"Seek out the source"

Sunlight fell upon the wall;
the wall received a borrowed splendor.
Why set your heart on a piece of earth,
O simple one? Seek out the source
which shines forever.

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Partaw-e khurshid bar divâr tâft
tâbesh `âriyati divâr yâft
Bar kolukhi del cheh bandi ay salim
watlob asli keh tâbad u moqim

-- Mathnawi II: 708-709
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
Threshold Books, 1996
Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra

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"Come with us" -- Ghazal 74

If you never searched for truth
come with us
and you will become a seeker.
If you were never a musician
come with us
and you will find your voice.
You may posses immense wealth
come with us
and you will become love's beggar.
You may think yourself a master
come with us
and love will turn you into a slave.
If you've lost your spirit,
come with us
take off your silk coverings,
put on our rough cloak
and we will bring you back to life.

-- Ghazal (Ode) 74
Rumi: Hidden Music
Translated by Azima Melita Kolin
and Maryam Mafi
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2001

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Mathnawi II:2513-2517

Delusion is a divine curse
that makes someone envious, conceited, malicious,
so that he doesn't know the evil he does
will strike him back.
If he could see his nothingness
and his deadly, festering wound,
pain would arise from looking within,
and that pain would save him.

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La`nat in bâshad keh kazhbinesh konad
hâsed o khvod-bin o por kinesh konad
Tâ na-dânad keh har ânke kard bod
`âqebat bâz âyad va bar vay zanad
Jomleh-ye farzin band-hâ binad be-`aks
mât be-rui gardad o naqsân o kas
Zânke u gar hich binad khvish-râ
mohlek o nasur besinad rish-râ
Dard khizad zin chonin didan darun
dard u-râ az hejâb ârad berun

Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Daylight"
Threshold Books, 1994
Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra

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"If you are a man of this life" -- Ghazal 3277

if you are a man of this life
then march on this path like a man
or retire and take refuge in your house
since you're not ready for this battle

real men drank a thousand seas and
still died of thirst
you only had a cup
yet boasted of overflowing

you claimed to reach your quest
you'll raise all the dust
yet you've travelled no distance
you've left no mark

now humbly turn to dust
under the gallop of real men
then you'll rise and
become a part of their journey

if you crawl for years
on the path of your quest
do not yield to grief
do not submit to distress

-- Ode (Ghazal) 3277
Translated by Nader Khalili
Rumi: Fountain of Fire
Cal-Earth Press, 1994

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Mystic Poem of Hafiz: Gazal 14: The Green Sea of Heaven

Mystic Poem of Hafiz: Gazal 14: The Green Sea of Heaven -- Fifty
Ghazals from the Diwan of Hafiz, White Cloud Press

The sea of love is a sea that has no shore.
There, you can only give up your soul.

Each time you give your heart to love is a joyous moment.
For auspicious deeds there is no need for divination.

Avail yourself of the rend's way, for this mark,
like the road to buried treasure, is not plain to everyone.

Don't frighten us with reason's prohibitions, and bring wine,
for that watchman has no authority in our province.

One can see him with a pure eye, like the new moon.
Not every eye can hold that crescent's beauty.

Ask your own eyes who is killing us. 0 soul,
it is not the sin of ascendants and the crime of stars.

You are unaffected by the cry of Hafiz.
I am perplexed at that heart, hard as granite.

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Mowlana Jalal ad-Din Rumi Quotes

Today I craved some Rumi Poetry...

Here is what I tasted..

“Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love .”

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

“The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”

“When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.

Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them.”

“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.”

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”

“Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.”

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”

“You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?”

“Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.”

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”

“To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.”

“One day You will take my heart completely and make it more fiery than a dragon. Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.”

“Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.”

Inshallah reflect on its inner meaning..

Ahhhh Rumi, I can never get enough!

Peace be upon you!

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Friendship, Forgiveness and Cups

I’ve noticed over the last month or two what the true meaning of friendship is, well id be lying if I was a true expert. But I’ve really grasped what makes a friendship work? I’ve tried immensely over the last couple of months to fight my ego and tried not to let my nafs take control and let go of the past and the people who have hurt me. I’ve tried to reestablish ties with people who I haven’t been on good terms with for a long time, and rang them up for Eid and also at the beginning of Ramadhan, but sometimes friends can grow apart no matter how much you think of them being the same person people just change and you have to take the good as well as the bad. When one door closes another opens, and that’s an inevitable part of life, letting go and accepting that sometimes your friendship isn’t wanted and is unappreciated. But to what extent can we try? To what lengths to we go to salvage the friendship? Or maybe it’s just best to leave it and move on? I read someplace by a Sufi Poet that when a glass has a crack in it, afterwards you try to fill the same cup up again with water eventually it will drain it self out again and be empty. I believe this is the perfect analogy for the heart, when it gets devastatingly hurt, later when ties are trying to connect again and fill the heart with love, the heart will never forget the sorrow and pain and eventually the heart will just dry up, and the friendship can not work anymore, I have witnessed this, and I have tried to recover some friendships I have had in the past but ultimately if both hearts are fractured (depending on the scale of the damage done, of course) its best just to leave it. It’s really sad clearly we try to hold onto something that makes us comfortable and go to any lengths to retrieve it, but in the end its our acceptance of this inevitable that will heal the heart, and learn from our mistake. Over the last weeks I’ve observed a lot of relationships with people, and those who have reciprocated and shown mutual love and affection towards me I’ve concentrated my focus on them because these are the cups that are worth being protected from any harm or damage, and I ask Allah (swt) to guard them with all his might, and I thank him for showing me the false from the true cups, and I ask him to bless me with the wisdom of distinguishing between them in he future.

If you can try to re-establish and mend relationships, but if it is evident that they do not appreciate you or value you for the person you are. Don’t waste valuable time on them, rather spend it with those who want and cherish your company, create ties with them and keep them safe from harm, for these are the best people to be around you.

I ask those who I have upset and hurt in the past, I have tried to mend and heal the broken cups but was unsuccessful to forgive me for my short comings. We must accept the inevitable and hope fully Allah will bless us with better and greater friendships.

Allah’s mercy always rains. We just need to turn ourselves into cups and receive his blessings.

“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”- Rumi

Wasalams

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Eid Mawbarak

Eid Mawbarak!!!

Yes its that time of the year again!! May Allah (swt) accept all our fasts our prayers our charity and all our other acts of ibadah (worship) Ameen!

This year I have learnt so much over Ramadhan, I couldn’t imagine I would have learnt so much about myself. In regards to deen I’m still exceedingly deficient in knowledge and lack a lot , however I’ve discovered a lot about people, especially those around me, friends and family. I’ve studied and seen the best and worse in people, and I have to say that the friends I’ve made over this Ramadhan, I ask Allah (swt) to bless our friendship so we may remain friends for ever! I’ve let go of people in my life who have held me back, and have discouraged me from experiencing life, people who have pulled me down with them, and Allah as my witness I’m happy to say that this Eid marks a new path for myself and hopefully will further my journey to the beloved. I’m not faultless or flawless, I’m just a sinful human, however I try my best everyday to please my parents, try to be the finest friend I can be, try to be honest and trustworthy and Alhumdililah I’m lucky enough to have the such great individuals in my life that care about me. Today I think I got almost 50 txt msg’s talk about popular mind you, that was after I had to empty my inbox out. So Eid Mawbarak to everyone! And if you didn’t get my e-card, you most definitely would have gotten either a phone call or a txt message from me, but anyone I’ve forgotten once again I wish you and your family the best for this Eid, and pray for me!

Wasalams
Alis

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Marriage, Kibbiniah and other stuff

Okay so where were we, Friday night was sooo random. yesterday I spent 4 hours in the uni library trying to finish my essay, (which I handed in ALHUMDILILAH) I waited for a friend to finish and we were going to go home together. But instead went to a iftar with all the BIG sheikhs, I saw The mufti not to mention a lot of other predominate mushaykh, while we sat on the other side of the curtain from the men (THANK GOD I nearly walked into someone cause I was staring at the ground the whole time in the mens section), anyways the night was superb I never knew Arabic food was this good. If I get spoken to again in Arabic one more time I think I’m gonna scream, all I could hear was ‘arabi shaqel’ and ‘pass the kibbbnah’ along with the olive oil.. Ahh arabs are just like us Afghans.. love their food. I think I put on a few kilo’s last night, nonetheless gym starts again for me ‘properly’ next week. Anyways I have to stop talking about and thinking about food. I am at work at the moment, I think I’ll have some thai food tonight..mmm

I was thinking a lot about marriage yesterday and last night spoke with several different friends both girls and guys I have to admit the guys I spoke with (You know who you are) May Allah bless you with the best wives seriously! The main points and discussions were: How long should we get to know a person before we can decide? Should we even get to know the person at all, or give them our families number right away? I know there are countless numbers of articles and opinions on this subject however my personal experience is that you should: write down a few traits that are very important to you, once you build a foundation for your standards then you can develop from there, how are you suppose to know if he is Mr Right if you don’t know who Mr Right is? Once you have this information prioritise which is most important to you. Ie: Education, Religion, Nationality, Attractive, Family. I think it is a hazard approaching the person directly. It’s a total recipe for disaster, because there is no ‘shame’ or I suppose ‘modesty’ shown, I’m not sure how you say it in English but in farsi its called ‘haya’ when these issues of marriage fall into the hands of people with no ‘haya’ believe me, don’t expect a marriage proposal expect a bad name and no dignity left, we discussed it last night even the Guys said so too ‘guys that rather do things directly deserve to be shot’ girls are easily manipulated, and are typically naïve, easily sweet talked. So once determined if he passes the preliminary test, give your parents phone number to him, that way you can distinguish straight away if he is serious or not. Shaitan will always put doubts in your head ie: ‘get to know him, whats he like?’ etc forget it.. don’t fall for it. I mean I have a lot of friends who are male, although they might fit the criteria for marriage material, infact most do, I don’t like to put my self in a position as well as many other girls to get hurt or fall victim to love. I read a sufi quote ‘Don’t love humans because they have many short coming, give all your love to Allah as he is perfect’ it was something like that. so in short, for all the women who independant *sings destiny's child* LOL joking. In deen its best to keep things simple, I believe the same can be assumed in marriage. the more complications from the begining the more adjustments that would need to be made later on. And offcourse Alhumdililah for those special friends (you know who you are im sure you'll read this) for the great talk.


Anyways

Wasalams

ALis

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Random

Salaams

My, of my, what a different week, although I have been flat out with work and Uni commitments and also some other voluntarily commitments within 3 different groups at uni, not to mention assignments and assessments. Alhumdililah! When Allahs mercy and Noor pours down, we just need to learn how to turn ourselves into cups and receive!

Ive decided to remove all negitivity from my blog. Although that doesnt mean I cant have my random rant, we all need to vent once in a while but im going to focus on the good things in life. And as we should all reflect upon how our ramadhan was spent and how we can better prepare ourselves for next year, and mark the start of a new leaf, we should give thanks that Allah for pouring his rains of mercy on us. for me this new month marks a significant turning point for me, as alot has changed the last couple of weeks and I'll try to post as much as I can if I have the time.

Anyways

This is just a quick entry before I squeeze the last couple of words into my politics essay due tomorrow. I had the pleasure to help out with a fast-a-thon conducted by the Afghan Society at Macquarie Uni. It would be an understatement to say how lovely the brothers and sisters are! They are totally awesome! Mash`allah! I met so many non-muslims who observed the fast and it was very special to me to share such a great and important aspect of my faith so openly with others especially non-muslims and muslims alike. The afghani food was delicious there was so much left Alhumdilah it was great, we had a Afghan caterer bring us the food. And set it out buffet style. But the best part of the whole thing was unity, the sense of feeling whole. Putting aside differences Muslims, Non Muslims, shia, sunni, Afghan, lebo, Paki…etc…

Anyways will write more later.

salams

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Another rant

Salaam alaikum

Don’t you hate that feeling when you get sand stuck in your eye, and it only hurts when you close it, or that sick vomiting feeling in your gut, like your always full, how about the ‘lump in the throat’ you get and its too hard to swallow. Many say this is how it feels when the heart cries, not doves, the heart. Unconsciously moving through this world with out a slight care. A bus might hit you, or you might be struck by lightening, you might just end up falling flat on your face and dying for no reason at all. That real ‘I don’t give a toss about anything’ attitude, have you been hurt so many times that your only friend is a domestic animal? Are you sick of the shit humans have given you. I personally want to move to another planet! Being a martyr in this life is not easy; living at the expense of others is difficult. Living like a used up old doormat, where people just wipe their feet all over you, I am nothing, just a shadow, just a background noise, and just an extra. I honestly find it difficult to see this ‘light’ at the end of the tunnel everyone makes a big deal about? What if there is no light? What if you’re not destined to see the light? What if you miss the light? What if you’re just destined to struggle everyday with everything going shit all the time? Its funny you know, I use to always ask myself every Sunday morning at 4am when I got up for work, whilst everyone else slept, id say ‘I hate my life’ ‘I hate it’ ‘I hate going to work this early’ for the whole 30 mins in the car on the way to work I would whine and carry on, I suppose today its been a few hours now Its 9am now and I’m still at it, but its not about waking up early. It’s about being unappreciated, like I said before. I’m just a door mat, living like a martyr I find it hard to smile sometimes, well I should say I find it hard not to cry all the time.
I’m sick of being hurt by people. I’m sick of it. Ugh! I wish I lived on a far far far place, I wouldn’t be missed even if I did, and no-one would now where alissy went, no not at all. Maybe they’ll start to realise that there is no background noise? But then again, I suppose anyone can take my place. It’s not hard to beat me; I haven’t really accomplished anything. I better go now. The computer is shutting itself down every so often. And its bugging me. See even technology doesn’t like me. I believe there is a curse on me, everything I turn ends up hating me, or even just ignoring me, which is worse than hating. I’m going to go now I suppose I should wish all the readers a good day since mine is going absolutely crap. Toddles then.


P.s. I wrote another poem this morning. But I don’t want to post it right now. Maybe later on.

I hope there are better days.

Wasalams

Alis

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"The Beloved you've lost" -- Ghazal 2582

I want to leave this town
but you've chained me down
stolen away my heart
leaving yourself behind

now i've lost my way
my soul restless and head twisted
all because of those secrets
you once whispered

i only must keep
fasting my heart
to set me free
from sleepless nights

since your only advice
when you saw me in flame
was to keep burning
with you or with your thoughts

words of wisdom
came to me at last
"the beloved you've lost
the one you've been seeking outside
can only be found inside"

-- Ghazal 2582, from the Diwan-e Shams
Translation by Nader Khalili
"Rumi, Fountain of Fire"
Cal-Earth Press, 1995

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Another notable blog

Salaams

This is a new blog belonging to a fellow sydney-sider. Who is new to the blogosphere!

Welcome Brother Moe.

We look forward to your insights on Politics and Religion!

http://mabaddah.wordpress.com/

wassalams

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Echoes from the past

Ive just added some music to my blog.

This is the link to download it.

Otherwise you can listen to it whilst on my blog.

Khudayaaah aye Khudayaah :(

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The Diwan

If I was not so pitifully in love

I wouldn't then be standing at your door.

Don't say, "Go away, don't stand at my door!"

I wouldn't exist, my dear, if I didn't stand here.

#1923, from Rumi's Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988).

For love of you, my soul soars in the sky

As your kindness plucks music on its strings.

The smallest favor that you grant your slave

Is greater than a thousand years of prayer brings.

#939, from Rumi's Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988




If they all leave me, my love, don't go.

Friend, who drinks my sadness up, don't go.

Fill my cup with wine, and your sweet laugh.

Please, good Saghi, who lights the world, don't go.

#1579, from Rumi's Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Edited by Badiozzaman Forouzanfar (Tehran, Amir Kabir, 1988).


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What would the lover do with his heart?

The heart left,
and the Friend is -also- gone.
I don't know whether I should go after the Friend
or after the heart!
A voice spoke to me:
'Go in pursuit of the Friend,
because the lover needs a heart
in order to find union with the Friend.
If there was no Friend,
what would -the lover- do with -his- heart?'

'Kashf al Asrar', Sheikh Ansari, may Allah sanctify his soul & bless his secret

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Mathnawi VI:2669-2670

The ritual prayer is five times daily,
but the guide for lovers is the verse,
they who are in prayer continually.*
The headache of intoxication in those heads
isn't relieved by five times, nor by five hundred thousand.
"Visit once a week" is not the ration for lovers;
the soul of sincere lovers has an intense craving to drink.
"Visit once a week" is not the ration for those fish,
since they feel no spiritual joy without the Sea.

-- Mathnawi VI:2669-2670

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Bismillah ir Rahman ir Raheem.

Whenever you see someone crossing the court yard of your breast to approach the door of your heart, you strike his head from his shoulder. -Shaykh Abdal Qadir al Jilani

My Heart is poisoned, Oh Allah (swt) Help me, bring me closer to you!

I was shuffling through my journal as pictured, Even though I am I little reluctant to publicly write things so personal, on this occasion I do. I have handwritten and typed quotes from several books. I use these quotes out of pure intention not to gain any worldly benefit, but to only share the wisdom of the Scholars that I quote. Allah forgive me, for any mistyped quotes.

Recently I have drifted from my deen, not entirely but I have been deeply dwelling in other matters which have not let me practice my religion fully, worldly matters. In an attempt to ease my suffering I read some work by Sayyidina Shaykh Abdal Qadir al Jilani.

Quote Shaykh Abdal Qadir al Jilani [Allah be please with him]

“Woe unto you! You would dearly love to remain in this world forever, but nothing will fall into your hands until such time as you put the ritual prayer [salat] before the business of your shop; until such a time as you put the hereafter before your worldly interests; until such time as you put the Creator [khaliq] before his creatures [khalq]…” [Jala Al-Khawatir]

My heart is full of love for this dunya and its creatures/ Oh Allah, please remove all love for this world and creatures of this world from my heart remove all cares from my heart.

The Holy Quran:

“Allah has not assigned to any man two hearts within his body” [33:4]

Quote Shaykh Abdal Qadir al Jilani: [Allah be please with him]

“A heart that loves both creator and creatures is unsound. A heart that contains both this world and the hereafter is unsound.” [Jala Al-Khawatir]

This 1st week of Ramadan I have learnt a lot about myself, and the person I have become, and ignorant fool. Even this is an understatement. I have despised the person I have become. The Nafs driven person I have become, the selfish, vain, self centered & arrogant person I have develop into. We too often take Allah’s illumination for granted; we are dark nafs driven, and material obsessed humans, whom without Allahs light and guidance we will remain like a pitch black room lost in darkness. All the righteous and good in which we achieve are not from our own attributes, but his alone. Only an arrogant, selfish, self centered, self seeking person would assert that he has achieved such a status, Oh Allah help us! It is not our doing! We have submitted to our nafs! The nafs can only be disciplined by ourself!Now we see why our iman is constantly staggering, because we praise ourselfs for the good we do (salat, fasting, zakat etc) this in return feeds our ego's.

Quote Shaykh Abdal Qadir al Jilani: [Allah be please with him]

The true believer [mu’min] takes his own lower self [nafs] to task. When it is affected by pain and suffering, he says to it: “I gave you sound advice and you took no notice of the advice I gave you. I gave you plenty of warning! O ignorant one! O unbeliever! [kafira], o enemy of Allah!” If a person does not act as a preacher to his own lower self, he will never derive any benefit from the advice of any other preacher. If a person wishes to attain salvation [falah], he needs to give stern advice to his own lower self. He must teach it to practice abstinence and engage in constant struggle with it. .” [Jala Al-Khawatir]

My heart has been captured by my nafs, Oh Allah remove it immediately and replace it with love for you only! My heart is only for Allah. My heart only longs for the love of Allah, remove everything else!

I ask my family & friends to forgive me for anything I have done to cause them grief or sorrow. I ask them to forgive me for any distress I caused unto them. I ask Allah to forgive us all.

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Poem by Maulana Rumi Fasting

There's hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness.
We are lutes, no more, no less
If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything, no music.
If the brain and the belly are burning clean with fasting,
every moment a new song comes out of the fire.
The fog clears, and new energy makes you run up the steps in front of you.
Be emptier and cry like reed instruments cry.
Emptier, write secrets with the reed pen.
When you're full of food and drink, an ugly metal statue sits where your
spirit should.
When you fast, good habits gather like friends who want to help.
Fasting is Solomon (as) 's ring.
Don't give it to some illusion and lose your power, but even if you have,
if you've lost all will and control, they come back when you fast,
like soldiers appearing out of the ground, pennants flying above them.
A table descends to your tents, the Lord's table.
Expect to see it when you fast, this table spread with other food,
better than the broth of cabbages.

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Shahru Ramadhan from Shaykh ‘Abdul Qadir Jilani

"O you who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before you that you may (learn) self restraint." (Al-Qur`an, 2:183) - So fasting helps learn self-restraint, (Taqwa)

Begins with Mercy :- 1 st 10 days, Middle is Forgiveness 2 nd 20 days, Ends with deliverance from Hell :- 3rd 30 days

Who ever fasts will walk through the 8 th gate of Heaven called Rayyan. It is reserved only for the people of fasting. It is the month of Sabr – patient and charitable sharing.

Cultivate 4 practices and repeat them frequently which;

2 will earn your Lords pleasure

2 you just cannot afford to do without

1 st Dhikr of Shahadah la-e-laha-illal-lah

2 nd Begging for Forgiveness i.e. Astaghfirullah, Rab-bigh-fir-lee

3 rd Imploring to be granted the Garden of Paradise

4 th Taking Refuge from the Fire of Hell i.e. Allahumma jarnee min-nan-nar

It called Ramadhan because it has is a scorching effect upon sins; it burns sins away. So our bodies and hearts experience a process of purification. [so you could also understand it as, purifying yourself on earth or wait and be purified in the burning of hell fire the choice is yours ]

The sleeping of the one fasting is an act of ibadah –worship, as there silence is tasbih – saying subhanallah; moreover his dua's are sure to be answered and this good deeds will be multiplied.

Three types of people pray are answered, one of them is the one Fasting. So ask many dua's while fasting. Also the fast is a junna (suit of armour, protective shield) for the one who fast.

While doing voluntarily ibadh like nafl or dhikr at night, read from the noble Quran the verse

" Inna Fa-tahna laka fath-hum-mubeena "- We have surely given you a signal victory (48:1)

That person will receive a guarantee of safekeeping for the whole year. So read it frequently.

Every month one should try to fast al-ayyum al-bid – [White nights] which is 13 th 14 th 15 th nights of every month as the reward from the 1 st is 10,000 rewards, 2 nd 30,000 rewards, 3 rd 300,000 rewards.

Every Sajdah – prostration is 1700 rewards. Also every nafl has the equivalent of a fard pray that is 70 times. As a fard is 70 times more than a nafl pray.

Only on Friday and Shahru Ramadhan there is no Hisaab – [reckoning] given if you spend your wealth. For you will be questioned on how to spent your wealth on the day of Reckoning, expect Friday and Shahru Ramadhan.

The garden of Paradise will be refurbished and re-decorated every month of Ramadhan and the maidens of Paradise will splendidly adorn themselves and be requesting for a suitor to marry.

No servant who keeps the fast at least one day of the month of Ramadhan, can possibly fail to be married to a wife from brides of Paradise.

Who ever provides Iftar –[breaking of Fast] for someone, will be forgiven for their sins and earn freeing from hellfire, also be granted the rewards of actions of the one fasting, without the one fasting losing anything. Even if giving a dried date, you will be rewarded. Providing a satisfying Iftar you will be rewarded by drinking from the hawd –[Basin] of Allah; you will never feel thirsty after drinking it.

In this Month Allah will ask 3 times "Does anyone have a request to make, so I may grant his request? Is there anyone who wishes to repent, so that I may relent towards him and accept his repentance? Is there anyone wishing to seek forgiveness, so I may forgive him?…"

Warning !

Do not say Ramadhan in a sentence, say like the Quran says Shahru Ramadhan 2:185

There are many that fast by the day and get nothing but hunger and thirst and by the night spend it in qiyam layla – [ night vigil ]pray and get nothing but insomnia. Why? Looking with desire, backbite, lying breaks the fast.

There are 4 exception who will not be forgiven in the month of Ramadhan

Addicted to alcohol

Disobedient and disrespectful towards parents

Guilty of disrupting bonds of kinship – relatives and families fighting

Reluctant to abandon a grudge and stubbornly unwilling to accept the restoration of good relations with anyone who has offended him.

Composed by Muhammad Sajad Ali Qadiri Noshahi

Excerpts from Al-Ghunya li-Talibi Tariq al-Haqq Vol.3 by Shaykh ‘Abdul Qadir Jilani

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Ramadhan Kareem

Asalaamualikum.

What an eventful week it has been for me. I haven’t had the much wanted time to prepare for Ramadan this year. I have been flat out at work and at Uni, I’m on Uni break at the moment. I should be finishing my 2 essays due in a few weeks. but this weekend I’m just relaxing, Its astonishing the calm and tranquility that comes over you during Ramadan. My boss is in China at the moment and has left me in charge so I was thinking of doing a magical disappearing act just before Ramadan, but it doesn’t look like that will be happening, considering a guy at my work (a new guy), broke the computer at work! I had to order a new one, the other guy borrowed the company car and smashed it! I’m not looking forward to telling my boss this. All happened on my 2 days off! LOL men! Apart from the annual Muslim Sydney Clash over what day it is actually Ramadan, I’m quite content, as I myself being a Naqshbandi, Shaykh Nazim has ordered us to start today Sunday 24th in Australia! Although some of my Family started yesterday and some are starting tomorrow, I’m tired of telling people why I’m fasting today. I should just have a sign on my forehead! Enough of my rant. I’m trying to clean this blog up. I have a lot of links that need to be updated and I promised myself I would try to write more often, as I believe I was accused of having a 'cut & paste' blog by a discourteous person last year.

I leave you all a quote that touched me!

Ramadan Kareem

Alis Abawi

If love were only spiritual,
the practices of fasting and prayer would not exist.
The gifts of lovers to one another are,
in respect to love, nothing but forms;
yet, they testify
to invisible love.

Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi, may Allah sanctify his soul & bless his secret
Mathnavi, 'Rumi Daylight', Translated by C. Helminski

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New Links

Salaams

heres another notable blog

BinGregory

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Salaams

Please check out one of my new blogs.

Dedicated to Politics.

Politics Of War

Wasalams

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Burned Alive

Its almost certainly a huge turnaround from my book collection, but a definite eye opener. I assume Muslims today deny that Honour Killings occur in our culture. But what would we know? I mean I've lived in Sydney for over 20 years. Who am I to say what takes place in a village back home in Afghanistan, The nasty truth is that Honour Killings do take place. So Muslims should accept it as a cruel reality, recognise its existence in society (predominantly Arab cultures) and speak out against it, because it is rather apparent that Islam denounces any brutality against women and children. I read this book in one day from cover to cover. It really draws you in from the first few pages.

Alis


Burned Alive: A Victim of the Law of Men
by Souad



suddenly felt a cold liquid running over my head and instantly I was on fire. It is like a movie that has been speeded up, images racing past. I start to run in the garden, barefoot. I slap my hair, I scream. I feel my dress billow out behind me. Was my dress on fire, too?
I smell the gasoline and I run, the hem of my long dress getting in the way. My terror leads me instinctively away from the courtyard. I run toward the garden as the only way out. I know I'm running and I'm on fire and I'm screaming. But I remember almost nothing after that. How did I get away? Did he run after me? Was he waiting for me to fall so he could watch me go up in flames?

The first true account ever published by a victim of an "honor crime," Souad's testimony is a shocking, moving, and harrowing story of cruelty...and incomparable courage.

BURNED ALIVE

When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. In her Palestinian village, as in so many other villages, sex before marriage is considered a grave dishonor to one's family and is punishable by death. This was her crime. Her brother-in-law was given the task of meting out her punishment. One morning while Souad was washing the family's clothes, he poured gasoline over her and set her on fire.

In the eyes of their community he was a hero. An execution for a "crime of honor" is a duty, and Souad's brother-in-law had the full support of her parents.

Miraculously, she survived, rescued by women of her village, who put out the flames and took her to a local hospital. Horribly burned over ninety percent of her body and still denounced by her family-who strived to "finish the job" even as she lay suffering in the clinic-Souad was able to receive the care she needed only after the intervention of a European aid worker. Now in permanent exile from her homeland, she has decided to tell her story and reveal the barbarity of a practice that continues to this day.

More than five thousand honor killings are reported every year; many more go unreported. BURNED ALIVE is both the dramatic, heartbreaking, and inspiring testimony of one young woman's resolve to survive and build a new life-and a call to action to end a heinous tradition.

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Darvish

Salaams,

Yes Im BACK!! I know I know I didnt really go anywhere..

Just wanted to post a link of a Good friends Blog, Dear Brother Irving Karchmar the Author of "Master of the Jinn" YES he has a BLOG!!

And I love this quote!

“I will walk a thousand leagues in falsehood, that one step of the journey may be true.” - Junayd

Darvish Blog

This blog has everything from Sufism to Current affairs!

Awesome stuff, Good stuff Irving!

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Sohbet from 14.5.06

(Courtesy of Khairiyah Siegel)

Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim
Sohbet from 14.5.06

We Must Rebuild Our Personality!

Astaghfirullah!...
Tubtu wa rajatu ila-llah…
Tubna wa rajana ila-llah!…
Destur, ya Sultanu-l Awliya
Meded, Meded, ya Rijalallah, a´inuna bi madadikum!

As-salamu alaikum!... O our Lord, put Your weak servants under Your Divinely
Protection! Therefore - you must try to say as much as possible more: As-salamu
alaikum, As-salamu alaikum, As-salamu alaikum!…

As-Salam, peace - when you are saying (it) too much, (it is) bringing peace to
you and (to) everything around yourself and also spreading that blessings and
mercy through East and West. But now people are not using too much to say:
As-salamu alaikum. Say (it), as much as possible!

And we are saying: As-salamu alaikum! As salamu alaikum, ya ´ibadallahi salihin…
Allah Allah…Allah Allah…

And we are asking Divinely Support; and Divinely Support (is) never coming to
people directly. That is like a - as we are saying it for understanding -
blessing is coming like Niagara Falls. You can't reach to take from that, but if
it is going through pipes, (you) may drink (from it), (you) may use it.
Therefore, Awliya, whole Alwiyas, Awliyas means, Waliyullah that means: Friend
of Allah, or (someone) who is going to be friendly to Allah. Try to be friendly
to Allah! But people (are) running to be friends of Shaytan, because it is (from
the) Last Days' signs that people should run to be friends of Shaytan and very
few people (are) running to be Friends of Allah Almighty.

And you can't be friend of Allah Almighty, till you are going to be friend to
His most beloved servant SayyidinaMuhammad - sallaLlahu ´alayhi wa sallam! And
you can't be reaching to that point- to be friend of Rasulullah - sallaLlahu
´alayhi wa sallam - till you are going to be friendly to (the) friends of
Rasulullah - sallaLlahu ´alayhi wa sallam. If you are not reaching (the) friends
of Rasulullah - sallaLlahu ´alayhi wa sallam, you can't reach to be friend of
Allah Almighty!

A´udhu bi-llahi mina shaytani rajim! O our Lord, please give Your Protection on
Your weak servants! We are saying: "We are weak servants, please make Your
Divinely Protection on ourselves, not to be friends of Shaytan!" Friends of
Shaytan (are) going to be in Hells, (and it is) beginning here, they are
burning! They are burning from inside of themselves or (from) outside (they are)
burning, but they are insisting to be, yet to be, friends of Shaytan!

Say: "A´udhu bi-llahi mina shaytani rajim, o our Lord, we are running to You,
not to be friends to Shaytan!" Say! In such a meaning say: A´udhu bi-llahi mina
shaytani rajim!…

People (are) coming to me, saying: "O Sheikh, I am ill, but I am going to
Doctors (and) they are sending me to tahlil, analysis, (saying): 'Go to that one
to make (a) check-up for yourself and bring that (result) to me to look', and I
am going (to a) different analysts, (the) analyst (is) saying: 'Oh, you are…
nothing with you, you are okay!' "But" - he is insisting - "I am (still) feeling
that I am not healthy!"

Yes… but yet there are not thinking that that is something (which is) not
belonging to their material being, no, (it is something) from inside! Yet they
are not coming to say, to accept that we have another being through ourselves
that that is our souls. They (are) never going to ask, to make a check-up for
their souls. (They are) running to make check-up (for) every organ through
themselves, but they (are) never going to look, to make a check-up for their
souls, no, because people (are) becoming such materialists. They are thinking
(that they are) only material beings. Material beings never making a thing to
move by itself, no.

(A) car is a car, but you must put in its box a kind of water and that water
(is) changing in(to) another… position and moving… making car to move. They are
always looking: "What is the matter? Our car can't walk, (but) we are looking
(that) everything (is) okay." "Look, if it has fuel"… "What is fuel? Our car is
okay, for what fuel?" "Ya Hu, without fuel your car can't move!"…

People (are) running to Doctors. (The) doctor (is) saying: "You are 100% okay!"
"O Doctor, if 100 % I am okay, why I am coming to you? I am feeling something in
myself that (is) making me not to be rest; (there is) disturbing me something
from inside. What is that?" "You must go to Haci X… there is a person that he
may understand such a matters…what is their name?… Their name (is)
psychiatrists… And so many psychiatrists (are) coming to Sheikh, saying: "O
Sheikh, I am feeling no good!" "What you are doing?" I am asking. "Psychiatry."
"Ahhh… psychiatry… and you are coming to me for (a) treatment, to treat you?"…
I am saying first: "Jump!" If (he is) jumping, I am saying: "You are alright,
okay, go away, finished!" "(But) I am coming for (a) check-up!" "That is my
check-up! If you are jumping, (it) means, (that) you are okay, nothing (wrong)
with you!… (But) if (it is) not enough (for you), (we make) another check-up:
Run from up to that side!" "For what?" "There is a cat running in front of you,
run and catch it!"… I am psychiatrists' doctor! All psychiatrists also they are
strange…antika… All psychiatrists, their minds out of their minds, two feet… "I
am trying you, if you are okay or not." "I can't be!" "You can't be? (Then) you
must try to run every day 100 meters to catch a cat. Catch and bring (it) to
me!" "How…?" "I am doctor of psychiatrists, you don’t know! Come, what I am
saying to you, it is okay!"

(For) everything: Check-up! But for psychiatrists - they are unhappy to be
checked up! You are making check-up for people and (you are) saying: "Nothing
(wrong) with you", but I am looking that you also (are) falling into a deep
well, (and) you can't be able to take yourself out. That is my check-up to you!

And we are in need (for someone) who (is) making (a) check-up for our unknown
being, souls! The authority for that just (has been) granted to Prophets. Then,
Prophets, from Prophets that (have been) granted to make a check-up, (it is)
granted- what they have been permitted (to do)- (to those who are) through
Prophets line people. They may do this, not (just) anyone (who is) saying: "I
can do!" You cant do! But people are running non-sensely to make a check-up,
check-up… for themselves and it is impossible. Really we are in need a check-up
for our souls and who can do that check-up for our souls? Those whom they are
authorized with heavenly Authority, authorised by heavenly Authority! They can
do only this, not (just anyone who is) going (to a) school (and who is) reading,
reading, reading… They can't understand anything!
And they are so very rare now, (these authorized people), because people are
running to make their check-up with psychiatrists and their level (is) on (the)
same level (with them) and (so) they can't take any benefit. Finished, finished!
Mankind just finished, because they are in ruins innerly. In ruins! They must
rebuild their personalities once again!
First they must try to recognize their real identity. Who are you? First, for
rebuilding himself through this life, to recognize himself: Who are you? Someone
must teach him: Who are you? Because by yourself you can't know, who are you.
You can see everything, except yourself; your eyes (are) looking and seeing
everything, except yourself. What you are in need? You need a mirror!

(You are looking into the mirror), (but) you say that: "I am this one (in the
mirror)?" (Then) you must bring two witnesses (to confirm to you) that through
that mirror you are that one! By himself he can't recognize himself also in (a)
mirror! He may think: "That is another one! I am not this one, because I am not
looking myself, putting myself second to that and to see that this and this
(are) same no. Perhaps that mirror it is a strange instrument, showing shadows,
showing something in it." But if no one in that area, you can't say that: 'This
is, I am that one.' You need two witnesses (to tell you) that: "This you are,
you are looking. That is mirror, showing to you."

Therefore, (for a) man who is asking: Who are you? (there) must be a person like
(a) mirror (for him), to be able to show (to him): "You are this one!" When he
is accepting, what he is saying, then that person (is) just permitted to build,
to rebuild your existence, to manifest yourself again, as before. Because you
are in ruins, destroyed; your real being (is) destroyed, therefore you are in
need a rebuilding, and rebuilding (is) only (for) those people, who have been
granted heavenly Lights and (who are) authorized through Heavens- not from
earth, no! (Authorization) from earth (it means:) on our level…(the) level of
animals…zoo level…We are on zoo level…(They are) putting some examples in(to
the) zoo-garden, but (they are) not putting one man inside also that we are on
same level!… You went zoo-garden?… You have been in zoo-garden?… I went also,
but I was escaping, not to put me also in another place… (because they are
saying) that: "This one also (is) on that level, (he is an) animal!"…

Our level (is the) first level, (that) of animals. Only (that) we have been
granted (the ability) for speaking, other animals are not speaking. Same
qualities that they have, we have same also, only they are running on four legs,
we are running on two legs… But we must get up for rebuilding our real
personality!

If you are not recognizing yourself, you can't be able to understand anything!
(then you are) coming (here as a) 'hayvan', going (as a) 'hayvan', coming as
(an) animal, and going as an animal… And this life that people (are) living now,
it is not (on the) 2nd level of real mankind. Because first level (people),
their characteristic (is) on… same character, all of them! If they are getting
on (the) 2nd level, they can't touch like this…(they) can't give (troubly to
anyone)… (they) can't harm anyone!

Once my Grandsheikh showed me in Mecca Mukarrama Baitu-llah sharafaha-llah:
"Look, Nazim Effendi, up!" I am looking one, first level people: they are making
Tawwaf, but they are quarrelling and making everything, giving harm (to) people,
pushing them, pulling them… but the 2nd one, (there) I am looking and seeing a
group of people, (that) they are like butterflies… no sound… no trouble…no
harming…! (On the) first level, (the) level of animals; they are giving to each
other harm, biting, hitting, everything they are doing…

Now look and say truth! What is the level of living people, whom they are
claming that: "We reached to top of civilization"? They are so big liars,
because that is Shaytan's teaching to them, to say: "Now you are on top level of
civilization!" For what? "Because you have so many kinds of weapons and high
technology you have, therefore you reached (the) top of civilization." And I am
saying: "Yet you are on (the) same level (with animals)! Technology (is) never
taking you (up to be) on (the) second level. Only spirituality can take you (up)
and your spirituality (is) under (such) heavy pressure (that) you can't be able
to leave it, to reach to that point." And people are trying to kill, to harm
people, to destroy - what is that? That is the level of mankind? I am sorry to
say (that) it is not (the) level of real… human beings level. And I am sorry to
say that even animals level they are not accepting (these people on) their level
and (so they are) kicking them down! Kicking them down!

That is the position, general view of our world in our days that it is last
days, and we are reaching to Yaum al-Qiyyama…

O people, come and listen and ask truth! To ask truth, it is your most important
characteristic (as human beings). You must ask truth and you must try to learn
(the) truth about your life (so) that you should be up (on the 2nd level), never
harming (anyone). Therefore - (the) Prophet - sallaLlahu ´alayhi wa sallam -
(was) saying: "A surrendered people"- that people are running away from Islam,
the name of Islam; they are hating (it) and (they are) running away (from it),
but really Islam what (it is) saying? (it is saying): "A real Muslim (is
someone) who (is) never harming people, (neither) by his tongue, (nor) by his
hand, (or) by his power." They are not real Muslims, now (these) people,
Muslims! You are looking and seeing what (is) happening! And people (are)
thinking that Islam (is) ordering to kill people without any… with reason or
without reason! (They are) destroying every day and they are saying: "In the
name of Islam!" A´udhu bi-llah! Allah takes them away! Takes them away…

Don’t be with them! Don’t say that they are doing good! That is not Islam and
they are not Muslims! Only by name; their names may be written Muslims, but they
are so far - as far (as the) earth (is far) from Heavens, they are far away from
Islam!…

May Allah forgive us and bless you!

For the honour of the most honoured one in His Divine Presence
SayyidinaMuhammad - sallaLlahu ´alayhi wa sallam, Fatiha.

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Offical notice

Salaamualykum,

This was emailed to me via a e-group,

I wont actually comment on this right now.

Meddad Ya Sultan

Statement of non-association with Naqshbandi Michigan

BISMILLAHIRRAHMANIRRAHIM

Selam aleykum,

This is an offical notice to assert the authorized mission of Sheykh
Abdul Kerim al-Hakkani al-Kibrisi and the integrity of the Osmanli
Dergahi. Sheykh Abdul Kerim works world-wide, independently of any
other sheykh, with the permission and under the direct orders of
Mevlana Sheykh Nazim al-Hakkani al-Kibrisi.

This is a statement that the Osmanli Naks-i'bendi Hakkani Dergahi
(aka Osmanli Dergahi) has no connections whatsoever with Sheykh
Hisham Kabbani, his organizations based in Michigan, or any of his
deputies, associations, web sites, mailing lists, programs, etc. The
the Osmanli Naks-i'bendi Dergahi is a completely seperate entity from the "Naqshbandi Haqqani Sufi Order" of America.

Sheykh Abdul Kerim and the Osmanli Dergahi take orders directly from Mevlana Sheykh Nazim al-Hakkani al-Kibrisi. Sheykh Hisham Kabbani and his spokespeople do not speak for, and cannot speak for, Sheykh Abdul Kerim and the Osmanli Dergahi.

We have our work. They have theirs.

The purpose of this notice is a matter of protocol to make the
situation perfectly clear after a serious breach of etiquette on the
part of Sheykh Kabbani and his people. It has been over forty days
since the NY Times published an article in which the reporter
attacked by insinuation Sheykh Abdul Kerim's legitimacy as an
Islamic leader and as a Sheykh of the Tarikat. In that article,
Sheykh Kabbani's spokespeople - Abdul Haqq Sazanoff and Sanaa Nadim
- supported that view.

From the article:
"On its Web site, Mr. Fuat's group says that he is a deputy of
Grandshaykh Muhammad Nazim, the spiritual leader of the worldwide
Naqshbandi-Haqqani Sufi Order. But Abdul Haqq, a spokesman for that
order in North America, said he is not.
'He has made his own group,' Mr. Haqq said."

Neither Sheykh Kabbani nor Abdul Haqq have contacted Sheykh Abdul
Kerim Efendi to retract the statement, and to offer an apology.
Whatever their misunderstanding or ignorance in prior years and
months, they in fact knew Abdul Haqq's statement to be
categorically false when the article went to press. We had informed
the reporter of Sheykh Mevlana's message to Sheykh Abdul Kerim,
posted publicly on the http://www.naksibendi.org site with English
translation. Sheykh Mevlana definitively and with emphasis addresses
Sheykh Abdul Kerim as "Sheykh", states that Sheykh Abdul Kerim has
been working with permission for Islam, and he says that Sheykh
Abdul Kerim in fact has inherited and earned the title of "Evliya".
The reporter read Sheykh Mevlana's statement about Sheykh Abdul Kerim.

She later showed her true colors by never mentioning
Sheykh Mevlana's words in her article. But she contacted the
Kabbani organization to ask them about it just before publication.
Immediately, an order went out from their headquarters sending a delegation to Sheykh Mevlana to pressure him to say that he had excommunicated Sheykh Abdul Kerim. But alhamdulillah, they did not get the response they wanted, which would have pleased them and the New York Times.

This notice is intended for everyone on the Osmanli Naks-i'bendi
mailing list, as well as any other interested or effected parties.
We are putting out this message to clear the minds of anyone who believes in Sheykh Abdul Kerim and his work, to address the confusion and fitna that has been put out and going around for years. We have kept silent for a long time, amd we were still intending to keep silent up until the day they went public in the press. They are the reason that this has become open. We are protecting the rights of Sheykh Mevlana, of Sheykh Abdul Kerim, and our rights. Our Sheykh - Sheykh Abdul Kerim - and the Osmanli Naks-i'bendi murids around the world, are following Sheykh Mevlana's orders now, and inshallah we will do so until eternity.

Our message to Sheykh Hisham Kabbani's Naqshbandi group, and to all
others who are attacking us, is that they should stop the attacks on
us. They should stop partnering with enemies of Islam. And we should
all work together under the banner of Sheykh Mevlana for Allah and
for His Prophet aleyhi as-salatu ve selam.

All praises to our Lord Allah subhuana ta'ala and to our
Prophet aleyhi as-salatu ve selam, who is the most beloved
one in His Divine presence, and to our most beloved Master
and Guide Mevlana Sheykh Muhammad Nazim al-Hakkani.

If you still have not heard Sheykh Mevlana's unequivocal support of
Sheykh Abdul Kerim and his mission, you may go to
http://www.naksibendi.org/Extras/20051216_1426-ThulQada-14_MSN_Message_to_SAK.wma

The English translation is at
http://www.naksibendi.org/Extras/20051216_1426-ThulQada-14_Message_from_Seyh_Mevlana_to_Sheykh_Abdul_Kerim_English.rtf

If you have questions, please direct them to
osmanlinaksibendi@gmail.com Inshallah we will do our best to answer.

Allah'a emanet olunuz,
Moderator










BismillahirRahmanirRahim. Peace and blessings be upon Holy Prophet, his Companions, and his Family, and upon all the sincere followers of Prophet (asws), and those who follow them.
Our intention on this list is to provide the source for all postings which are not originated by our group members inshallah. You are welcome to forward messages from the Osmanli Naks-i'bendi Hakkani Dergahi group to any other group or list.

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Update

Salaamualykum Wr Wb

I just got off the phone from my mother, and my grandmama has a 5% chance of living if the life support machine goes off due to other infections that have also occured such as pneumonia.. :(

I would like it very much if all readers could recite al-fatiha for my grandmother, and May Allah grant her Jannah, make her death painless and easy and give sabr to the families affected by her absence. If that is "qesmat"

A very sad and sorrowful warriorEtte..

:( :( :(

Meddad Ya Sultan

Wasalams

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Apologies

Bismillah irahman irraheem

Salaamualykum.

My Apologies for not updating this blog for such a long time.

I have had some personal problems regarding my health & also my sick grandma in Atlanta who is currently on life support.

My Beautiful Mother has just arrived in Atlanta Safely Alhumdililah I heard her voice at 345am (Sydney Time)

Jazak Allah Khier to those who have been giving me support through this difficult time. Special thanks to the Naqshbandi Mureeds in sydney who conducted a zikr on my grandma's behalf. Jazak Allah khier.

Think of me in your Du'a's and look after yourselves!

asalaamualykum

Humble Regards

Alis

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Dervish Art

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Sohbet from 16.04.06

Courtesy of Sister Khairiyah Siegel



Sohbet from 16.04.06

Islam came to give us eternal life, not to kill!

Audhu bi-llahi mina Shaytan rajim
Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim
La haula wa la quwatta illa bi-llahi-l Aliyu-l Adhim.

As-salamu alaikum, wa rahmatullah wa barakatu!

That is a Blessings from Heavens to the Children of Adam that they are living on this planet, over the world: As-salamu alaikum belongs to Heavens. Good morning, good evening, bonsoir, bongiorno, kalimeras, kalisperas, gnaydin, tnaydinthese words belong to earth, nothing in it.

As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatu, it is holy words, holy words, that all Prophets were using (and) Allah Almighty (Himself) using (them) and saying: Salamun ala Nuhin bi-l alaminSalamun ala Musa wa HarounSalamun ala IlyasinSalamun ala Ibrahim

Salam (is) from Heavens to the Children of Adam. Who (is) accepting that Heavenly Salam, they should be happy, they should be under His Divinely Protection. Therefore the Seal of Prophets - sallaLlahu alayhi wa sallam - was urging his Ummah to say much more Salam, Salam. Salam, peace, as much as you are using it, coming from Heavens Blessings. Salam (is) calling down Blessings from Heavens and Heavens belongs to Allah Almighty.

Everything for Him and Allah Almighty likes to give His Blessings, but people are not thinking on it, particularly in our days people; (they are) never taking any care on Heavenly Blessings or Blessings from Heavens to come on them. And when they are loosing Blessings, instead [of] Blessings cursing [is] coming, (a) cursing that so many nations after Heavenly cursing (were) just destroyed and taken away.

And now it is Last Days. We are reaching Last Days or we reached Last Days, and after Last Days That means a train (is) just entering (the) station area; after a while the train must stop.: Last station!- stopping there. And now our world also just reached Last Days, showing. Showing (the station) Last Days, that means you are reaching the Day of Resurrection; that means the period of this world and life on it (is) going to be ended, to finish. You are going and the trumpet is blown, that means no any creation (is) going to be in life. Taking their lives; after that trumpet nothing (is) going (to be) alive on this world, finished. (The) Book (is going to be) closed and to be taken in Divine Presence.

But people are thinking that: Oh, (there are still) so many thousands of years for this world or so many millions years to be ended this solar system or this galaxy, (until it) may be finished. How it can finish? They are saying: We are looking, muraqaba, observing, we are looking up through Heavens, no, through space - they are not saying Heavens, they are saying space - and through space just we recorded some Holes, they are saying Black Holes, and we are looking that Black Holes (are) swallowing (everything), like (a) hoover. (What is) passing around them, (they are) taking, and disappearing They are recording that Black Holes, but there is some another holes that perhaps on same stage: one side (is) swallowing, one side (is) making another galaxies and sending (them) away But that (is) unknown

They are looking only for creation that they are disappearing, finishing, and really the creation (is) running, creation (is) never going to stop. From which time (it is)? For creation (there is) no time! Creation (is) running on, no one (is) knowing its beginning or ending, only you are looking and seeing that we have been landed on that planet and we cant know when it happened and we (are) never going to know when it is going to be ended. But creation, Allah Almightys Divinely Attribute (is) to create; He is Creator. You may ask: From which time? No time! No watch to see) which hour (it is) beginning? They are saying: (There was a) Big Bang in one billionth part of one second, they are saying so nice and people (are) saying: Big Bang - (let Big Bang fall on your head Big Ben in London Bells on that Big Bang falls on them! And they are saying: ) This is true. They are saying for Heavenly Books: We are not accepting, but (they are) accepting that Big Bang! Big Bang (is) kicking and eating them! That is famous knowledge for them and also Darwins theory; his famous theory for the beginning of life. They are thinking that they were ready and looking, not happening. Holy Books Verses knowledge, they are saying, we are not accepting, but (for) such foolishness (like these theories) they are saying: That is positive knowledge. That cant be positive knowledge! They are only their imagination, theory!

They are saying: From apes coming man and one person (was) asking me: Oh Sheikh, they are saying that mankind (is) coming from apes. But I am surprising - apes from where coming? I am saying: Ya Hu, you are no mind person! If mankind (is) coming from apes, apes (are) also coming from man, finished (Hmmm, I was) never thinking on it Only (that) apes (are) created nighttimes, man on daytime Never thinking!

We have been honoured by knowledge; the honour of mankind (is) by knowledge, because angels were saying: O our Lord, You are saying that I am creating a new creature to be My deputy on earth, My Khalifa, and our knowledge (is) reaching (to and), we are knowing about that new creature that they should be with each other so rough, so pitiless, so oppressors, so violent, (that) even wild animals should be ashaming when they are looking the violence of that creature that You named them Bani Adam, Adam!

(Now people (are) looking and seeing some creatures, lions and wild animals, running after some other animals, hunting them and eating, and they are saying: (They are) so wild creatures! But those creatures, wild animals, they are saying: We are only hunting one for our provision. Then we are sitting and making glorifying our Lord that He gave, (He) granted us to eat (and) to be satisfied and we are glorifying our Lord. But you, mankind, we are hunting one, but you are killing, killing thousands and millions (of) people - how you are blaming ourselves that we are wild animals? You are most wild creatures!)

And [the] angels were saying this that they were astonishing, hayret, hayran, mutaajiban they are not getting against that (what) Allah Almighty (is) creating, but they (were) giving their mutaala, their opinions on that point, and Allah Almighty (was) saying:

I know. I know what you know, (and) I (also) know what you are not knowing! And: allama-llaha Adam asma then Allah Almighty (was) teaching Adam, giving to Adam (a) knowledge that angels they are not knowing, (not) even Azazil, Shaytan. (Before getting against the Order of Allah Almighty Shaytans name was Azazil, an honoured name, but when he did (that rebellion) against the holy Command, just changed his creation and his name also just changed.)

He Almighty (was) teaching Adam (a) knowledge that angels (were) not knowing and Allah Almighty (was) asking: Say, o angels, the names (of) that (which is) surrounding you; the names (of) everything that (is) surrounding you! and they are saying: O our Lord, we havent (been) granted such a knowledge! And Allah Almighty (was) ordering: O Adam, teach them! Say! And Adam (was) beginning to say what Allah Almighty granted to him from knowledge and the angels (were) bowing. Then Allah Almighty (was) ordering: Bow to Adam!

The honour that (was) granted (to) Adam - alayhi salam - (was) for that knowledge that no one (was) granted from (other) creatures; it is the honour of mankind, but now I am sorry to say that those people, whom they are claiming that they are scholars or scientists or masters or doctors, they are not saying Holy Books Knowledge as a knowledge! That is inhitat, a falling from the level of mankind down.

Just they fell down from the knowledge, from the level of mankind coming (and) falling down and going to be on the level of animals. And animals (even) are not accepting them, (but) kicking them down, those people, whom they are not accepting Heavenly Books Knowledge as a knowledge. Kicking them away. They are like animals, Allah (is) saying, (and) not only like animals, but their level (is even) lower than the level of animals!
Animals are knowing their Lords Name, their Lord, that He is creating them, but those two legs animals, whom they are saying: We are scholars, scientists and doctors, their level (is) under the level of (those) 4 legs creatures.

And you are looking now their theories to where (they are) bringing them! Their theories (are) bringing them to kill each other! A lion (is) hunting one, but they are killing hundreds. Look what they are doing in their countries! They kill each other and they are killing innocent people!