Each year, the Zawiya Sulukiya Institute has organised special Ramadan circles. In past years, a number of books have been studied, including Minhaj al-Qasidin by Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi (a summary of Imam al-Ghazali’s Ihya), al-Fath al-Rabbani by Abdul Qadir Jaylani, and other books.

This year, our dear Shaykh Abu Mouiz, may Allah preserve him, has chosen for us the book Awarif al-Ma’arif by Imam Shihab al-Deen Abu Hafs Umar al-Suhrawardi, one of the greatest books in the science of Tasawwuf and the knowledge of spiritual purification.

Join us for a thematic reading and explanation of this tremendous book each night after tarawih prayers at the Fatih Mosque (31 Nicholson Street, Coburg, Victoria).

Unfortunately this particular circle is only available for brothers due to lack of available space.

More on the Author

Imam Shihab al-Deen Abu Hafs Umar al-Suhrawardi (d. 632 AH) was a foremost Islamic scholar with special expertise as a Faqeeh (legal scholar) and Muhaddith (Hadith narrator), as well as a prominent spiritual master.

He was a student of the likes of Abdul Qadir Jaylani and Abu al-Najeeb al-Suhrawardi, his uncle; and he was a teacher of the likes of ‘Izz ibn Abd al-Salaam, ‘the Sultan of the Awliya and the Ulama‘.

Toward the end of his long life of scholarship and service, he wrote the renowned ‘Awarif al-Ma’arif’, a systematic elucidation of the science of Tasawwuf as understood from the original sources of Islam.