Dalail Al Khairat

New Black and White Edition This new printing brings to a close a monumental project that has spanned the length and breadth of three continents and taken countless months of painstaking work. This project brought together one of the leading calligraphers in the world, two renowned illuminators, the finest bookbinder and a team of researchers who traversed the annals of the leading Islamic libraries. Under the supervision and direction of the leading authority on the traditional Islamic sciences Sheikh Nuh Ha Mim Keller, they have produced the most authentic edition of a book on one of the most central acts of worship in Islam: the Blessings (salawat/durood) on the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) "Sending Blessings on the Prophet is the most central act of worship in Islam...

" Dalail al-Khayrat is unquestionably the most celebrated manual of Blessings on the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) in history. From the time of its authorship in fifteenth-century Fez by the Moroccan Shadhili sheikh Muhammad al-Jazuli (d. 870/1465), it swept throughout the whole of the Islamic World from North Africa to Indonesia. Countless millions of copies have been in circulation over the centuries with scarcely a well-to-do home in the Muslim heartlands being without one. Princes exchanged magnificent copies of it, commoners treasured it, pilgrims wore it at their side on the way to hajj, and baraka descended wherever it was recited, in accordance with the Divine command

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