The great gnostic of Allah, the author of The Diwan, the one immersed in the remembrance of Allah Almighty, the master of the Shadhilliya Ad-Darqawiyya Al-Habibiyya order, the great grandson of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, the Sharīf, Sīdī Shaykh Muhammad Ibn Al Habib Al-Idrissi Al-Amghari Al-Hassani Al-Fāsi.

“Praise belongs to Allah Who has established men in every age to revive His Tariqa. He has revealed to them the lights of Muhammad, from which all the lovers who followed them would derive aid, be they couples or individuals. We praise Him, the Glorious and Exalted, for the secrets with which He has entrusted us, and for the sciences, gnoses and lights He has poured out on us.

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We greatly thank Him, may His Majesty be exalted, in recognition of all the blessings that have come to us and all the slaves of Allah, free or in bondage. We declare that our master Muhammad is His slave and His Messenger, sent by Allah as a mercy to the creation, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and his family and companions who spent themselves and their wealth in the revival of His way and the setting up of His Sunna (way), and who did not turn to the destruction of the hypocrites and the veiled.

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Brothers of the Darqawiyya-Shadhiliyya order and all others of the Lord’s slaves in all of Allah’s countries who desire to emulate a master, know, that Allah the Exalted has destined for this noble path in every age one who sets right its deviations and manifests its secrets and its lights. He is the Shaykh who unites the Haqiqa (Reality) and the Shari’a (Islamic law) with the idhn (authorisation) of Allah and His Messenger and all the Awliya (Saints) of Allah. He is the unique man of Muhammad of whom there is only one in every age. If there are numerous Shaykhs in his age, he rules over them all, whether they are aware of it or not.

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Many have laid claim to the Station of uniqueness with falsehood and lies because they seek leadership and desire to possess this passing world. The pretender is unaware that whoever claims what is not in him is exposed by the witnesses of the test, since in their presence a man is either exalted or humiliated. True Shaykhs are satisfied with the knowledge of Allah and depend only on Allah. All that emanates from them speaks of the blessing of Allah. He, may He be exalted said:

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‘As for the blessing of your Lord – declare it.’ㅤ

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So let Muhammad ibn al-Habib, al-Amghari al-Hasani by lineage, dwelling in Fez, the poor slave of his Master, yet enriched by Him with other-than-Him – declare, in speaking of Allah’s blessing – that idhn (authorisation) has come to him from Allah and the Messenger of Allah and all the Awliya of Allah, and that Allah has singled him out with sciences and secrets which only the unique man of Muhammad possesses. Had we wished to reveal all that Allah has blessed us with we would need volumes, we shall however relate to the Fuqara only that tribute with which our Shaykh and teacher Sayyidi Muhammad ibn ‘Ali favoured us.”

“The people of dhikr (remembrance of God) do not die, and the people who make no dhikr, look at them, they are already dead.”ㅤ