Key to the Garden – Habib Ahmad Mashhur ibn Taha al-Haddad

Product Description Born in 1907 at Qaydūn, Hadramawt, he studied under numerous shaykhs both locally, in Qaydūn and Tarīm, and for a time in Indonesia. For some decades he traveled into remote regions of East Africa, spreading the message of Islam, while based mainly in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa. He also spent a number of years in Uganda, where tens of thousands of people came or returned to Islam at his hands. In later life the Ḥabīb divided his time between Jeddah and Mombasa until he became too elderly to travel. Disciples, prominent Muslims, and heads of state continued to visit and benefit from his wisdom and baraka until his death in 1995. Ḥabīb Aḥmad Mashhūr is noted not only for his writings, including a Dīwān of poems, but also for his luminous spiritual presence and many karāmāt or miraculous accomplishments. Dr Mostafa Badawi, the translator, is a distinguished authority on the history and teachings of the Bā ‘Alawī Sayyids. Also a practicing psychiatrist, Dr Badawi is a resident of the Holy City of Madina. “Dr. Badawi has been instrumental in introducing works of Imam ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlawī al-Ḥaddād to the English readership. “ Dr. Mostafa al-Badawi is a scholar of Islamic sciences as well as a consultant Psychiatrist. Dr. Badawi is one of the leading contemporary translators of Islamic books from Arabic to English. He has translated the 10 treatises that constitute the complete prose works of Imām al-Ḥaddād, Key to the Garden by Habib Ahmad Mashhur al-Haddad, The Degrees of the Soul by Shaykh al-Shabrāwī, and a collection of Bā-Alawī treatises recently published under the title Spiritual Insights. Dr. Mostafa al-Badawi