Re: Journey Onward
Dear Abu Zuhri , Your voices still ring. But like a passing ship, the waves have long touched the shore. For friendship sake, I will take a fresh ship and we will touch hands- one fine sunset. Been trying to read up materials you cited and will reach the Shaykh discourses one Subuh. Found Dr. Muhammad Bukhari Lubis’s Ph.D thesis entitled: The Ocean Unity- Wahdat Al-Wujud In Persian, Turkish and Malay Poetry. Will definitely visit MPH Gurney Plaza and hope to catch a copy of your Islamica Magazine Summer 2005 and savour the pictures of those whirling sufis. Salam.
Abdad/REDEEM/In-Trend Consulting/11.8.05
First Reply and Salam To Dr. Abdad
Alahmdulillah, although hearing no voices or sound waves from the undiscovered shore somewhere in Penang, we know many of the Mathnawi lovers have journeying onward.Last evening while broswing thru the mph bookstore at alamanda putrajaya, my eye caught the familar looking of the whirling sufis on one Islamica Magazine Summer 2005. Subhanallah, all the right ingredients were there for you Dr. Abdad ! How do we value RM35.00 or two hours spent on dhikr with the fuqara travelling east and west to smell the perfume of the lovers. The photos and personal experiences of some authors on the Rumi phenomenon in this mag are more than our eyes can absorb. We need the inner sight to journey on. We need the saintly Water to purify the earthly stomach. Dr. Ibrahim Gamard translation of Mathnawi are among the most beautiful and authentic because himself is a murid. Shems Frielander, we read from him when many of us not yet muslims. Abdal Hayy Daniel Moore, this man who embraceed islam at the hand and insistence of his blessed elder companion who later became a sufi Master. He unearthed for us his encounters with the living fuqara and the late SMH at Meknes and Fez.
He is one of the proof of the flowerings of the Path many had taken. The unexpeceted name Sh. Sulaiman Dede also pop up indicating to us this unending secrets of Rumi teaching had burst out of Konya. In one discourse our Master made this doa:
We ask Allah to increase the light of Konya.
We ask Allah to open the gates of the tekkes to allow the turning -mevlevi dance
to be spread thru out the muslim world.
We ask Allah to bless all the Effendis and all the salihin and all the tariqa Mevlevi thru the ages since this terrible tragedy.
We ask Allah’s blessing on Suleiman Dede.
We ask Allah to give give safety and procetction to all the brothersfrom Konya who have come to visit us.
We ask Allah to increase and overflow the lights of thosewho do the turning. We ask Allah to give them baraka from the act of turning.by their having come here (Instanbul Moussem) solely for the sake of Allah to make them leaders in the land, to spread the teaching of Maulana.
We ask Allah to bless all the Shuyukh in this age andAllah to give light to the tomb of Sultan Abdal Hamid.
We ask Allah’s blesing to all muslims of Turkey..and the light of the dhikr to restore all Muslims under one leader.So we hope from this opening you have ample winds and maps to journey on by Him and for Him and
we ask Allah to fill our hearts with His Light and Marifa hatta nasyhada qayyumiyatika fi jamiil makhluqat (Wird of SMH). Wassalam.
Caijian. Abu Zuhri Shin
Rejoinder On Sajak Sabit Januari Dzulhijjah Nusantara
Sidi Abuzuhri, you gave my Jambak Suffina depth, reach and richness AND testimonies of faith that only could come from a penand a heart of a searching fuqara.
Touched by you I could see the Nur of this Nusantara ‘dari titis Yunus Emre, Jabal Alam, Bahtera Nuh Zaman, Mesjid Sultan Kuning’ And hear the persistent whispers of Shaykh Alwi and Raja Ali Haji.
Even the tea tasted like Rumi-coated honey. We will see you in Penang and salam.
Abdad/REDEEM/19.1.06
