[1] (cpth): Communication with Allah and Peace are Through Him.
[2] Fortress: Surah.
[3] Narrated by Al-Bayhaqi
[4] (cptt): Communication with Allah and Peace are Through Them.
[5] Please see Al-Buruj (Constellations) Fortress, Verse 1.
[6] (pth): Peace is Through Him.
[7] (ptt): Peace is Through Them.
[8] Kindly, refer to the book The Sources of Spring Water in the World, by the humane scholar M. A. Sheikho.
[9] Sahih Al-Bukhari.
[10] Narrated by Al-Imam Ahmad and Al-Dramy.
[11] Narrated by Muslim, saying no. [2553].
[12] The Holy Qur’an Fortress 59, Creation-Gathering (Al-Hashr), Verse 9
[13] The Holy Qur’an Fortress 2, The Cow (Al-Baqara), Verse 273
[14] The Holy Qur’an, Fortress 76, Humane Man (al-Insan), Verses 5-9.
[15] Narrated by Al-Dailami up to Abu Hurayra, Kanz Al-Ummal, saying no. 29441.
[16] In Arabic the verb “to forgive” can also mean to cover or protect.
[17] Musnad Al-Imam Ahmad, part 3, page 116.[16]
[18] Al-Jami’ Al-Saghir, saying no. [5875].
[19] The Holy Qur’an, Fortress 65, Divorce (al-Talaq), Verse 3
[20] The Holy Qur’an: Fortress 94, Relief (al-Sharh), Verse 5.
[21] In Arabic Wadd = Intimacy.
[22] Suwa = the one who seeks after a thing.
[23] Yaghuth = to succor.
[24] Ya’uq = to hinder.
[25] Nasr = The eagle.
[26] To feel reverence for Allah.
[27] Al Sham state (Greater Syria), which was comprised of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine
[28] The Holy Qur’an, Fortress 47, Mohammad (Muhammad), Verse 7.
[29] The Holy Qur’an, Fortress 5, The Feast (al-Ma’ida), Verse 64.
[30] At this time al-Sham was comprised of Damascus and its suburbs and the surrounding countryside
[31] Kindly refer to the book Stories of the Scholar which contains some of the great feats of the humane scholar M. A. Sheikho (his soul has been sanctified by Allah).
[32] The great philosopher Sir John Benet converted into Islam by the guiding of the great scholar M. Amin Sheikho in 1953, after having a positive marvelous discussion between them, which caused him to say before a large crowd of western scientists “ All the sciences that we had didn’t equal the sciences of that great scientist in the East”.
[33] The Islamic Egyptian thinker, Doctor Mustafa Mahmud who presented the T.V program (The science and the faith) who had many articles and other written works, spent all his life in studying, researching and in philosophy, and he said “ The facts I had been aware of through the books of the great scholar Mohammad Amin Sheikho (his soul has been sanctified by Al'lah) hadn’t been found through the books and thoughts of all the previous and the latest scientist and scholars”, he wrote a special book about some knowledge of the great scholar, and he published it, it was the last published book of his during his life, it was titled (ponderings on the pages of the great humane scholar Mohammad Amin Sheikho, God has sanctified his soul).
[34] Greater Syria included Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine.
[35] Aslan is a Turkish word that means ‘the lion’. The Turkish commanders gave Officer M. Amin this nickname because of his boldness, bravery and intrepidity.
[36] The Grand Vizier is the title of the Sultan in the Ottoman Empire.
[37] Murid is a Sufi term meaning ‘committed one’.
[38] The Holy Qur’an, Fortress 83, Dealers in Fraud (al-Mutaffifin), Verse 26.