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Who Is the Guide?
The "Guide" is the spiritual master in charge of the Order. Often a presiding Guide will choose a successor from among his/her students, authorizing the next Guide in the line. Our current Guide is the venerable Shaykh Sidi Muhammad Sa'id al-Jamal ar-Rifa'i as-Shadhuli of the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem. "Sidi" as he is known, has been teaching, carrying students, and working for peace for over forty years. He grew up in a Sufi community under the watchful eye of his grandfather, a noted shaykh and descendant of Ahmad ar-Rifa'i. Sidi memorized the Qur'an at an early age. He completed his final forty day-and-night halwa and was certified as having completed the path in his early twenties.
Sidi was known as a beautiful singer of Qur'an throughout the Middle East. He served as Deputy Grand Mufti of the Islamic Courts in Palestine, and is an Imam at Masjid al-Aqsa where he gives the Friday sermon. He has dedicated his life to serving the poor, restoring people's rights, and ending religious conflict and war. He has thousands of students worlwide, particularly in Africa, Palestine, the UK, the U.S., Syria and Jordan. He has written over twenty books including some of his own tafsir, and is a tireless leader of the Shadiliyya school.
Sidi's Silsila
1. Prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h.)
2. Ali b. Abu Talib
3. Al-Hassan
4. Abu Muhammad Jabir
5. Sa’id al_Ghaznawi
6. Fath as-Su’ud
7. Sa’id
8. Abu Muhammad Sa’id
9. Ahmad al-Marwani
10. Ibrahim al-Basri
11. Zayn al-din al-Qazwini
12. Muhammad Sham ad-din
13. Muhammad Tajaddin
14. Nur a-din abu’l Hassan ‘Ali
15. Fakhr ad-din
16. Tuqay ad-din al-fuqayyir
17. Abd ar-Rahman al-Attar Az-Zayyat
18. Abd as-Salam b. Mashish
19. Abu-l-Hassan ash-Shadhuli
20. Abul-Abbas al-Mursi
21. Ahmad ibn ata’llah
22. Dawud al-Bahhili
23. Muhammad Wafa
24. Yahya l-Qadiri
25. Ahmad b. uqba al-Hadrami
26. Ahmad Zarruq
27. Ibrahim Afaham
28. Ali as-Sanhaja al-Dawwar
29. Muhyid-din ibn al’Arabi
30. Abd ar-Rahman al-Majdhub
31. Yusuf al-Fasi
32. Abd ar-Rahman al-Fasi
33. Muhammad b. Abdullah
34. Qasim al-Khassasi
35. Ahmad b. Abdullah
36. Al-arbi b. Ahmad Abdullah
37. Ali al-Jamal
38. Abu Hamza
39. Ali Nuriddin
40. Sidi Ibrahim b. Ali Nuriddin
41. Sidi Abd ar-Rahman
42. Sidi Muhammad Said al-Jamal
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