التصوف والطرق الصوفية في حمص ٢_a .. كتاب حمص

It is located outside Homs and before its citadel, and its location now is the Othman bin Affan Mosque in Kammer. We can talk about the seasons.

In the era that we are studying, there were no rabats or khanqahs in Homs, but there were zawiyas and dharakahs, and the difference between them is that the zawiya may be one room, in the Sheikh’s house, which he allocates for holding supplications and prayers according to his method (1). As for the dargah, it includes the zawiya and rooms for the residence of devotees and strangers, and it also includes Everything needed to secure the lives of those passing through it, including a restaurant, a kitchen, utilities, and a house for the sheikh of the order to reside.


/Then the edge/is wider than the corner. The zawiya may be one of the Al-Dargah facilities. Most of the zawiyas that were in Homs were converted into mosques, including:

1 - Sheikh Omar Al-Sakkaf Corner: Its location is now Sheikh Omar Mosque in Sulaibiya Al-Assati, and it was registered with the Homs Endowments Directorate in the name of Omar Al-Barzawi.

2- Sheikh Abdullah Al-Haraki’s Corner: in the Sheikh’s Palace, the place, and what surrounds it is called / Qasr Al-Sheikh’s District / after the aforementioned Sheikh.

3- Zawia Sheikh Jamal al-Din: Its location now is Jamal al-Din Mosque in the neighborhood that bears his name.

4 - Sheikh Alwan’s corner: facing the gate of Palmyra and directly west of Abu Dharr Mosque, and near it is the shrine of Sheikh Sabah.

E - The corner of the writer’s house: It is in the corner at the gates of the writer’s house, at the back of the cave. He established the dargah / with all its facilities and the houses attached to it, and it was endowed by Arslan Azhi with the age of Adeeb Al-Hajj Ali / Pak / buried in the zawiya. The endowment includes the zawiya prepared for reciting the wirds and performing the supplications according to the Rifa’i method.

In the Waqf argument, there is a complete description of the dargah and its annexes. The argument is issued by the legitimate ruler of Homs, Muhammad Saeed Yamani, and bears the date of Shawwal al-Mubarak of the year 1296 AH - September 1878 AD.

6 - Al-Rifai’i - Al-Husseiniya police station: located in the Bab Al-Duraib neighborhood on the Royal Road. It was stopped by Mr. Muhammad Najib Al-Rifai under the endowment argument dated late Jumada Al-Awwal 1305 AH, late January 1888 AD. It (includes the honorable zawya, which is a necklace of stone intended for guidance, guidance, and behavior in the path of divine relief, and the temple, the individual, the Samdani, the beloved, the relative), the honorable master, our master Sheikh Ahmed Al-Rifai, may God be pleased with him, for reciting the honorable Qur’an (and the honorable awrad and remembrances, and it includes the /drakah/ mentioned also ( On three (1) rooms and a palace facing towards the direction and north, prepared for travelers from the Rifa'i dervishes and the poor and needy, and on a kitchen prepared for cooking / soup every day, and on two ruined rooms, a heavenly courtyard, a water well, and legal utilities).

A shop located in the tanners’ market was intended as a storeroom for carpeting. A shop was located in the Saliba al-Ghafaila locality, intended for weaving silk. A shop was located in the Bab al-Duraib locality near Bab al-Duraib, intended for weaving garments. It also endowed generous land and plants. It was located outside the city of Homs, facing the qibla, next to the Bayader/Bab al-Duraib land. The total endowment allocated for spending from its revenues on the cash register and its maintenance is three shops and one vineyard.

7 - Al-Saadiyya Al-Jabbawiyyah: The first to introduce the Saadiyya order, Homs / 1050 AH = Homs, Sheikh Ali Al-Saadi, resident of Homs / 1027 AH = 1618 AD, and he died in 1640 / 41 AD /. He established a zawiya in the Bab Tadmur neighborhood, and the situation remained like this during the reign of his successors until the neighborhood became a stronghold of the Saadiyya order, and during the reign of Sheikh Saad al-Din bin Khaled al-Jabbawi 1283 AH - 1372 AH. = 1866 - March 6, 1951 AD.

The corner was moved to the Bani al-Sebaei neighborhood near Beit Farkouh alley on the main road to Bab al-Duraib. The municipality then named this street “Al-Jibawi Street”.

The land on which the zawiya was built was originally a zawiya belonging to the endowment of Safi al-Din al-Hilli 1277-1339 AD. It was destroyed, so Sheikh Saad al-Din bin Khalid al-Jibawi submitted it to His Eminence the Sharia Governor of Homs, requesting that he hand over the aforementioned piece of land so that he can rebuild it into a corner that will honor the remembrance of God. Since the aforementioned land was an endowment from Sheikh Safi al-Din al-Hilli’s endowments, Sheikh Reda al-Jamali, the representative of the Waqf accountants in Homs, was appointed as legal guardian of the matter. The aforementioned desolate land) and Sheikh Saad al-Din rented it from him, according to the method of monopolistic trade followed in the endowment system, as indicated in the document dated 1312 AH - 1894 AD issued by the Sharia judge in Homs, Muhammad Faiq, and Sheikh Saad al-Din paid a fee.