#Hadhramaut

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The goat herding women of Hadhramaut, Yemen.

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Penulis Qasidah Sa’duna Fiddunya yang Menginspirasi

sorbansantri.com – Pasca wafatnya Syaikhina Maimun Zubair, Qasidah Sa’duna Fiddunya mendadak viral dan disenandungkan di berbagai majelis. Qasidah kesukaan Mbah Mun ini bahkan ramai di-cover di YouTube, termasuk oleh Nissa Sabyan. Meski banyak yang mengira bahwa qasidah ini adalah karangan Abuya Sayyid Muhammad Al-Maliki atau Mbah Mun sendiri, faktanya penulis asli qasidah ini adalah Al-Habib Ahmad Bin Muhammad Al-Muhdhor dari Hadhramaut. Habib Ahmad adalah ayah dari Habib Muhammad Al-Muhdhor Bondowoso, seorang wali besar yang wajahnya dikatakan mirip dengan Baginda Rasulullah Saw. Habib Muhammad dimakamkan di Qubah Ampel, Surabaya, dan dikenal sebagai sosok yang sangat dihormati. Habib Ahmad Al-Muhdhor dikenal sebagai ulama yang memiliki ikatan luar biasa erat dengan Al-Quran. Beliau telah menghafal Al-Quran sebelum usia tujuh tahun dan berhasil menghatamkan Al-Quran sebanyak 8000 kali selama hidupnya. Inspirasi ini datang dari biografi Robi’ah Adawiyah, seorang wali wanita yang mencapai 7000 hataman. Beliau termotivasi untuk melebihi pencapaian Robi’ah dengan berkata, "Aku tidak mau kalah oleh seorang wanita." Habib Ahmad juga memiliki kecintaan yang luar biasa kepada Sayyidah Khodijah. Salah satu kejadian terkenal adalah ketika beliau menampar khotib di Mekkah yang memanjangkan khutbah dan memendekkan sholat, melanggar sunnah Rasulullah Saw. Setelah kejadian ini, beliau melarikan diri ke pemakaman Ma’la dan diselamatkan secara ajaib oleh Sayyidah Khodijah. Kecintaan Habib Ahmad kepada Sayyidah Khodijah juga terlihat dalam acara tahunan Haul Sayyidah Khodijah yang beliau adakan, dikenal sebagai “Ihda Asyariah”. Warisan qasidah dan kecintaannya terus menginspirasi banyak orang, termasuk ulama besar seperti Abuya Sayyid Muhammad Al-Maliki dan Syaikhina Maimun Zubair. Kisah hidup Habib Ahmad penuh dengan keajaiban, humor, dan cinta sejati yang dituangkan dalam bait-bait qasidahnya. Hingga saat ini, qasidah beliau seperti Sa’duna Fiddunya masih terus dibaca dan menginspirasi banyak orang, membuktikan bahwa kekuatan cinta adalah kekuatan sejati yang abadi.

PENA MAJELIS ILMU HABIB’NA MAKASSAR

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Religious reference, but this reminded me of a hadeeth. (I also wound up talking about a success story about bringing an animal back from extinction in the wild, because I love deer and gazelles, stick around for a hopeful story, even if there are also horrible poachers.)

Anas ibn Malik reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "If the Final Hour comes while you have a shoot of a plant in your hands and it is possible to plant it before the Hour comes, you should plant it."

We are never supposed to give up on this earth. Even if literal Judgment Day comes, when people abandon those closest to them, from spouses to children, worrying only about themselves and the fate of their own souls, if we can finish planting a sapling, we should do it.

We cannot give up on Earth.

Also... for a lovely local gazelle species, the Arabian oryx (Maha, so if you hear of Arab women with names like Maha and Reem, they're named after the oryx and rhim gazelles respectively) that once roamed free in large herds, but were hunted to extinction in the 1970's, with the last wild Arabian oryx killed in rhe Empty Quarter [Rub'il-Khali] desert in Saudi Arabia. However, some remained alive in captivity, zoos and personal ownership.

A common Yemeni citizen (because we barely have official government wildlife organizations here in Saudi Arabia nor in Yemen where he's from, although that's changed!), Basil As-Saedi bought all the Rhim gazelles he could from captivity, and raised them, letting then multiply, wanting to save them.

A Hadhrami man from Hadhramout (a mountainous region bordering Yemen, Oman, and Saudi Arabia), 'AbdulLah Al-Duweila, did the same thing with the Arabian oryx, buying them from various sources, and building a reserve for them.

There have been tragedies, like one recorded where they found either recently freed or escapes (I forget which) gazelles from a reserve and scumbag poachers or even just one stupid, idiot poacher killed them all, and left their bodies lying dead, a complete waste of their lives, which must have been so heartbreaking for the rescuer(s) who freed them...

Sadly not the only incident, there were other Saudis recording themselves, quite proudly, on social media, having massacred a great number of gazelles from a reserve (a government-funded one!!!)...

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But despite all setbacks, the Arabian oryx is no longer extinct, not even critically endangered, and it is now classified only as vulnerable! As its habitat is still at risk, so it could go extinct in the wild again unless conditiona improve, but they are helped by great numbers in captivity enabling breeding programs.

The Arabian oryx now exist in the thousands (1100 in the wild), 6000~7000 in wildlife reserves, zoos, and some under private ownership in gardens still. ♡

why bother caring about the environment when 1. It’s so obviously a lost cause and 2. There’s definitely going to be a nuclear war?

And what are you doing about it Anon? Learn about ecological restoration or get out of my way.

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Did you know that the first map of the Himalayas was made in the 1500s by the Catalan monk Antoni de Montserrat, and it was so accurate that it was used by European expeditions until the 1800s?

Here's the story of a priest that was called by a Mughal emperor for interfaith intercultural dialogue and who ended up being -among other things- a royal teacher, a writer, a geographer, a fake Armenian merchant, and a prisoner.

Antoni de Montserrat was born in 1536 in Vic (Catalonia). He studied in Barcelona (Catalonia) and Coimbra (Portugal) to become a priest and joined the Jesuits. In 1574, he was sent on a mission to Goa (back then a Portuguese colony, now part of India).

The Mughal emperor Akbar was an open-minded man. He was Muslim but wanted to learn about the other religions, so he called representatives of different religions to his court in Fatehpur Sikri. In 1579, he called the Jesuits to explain Christianity, and the Jesuits sent Antoni de Montserrat. Everyone in the court -Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus- knew that the point was not to convert others, but to reach a better understanding through debate.

The Mughal emperor Akbar holding an assembly with religious men. The two men dressed in black are Jesuits. Miniature painting by Nar Singh, 1605. Chester Beautty Library.

The emperor Akbar valued Antoni de Montserrat as a great wise man and chose him to become the tutor of his second son Murâd. Antoni learned Persian (the language of the Mughal court) and accepted. He remained close to the emperor and accompanied him in the military campaign when the emperor's step-brother started an uprising in Bengala. Crossing much of Northern India, Kashmir, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tibet on elephant gave him the perspective to draw the map.

In the end, Antoni went back to Goa in 1582. There, he wrote a book explaining what he had seen in the Mughal Empire, the cultural differences he had experienced, the political organization of these territories, and describing emperor Akbar's court. This book is called Mongolicae Legationis Commentarius, and its descriptions of the lands he has travelled include the earliest description of Tibetans known in Europe since Marco Polo and the first ever map of the Himalayas.

Antoni de Montserrat's map of the Himalayas and their surroundings, including large parts of what nowadays is India, Tibet, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Library of St. Paul's Cathedral, Kolkata (India).

This book explains cultural elements of the different cultures under the Mughal Empire and also the conversations Antoni had with the emperor about certain habits. For example, Antoni writes about how the Brahmans (upper caste Hindu priests) force widows to be burned alive in the same funeral pyre as their dead husbands, often (when the women resist) drugging them or through violence. Antoni tries to get emperor Akbar to stop this terrible tradition, but doesn't succeed. On the other hand, Antoni also tells the emperor Akbar that they should burn the "men who dress as women" who live in the emperor's court, to which the emperor bursts laughing out loud and doesn't give any consideration to. Despite their different cultural backgrounds, Antoni and Akbar were friends.

Antoni's time in the Mughal Empire ended in 1588, when the king Philip II of Castilla and I of Portugal orders Antoni and a young Spanish priest named Pedro Páez to go to Ethiopia to convince the Coptic Christian Ethiopians to get closer to the Catholic Christian Church. Then, Antoni and Pedro dressed up as an Armenian merchants to border the Ottoman Empire through Iraq, Syria, and Egypt, trying to avoid the pirates of the Indian Ocean. However, before reaching Ethiopia, they took a ship to skirt modern-day Oman, but the captain turned them in as soon as they reached land in Yemen. Then, Antoni and Pedro were taken on a camel caravan to the Sultan of Hadhramaut (Yemen), who imprisoned them until 1595 and then sentenced to galleys in the Red Sea, and later imprisoned them again. Luckily for them, king Philip paid their rescue and they were freed in 1596. With his body weakened by the galleys and the mistreatments of prison, Antoni retired to a convent in Salsette (modern-day Mumbai, India), where he died in 1600 right after having finished his map.

The Spanish priest who travelled with him, Pedro Páez, also wrote his own diary explaining what they lived. With his descriptions, we know that in Yemen Antoni and Pedro were given what he describes as a kind of herbal tea called "cahua, water boiled with a fruit named bun and which is drank very hot, instead of wine": that is a drink that was still unknown in Europe at the time, which we now call coffee.

Maybe you have heard the name Pedro Páez before, too. After accompanying Antoni to Goa, he went to Ethiopia again, successfully this time. In Ethiopia, he became the first European to reach the source of the Blue Nile.

Information sources: David Montserrat Nonó (La Mira), Sociedad Geográfica Española. If you want to read Antoni de Montserrat's book, it has been translated from Latin to Catalan and to Spanish by Josep Lluís Alay.

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Shibam Hadhramaut

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have any of you read Freya Stark? Is she fun to read? If you're unfamiliar, she was a writer who travelled extensively in the 1920s and 30s, sounds kind of fascinating! I'm just going to copy wikipedia because i'm lazy;

"In November 1927, she visited Asolo for the first time in years. Later that month she boarded a ship for Beirut, where her travels in the East began.She stayed first at the home of James Elroy Flecker in Lebanon, then in Baghdad, Iraq (then a British protectorate), where she met the British high commissioner. During that trip, she secretly travelled by donkey with a Druze guide and an English woman. She kept the journey secret as Syria and Lebanon were under French control as the Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon. This was a repressive government system that did not allow travel within the region. The group traveled by night and took remote, countryside routes. However, French Army officers still caught them, thought the women to be spies, but released them three days later. After her trip, Stark wrote about the repressive French regime and the abuse inflicted on the Syrian people in an English magazine.

By 1931, she had completed three dangerous treks into the wilderness of western Iran, parts of which no Westerner had ever visited, and had located the long-fabled Valleys of the Assassins (Hashshashins).[10] She described these explorations in The Valleys of the Assassins (1934).[11] She received the Royal Geographical Society's Back Award in 1933.[12]

In 1934, Stark sailed down the Red Sea to Aden to begin a new adventure. She hoped to trace the frankincense route of the Hadhramaut, the hinterland of southern Arabia.[13] Only a handful of Western explorers had ventured into the region but never so far or so widely as she.[13] Her goal was to reach the ancient city of Shabwa, which was rumoured to have been the capital of the Queen of Sheba. However, she fell seriously ill on the trip. After contracting measles from a child in a harem, as well as dysentery, she had to be airlifted to a British hospital in Aden.[5] Although she never reached Shabwa, she was able to travel extensively and recount many experiences."

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Mosque minaret of Tarim in the Hadhramaut Valley, Yemen

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Major Signs before the End of the World

10th Major Sign: The Fire

The Fire will emerge before the Day of Resurrection from Hadhramaut and will gather the People in Syria.

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Mujer en Hadhramaut, Yemen

Sep 20, 2024

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The Deputy Governor of Hadhramaut launches distribution of hearing aids for students with hearing disabilities in Wadi Hadhramaut.

Hadhramaut, Yemen – On [insert date], the Deputy Governor of Hadhramaut for the Valley and Desert Districts, Amer Al-Amri, launched the distribution of hearing aids to 39 students with hearing disabilities. This initiative is part of the second phase of a project aimed at addressing the educational needs of students with disabilities and promoting literacy. The project receives funding from the…

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#2: The History of Arabs || Seerah of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ || Ustadh Abdulrahman Hassan - Class 2 Notes

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03:52 – Al ‘Arab Al Baa’idah

The Arabs are divided into 2:

Perished, deceased (العرب البائدة), before the Prophet ﷺ came. 

The following people: 

‘Aad (عاد), 

Thamud (ثَمُود), 

Al ‘Amaliqah, 

Tasm (طسم), 

Jadees (جديس), 

Jurhum (جرهم ; they lived in Makkah, came from Iraq to Makkah, the king of Egypt gave Hajar to Sara as a gift, Hajar birthed Ibrahim’s عَلَيْهِ ٱلسَّلَامُ  first child; Ismail  عَلَيْهِ ٱلسَّلَامُ), all of Hadhramaut. 

Ibrahim عَلَيْهِ ٱلسَّلَامُ  told Hajar to stay there in Makkah and she asked him, “Did Allah asked you (to do this)?” and he replied in the affirmative. Hajar replied, “Allah won’t forsake us.” 

Ibrahim’s عَلَيْهِ ٱلسَّلَامُ  first child and son meant a lot to them. The tribe of Jurhum drank the water of Zamzam that poured out. This shows us that Allah provides if you rely on Him like He should be relied on.

 Al ‘Arab Al Baaqiyah: They are the opposite of al Baa’idah. This means they still exist through Islam. They consist of two main tribes: 

Al Qahtaniyoon ( قَحْطَانِيون ) (al Qahtan Kingdom)

Also known as al Arab ul ‘Ariba ( العرب العاربة ): the pure Arabs. 

Al Adnaniyun (عَدْنَانِيُّون): Also known as al Arab ul Mustariba (العرب المستعربة). This means they have been Arabized. They were not Arabs before. 

The Prophet’s ﷺ lineage goes back to Adnan. There is a dispute whether Adnan was the son of Ismael or if there were nine or ten people in between them. Ismael was not an Arab. 

11:38 – The Pure Arabs (Qahtaniyoon)

Al Qahtaniun ( قَحْطَانِيون )(al Qahtan Kingdom): 

They are pure Arabs. They are those who live in the south of the Arabian peninsula, in Yemen and those around it. This includes the following civilizations: 

Saba

Ma’een

al Lakhm

al Ulaad ul Jafnah: 

The story of the last of the kings of Ulaad ul Jafna, known as Mamlaqa tu Ghasasina (مملكة الغساسنة), Kingdom of the Ghassanids. 

He ended this kingdom that was going on forever. They resided in Sham. Their religion was Christianity and they were very rich. They helped the Ansar in Madinah (Aus and Khazraj) against the three tribes of the Jews: Banu Quraydah, Banu Qaynuqa, Banu Nadir. That's why Jews in Madinah were always in a weaker position than the Ansar, even before Islam. The Ansar were stronger. 

The last king this Kingdom had was Jabal ibn Ayham, he also ended it by embracing Islam in the time of Umar bin Khattab. 

16:59 – The incident of the Children of Jafnah (Jabal ibn Aiham) and the morals

The last king they had was Jabal ibn Ayham. He ended the kingdom by embracing Islam in the time of Umar al Khattab. Mentioned in al Bidaya al Nihaya by ibn Kathir. 

He wrote a letter to Umar that he was going to come to Madinah and accept Islam from him. This made Umar happy. The king came to Madinah to accept Islam and brought 500 soldiers clothed in gold and silver. He came in a crown. It was a famous day when he came to Madinah. Everyone came out, shocked to see them. The same year the king wanted to do Hajj with Umar. While the king was doing tawaf, a person from the Bani Fazaara tribe stepped on the king's ihram and showed his aurah (عورة) showed. He put his ihram on and slapped him. This slap damaged the man’s eye and could no longer see. Bani Fazaara complained to Umar about it. So the king came to Umar and Umar asked him if this was true. When the King said yes he was given two options: 

1. Give the man of Bani Fazzara a monetary agreement. 

2. The king will get slapped, too. 

The king reiterated to Umar that he is a king from the kings while the other man is nothing. Thereafter, the king said he’ll go back to Christianity if Umar really was going to do this. Umar said he would take him out if he chose to go back. The king saw the seriousness of Umar and asked for another night to go over this. That night the king went back to the outskirts of Madinah where he lived and a bulk of his people agreed to pack their bags and leave with him. Others didn't. They left for Rome and they all left Islam and lived there for long. 

Umar sent a letter to Herculean, the leader of Rome. The letter was delivered by a poor Ansari man. Before Herculean gave a response, he cut off a portion of his kingdom for Jabal, such as big land and money, giving him whatever he asked for. Herculean told the poor Ansari man to go see how he honoured Jabal and how he humiliated him. The Ansari went and he didn't recognize him. Jabal was wearing gold and his hair was glowing with powdered gold. When he asked for wine, the Ansari man said the Prophet ﷺ  prohibited it. Jabal told him as long as his heart is good it doesn't matter what he does. So, the waiter brought in gold. The Ansari refused and got a normal cup instead. Jabal got intoxicated. Requested for singers to sing for him, and peoples praise was read on him. The poetry read on him, which was turned into music, was a poem Hasan ibn Thabit (the noble companion, Prophet’s ﷺ  poet) had read for the people of Ulad al Jafna, Jabal’s people. He kept crying and asked the Ansari man if he saw Hassan ibn Thabit to which he replied in the affirmative, stating he is blind now. Jabal asked about Umar and the Ansari said everything was good, and Islam spread. He continued crying and read a poem about how they became Christians over a slap and he didn't need to ever do that, he could’ve gotten a slap back and things didn't have to be this way right now. He wished his mother never gave birth to him and he wished to go back to Madinah, even as a slave, to hold onto their religion. So he regretted it. He asked if his islam would be accepted again. The Ansari said yes but based on two conditions: 

Umar marries his daughter to Jabal. (He was promised this right away).

When Umar dies, he will appoint Jabal as a leader. (The Ansari could not promise this).

Ansari left and was given gifts to take for Hassan ibn Thabit.. Ansari told Umar everything. So, Ansari went back to Jabal to let him know Umar was okay with both conditions (because he wouldn't want leadership once iman settled in his heart in Madinah). When the Ansari man reached the place where Jabal was, he saw people who were coming back from Jabal’s burial. He passed away upon evil. Jabal fell into anger, pride, takkabur which caused him to leave islam. 

Anyone who gives virtue to someone based on where he's from is taking the path of shaytan. Abu Jahl was the Prophet's ﷺ  uncle and Salman al Farisi was a Persian, a non-Arab, but Salman was more virtuous. Actions and efforts matter. 

37:22 – The Arabised Arabs (Adnaniyoon - (عَدْنَانِيُّون)

Al Adnaniyun (عَدْنَانِيُّون): 

Arabized, resided in the north, lived in Makkah. 

Ibrahim came to Makkah and resided there. Ishmail married into them, learned Arabic, and taught children Arabic. 

Tribes that came from Adnan: 

↪Ma’ad( Adnan's child)

      ↪Nizar (Ma’ad’s child)

            ↪Rabi’ah and Mudar (both are Nazar’s children).

Majority of the Arab tribes are from Mudhar. 

The famous tribes from them are:

Hawaazin, Ghatafaan, Tamim, ‘Adiyy, and Quraish (which is Fihr, whom Quraysh came from). 

(Chart: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Banu_Adnan.png )

41:44 – Types of Arabs based on how they lived

Arabs are two types:

Bulk of Arabs were bedouins: looking for travel, and didn't stay in one place. Ahlul Badiya.

Hadr: they are urban, and live in villages, cities, and towns. Mainly the people of Yemen and those around them. Bedouins were other than that. Yemen and those around them were urban due to picking up the Roman and Persian empires’ habits.  They made a great dam of Ma’arab. Utilized water for grass, goats, cattle etc. 

Allah spoke about them in the Quran:

Surah Saba (34:15) 

لَقَدْ كَانَ لِسَبَإٍۢ فِى مَسْكَنِهِمْ ءَايَةٌۭ ۖ جَنَّتَانِ عَن يَمِينٍۢ وَشِمَالٍۢ ۖ كُلُوا۟ مِن رِّزْقِ رَبِّكُمْ وَٱشْكُرُوا۟ لَهُۥ ۚ بَلْدَةٌۭ طَيِّبَةٌۭ وَرَبٌّ غَفُورٌۭ ١٥

Indeed there was for Saba’ (Sheba) a sign in their dwelling-place - two gardens on the right hand and on the left; (and it was said to them:) "Eat of the provision of your Lord, and be grateful to Him." A fair land and an Oft-Forgiving Lord!

Sheba (34:16) 

فَأَعْرَضُوا۟ فَأَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ سَيْلَ ٱلْعَرِمِ وَبَدَّلْنَـٰهُم بِجَنَّتَيْهِمْ جَنَّتَيْنِ ذَوَاتَىْ أُكُلٍ خَمْطٍۢ وَأَثْلٍۢ وَشَىْءٍۢ مِّن سِدْرٍۢ قَلِيلٍۢ ١٦

But they turned away (from the obedience of Allâh), so We sent against them Sail Al-‘Arim (flood released from the dam), and We converted their two gardens into gardens producing bitter bad fruit, and tamarisks, and some few lote-trees.

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feel free to message for any corrections. jazakum Allahu khair.

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Yemeni Chicken Mandi

Allergens: Gluten-Free | Dairy-Free | Nut-Free | Low-Carb FriendlyFollow on Instagram: @simplycookingx Discover how to make authentic Yemeni Chicken Mandi—fragrant, slow-cooked chicken and spiced rice steamed in a sealed pot, adapted for low-carb, gluten-free, dairy-free, and nut-free diets. Originating in the mountainous Hadhramaut region of Yemen, Mandi is a bedouin-inspired method of cooking…

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Journalist geëxecuteerd in Hadhramaut door Al-Qaeda na negen jaar gevangenschap https://www.indegazette.be/journalist-geexecuteerd-in-hadhramaut-door-al-qaeda-na-negen-jaar-gevangenschap/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr

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مدينة شبام - حضرموت 1942م by Essam AL Jheme Via Flickr: Shibam City - Hadhramaut 1942's ..................................................................... This image is in fact black and white and rare pictures Colors, it's clear in the image of my design