About

The ’IbaaduRagmaan Qadiri Jamaa’ah serves as a vehicle for Islamic learning and the remembrance of Allāh, the Praiseworthy. The group comprises men, women and children and consists of hundreds of people.

Few organizations are so immersed in the religious and social symbolism of Cape Muslims. The ’Ibaad-u-Ragmaan QadiriJamaa’ah shows that taṣawwuf in practice is more of a communal matter than a lonely quest.

Imbedded in the regional religious record, the ’Ibaad-u-Ragmaan Qadiri Jamaa’ah, like Sunnī Islām and the Qādirīyyah Ṭarīqahitself, was not formed out of enmity, or as a breakaway, or opposition to another group. Parents raise their children in theJamaa’ah. Free of hysteria, the Jamaa’ah is autonomous and entirely open.

The ’Ibaad-u-Ragmaan Qadiri Jamaa’ah has helped taṣawwuf to maintain both an informal and institutional indigenous presence.

Ibādāt binds the ’IbaaduRagmaan Qadiri Jamaa’ah. It is by the Grace of Allāh that they became brethren. From one week to the next they act out the mystical ascent of a group of individuals soaring towards the Divine. Again and again, they assert the Oneness of God through adhkār. Their technique is effortless, their comfort at adhkār unforced. Its members fail to attend the Saturday dhikrullāh sessions only through compelling reasons. They bring people together. Better friends would be hard to come by. Their outlook balanced, they are short on excesses and lacking in sensationalism. They urge themselves and others towards God. There’s just one clumsy characteristic about them – they’re too decent.

Although the Jamaa’ah operates on a definite, yet simple ‘the Sheikh and the rest’ hierarchy, all its members are considered as being afloat on the same sea, journeying towards Allāh, the One Who Is with those who do right.

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