Beloved Without Asking
The Orphan Who Met the Prophet Face to Face — and Opened the Door for Everyone ElseBy Narin Hikma
Length8h 13m
About this audiobook
You were told grace has a queue, a gatekeeper, and a standard you have not met yet—that the people who reach God earned it.
At sixteen, Ahmad al-Tijani lost both parents to a plague in the Sahara. Learning early that human love can simply stop, he spent twenty-eight years searching for a love that could not.
This narrative biography follows his journey through Fez, Mecca, and Medina to a night where he found a door standing open with nobody guarding it. What he received became the Tijaniyya, now followed by tens of millions from Senegal to Sudan.
• Recognize the particular loneliness of being correct, capable, and still unmet
• Watch a grief you know from the inside turn into the search of a lifetime
• Feel the difference between a love you qualify for and a love that simply arrives
This is a book for anyone who has ever felt too late, too far gone, or too ordinary to be loved directly.
The door was never guarded the way you were told it was. Open it.
Audiobook details
GenreSpirituality and Religion, Biography and Memoir
Length8 hrs 13 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 12, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Epigraph
1311. Abu Samghun
2Prologue
1412. The Prophet Who Came Without Being Summoned
31. The Plague Year
1513. Cutting the Chains
42. What the Well Remembers
1614. Salat al-Fatih
53. The Roads Out of Aïn Mâdî
1715. The Order With No Missing Link
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64. Every Door Had a Man in It
1816. Enemies and Rumors
75. The Scholar Who Wanted More
1917. The Road to Fez
86. The Desert Between Him and Mecca
2018. The Sultan's House
97. Hajj
2119. Those He Sent Out
108. The City of the Prophet
2220. The Last Years
119. The Return That Wasn't a Return
23Epilogue
1210. The Man Nobody Could Place
2421. Author's Note
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