The Book Of Wisdoms P4 [Kitab Al-Hikam] | A Collection of Aphorisms | Shaykh Sulayman Van Ael

The Book Of Wisdoms [Kitab al-Hikam with Ikmal al-Shiyam] - A Collection of Aphorisms in accordance with Quran & Sunnah A weekly class on Sunday mornings 9am at Castlefield Community Centre, open to all, no preconditions. Muslim religious life consists not only of belief in orthodox tenets of faith and a determined effort to follow the Sacred Law, but it also requires one to scale the heights of Islamic spirituality by attaining the states of the heart demanded by the Islamic revelation. The Kitab al-Hikam of Shaykh Ibn Ata'illah al-Iskandari (d. 1309) is a famous and respected explanation of the journey of Islamic spirituality (known simply as 'the Path' or 'the Way'), with the Qur'an and the Sunna as the determiners of the principles contained therein. Although the work contains treatises and supplications, the essential core of the work is to be found in the author's collection of spiritual aphorisms (264 in total). Shaykh Ibn `Ata'illah (d. 1309) lived in Egypt during the reign of the Mamluks. Originally from Alexandria , he moved to Cairo , where his professional life involved teaching Sacred Law in various institutions including the al-Azhar Mosque. He also led a concurrent existence as a Master for disciples of Islamic spirituality. The Hikam is his principal work, one that has attracted universal Muslim approval from his own time up to the present day. Instructor : Sheikh Sulayman van Ael is the founder of The Ark Institute, an educational institution based in London. After becoming Muslim at the age of 18, he travelled the world to seek knowledge and gained ijazah (teaching licenses) in various disciplines from scholars from Sudan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Jordan (where he received ijazah from the Grand Mufti of Amman to give religious verdicts). He graduated from Rotterdam University with a BA in Theology and MSc in Islamic Counselling. He lectures extensively and has appeared on CNN and Al Jazeera. His multi-award-winning Belgian national television documentary, My Jihad, was translated into 12 languages. As a scholar who resonates with young and old alike, Sheikh Sulayman is a powerful, dynamic and credible voice for the emerging formation of a confident, faithful identity of Islam in Europe. His primary Fiqh training is in the Hanbali-Salafi school under Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen and Shaykh Ibrahim Jibreen and in the Hanafi school under Dr Salah Abul-Hajj, Dr Faraz Khan and Dr Sohail Hanif. He also studied Shafi' Fiqh with Dr Fadl Abbas.