Pengalaman Mengaji dan Pertemuan Dengan Ulama Tok Guru (1979-2006)

Terkenangkan Hari Guru yang diraikan di Malaysia pada 15 Mei 2007 beberapa hari lalu, hamba rasa terharu dan bersyukur kepada Allah Taala yang telah membimbing dan mewarnai hidup musafir ini dengan jasa dan bakti para pendidik, guru, ustaz, imam, para sahabat dijalan Allah,  rakan pengajian, muridin dan fuqara, pensyarah dan masyaikh seperti tercatit dibawah. Mungkin [...]

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Moussem di Tangier, 1999

Catatan Tangier  1999
 AlhamduliLlah wa syukriLlah. Pada pertengahan November 1999 yang lalu, tiga pemuda dari Jawa telah berjaya membuat perjalanan ke Moussem Darqawiyya diTangiers, Maghribi.. Setiap pertemuan dengan Guru yang muhaqiq adalah unik dan menjadi peningkatan suluk mengikut kapasiti murid atau faqir berkenaan. Seperti perjalanan dan ibadat haji, ianya memang kaya dengan pengalaman rohaniah dan limpah [...]

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Putrajaya Notes 23 February 2004

Putrajaya Notes (23 February 2004) 

This is what we manage to jolt down during one of the teaching and zikr session with malaysian fuqara in Putrajaya :
 
 “ A man kept company with the great sufi Abu Yazid Bistami for 30 years, he said: Master, I have fasted in the day and prayed in the night, and I left [...]

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Discourse 2 February 2002 Kuala Lumpur

Discourse by Sidi Umar Vadillo

To change things in society by the action of the limbs is limited, but everything starts from the heart. This is basic sufic teaching. It is the most powerful instrument in man. The heart can make reality near or far. Can make little things big or big obstacles become small or [...]

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Nota Diari Penang 24 Januari 2006

  

We had go to Penang attending  The Port Commission meeting last month in 2006 at the Pangkalan Weld, infront of the new beautiful Tanjung Marina.  And during the free day/hours, we roamed the area around City Bayview Hotel. Here are the lights of such encounter with many people and the signs of Allah put across the time, [...]

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Haruman Dzulhijjah Nursantara

 Sabit Januari Dzul Hijjah Di Nusantara Komentar Keatas Sajak Dr.Abdad al-Rauwi 
Alangkah indahnya jika sang pencari berbisik halus
Dimalam sejuk angin utara berhembus ke pulau mutiara
Gelora kasih tiada padam dek riak air telaga tujuhDari setitis air Yunus dia menjadi danau dan lautCintanya menderu dialunan jalal Diwan al-kamil Ahmad Thomson sudah berkunjung ditaman zikirDihadapan deru hempasan ombak Lakal Hamdu [...]

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The Legacy of Titus Ibrahim Burckhardt

The Legacy of Titus Burckhardt
by Dr. Mazeni Alwi
Having written about Martin Lings, I felt it is appropriate to write about his contemporary, Titus Burckhardt, as a matter of thematic continuity. Burckhardt, a swiss, was only a year older than Lings but he died in 1984. Lings wrote the introduction to Burckhardt’s Letters of a sufi [...]

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Surat Untuk Fuqara Dari Kota Meknes

Letter of Shaykh Muhammad ibn al-Habib of Meknes City
To His Fuqara and Muqaddims
In The Far Flung Southern Deserts of Morocco (1970)

In the Name of Allah, the All-Merciful, Most-Merciful. There is no power nor strength except by Allah and may Allah bless our master Muhammad and his family and Companions and grant them peace abundantly
To [...]

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The Wealth of Fuqara

 So this knowledge and this transmission has always been in the hands
of the people who remember Allah, who do dhikr of Allah, because the
dhikr of Allah affects the heart, it purifies the heart. The ones who
want that, then they say, ‘I am faqir’, and at this point, you have
to then say, ‘Am I sincere? This [...]

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Mukadimah Buku The Meaning of Man dan Darqawi Letters

Introduction to “The Meaning of Man of Shaykh Ali al-Jamal ”
Until this edition only one copy of the book was in existence. For two hundred years (c.1776) the author’s copy was kept at the place where he taught and during that time, regularly, every Thursday night, a small group of the intellectual elite of [...]

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