The Raw Story: WikiLeaks plans to post video showing US massacre of Afghani civilians

April 13, 2010  |  Thoughts  |  No Comments

The whisteblower website WikiLeaks — which exploded onto the national
stage earlier this month after it
released a video recording showing US servicemembers shooting two
reporters and six others to death — says they plan to release another,
even more harrowing clip.

The clip will show previously classified
footage from US warplanes that had been tapped to bomb Taliban
positions in Farah province, Afghanistan last year.

Full Story:
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0412/wikileaks-plans-post-video-showing-massacre-afghani-civilians/



Some Sayings of Al-Junayd al-Baghdadi (R)

April 10, 2010  |  Thoughts  |  2 Comments

Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya related from al-Sulami that al-Junayd said: “The truthful seeker (al-murid al-sadiq) has no need for the scholars of knowledge”

“When Allah desires great goodness for the seeker, He makes him flock to the Sufis and prevents him from accompanying those who read books (al-qurra’).
-Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, Madarij al-Salikin (2:366

The Imam of the Two Groups (Sufis and fuqaha), our master al-Junayd was told: “Certain people indulge in wajd or ecstatic behavior, and sway with their bodies.” He replied: “Leave them to their happiness with Allah. They are the ones whose affections have been smashed by the path and whose breasts have been torn apart by effort, and they are unable to bear it. There is no blame on them if they breathe awhile as a remedy for their intense state. If you tasted what they taste, you would excuse their exuberance.”

-Seventh Letter in Shifa` al-`Alil wa Ball al-Ghalil fi Hukm al-Wasiyya bi al-Khatamat wa al-Tahalil (p. 172-173)



Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-28

March 28, 2010  |  Thoughts  |  No Comments
  • Sheykh Mevlana Nazim Adil al-Hakkani visited the house of Seyh Abdul Kerim and murids. Shukr Alhamdulillah #


Write…. My Brother – Sheykh Muhammad Nazim Adil al-Hakkani

March 25, 2010  |  Thoughts  |  6 Comments

Even if the ignorant, the idiot, the tyrant, the heedless and the treacherous do not like it, still write!

Write, my brother, (about) who makes the brother enemy to his brother.

Write, my brother, (about) who makes the nation hostile to its governments.

Write, my brother, (about) how the leaders are cheating the nation.

Write, my brother, why these people have been enslaved in their own country.

Write, my brother, why our people are cowardly and timid.

Write, my brother, about what makes our people terrified.

Write, my brother, why our people are despised in their own country.

Write, my brother, why these people cannot breathe freely in their own country.

Write, my brother, who made this great nation so degenerate.

Write, my brother, who took our youth from the right path.

Write, my brother, (about) how our youth have been cheated.

Write all the insults to the nation that took place side by side with the Tanzimat ; about all of this …write!

Write about the Tanzimat Decree!

Write who the Tanzimat Decree was really for!

Write about the aim of the filthy, hidden co-operations and secret plans to bring this great nation down through accursed westernization.

Write about the corruption being done in the name of the Tanzimat and the destruction of our honorable customs and tradition.

Write so that whoever wants to wake up, wakes up!



Sheykh Mevlana Nazim Adil al-Hakkani Opens New Dergah in Cyprus – to be Managed in the Osmanli Manner by Sheykh Abdul Kerim

March 22, 2010  |  Thoughts  |  3 Comments

Seeing Sheykh Mevlana on a trip to Cyprus is a very blessed but also a very fleeting moment.

His sohbets (talks) are broadcast from his home into the Lefke Dergah on a projector screen.   People who travel far and wide see Maulana very briefly. Mevlana also does not come from the house for prayer at the Dergah.   To catch a glimpse of him one must wait by his home for some time, where he enters a car after Asr Namaz to be driven to some places in Cyprus.   Between that moment of exiting the home and entering the car, one might be so fortunate to be able to see him and kiss his hand.

So one can imagine that is was highly unusual, and also a very blessed event,  when Sheykh Mevlana came to Sheykh Abdul Kerim’s house in Cyprus to visit him.

There Mevlana officiated the opening of a dergah at this temporary location. Mevlana also gave of his own land to Sheykh Abdul Kerim to use for a permanent location.

Sheykh Abdul Kerim was a gracious host and showed Sheykh Mevlana the dergah and made him very comfortable.   Sheykh Mevlana Nazim prayed two rakats immediately.  Then Sheykh Abdul Kerim showed Sheykh Mevlana his Ziyarat (visitation) to Grandshaykhs in India, and events at the Osmanli Dergah in New York.

Sheykh Mevlana was also able to meet murids individually who were staying at the dergah, giving us all a rare opportunity to be in the presence of Sultan ul Awliya Sheykh Muhammad Nazim Adil al-Hakkani.

Sheykh Mevlana’s routine schedule usually involves a car ride around Lefke before maghrib, and a trip to the Cyprus Dergah on Jummah day.