22/10/2022
Benefits of Jawharat al-Kamal
Shaykh Ahmad Sukayrij said:
If someone recites the Jewel (Jawharat al-Kamāl) 12 times, while fulfilling its preconditions, with the intention of visiting the Messenger ﷺ, he will be granted the special favor of obtaining the benefit of visiting all the saints.
Its fundamental importance is explained by our master’s saying, “Allah’s Messenger ﷺ gave me an invocation of blessing called the Jewel of Perfection (Jawharat al-Kamāl). If someone recites it 12 times, and says, ‘This is a gift from me to you, O Messenger of Allahﷺ,’ it is as if he has visited him in his noble garden (rawda), as well as visiting the saints (awliyā’) of Allah the Exalted and the righteous ones, from the beginning of existence until his own time.”
In another version, the narration is recorded as, “until eternity.”
One of its special qualities is that a single recitation of it is equal to the glorification (tasbīh) recited three times by the entire universe. Another is that, if someone makes a regular practice of reciting it more than seven times daily, the Prophet ﷺ will love him with a special affection, and he will not die until he becomes a saint (walī). Another is that, if someone recites it seven times or more, the Prophet ﷺ and the four Caliphs, may Allah be well pleased with them, will be in his presence as long as he is remembering it.
When one of the scholars, who was one of our master’s companions, may Allah be pleased with them, came to hear about this, he wished to confirm its reality. So he approached our master and mentioned what he had heard. Shaykh Tijānī told him: “By Allah, if you were to remember it constantly throughout your life, without any intermission, the Prophet ﷺ would never separate himself from you in the entire course of your life.”
The presence mentioned here will be that of their spirits and persons in reality. If the veil is removed from those who practice remembrance, or from some of them, they will surely witness the Prophet ! in the state he was in when Allah took him away (from his life in this world), and the same is true for the four Caliphs, may Allah be well pleased with them. The Prophet ﷺ and the Caliphs may thus be witnessed time after time. Another of its special qualities is that, if someone diligently persists in reciting it seven times before going to sleep, in a state of perfect ritual purity and on a clean bed, he will see the Prophet ﷺ
Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse│Kāshif al-Ilbās
