in a state of sawm (fasting) and start to recite salawaat on the Beloved of Allah, Muhammad u'r Rasulullah Sallallahu 'alaihi wa Sallam. Some mashaaikh (spiritual masters) have indeed formed the habit of completing the recitation of Tanbeehi'l Anaam every month, especially in Ramadan, the month of fasting.

Indeed Shaykh 'Abdul Jalil bin 'Azoom Rahmatullahi 'alaih himself conveys to us these teachings in the following salawaat.

Allahumma Salli wa Sallim 'alaa Sayyidina wa Mawlana Muhammad
Wa 'alaa aali Sayyidina Muhammad
Alladhee Ja'alallahu sab'eena alfa malakin yahuffoona biqabrih

O Allah! Bestow blessings and peace on our patron
Sayyidina Muhammad and on the family of Sayyidina Muhammad
for whom Allah has kept seventy thousand angels
to surround his tomb

Allahumma Salli wa Sallim 'alaa Sayyidina wa Mawlana Muhammad
Wa 'alaa aali Sayyidina Muhammad
Alladhee man akthara zikrahu wa huwa saaim
Gufirat lahu'l jaraaim

O Allah! Bestow blessings and peace on our patron
Sayyidina Muhammad and on the family of Sayyidina Muhammad:
Whoever does his zikr (remembers him) in abundance while fasting,
is forgiven his sins.

Allahumma Salli wa Sallim 'alaa Sayyidina wa Mawlana Muhammad
Wa 'alaa aali Sayyidina Muhammad
Alladhee man akthara zikrahu bimaa huwa ahluh
Adhallahullahu fee dhillihi yauma laa dhilla illa dhilluh

O Allah! Bestow blessings and peace on our patron
Sayyidina Muhammad and on the family of Sayyidina Muhammad:
Whoever does his zikr with as much abundance as he deserves it
will be provided shade by Allah on the day
when there will be no shade except the shade provided by Allah.

And what better way to do the Zikr of the beloved Prophet Sallallahu 'alaihi wa Sallam than to invoke salawaat and salaams of Allah Sub'hanahu wa Ta'ala on him while fasting?

Tanbeehi'l Anaam is in two volumes. Volume 1 has 21 chapters while volume 2 has 17 chapters woven around salawaat on a particular theme. Some of the chapter titles are: Fee Fadhli Mahabbatihee (On The Beneficence of His Love), Fee Akhlaaqihi'sh Shareefah wa Shamaailihi'l Lateefah (His Noble Character and Sacred Conduct), Fi'l Mi'raj (His Ascent, Body And Soul, To The Heavens), Fi'l Akhbaaraatihi'l Ghaybiyya Wa Sidq Maqaalatihi'l Marwiyyah (The Reports He Gave Of The Unseen And The Truth Of His Reported Sayings), Fee Zuhoorihi wa 'Alaamatihi wa Wilaadatihi wa Ridha'atihi (His Manifestation And His Signs, His Birth And His Nursing), Fee Mu'jizaatihi'l Baahirah (His Shining Miracles), and Fee Fadhli'sh Shafee'ish Shaafi'i (His Favour On Us As An Accepted Intercessor).

And who would know better than Shaykh 'Azoom that our beloved Prophet Muhammad-e-'Arabi Sallallahu 'alaihi wa Sallam is an intercessor whose intercession is accepted by Allah Ta'ala? In the introduction to the kitab, he narrates that he saw Rasulullah Sallallahu 'alaihi wa Sallam in his dream. His house appeared all lit up from the light on the face of Muhammad al-Mustafa Sallallahu 'alaihi wa Sallam. He greeted him three times:

Assalatu wa's Salaamu 'alaika yaa RasulAllah
Blessings and salutations on you, O Messenger of Allah.

Then, he requested him for his shafa'ah (intercession). The beloved Prophet Sallallahu 'alaihi wa Sallam kissed him and gave him the good news that he will attain his shafa'ah. When he woke up, he composed this couplet:

Ra'aytul Mustafa fi'nnawmi haqqan
Bidaaree aakhidhan biyadi'l yameeni
Wa qabbalanee wa bash-sharanee wa aalaa
'Alaa naylish-shafa'ati bi'l yameeni

I saw The Chosen One (al-Mustafa) in my dream for true
In my house, taking my right hand,
And he kissed me and gave me the good news
That I will gain his intercession with those on the right

Allahu Akbar!.

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