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- Hizb aI-Bahr (Prayer of the Sea), a unique
litany made of Quranic verses and
supplications, is attributed to the venerated
pole Mawlana Abul Hassan Shadhili (d.
656/124J).

- Sidna Shaykh, aI-Qutb aI-Maktum,

Mawlana Ahmed ibn Mohammed Tijani aI-
Hassani (may Allah sanctify his secrets) had
Hizb aI-Bahr recited in his morning and
evening wirds at the order of his grandfather
(peace and blessing be upon him) who
himself taughl the litany to Shaykh Abul
Hassan Shadhili (may Allah be pleased with
him).

- The litany contains the Grealest Name of

Allah (al-lsm aI-A’adham) and the reading of it
draws forth extraordinary majestic epiphanies.
Hence the disicple should receive an ijaza
(licence) to benefit from it.
- On the litany, the Shaykh Abul Hassan
Shadhili said,

"By Allah, I did nol utler it except as it came

from the Holy Prophet, from whose instruction I
learned it. ‘Guard it;' the Holy Prophet (peace
and blessing be upon him) said to me, ’for it
contains the greatest name of Allah.’ It is not
recited in any place without security reigning
there. If it had been with the inhabitants of
Baghdad, the Tatars would not have taken the
city."

- On the virtues of the Hizb aI-Bahr, the

noted Imam of Qarawiyyine Mosque, the
Shaykh Sidi Ibn Abbad ar-Rundi aI-AndaIusi
(d. 792/1377) said,

"Whoever recites it every day at sunrise,

Allah hears his prayer, relieves his distress,
raises his standing among people, expands
his breast with knowledge of the divine
oneness, facilitates his concerns, lifts his
hardship, keeps from him the evil of man and
jinn, and protects
him from the harm of mishaps of the night
and
day."

- Further, the grand master Ahmed Zarruq al-

Fasi (d. 899/J 484) clarifies,

“As for bringing about effecls with this litany,

it is commensurate with one’s aim and
aspiration that one has command of it to
draw or repel, intending what is desired when
ones say, ’And subject to us this sea. - wa
sakh-khir lanä hadhäl Bahr-’.”
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