Ranks of the Divine Seekers: Ibn al-Qayyim’s Madarij al-Salikin

This course is now complete - recordings available upon registeration

Shaykh Dr Sulayman Van Ael will teach this masterpiece of Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, his writing of Madarij al-Salikin, his relationship to tasawwuf and to Abu Isma’il al-Harawi’s original text. This text is designed to help us transform every aspect of our lives on our journey to our Lord.

Each lesson we will cover a key topic and see how we can apply it to our lives as we journey to Allah(SWT).

Shaykh Sulayman will be taking us through the works of the great Damascene savant and saint Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya's (d. 751/1350) Madārij al-Salikīn. Conceived as a critical commentary on an earlier Sufi classic by the great Hanbalite scholar Abū Ismāʻīl of Herat, Madārij aims to rejuvenate Sufism's Qur'anic foundations. The original work was a key text for the Sufi initiates, composed in terse, rhyming prose as a master's instruction to the aspiring seeker on the path to God, in a journey of a hundred stations whose ultimate purpose was to be lost to one's self (fanā') and subsist (baqā') in God. 

Join us this journey through a great work with life changing possibilities taught by a scholar who is a master of the Sciences.

The class is available in person in High Wycombe and online. We would encourage to attend in person

• Topics covered so far ( all lessons recorded)
  • Introduction
  • Worship
  • Conditions of the Heart
  • Conditions of the Tongue
  • Repentance
  • The Consequences of Sin in "Adda Waddawa"