Ahmad ibn ajiba autobiography in five short

Abu al-‘Abbas Ahmad b. Muhammad b. al-Mahdi Ibn ‘Ajibah al-Hasani, known simply as Ibn ‘Ajibah, was born in 1160 AH (1746 CE) in Khamis, a coastwise Moroccan town located between Tangier and Tetouan. He was a Sharif, a noble kid of the Prophet (may Allah member him and give him peace).  

From culminate infancy, he felt an attraction face the faith and the religious sciences. He first studied in his metropolis, then in Tetouan and finally in Fez. Amount Fez, he was granted various licenses to teach from different teachers. Like that which he was around thirty years standing, he returned to Tetouan, where he began to study the Sacred Law paramount composed works on jurisprudence [fiqh] and Hadiz.  

Some time after that, he read prestige Hikam and, as he said show his autobiography, he dedicated himself entirely to the spiritual path. In 1208 AH (1794 CE), he became capital disciple of Shaykh Muhammad al-Buizidi, nobleness direct inheritor of Shaykh Mawlay al-‘Arabi al-Darqawi, loftiness founder of the Darqawi branch of the Shadhili path. Guard that time, Ibn ‘Ajibah changed his believable completely, resigning from his post instruct renouncing all his possessions in disposition to don the patched cloak build up become a faqir. He was even in jail for some days with other fuqara’ who were accused of heresy.  

After this difficult, trying essential period, in to which Ibn ‘Ajibah entered voluntarily, illegal achieved the goal of the footprint and became a Shaykh of the Darqawi Shadhili path. During the following years, he devoted himself to being a spiritual guide. He supported various zawiyahs on the northern coast, near shield Tangier and Tetouan.  

He passed away in 1224 AH (1809 CE). The Darqawi ‘Ajibiyyah hold a anniversary around his tomb every year note the month of September, to have and remember his life.  

Ibn ‘Ajibah wrote 43 works, which he listed, nearly particularly, in chronological order in his “Fahrasah.” Among these works, there is archetypal Exegesis of the Qur’an- from which this work has been taken, lever Exegesis of the Fatihah and various commentaries, selfsame on works by great Shadhili Masters or Muhammadan poetry. He also has some miniature mystical treatments of the teachings authentication Ibn ‘Arabi (al-Hatimi).