Hani, a murid associated with Michigan sent me this letter with excerpts of an apology. I did not take these excerpts and ‘cut and paste’, so that much is for everyone to know.
The letter:
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audhu bil-Lahi min ash-Shaytan ar-RAJEEM
Bismillah hir-Rahman ir-Raheem
Yursil Bhai:
as-Salaamu ‘alaykum, wa rahmatullahi, wa barakatuhu!
You have one more sohbet to watch. It is nearly 1 hour and 20 minutes long.
Within it, towards the end, Sayyidi Sheykh Hisham is addressing Sheyh AbdelKerim directly again. This time it is not from Michigan but from Singapore. He is publicly giving him an apology and an invitation. View the whole sohbet here please:
http://www.sufilive.com/Suhbah_1-2386.html
I’ve put a few excerpts below, but I strongly recommend you shut out all distractions while watching this video in its entirety please. The full power of the suhba cannot be appreciated if it is not viewed in its entirety.
Excerpts:
“I am not saying this with disrespect to any of the khalifas. No, I am saying with love to you. Personally, Sheykh AbdelKarim. Because I love you and I respect you since New York. We were together, you remember. And I visited you in your restaurant in Brooklyn. You remember that. And I came to your house…we ate bread and salt. But:
وَذَكِّرْ فَإِنَّ الذِّكْرَى تَنفَعُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ
“And remind, for reminding profits the believers.” Qur’an 51:55I am not an enemy to you. No, I am a brother and might be lower than you. No problem. I respect you, I love you, but it’s good to remind people. I am older than you. You respect my age if nothing else. I gave you respect now.
You give respect. And I am not far, you know my way. You used to come every time. Every one month, two months, you used to visit. You can come. You are most welcome! You and your group. “
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“So my humble apology to all of you if I said something that you were not happy with.
But don’t cut and paste what I am saying. Keep the lecture from beginning to end if you want to keep it, not cutting and pasting. Because [when you are] cutting and pasting you are responsible in front of Allah & His Prophet and in front of Awliyullah that you did a confusion. I am clearing the confusion.”
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“We cannot see something that would be difficult on our hearts. So out of that I spoke what I spoke. May Allah Subhana wa Ta’Ala forgive us and forgive everyone and may Allah Subhana wa Ta’Ala grant us the power to say sorry. We say sorry. Don’t cut and paste. You can say sorry and come and visit. I am older than you. You come as you usually used to come. wa min Allahi tawfiq bi hurmatil Faitha.
This is for everyone. That’s not for a particular person. For me, for them, for everyone! May Allah swt benefit us from this and support us and bless us. Bi hurmatil Habib bi hurmatil Fatiha.
Allahumma salli ‘ala Sayyidina Muhammadin Nabi al-Ummi wa ‘ala Alihi wa Sahbihi wa Salli
the truth on 
m.a.kidwai,CME/IND.RLY.(retd.) on 
BismillahirRahmanirRahim
I’ve turned off comments on these posts. This is my own personal reaction and definitely I did not even talk to Seyh Abdul Kerim after reading this and listening to the apology. These are my words 1000%. All my words from the beginning have been my own 1000% except for when I quote from sohbet.
Sheykh Abdul Kerim is Halife of Sheykh Maulana, he is an ambassador representing him to the public. He is doing this job for years. His family is remembered and honored in this Way. Do not attack anymore.
The apology is a start to a beginning.
There was no right to say anyone is crazy, drugs, Abu Lahab and Umm Lahab. Your followers laughing along with you. This is what I hope is being apologized for.
I will add, that S. Hisham asking for an apology from Seyh Abdul Kerim . Seyh Abdul Kerim said not one word to him. But murids from around the world came to show their solidarity with their beloved Seyh Abdul Kerim. Seyh did not call him Abu Lahab, Seyh Abdul Kerim did not call him madman, Seyh Abdul Kerim said inshaAllah we will HELP THEM. So what apology is he looking for?
You think Seyh Abdul Kerim made these responses? No. That is not his work, but people out of love made these responses. Video responses, text responses, letters, phone calls. Each one is responsible for their own work. I shared just a handful of them on the website so Michigan could see how their words were HURTING others.
Since President of Cyprus came these attacks started for no reason in public, and they have been going on for years before. In NY Times your people said we are excommunicated from Naqshbandi’s and other ridiculousness, it is not us who sent Kaafir reporters to you. It is not us giving world wide sohbets making slander about you.
So many videos were sent to me asking me to share with the world, I did not. Just one I showed as a taste.
Stop the attacks, and my advice is don’t apologize with one hand and attack with the other about halife. Seyh Effendi is not after any chair. He says openly he wants to die when Maulana passes. So that is no excuse for these attacks.
I hope we will one day hear a real apology for calling Seyh Abdul Kerim Abu Lahab and us his murids worse than Abu Lahab. A real apology for mental institution comments. A real apology for drugs comments. A real apology for comments about sending j-nns. A real apology for an attack everyday for over a week. A real apology for saying Seyh Abdul Kerim is doing against Maulana’s wishes. Let us hear that, that will be a miracle.
Let us hear that Seyh Abdul Kerim is following Maulanas orders in the US and that the whole world doesn’t belong to one person except Maulana.
Everyone has their work to do, why do we interfere?
So Seyh Abdul Kerim did nothing to you.
But maybe you are asking for apology from murids…
There are thousand+ comments on this incident on various posts on my blog. I cannot apologize for everyone’s words. I cannot apologize for the thousands of people that visited my site and sent comments, video, emails, started websites and youtube videos. I give this forum to show the truth of how your words hurt people around the world, and you saw the truth that the attacks were hurting people.
I personally did not curse anyone.
Maybe we will go to Michigan, who knows?
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To Hani:
Before this, privately, you said to me that you felt it appropriate that the attacks occurred and that Sh Abdul Kerim Effendi can be likened to Abu Lahab (hasha Astaghfirullah). I hope to hear a real apology from you also.