![]() ![]() After two or three days the wind changed so that it was blowing against us, so we made berth on the Nile shore in an uninhabited place. He said, ‘We shall board it.’ So we boarded it and set out from Cairo. He said, ‘I have been commanded to perform the pilgrimage this year, so find me a vessel on the Nile to take me across Upper Egypt.’ They searched for a vessel and found only a ship belonging to Christians on which was an elderly Christian man and his sons. ![]() The Shaykh decided to set out from Cairo to perform the pilgrimage, a little while after the main pilgrimage party had set out. The righteous Shaykh Abu al-Aza’im Madi ibn Sultan (may Allah have mercy on him) told us in the city of Tunis (may Allah watch over it), as did the righteous and blessed Shaykh Sharaf al-Din, the Shaykh’s son, in the city of Damanhur al-Wahsh in Egypt, in the year 715 AH: Muhammad Ibn Abi Al-Qasim Ibn al-Sabbagh in Durrat al-Asrar wa Tuhfat al-Abrar relates how Hizbul Bahr came into existence: But the Shadhili shaykhs are keen to point out that the Hizbul Bahr ‘Is not a magic wand, but an expression of slavehood and poverty’. It is clear that it has found acceptance in the Ummah due to huge popularity that it has achieved. The Hizbul Bahr itself consists mostly of Quranic verses and Prophetic invocations to be found in the various authentic collection of hadith. It has a number of benefits and is used for warding off harm as well as other purposes, dependent on intention and spiritual aspiration. The great Imam, on his way to perform the pilgrimage, was taught the litany by the Prophet ﷺ in a dream after his voyage had been delayed by poor winds. Hizbul Bahr ( Arabic: حِزْبُ الْبَحْرِ), translated as the ‘Litany of the Sea’ is an invocation related by Imam Abul Hasan ash-Shadhili. Home › History › Dua Hizbul Bahr – The Litany of the Sea ![]()
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