A Muslim Convert Once Before

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Shaykh Fadhlullah Khayri said, “I asked the late Shaykh Muzhaffar, the Sufi master of the Khalwati-Jirrahi 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.’”

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ The following is taken from Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri’s commentary on Surah al-Waqi’ah, from “Mercy of Qur’an & the Advent of Zaman ”.   A pleasure is something one can share, one can buy.  It is related to attachment and is a worldly thing while surur , joy, is for its own sake.  The bird sings because its nature is to sing, irrespective of whether the hunter is hunting it, or the neighbourhood is giving it extra food.  A pleasure is a result of something that has occurred.  A person is lonely, then he meets a companion who echoes much of what he believes in – that is a pleasure.  Someone was hungry, there was emptiness in his stomache and it was filled with food – that is a pleasure.  Pleasure is like neutralisation: the negative and the positive meet and are neutralised.   Joy is something else; it is the negation of the negative.  Joy occurs when what was considered to be desirable has been reco...

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...