Ḥabīb Aḥmad Mashhūr ibn Ṭāhā al-Ḥaddād
"Lā ilāha illā Allāh Muḥammad Rasūl Allāh consists of seven words. A man has seven members, and the Fire has seven doors, and each of the seven words closes one of the seven doors against one of the seven members."
Habib Ahmad Mashhur al-Haddad was widely acknowledged as among the leading scholars and spiritual masters of the twentieth century. He was born in a town in Hadramawt, in southern Arabia. At an early age he committed the Quran to memory and spent most of his time in the relentless pursuit of the various branches of religious knowledge. He dedicated his life to teaching and spreading the word of Islam. He died in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in 1995.
