Sidi Ben Abdel Krim Al Maghili

[أبو الحسنيين]

[frame="15 10"] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

ألا إن أولياء الله لا خوف عليهم ولهم يحزنون
القران الكريم 10-
62.
: ومن قوله عليه واله الصلاة و السلام
“من ورخ مؤمنا فكأنما أحياه ومن قرأ تاريخه فكأنما زاره ومن زاره استوجب رضوان الله وحق عن المزور أن يكرم زائره “

*كتاب سلسلة الأصول في شجرة أبناء الرسول-ص8-سيدي علي حشلاف.

IN THE NAME OF GOD THE COMPASSIONATE THE MERCIFUL

“Behold Verily on the Friends of Allah there is no fear nor shall they Grieve” Holy-Quran 10-62.

« Whoever has written up the biography of a Believer it is like he had him resurrected , and whoever has read this biography it is like he paid him a visit while attaining God’s pleasure and obviously the visited Person should be generous towards his Guest”
*Les Chorfa, Les Nobles du Monde Musulman, P.20, Publisud-1995.
*Sidi Ali Hachlaf.


*Subject: Muslim Saints of Algeria & the Maghrib
*6.SIDI BEN ABDEL KRIM AL MAGHILI

Sidi Al Maghili was born in the village of M’ghila near Tlemcen in the year 790AH around 1414AD to a noble Ahl Al Bait Prophet Mohamed ‘s (PBUH) lineage, he learnt the Holy Quran at an early age as well as “Mokhtassar Sidi Khalil” through his Sheikh Sidi Ahmed Ben Aissa Al Djellab.

Al Maghili was also a devout student to the highly renowned Sheikh Abu Abass Al Waghlissi who was his Sheikh in all stages of the Arabic language.
After acquiring such maturity and deep probing knowledge he left to Bijaya (Eastern-Algeria) as it was at that time a flourishing knowledge Seeking centre from there he went to Algiers where he was a student of Sidi Abderrahmane Athaalibi the Patron saint of Algiers there he was linked to an earnest brotherhood with Sidi Abderrahmane as a result of such spiritual relationship emerged a blessed marriage between Sidi Al Maghili and Sidi Abderrahmane’s Daughter “Zaynab”.

After this marriage, Sidi Al Maghili went back to Tlemcen, but he was so quickly disillusioned with the way the rulers were governing their subjects and the lack of awareness among the “court-scholars” at that time, so he took the way to the “Land of Touat” (present Adrar), he arrived there around 1470AD in the village of “Ouled Said” (240km north of Adrar) and settled there for a while , he had three sons (Ali-Abdul Jabbar and Abdullah) , but only Abdullah survived after his father’s death.

Sidi Al Maghili in his sincere approach towards “enjoining good and reprimanding evil” and defending the integrity of the Muslim Ummah and the supremacy of the Sharia, had to deal with such severity and fight fierce intellectual and later physical battle again unjust and corrupt Muslim leaders, their venal scholars and specially the Jews who had monopolized the economy and had begun to flout the Sharia with impunity as well as spreading mischief on earth.

Such dealing with the Jews met an objection from a scholar at that time “Sheikh Abdullah Al Asnouni” while others Imminent Scholars such as: Sidi Abdel Jabbar al Fijiji, Imam Assanoussi, Al Hafid Atinissi and Imam Mahdi Al Mawssi all baked up Al Maghili’s stance and act.
In the aftermath of this event, Sidi Al Maghili went to the “Land of Sudan” (present Nigeria) and precisely to the famous city of Kano where he was welcomed by its King Sarki Mohamed Rumfa who ruled this northern part of Nigeria from 1463 to 1499AD , there he taught Koranic studies in Katsina and law at Kano. He also wrote a treatise on government for Sultan Rumfa called “On the Obligations of Princes”.

One excerpt from this advice- masterpiece reads as follows:

“The sojourn of a prince in the city breeds all manner of trouble and harm. The bird of prey abides in open and wild places. Vigorous is the cock as he struts round his domains. The eagle can only win his realm by firm resolve, and the cock's voice is strong as he masters the hens. Ride, then, the horses of resolution upon the saddles of prudence. Cherish the land from the spoiling drought, from the raging wind, the dust-laden storm, the raucous thunder, the gleaming lightning, the shattering fireball and the beating rain. Kingdoms are held by the sword, not by delays. Can fear be thrust back except by causing fear? Allow only the nearest of your friends to bring you food and drink and bed and clothes. Do not part with your coat of mail and weapons and let no one approach you save men of trust and virtue. Never sleep in a place of peril. Have near to guard you at all times a band of faithful and gallant men, sentries, bowmen, horse and foot. Times of alarm are not like times of safety. Conceal your secrets from other people until you are master of your undertaking.”

As a result of this Jurisprudence work and advice, Sultan Rumfa was advised to install an Ombudsman to receive complaints against the government, and indeed, Rumfa put the advice into practice and from Kano , Al Maghili left for the Songhai city of Gao where he met the great Architect and Ideologue of the Songhai Empire Mohamed Askia, his meeting with this leader was not without giving relevant advices and injecting a new drive into intellectual tradition and invigorated the social and political clime of the whole region.

After a long journey of Dawah and Preaching and accompanied by his devout student Sidi Omar Al Kounti, Al Maghili went to perform the Hajj and on their way to Makkah they met in Assiout (Egypt) the great Scholar Jallal Uddin Soyouti he warmly welcomed his guests and an intellectual debate took place during this meeting specially on an issue related to “Ilm Al Mantik” (the sciences of logic).

After his return from hajj, Sidi Al Maghili went on to settle in the small village of Abu Ali (Bouali) at a 90km south distance of Adrar; a 1590 km south-west distance of Algiers, he kept on teaching all Islamic topics until he passed away in 909AH -1504AD he was buried next to his Mosque in the village of Bouali .
Sidi chapter of the History of Islam whether Mohamed Ben Abdelkrim Al Maghili had genuinely contributed to an outstanding in Touat or West Africa, surely he was a driving force behind the high profile awareness of Islam that has been generated in the region and had shaped the future for many generations.

Paradoxically as it may seem both Western and Zionist history do not match his rightful approach and determined faith towards the African continent, for them he is a controversy within their wicked literature and bias history, and backing up our stance on what has deeply surprised me and raised so high my eyebrows was that recent article I came across and which was published by the Algerian Arabic Daily “Echourouk Al youmi” dated 12.02.2007, the article written by Dr. Abdul Kadhim Al Aboudi, Professor of Nuclear physics at Oran University is more than breath-taking as it recalls the French nuclear tests in the Touat area on the 13th of February 1960 (while Algeria was under French colonisation), and precisely in Reggane a 50 km distance south of Bouali , Dr.Al Aboudi with irrefutable evidence, considered that the “blue jerboa nuclear operation” was hatched by the Israelis and executed by the French so as to revenge the “Jews-cleanup” by Sidi Al Maghili five centuries ago , then he wondered why the chosen site was the “Land of Touat” for such nuclear tests as it is not an isolated act rather it is an established pattern as its harmful consequences upon people of the region and the environment as a whole are duly felt up to now!!!

The veracity of Allah’s words should be recalled in this event as it rightly pinpoints the evil-inner of those creatures:
“Strongest among men in enmity to the Believers wilt thou find the Jews and the pagans”
Holy-Quran 05-82.[/frame]