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AL BONYAN AL MARSOUS - UNITY OF HEARTS

Allah Ta Ala says: "Allah loves those who battle for His cause in close ranks as if they were a solid structure" (surah 61 verse 4).

This verse indicates that in jihad, the level of unity and cohesion required between Muslim fighters is much higher than that of the Muslim brotherhood taught by Islam in society outside the framework of jihad. Indeed, a fight for Allah requires united hearts so Allah may accept and bless this effort. Allah cannot support a group whose hearts are divided. That is why roqya has now reached a new stage by the grace of God : al- Bonyan marsous .

When I started teaching roqya Africa in January 2005, I planned on training people then disengaging myself from roqya and letting them continue so I could devote myself to Dawa. I realized later on that my participation was still needed for communication and for the supervision of my students. I realized that I still had to intervene even more to prevent different kinds of mistakes. That is what brings us to this stage.

The first issue of intervention is money. I will not tell you about the African way of managing money, but we set up another system by the grace of Allah based on meritocracy: giving to each according to his merit, according to his participation and contribution to the group.

The second issue is training. At first, I was alone and I had to quickly train people to do hijamas, give explanations while I managed the consultations and reading. As things progressed, the first students started training other students. As the first addition to the training, I wrote: "complements to the roqya". The brothers in Ivory Coast were the first to establish a training program, followed by the brothers of Togo who also set up an excellent program.

Finally, I decided to develop my own training program after all this accumulated experience. The program initially had two levels and the module that you are reading is part of the third level. The first level deals with the practice of roqya : protection, risks , reading, cupping, giving explanations, preparing products and diagnosis. The objective is that the person is able to exercise roqya (diagnosis and roqya) at the end of a week of training. I eliminated unnecessary steps at this stage to increase practice and to ensure that the person has mastered these skills at the end of training. The second level is professionalization. First there are additional elements to know to practice roqya : jinn catching and psychotherapy. Then there are the elements to understand roqya better and to be able to present the topic to various audiences: dalils , roqya and medicine, other methods. Finally, for the spiritual training of raqis, mastering "the spiritual path". Indeed, it is not possible to practice roqya and not develop spiritually. In addition, one of the obstacles to the development of roqya is the reluctance of patients to see my students and their expectation to see me arrive every time. To overcome this, there is of course the improvement of training and treatment in my absence, but there is a need for the raqis to preach. Indeed, the khutbahs in the mosques and the media have an impact on people because they want to meet the preacher afterwards. The main goal of roqya is not learning how to preach in order to attract people, but it is not normal for a raqi not to preach. We need to correct this lack of preaching. The spiritual path allows, by the grace of Allah, to develop spiritually and to explain to people how to develop spiritually. It also gives access to an understanding of the Quran and the life of the Prophet sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam Alllahou, which will allow raqis to preach these issues in a very interesting way.

When the person masters all these modules of level II, I consider the person qualified to practice roqya as I teach it. I could in a sense issue a certificate but we do not do that at the moment. The person who only masters level I cannot receive a certificate.

It is planned that all roqya centers that follow these training programs receive regular updates based on the developments and changes to roqya, which will improve by the grace of Allah the cohesion and advancement of the whole group. The third level of the training program concerns the management of the center and includes the following modules: financial management, the three stages of roqya and al-al-bonyane marsous.

The third step of the stage Bonyan al-al-marsous is the unity of hearts.