{"id":1442,"date":"2004-06-08T23:06:04","date_gmt":"2004-06-08T22:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2004\/06\/08\/inna_lillah_wa_inna_ilayhi_rajioon"},"modified":"2004-06-08T23:06:04","modified_gmt":"2004-06-08T22:06:04","slug":"inna_lillah_wa_inna_ilayhi_rajioon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2004\/06\/08\/inna_lillah_wa_inna_ilayhi_rajioon","title":{"rendered":"Inna lillah wa inna ilayhi raji&#8217;oon &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News has reached us that Shaikh Abdul-Rahman al-Shaghouri, a major shaikh of Damascus, has passed away.  Besides being a shaikh of &#8216;aqida and fiqh, he was also a renowned Sufi shaikh and was the teacher in Sufism of Shaikh Nuh Ha Mim Keller and other scholars well-known to us in the west.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.al-shifa.org.uk\/\">Al-Shifa<\/a> wrote this about the shaikh <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ash-shifa.org.uk\/ulum\/ulumatassawuf.htm\">here<\/a>:  &#8220;Shaykh &#8216;Abd al-Rahman Shaghouri was born in Homs, Syria in 1914.  In addition to being a Shafi&#8217;i scholar and expert in &#8216;aqida, he is Shaykh of one of the largest branches of the Shadhili tariqa in Syria with thousands of murids. His diwan is widely read throughout the Arab world and it&#8217;s poems are routinely recited at spiritual gatherings. Among the Shaykh&#8217;s specialties is the Futuhat Al-Makkiya of Shaykh al-Akbar Muhyadin Ibn &#8216;Arabi, his lessons in which were attended by scholars of Arabic who were amazed at his mastery of the language as well as travelers on the path. A noted scholar of Damascus has said of the Shaykh: He is a tabi&#8217;i born in this century. The Shaykh&#8217;s selfless service to the people and his gentle nature attest to his high state with Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta&#8217;ala. He continues to inspire students of knowledge in Damascus to this day.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News has reached us that Shaikh Abdul-Rahman al-Shaghouri, a major shaikh of Damascus, has passed away. Besides being a shaikh of &#8216;aqida and fiqh, he was also a renowned Sufi shaikh and was the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-ng","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}