Salat al-Saqafiyyah
Salat al-Saqafiyyah (Arabic: الصلاة السقافية) is a prayer upon...
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Salat al-Saqafiyyah (Arabic: الصلاة السقافية) is a prayer upon the Prophet ﷺ composed by the great saint and spiritual guide Sayyid Abdallah al-Saqqaf. Imam Yusuf al-Nabahani relates that the author was given glad tidings in a vision of the Prophet ﷺ that whoever recites this prayer, or even looks upon it, will be granted a good ending and the intercession of the Prophet ﷺ.
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اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ وَسَلِّمْ عَلَى سُلَّمِ الْأَسْرَارِ الْإِلَهِيَّةِ الْمُنْطَوِيَةِ فِي الْحُرُوفِ الْقُرْآنِيَّةِ مَهْبَطِ الرَّقَائِقِ الرَّبَّانِيَّةِ النَّازِلَةِ فِي الْحَضْرَةِ الْعَلِيَّةِ الْمُفَصَّلَةِ فِي الْأَنْوَارِ بِالنُّورِ الْمُتَجَلِّيَةِ فِي لُبَابِ بَوَاطِنِ الْحُرُوفِ الْقُرْآنِيَّةِ الصِّفَاتِيَّةِ فَهُوَ النَّبِيُّ الْعَظِيمُ مَرْكَزُ حَقَائِقِ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ وَالْمُرْسَلِينَ مُفِيضُ الْأَنْوَارِ إِلَى حَضَرَاتِهِمْ مِنْ حَضْرَتِهِ الْمَخْصُوصَةِ الْخَتْمِيَّةِ شَارِبُ الرَّحِيقِ الْمَخْتُومِ مِنْ بَاطِنِ بَاطِنِ الْكِبْرِيَاءِ مُوصِلُ الْخُصُوصِيَّاتِ الْإِلَهِيَّاتِ إِلَى أَهْلِ الِاصْطِفَاءِ مَرْكَزُ دَائِرَةِ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ وَالْأَوْلِيَاءِ مُنَزِّلُ النُّورِ الْمُشَاهِدُ بِالذَّاتِ الْمُكَاشِفُ بِالصِّفَاتِ الْعَارِفُ بِظُهُورِ تَجَلِّي الذَّاتِ فِي الْأَسْمَاءِ وَالصِّفَاتِ الْعَارِفُ بِظُهُورِ الْقُرْآنِ الذَّاتِيِّ فِي الْفُرْقَانِ الصِّفَاتِيِّ فَمِنْ هَهُنَا ظَهَرَتِ الْوَحْدَتَانِ الْمُتَعَاكِسَتَانِ الْحَاوِيَتَانِ عَلَى الطَّرَفَيْنِ ❁
Allāhumma ṣalli wa-sallim ʿalā sullami l-asrāri l-ilāhiyyati l-munṭawiyati fī l-ḥurūfi l-qur'āniyyati mahbaṭi r-raqā'iqi r-rabbāniyyati n-nāzilati fī l-ḥaḍrati l-ʿaliyyati l-mufaṣṣalati fī l-anwāri bi-n-nūri l-mutajalliyati fī lubābi bawāṭini l-ḥurūfi l-qur'āniyyati ṣ-ṣifātiyyati fa-huwa n-nabiyyu l-ʿaẓīmu markazu ḥaqā'iqi l-anbiyā'i wa-l-mursalīna mufīḍu l-anwāri ilā ḥaḍarātihim min ḥaḍratihi l-makhṣūṣati l-khatmiyyati shāribu r-raḥīqi l-makhtūmi min bāṭini bāṭini l-kibriyā'i mūṣilu l-khuṣūṣiyyāti l-ilāhiyyāti ilā ahli l-iṣṭifā'i markazu dā'irati l-anbiyā'i wa-l-awliyā'i munazzilu n-nūri l-mushāhidu bi-dh-dhāti l-mukāshifu bi-ṣ-ṣifāti l-ʿārifu bi-ẓuhūri tajallī dh-dhāti fī l-asmā'i wa-ṣ-ṣifāti l-ʿārifu bi-ẓuhūri l-qur'āni dh-dhātiyyi fī l-furqāni ṣ-ṣifātiyyi fa-min hāhunā ẓaharati l-waḥdatāni l-mutaʿākisatāni l-ḥāwiyatāni ʿalā ṭ-ṭarafayn.
1. O Allah, send prayers and peace upon the ladder of the divine secrets concealed within the Qur’anic letters, the locus of descent of the divine subtleties that descend within the exalted presence, are unfolded within the lights through the light, and manifest themselves in the core of the inner realities of the Qur’anic letters of attributes. He is the great Prophet, the centre of the realities of the Prophets and Messengers, the effuser of lights to their presences from his own special, final presence. He is the drinker of the sealed nectar from the innermost depth of majesty, the one who conveys the divine particularities to the people of election. He is the centre of the circle of the Prophets and the awliya, the one who brings down light, the one who witnesses through the essence and unveils through the attributes, the knower of the manifestation of the essence in the names and attributes, and the knower of the manifestation of the essential Qur’an within the differentiating Furqan of attributes. From here appeared the two mutually opposed unities, encompassing both extremes.
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ وَسَلِّمْ عَلَى سَيِّدِنَا مُحَمَّدٍ صَاحِبِ اللَّطِيفَةِ الْقُدْسِيَّةِ الْمَكْسُوَّةِ بِالْأَكْسِيَةِ النُّورَانِيَّةِ السَّارِيَةِ فِي الْمَرَاتِبِ الْإِلَهِيَّةِ الْمُتَكَمِّلَةِ بِالْأَسْمَاءِ وَالصِّفَاتِ الْأَزَلِيَّةِ وَالْمُفِيضَةِ أَنْوَارَهَا عَلَى الْأَرْوَاحِ الْمَلَكُوتِيَّةِ الْمُتَوَجِّهَةِ فِي الْحَقَائِقِ الْحَقِّيَّةِ النَّافِيَةِ لِظُلُمَاتِ الْأَكْوَانِ الْعَدَمِيَّةِ الْمَعْنَوِيَّةِ ❁
Allāhumma ṣalli wa-sallim ʿalā sayyidinā Muḥammadin ṣāḥibi l-laṭīfati l-qudsiyyati l-maksuwwati bi-l-aksiyati n-nūrāniyyati s-sāriyati fī l-marātibi l-ilāhiyyati l-mutakammilati bi-l-asmā'i wa-ṣ-ṣifāti l-azaliyyati wa-l-mufīḍati anwārahā ʿalā l-arwāḥi l-malakūtiyyati l-mutawajjihati fī l-ḥaqā'iqi l-ḥaqqiyyati n-nāfiyati li-ẓulumāti l-akwāni l-ʿadamiyyati l-maʿnawiyyah.
2. O Allah, send prayers and peace upon our master Muhammad, the possessor of the sacred subtle essence, clothed in luminous garments, flowing through the divine ranks, perfected through the eternal names and attributes, and pouring forth its lights upon the angelic spirits turned towards the realities of the Real, dispelling the darknesses of the immaterial, non-existent created realms.
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ وَسَلِّمْ عَلَى سَيِّدِنَا مُحَمَّدٍ الْكَاشِفِ عَنِ الْمُسَمَّى بِالْوَحْدَةِ الذَّاتِيَّةِ ❁
Allāhumma ṣalli wa-sallim ʿalā sayyidinā Muḥammadini l-kāshifi ʿani l-musammā bi-l-waḥdati dh-dhātiyyah.
3. O Allah, send prayers and peace upon our master Muhammad, the one who unveils that which is called the essential unity.
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ وَسَلِّمْ عَلَى سَيِّدِنَا مُحَمَّدٍ جَامِعِ الْإِجْمَالِ الذَّاتِيِّ الْقُرْآنِيِّ حَاوِي التَّفْصِيلِ الصِّفَاتِيِّ الْفُرْقَانِيِّ ❁
Allāhumma ṣalli wa-sallim ʿalā sayyidinā Muḥammadin jāmiʿi l-ijmāli dh-dhātiyyi l-qur'āniyyi ḥāwī t-tafṣīli ṣ-ṣifātiyyi l-furqāniyy.
4. O Allah, send prayers and peace upon our master Muhammad, the one who gathers the Qur’anic synthesis of the essence and encompasses the Furqanic differentiation of the attributes.
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ وَسَلِّمْ عَلَى سَيِّدِنَا مُحَمَّدٍ صَاحِبِ الصُّورَةِ الْمُقَدَّسَةِ الْمُنَزَّلَةِ مِنْ سَمَاءِ قُدْسِ غَيْبِ الْهُوِيَّةِ الْبَاطِنَةِ الْفَاتِحَةِ بِمِفْتَاحِهَا الْإِلَهِيِّ لِأَبْوَابِ الْوُجُودِ الْقَائِمِ بِهَا مِنْ مَطْلَعِ ظُهُورِهَا الْقَدِيمِ إِلَى اسْتِوَاءِ إِظْهَارِهَا لِلْكَلِمَاتِ التَّامَّاتِ ❁
Allāhumma ṣalli wa-sallim ʿalā sayyidinā Muḥammadin ṣāḥibi ṣ-ṣūrati l-muqaddasati l-munazzalati min samā'i qudsi ghaybi l-huwiyyati l-bāṭinati l-fātiḥati bi-miftāḥihā l-ilāhiyyi li-abwābi l-wujūdi l-qā'imi bihā min maṭlaʿi ẓuhūrihā l-qadīmi ilā stiwā'i iẓhārihā li-l-kalimāti t-tāmmāt.
5. O Allah, send prayers and peace upon our master Muhammad, the possessor of the sacred form sent down from the heaven of the sanctity of the unseen, inward divine identity, opening through its divine key the doors of existence that subsists through it, from the dawning of its pre-eternal manifestation to the completion of its disclosure of the perfect words.
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ وَسَلِّمْ عَلَى حَقِيقَةِ الصَّلَوَاتِ وَرُوحِ الْكَلِمَاتِ قِوَامِ الْمَعَانِي الذَّاتِيَّاتِ وَحَقِيقَةِ الْحُرُوفِ الْقُدْسِيَّاتِ وَصُوَرِ الْحَقَائِقِ الْفُرْقَانِيَّةِ التَّفْصِيلِيَّاتِ ❁
Allāhumma ṣalli wa-sallim ʿalā ḥaqīqati ṣ-ṣalawāti wa-rūḥi l-kalimāti qiwāmi l-maʿānī dh-dhātiyyāti wa-ḥaqīqati l-ḥurūfi l-qudsiyyāti wa-ṣuwari l-ḥaqā'iqi l-furqāniyyati t-tafṣīliyyāt.
6. O Allah, send prayers and peace upon the reality of the prayers and the spirit of the words, the support of the essential meanings, and the reality of the sacred letters, and the forms of the differentiated Furqanic realities.
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ وَسَلِّمْ عَلَى سَيِّدِنَا مُحَمَّدٍ صَاحِبِ الْجَمْعِيَّةِ الْبَرْزَخِيَّةِ الْكَاشِفَةِ عَنِ الْعَالَمَيْنِ الْهَادِيَةِ بِهَا إِلَيْهَا هِدَايَةً قُدْسِيَّةً لِكُلِّ قَلْبٍ مُنِيبٍ إِلَى صِرَاطِهَا الرَّبَّانِيِّ الْمُسْتَقِيمِ فِي الْحَضْرَةِ الْإِلَهِيَّةِ ❁
Allāhumma ṣalli wa-sallim ʿalā sayyidinā Muḥammadin ṣāḥibi l-jamʿiyyati l-barzakhiyyati l-kāshifati ʿani l-ʿālamayni l-hādiyati bihā ilayhā hidāyatan qudsiyyatan li-kulli qalbin munībin ilā ṣirāṭihā r-rabbāniyyi l-mustaqīmi fī l-ḥaḍrati l-ilāhiyyah.
7. O Allah, send prayers and peace upon our master Muhammad, the possessor of the comprehensive intermediary reality that unveils the two worlds, and guides every penitent heart through itself towards itself with a sacred guidance, to its straight, lordly path in the divine presence.
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ وَسَلِّمْ عَلَى سَيِّدِنَا مُحَمَّدٍ مُوَصِّلِ الْأَرْوَاحِ بَعْدَ عَدَمِهَا إِلَى نِهَايَاتِ غَايَاتِ الْوُجُودِ وَالنُّورِ ❁
Allāhumma ṣalli wa-sallim ʿalā sayyidinā Muḥammadin muwaṣṣili l-arwāḥi baʿda ʿadamihā ilā nihāyāti ghāyāti l-wujūdi wa-n-nūr.
8. O Allah, send prayers and peace upon our master Muhammad, the one who brings the souls, after their non-existence, to the utmost limits of the ends of existence and light.
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ وَسَلِّمْ عَلَى سَيِّدِنَا مُحَمَّدٍ وَاسِطَةِ الْأَرْوَاحِ الْأَزَلِيَّةِ فِي الْمَدَارِجِ الظُّهُورِيَّةِ ❁
Allāhumma ṣalli wa-sallim ʿalā sayyidinā Muḥammadin wāsiṭati l-arwāḥi l-azaliyyati fī l-madāriji ẓ-ẓuhūriyyah.
9. O Allah, send prayers and peace upon our master Muhammad, the intermediary of the pre-eternal souls in the stages of manifestation.
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ وَسَلِّمْ عَلَى سَيِّدِنَا مُحَمَّدٍ صَاحِبِ الْحَسَنَاتِ الْقُدْسِيَّةِ الْجَاذِبَةِ لِلْأَرْوَاحِ الْمَعْنَوِيَّةِ ❁
Allāhumma ṣalli wa-sallim ʿalā sayyidinā Muḥammadin ṣāḥibi l-ḥasanāti l-qudsiyyati l-jādhibati li-l-arwāḥi l-maʿnawiyyah.
10. O Allah, send prayers and peace upon our master Muhammad, the possessor of sacred excellences that draw the immaterial spirits.
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ وَسَلِّمْ عَلَى سَيِّدِنَا مُحَمَّدٍ صَاحِبِ الْحَسَنَاتِ الْوُجُودِيَّةِ الذَّاهِبَةِ بِظُلُمَاتِ الطَّبَائِعِ الْحِسِّيَّةِ وَالْمَعْنَوِيَّةِ ❁
Allāhumma ṣalli wa-sallim ʿalā sayyidinā Muḥammadin ṣāḥibi l-ḥasanāti l-wujūdiyyati dh-dhāhibati bi-ẓulumāti ṭ-ṭabā'iʿi l-ḥissiyyati wa-l-maʿnawiyyah.
11. O Allah, send prayers and peace upon our master Muhammad, the possessor of existential excellences that dispel the darknesses of sensory and immaterial natures.
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ وَسَلِّمْ عَلَى سَيِّدِنَا مُحَمَّدٍ مُسْتَقَرِّ بُرُوزِ الْمَعَانِي الرَّحْمَانِيَّةِ مِنْهَا خَرَجَتِ الْخُلَّةُ الْإِبْرَاهِيمِيَّةُ وَمِنْهَا حَصَلَ النِّدَاءُ بِالْمَعَانِي الْقُدْسِيَّةِ لِلْحَقِيقَةِ الْمُوسَوِيَّةِ ❁
Allāhumma ṣalli wa-sallim ʿalā sayyidinā Muḥammadin mustaqarri burūzi l-maʿānī r-raḥmāniyyati minhā kharajati l-khullatu l-ibrāhīmiyyatu wa-minhā ḥaṣala n-nidā'u bi-l-maʿānī l-qudsiyyati li-l-ḥaqīqati l-mūsawiyyah.
12. O Allah, send prayers and peace upon our master Muhammad, the locus of emergence of the Rahmanic meanings, from which the intimate friendship of Ibrahim emerged, and from which arose the call through sacred meanings to the reality of Musa.
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ وَسَلِّمْ عَلَى سَيِّدِنَا مُحَمَّدٍ الَّذِي جَعَلْتَ وُجُودَكَ الْبَاقِي عِوَضًا عَنْ وُجُودِهِ الْفَانِي صَلَّى اللَّهُ تَعَالَى عَلَيْهِ وَعَلَى أَصْحَابِهِ وَآلِهِ وَسَلَّمَ ❁
Allāhumma ṣalli wa-sallim ʿalā sayyidinā Muḥammadini lladhī jaʿalta wujūdaka l-bāqī ʿiwaḍan ʿan wujūdihi l-fānī ṣallā Llāhu taʿālā ʿalayhi wa-ʿalā aṣḥābihi wa-ālihi wa-sallam.
13. O Allah, send prayers and peace upon our master Muhammad, the one for whom You made Your everlasting existence a substitute for his perishable existence. May Allah Most High send prayers and peace upon him, his Companions, and his Family.
About Salat al-Saqafiyyah
This prayer was composed by the great qutb, spiritual guide, and leader among the people of unveiling, Sayyid Abdallah al-Saqqaf. It is a profound and highly symbolic prayer upon the Prophet ﷺ, containing rich spiritual meanings and expressions drawn from the language of the people of realisation.
Imam Yusuf al-Nabahani relates that the author was given glad tidings in a vision of the Prophet ﷺ, in which he was told that whoever recites this prayer, or even looks upon it, will be granted a good ending and the intercession of the Prophet ﷺ. It is also reported that the Prophet ﷺ said to him, “This is a reward for you, O Abdallah, and for what you have written.”
The prayer praises the Prophet ﷺ as the means through which divine knowledge, light, and guidance reach creation. It describes him as the one who gathers all realities, the bridge between the unseen and the seen, the guide of souls through the stages of existence, and the one through whom hearts are drawn to Allah and purified. It also alludes to the relationship between the realities of the prophets and the various degrees of spiritual realisation.
