The Legacy of “Ataturk”

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

On the legacy of Kamal Muswthafa “Ataturk”, Shaykh Fadhlullah Khayri (q.s.) said, “I asked the late Shaykh Muzhaffar [Uzak], the Sufi master of the Halveti-Jerrahi Order of Turkey, as to what happened after the almost complete destruction of the Sufi orders in Turkey by Kamal Ataturk.  He paused, smiled and said, ‘You look upon it as destruction.  We look upon it as slightly excessive grooming.’  Then he continued, ‘It is like chopping a grapevine to the ground.  If he had chopped a little, the branches would have grown only a few meters away, but because he cut the whole grapevine to the ground, it will now grow all over the place.  It is only a matter of time.’” 

سُوۡرَةُ التّوبَة

يُرِيدُونَ أَن يُطۡفِـُٔواْ نُورَ ٱللَّهِ بِأَفۡوَٲهِهِمۡ وَيَأۡبَى ٱللَّهُ إِلَّآ أَن يُتِمَّ نُورَهُ ۥ وَلَوۡ ڪَرِهَ ٱلۡكَـٰفِرُونَ (٣٢) 

Fain would they extinguish Allah’s Light with their mouths, but Allah will not allow but that His Light should be perfected, even though the disbelievers may detest (it). (Surah at-Tawbah:32)