The Ladder to Success in Truly Loving Allah

This booklet presents Shaykh ʿAbd Allāh bin Ḥusayn bin Ṭāhir BāʿAlawī al-Ḥaḍramī al-Shāfiʿī’s Sullam al-tawfīq ilā maḥabbati Llāhi ʿalā al-taḥqīq (“The Ladder of Success to Truly Loving Allah”), a concise treatise covering what every responsible Muslim must know and practice. These essentials include matters related to creed, rituals, basic transactions and financial responsibilities, purification of the soul, good character, sins that one must avoid and the consequences for committing them. The translation includes hundreds of inline notes drawn from the book’s commentaries, along with the Arabic text.