Category: Damascene Breeze

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and know that grace selects the one who is present”
Qasida by Abu Madyan
Damascus, July 2005 – At the foot of the Qasioun mountain, north of the ancient nucleus of ...

Book | Yaqoubi: Fi Zhilal al-Sham – في ظلال الشام للشيخ محمد أبي الهدى اليعقوبي
“In the Shade of the Levant” is a collection of thirty-one poems dedicated to Syria and the Syrian people. They were written over the span of thirty-five years between 1980-2015. As a Syrian living in Syria and then having to leave Syria, Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi ...

Hadith Recital | Sahih Muslim – Damascus 2007
Recital of Sahih Muslim by Sheikh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi in Damascus, Rajab 1428 (July 2007) ختكت بحمد الله جامع مسلم *** بجوف دمشق الشام جوف الإسلام The book of Muslim has been completed, praise be to Allah * in the heart of Damascus of Sham, ...

Ramadan in Sham 1427
Damascus 2006. Praise be to the One who guides us to His Way, and salutations on His Messenger, the Noble Family and Tribe, and those who follow their paths. – Thanks to whom thanks are due first and foremost, our host, the erudite scholar ...
Studying in Damascus
Damascus 2003. – “Damascus is commonly acknowledged by the local and foreign inhabitants as a very safe place to live. Crime is minimal, and rarely exceeds petty theft. Rape, murder, grand theft, are all virtually unheard of. It might be difficult to believe, and ...