:s1: SubHanAllah! The Habaib are jannah!! While I visited Shaykh Habib 'Ali Zain al-'Abidin al-Jifri during his Dars in the Gulf, and came near to him to kiss his blessed hand, he bended over to kiss my hand. My face became so red in shame, that I just did not know what to do. I looked up to Habib 'Ali's mubarak blessed face, and I just could not make out his facial features sharply, subHanAllah his face was glowing!!! There was literally physical light(Noor) coming out of his blessed face. I was right in front of him, just a foot away, and I could not see his mubarak facial features properly. It all seemed as a dream, a shiny white face in front of me smiling. His magnificence was overpowering, I felt so short in front of him. His body had seemed to be all around me and I was literally shivering in the heart. What an experience! I was standing and crying while he came in and was standing and crying while I saw him leave. He made me cry while I listened to him and made me cry while I thought of him back home. My mother was feeling very much the same thing as me. She and I went together to see and hear Habib 'Ali. She told me that she was astonished to see such a beautiful and loving person. She started to glow in a way I had never seen her glowing before. I saw her captivated in a way I had never seen her before. She was genuinely and in an innocent way truly feeling the beauty of Islam. It was an astonishing moment for me. Uniqueness of the spiritual being of Habib 'Ali HafizuhuAllah ta'ala. This is who the Ahl al Bayt al-aThaar al-kiraam are. Their love flows when they appear; and then does not end. Allah ta'ala keep him with us and all of the Habaib so that our hearts are kept alive.
assalam`alaikum, The following is a newly updated edition of the address given by Shaykh Habib Ali al-Jifri to students of the West in the blessed city of Tarim (located in the Hadramawt Valley of Yemen). The original address was given during the last ten days of the sacred month of Ramadan 2004. click here.... --an
