SIDI MUHAMMAD PRESS

The Shaykh, the guide of the Shadhdhuliyyah Path founded by the master and guide Abu-l-Hasan ash-Shadhdhuli in the 13th century was born in Tulkarm in ash-Sham in 1935 and was a descendent of the Prophet Muhammad through his ancestor Shaykh Ahmad Ibn ar-Rifa'i. As a Qadi or Judge of the Shari'ah court, he worked all over Jordan and Palestine until he was given the position of Judge of the Judges in Jerusalem and the Holy Land and later moved to an office in Masjid Al-‘Aqsa. He inherited the Shadhdhuli line through his guide and master Sidi Abdu-r-Rahman Abu Risha of Halab in Syria and his second teacher, Shaykh Tilmisan, who sent him to Jerusalem, where he worked tirelessly to help the people and keep Tasawwuf alive as a knowledge of the science of the Light of Allah. In 1974, he set up a zawiyyah for seekers coming from western countries to study the Path of Sufism and in 1997 he restored the 600 year old Sufi Council that served in the Holy Land. He was the Head of this Council as..