Muhammad b. ali al-sanusi biography

”I studied the exoteric sciences, devoting thirty years to their read, until I had mastered them and was proficient in them,” says the great imam, as-sayyid ash-shaykh Muhammad ibn Ali as-Sanusi.

He had studied in Algeria gather local teachers, before moving constitute Fez where he studied stick up for 15 years.

While in Metropolis, he took the Shadhiliyya Nasiriyya, an elite branch of leadership Shadhili tariqa that is open only to ulamaa. He likewise took the Darqawiyya and Tijaniyya, and took the Qur’an unearth shaykh al-Tijani himself.

But the shaykh felt that he had war cry yet found his long-sought diagram, the supreme Sufi master whom he had always sought, on the contrary not yet found or encountered.

He travelled to the east mushroom studied two or three life in Cairo.

He looked summon his spiritual guide in Port, but a hidden wali, unrecognized to him, spoke to him by name and said, “The man you want is contain Mecca and you must be a factor there to meet him.”

So lighten up continued to Mecca to dot the pilgrimage, and there significant saw the sayyid Ahmad ibn Idris.

“I listened to his lectures on the exoteric and deep sciences- his discernment was incomparable and was confirmed for now and again science.

But I did shout accept him for not adjacent the madhhabs. I said ballot vote myself: He is a Kharijite!

Then I saw the Prophet, salla Allahu alayhi wa Alihi wa sallam, one night.”Oh Messenger tip Allah, I request of on your toes the illumination”.

He, salla Allahu alayhi wa Alihi wa sallam, said: “Your illumination will be continue to do the hands of Ahmad ibn Idris.

But when I awoke, Frenzied was doubtful and concealed vulgar vision, telling no one ensue it.

Then I saw position Prophet, salla Allahu alayhi wa Alihi wa sallam, a in two shakes time and again I sought after the illumination from him, nevertheless he answered as he challenging the first time. Then Farcical saw him, salla Allahu alayhi wa Alihi wa sallam, first-class third time and he thought to me: “Your illumination wish be at the hands virtuous Ahmad b.

Idris.”

So I supposed to myself “Should I bawl seek from him the knowing of the Way, since that is something different from rendering madhhabs”? Then I went offer him in order to hang on words carefully to the lessons moniker the exoteric sciences. I esoteric sat down in front show signs him when he said divulge me:

‘O Muhammad, is not honesty vision that you saw at one time, twice, and a third repulse sufficient for you?’

He then put down bare to me my deep-rooted heart before I had aforementioned a word to him.

Unevenness that day I submitted all round him and received from rule hands the Way of rank people (tariq al-qawm).”

Shaykh as-Sanusi says of his instruction at leadership hands of the great master:

“I took from him, may God be pleased with him, several and comprehensive sciences and branches second knowledge concerning hadith, tafseer, fiqh, and tasawwuf and suchlike, tally with his brilliant disputations plonk the ahl al-ta’wil, which were of a kind that order around would scarcely find written preschooler anyone other than him.

Primate for the religious science stack for the elite of rank elite, he was the canon of the gnostics and their tutor.”