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Dala'il al-Khayrat, the most
celebrated manual of Blessings on
the Prophet (Allah bless him and
give him peace) in history, was
composed by the Sufi, wali, Muslim
scholar of prophetic descent, and
baraka of Marrakesh Muhammad
ibn Sulayman al-Jazuli (d.
870/1465). Born and raised among
the Gazulah Berbers of the Sus
region in southern Morocco, he
studied the Qur'an and traditional
Islamic knowledge before
travelling to Fez, where he
memorized the four-volume
Mudawwana of Imam Malik and
met scholars of his time such as
Ahmad Zarruq, and Muhammad ibn
'Abdullah Amghar, who become his
sheikh in the tariqa or Sufi path.
Amghar traced his spiritual lineage
through only six masters to the
great founder of their order Abul
Hasan al-Shadhili and thence back
to the Prophet (Allah bless him and
give him peace). After initiating
Jazuli into the way, he placed him
in a khalwa or solitary retreat,
where he remained invoking Allah
for some fourteen years, and
emerged tremendously changed.
After a sojourn in the east and
performing hajj, Jazuli himself was
given permission to guide disciples
as a sheikh of the tariqa.
Imam Ahmad al-Sawi relates that
one day Jazuli went to perform his
ablutions for the prescribed prayer
from a nearby well but could not
find any means to draw the water
up. While thus perplexed, he was
seen by a young girl who called out
from high above, "You're the one
people praise so much, and you
can't even figure out how to get
water out of a well?" So she came
down and spat into the water,
which welled up until it overflowed
and spilled across the ground. Jazuli
made his ablutions, and then
turned to her and said, "I adjure
you to tell me how you reached
this rank." She said, "By saying the
Blessings upon him whom beasts
lovingly followed as he walked
through the wilds (Allah bless him
and give him peace)." Jazuli
thereupon vowed to compose the
book of Blessings on the Prophet
(Allah bless him and give him
peace) which came to be known as
his Dala'il al-Khayrat or "Waymarks
of Benefits."
His spiritual path drew thousands
of disciples who, aided by the
popularity of his manual of
Blessings on the Prophet (Allah
bless him and give him peace), had
a tremendous effect on Moroccan
society. He taught followers the
Blessings upon the Prophet (Allah
bless him and give him peace),
extinction of self in the love of
Allah and His messenger, visiting
the awliya or saints, disclaiming
any strength or power, and total
reliance upon Allah. He was told by
the Prophet (Allah bless him and
give him peace) in a dream, "I am
the splendor of the prophetic
messengers, and you are the
splendor of the awliya." Many
divine signs were vouchsafed to
him, none more wondrous or
unmistakable than the reception
that met his famous work.
Its celebrity swept the Islamic
World from North Africa to
Indonesia. Scarcely a well-to-do
home was without one, princes
exchanged magnificently
embellished copies of it,
commoners treasured it. Pilgrims
wore it at their side on the way to
hajj, and a whole industry of hand-
copyists sprang up in Mecca and
Medina that throve for centuries.
Everyone who read it found that
baraka descended wherever it was
recited, in accordance with the
Divine command: "Verily Allah and
His angels bless the Prophet: O you
who believe, bless him and pray
him peace" (Qur'an 33:56).
In the post-caliphal period of the
present day, Imam Jazuli's
masterpiece has been eclipsed by
the despiritualization of Islam by
"reformers" who have affected all
but the most traditional of Muslims.
As the Moroccan hadith scholar
'Abdullah al-Talidi wrote of the
Dala'il al-Khayrat: "Millions of
Muslims from East to West tried it
and found its good, its baraka, and
its benefit for centuries and over
generations, and witnessed its
unbelievable spiritual blessings and
light. Muslims avidly recited it,
alone and in groups, in homes and
mosques, utterly spending
themselves in the Blessings on the
Most Beloved and praising him-
until Wahhabi ideas came to spread
among them, suborning them and
creating confused fears based on
the opinions of Ibn Taymiya and
the reviver of his path Muhammad
ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab of Najd. After
this, Muslims slackened from
reciting the Dala'il al-Khayrat,
falling away from the Blessings
upon the Prophet (Allah bless him
and give him peace) in particular,
and from the remembrance of Allah
in general" (al-Mutrib fi awliya' al-
Maghrib, 143--44).