Abdal Hakim Murad – Aziz Mahmud Hudayi Paradigms of Leadership
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Smilla 100 rely on salat wa salam ala Rasulillah. While he was off
by the woman who Allah
final lecture this term, when and where and if next term is not
within our control, but Hamdulillah.
I thought that,
since the even the politicians have been going into that thing
that is perhaps very foreign to their nature, self isolation, we
would raise the topic, which sometimes appears following a
prophetic precedent in our civilization, which is referred to
sometimes as OSLA. Sometimes as halwa. As early in this area
alone, the Dean has two books which sit next to each other. One
is the Kitab, Devon OSLA. And the other is the Kitab, add a
software, the content added the software, the proprieties, the
courtesies, of keeping company with others friendship and so
forth. Some of you may already have looked at because of not a
whole lot or Holland translated that book as the duties of
brotherhood,
that he is also a go and it's become a kind of recurrent
bestseller, but the book that's next door to it, which is perhaps
more kind of tough love. In its approach, the book of the
courtesies of isolation,
hasn't yet found its winning English translator, but this is a
dimension of the spiritual life which takes its point of departure
of course from the original state in which he was saying Allahu
alayhi wa sallam. When the first verse came to him a crock, this
mirror became the HELOC.
And this was his 200th is isolation for devotion in the Hari
Hara, on his own revelation began
in his solitude,
and it has been a tradition revived periodically in the
history of the Ummah, by those who feel that their spiritual
development requires taking time out, being mindful, going into a
retreat. It's part of most people's spiritual adhesion and
progress that sometimes they take a step back from the Hurly burly
of social life, and contemplate the eternal verities alone, and
this is the principle known as halwa or Osler solitude,
seclusion. So if we have to go into 14 days, they say not 40
days, but 14 days, there's things that the believer can do, which
the materialist consumer can't do. They say the wait list for opodo
maybe up to seven days, if you can imagine what a materialistic
society would do, while waiting for its deliveries for those seven
days, we have things to do, and our tradition has given us plenty
of rich reflections on this principle of halwa, or Oslo.
So I thought that what we would do would be to look at somebody from
one of the orders of our inner life, the life of Sn, the life of
the soul, Wolf, that inner half of the religion, which is
particularly directed to using the possibilities of retreat, of
isolation of solitude.
Now, of course, just that the Holy Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam does not spend his prophetic career in the cave of
hierarchy and wouldn't have been prophetically possible, given the
comb for under arise and worn. He has to warn others he has to be in
society has to be in the Genua. There is the halwa. And there is
the Jalwa, the solitude and the openness.
Similarly, in our spiritual heritage, it has not been the case
that those who take that inward purification Seriously, I've just
headed for the hills permanently, and contemplated their navel in
some Himalayan cave, that is the way of some Indic religions to
have some Buddhist traditions, the way of many Christian traditions
are Baniya. But it is not our way, which is a way of sociality of
soft power.
So
we do find, nonetheless, that people in the course of the
complex tides and ups and downs of their spiritual advancement,
sometimes do need to take a step back and be on their own to find
their own space in order to keep out all of those endless
distractions.
materials, the papers flowing across their desk. Nowadays, the
distractions are more numerous than ever, because if you have a
tablet or a mobile phone, the whole world can distract your
attention at a time of its choosing. Sometimes we do need to
switch off and get away. And we all have that impulse and desire
very commonly, but unfortunately, usually what we do is we pack the
tablet with us and then we take a wide body jet to the Maldives or
something, perhaps for a spa retreat or a pampering weekend or
some other external thing, it's not really the same, we may find
it even difficult not to check emails, and we're not really in a
state of Hello, the state of emptiness Hello really means kind
of being empty, there being nothing out there to
distract the focus and the pellucid clarity and calmness of
the mind. So technology, as many have observed tends to make us
more anxious and less focused.
In any case, the Islamic tradition has inevitably been aware of this,
and has always sought a proper balance between on the one hand
the need to be prophetically engaged in the world, which we are
called upon to heal and to improve.
And on the other hand, the need that we have to discover the more
important horizon which lies within
rectifying the world outside doesn't necessarily improve or
solve our inward problems. But if we solve our inward problems, to
that extent, we will be able to deal positively with the outside
world and we will be more agreeable, less egotistic less
selfish people. So, the inner horizon is more important and
takes priority just as the makin period is before the Medina and
period which is an expansion of it or not sign some kind of
abrogation. So, this principle of color turns out to be important
and the spiritual way that I will be looking at today will be a
branch of the famous halwa T tariqa.
As a whole tariqa named after halwa even though many of them do
it to a greater or lesser extent.
Depending on the particular spiritual path there founders are
inspired to systematize the holiday tariqa is particularly
famous for this institution of halwa. And if you've seen shrimps,
Friedlander's, may Allah give him health, his film that he made
about the hallowed halls of Cairo, you will see that in their lodge,
which is still there in Cairo, despite the best efforts of
secular mediocrity to shut down such treasures, they do have the
ritual of going into the little rooms and spending time there and
food is brought to them. They come out again, of course to shave
ritually takes off the seal and they come out but it's a process
of transformation.
akin to a kind of arty KEF and for some spiritual ways, this getting
away from distraction is particularly important.
You might have seen also, a fella isn't sales book 40 days. She's a
German Muslim, member of a Istanbul Halloween Italia and she
just records it's her diary. 40 days what it was like how
difficult it was the door seal she's in this flat in a slump in
Istanbul and
she has to deal first few days seem to be dealing with a
cockroaches. It's an austere experience, and it's in
wintertime. And then she talks about her prayer life develops and
watches like
when she comes out of it afterwards. Interesting, present
day Western take on this, this transformative experience.
Reflect also on the fact that it's 40 days the chiller
literally means 40 and our English word quarantine comes from the
French quarantine which is 40. In the Middle Ages, in pre modern
times, it was thought that 40 was a number of transformation,
expiation, and a new beginning
even in the Bible, but it's right here the wandering for 40 years in
the wilderness. And the flood covers the earth to 40 days 40
nights.
And of course send them home it's on Allahu alayhi wa sallam
receives his prophecy in his 40th year this Arbaeen is something the
number is significant in Islam and its numerical value. For those who
are interested in such traditions is the letter meme. Which has a
specific Muhammadan significance. So quarantine Yeah, and it has
inward damage.
As long as an outdoor dimension in that during these 40 days, or the
40 consecutive prayers with a congregation that makes you one of
them, so I people really want to do that in Medina
is enough to trigger a certain kind of indefinable, but genuinely
experienced metanoia in returning a Tober, and makes people
different at the end of it, Ramadan, plus the 10 days of
Chawan, the 40 it's the established thing, in our
tradition as well. So Quarantine is a kind of secular version of
that outward sicknesses. Not inward ones which have to declare
themselves and then be fought.
So this holiday tariqa branch ultimately, if the Kadri tariqa,
known for its origins, somewhere in
the wilds of the Caucasus, but a tariqa that spread particularly
amongst the Western Turks, you don't get it so much in Iran,
Central Asia or Pakistan, subcontinent, I don't know if it
exists there at all kind of spread to become one of the great or
almost all tonic today because of the Ottoman Empire and
particularly connected to the ALA map, as we'll see with the story
that I'm going to trace today. So I'm going to be talking about one
of Turkey's best known kind of spiritual heroes. In a museum, we
still have his turban.
So somewhat the worse for wear, but that is the Tadge, the turbine
that he used to wear, and it always has a kind of spiritual
symbolism of the number of the stripes Delian slices, like slices
of a cake indicate all kinds of symbolic things. And this is the,
the Tadge of the Tariqa subtitle of the convertir that Aziz
Memorial Day, who I'm going to speak about mainly today was the
leading exponent of writing some of Turkey's most killer poetry.
And so this is the Tet edge of the Jabberwocky Talia. For each study.
UCLA has its own particular symbolic piece of headgear. So as
he's much more today, still a household name really in Turkey.
And you'll see if you've got a copy of my Turkish sacred song
book that I've translated some of his pieces there. And I've given a
few other examples in the little handouts that were pushed around
earlier, and we'll talk about his orientation, his understanding of
halwa and why he had such a huge impact on the Muslim society of
his day in the course of this lecture.
He was born at a place called coach Hisar, which is kind of
couple of hours drive south of Angkor now,
which is a kind of depressed area node has a salt lake, it's very
high, extreme climate, agriculture is marginal. A lot of young people
are leaving the population has been going down pretty
consistently for the last 50 years. It must have been quite an
austere and windblown place, even then, but he went to complete his
early tassel his early Islamic education at a place called
Silivri Hisar CFSR, which is to the north of Ankara. So it must
have been a few days ride on a mule to get there. And this is a
much more interesting place. Well,
maybe this symbolizes the halwa the way that doesn't look like a
very great mosque. And those people haven't heard of Sidra
Hisar. It's a small place, maybe 10 15,000 people. But this is
where he was studying. The mandalas are attached to this
mosque and this is the mosque where he would have said his
prayers. This is the old army, the Great Mosque of several Hisar,
which is old, as you can see 1232 So that's substantially before the
Ottomans, this is still in Celtic times. But when you go inside,
it's much more interesting.
Because it's a wooden mosque. Basically, it's using the enormous
spruce trees which covered Central Anatolia at the time, in order to
prop up a wooden roof. I think there's 62 columns altogether. And
it's the pride and joy of the people of savory sight.
I'm not sure if our aspect ratio is correct. Does that look
correct? Anyway?
This is the interior and the Celtic style miserab Pretty intact
since the days of its foundation, er, we're
pulling it sideways a bit but nevermind. So the policy now with
historic mosques in Turkey is to get rid of the sort of fitted
carpet and to replace them with proper key limbs or kind of look
alike so you get a better sense
of what the mosque would originally have looked like. So
there you have something pretty identical I would say to the
mosque in which he would as a little boy have studied Quran and
Hadith. That's the latest gallery
in all enormous trees, the Ottoman Navy used them for ships masts
that's towards the back ladies galleries upstairs. It really is
all made of wood. That's the minbar very beautiful thing.
That's the original member of the structure.
Okay, so then he leaves and goes to this place in Istanbul, could
you is Sophia little is Sophia, which is also based around the
form of Byzantine church, which about 100 years after the conquest
when the neighborhood became Muslim was turned into a mosque
and the mother built around it.
And this is where he continued his education at a higher level. That
policy then was that education was all free. And if you were
promising, you'd be sent to a larger town to a more significant
model. And then we'll see he continues to maintain a connection
to this mother also for the rest of his, the rest of his
of his life. This is kind of his spiritual home in the city of
Istanbul. So he studies and he studies mainly tafsir Hadith and
fiqh. Later on, he becomes a lecturer in those subjects, so
very much kind of following the path of the Alanna. This is what
the rooms of the students looked like nowadays that all the
mattresses were closed, of course, by Ataturk, so this is now kind of
craft center. So each of the students rooms has somebody in
there making metal work or things for tourists. It's a nice, nice
place to visit out some good craft and
so he spends
maybe 15 years studying at this madrasa.
And then at the age of 28, he moves to
the former capital of Indira Nehru, which is to the north of
Istanbul. And last few weeks, you've been seeing pictures of
refugees hanging around there now, which is on the Greek Bulgarian
border and getting themselves shocked by the Greek army for
their troubles. But back then it was the center of the Empire
rather than the edge of Turkey. And he begins a junior teaching
job here at the selenia read rasa, which was one of the three or four
most prestigious madrasahs in the whole of the Ottoman world, not
accepting the Arab world, which by this time, of course, has joined
the Empire and was on the main road, or to follow the ancient
Roman via Ignatios, which goes from Constantinople up to Ottoman
frontier, which at this time, was
around Central Hungary. So beyond this, it was an enormous area of
the Dar Al Islam and his followers. And his study occurred
much of its subsequent spread was actually in the Balkan area,
particularly a town called Filiberto, which is known as
Plovdiv,
where some of the major later exponents of the djellaba T tariqa
came from which have one of the biggest centers for the, for the
border until Plovdiv was taken over by the Bulgarian state, I
guess 1878, something like that.
So we think of this as a marginal place. But the Greek borders only
about four miles from this mother, I saw
that back then, really, very much part of the Islam. A lot of the
Syrian scholars incidentally have following their exile from Syria
and moved into a dinette and revived one or two of the old
madrasahs. So the silver lining of the catastrophe in Syria is this
place is becoming a place for scholars again, so constructed, of
course, by the great CNN,
for Sultan said in the second and that setting me a mosque is
actually the biggest mosque in the Ottoman world. By this time, CNN
thought that it really perfected these techniques of building these
absolutely gigantic
domes. And so he built what was at the time the biggest dome in the
world for selling the mosque and it's still a wonder for those who
are venture outside Istanbul on their trips to Turkey. So he's
more aid, which is a kind of teaching assistant.
Under somebody called Ron Moore, EADS Ramazan defender, who's one
of the big Qalam experts in the Ottoman Empire at the time, who's
in charge of this murderous, more aide is somebody who is the kind
of chief assistant to a scholar, who, for instance, writes things
down for him organizes things for him, but also if the class is very
big. The more aides job is to spare the teacher from projecting
his voice
right to the back of what could be a very big data behind it or
teaching on. And he repeats what the teacher says about halfway
down the class so that people at the back can hear. And this is
actually regarded as a privilege because it's a way of forcing a
star pupil really to concentrate to make sure that it's listening
verbatim to what the teacher is saying and many of the great
alumni of Islam have started their careers as more aids it's not a
kind of Secretary it's something much more distinguished and the
assumption is that if the teacher is sick, the maid will step in his
his locum as it were. So his with this nozzles are the dramas on fnd
but at the same time in a deer net, he is in touch with a Hello
Kitty tariqa, which I started off talking about, in the form of
somebody called masa had been offended, that the flirty a very
widespread in the European provinces. Why? Because that well
known as a tariqa, of Dawa. So the idea is that Ottomans go in and
they conquer, sorry, Eva or something, but the population is
still non Muslim. The Islamization doesn't take place through the
jurists, the kadhi goes there just to give judgment amongst Muslims
and Christians have their own system that he doesn't involve
himself in that unless there's a case involving Muslim and a
Christian, in which case, the Sharia court has jurisdiction like
a mixed court.
But in terms of actually spreading Islam to the population, they're
not going to come to Hadith glasses on another us our hair or
whatever. But the non Muslim population, it's the Tariqas, who
go out to do that into the kind of wild lands, the villages with the
bears and the wolves and so forth, and hello to one of the key
as it were colonizer dervish orders in the Balkans, so they're
very big. In southern Hungary, for instance, they begin what's now
the kind of area of southern Croatia dobro, just southern
Ukraine, it's a big study in the Crimea. They're kind of frontiers
men. And this is always part of the tradition of the terracotta
that the chef sends His disciples out to these rather remote and
exotic and difficult places as part of their training.
So they will establish lodges with the help maybe of a local Muslim
businessman who gives them some land and off they go. So
we saw this when we had the lecture on larger Obaidullah,
Harar and the Islamization of Central Asia and southern
Kazakhstan, came about to his Alkaff in some occasions, and he's
sending out human and financial resources to sponsor the datawalk
in those remote difficult step lands of the center of Central
Asia. So mostly I didn't offend it is taking him under the wing for
his spiritual direction. This is perfectly normal in the Ottoman
world. You have your Hadith teacher, but you also have your
teacher for the inner horizon
as somebody who is going to help sort out the demon within.
But he leaves a deer in it when his teacher nozzles are the
runners on fn day, gets a job in the Arab world, and is sent to
Cairo as the chief Gods of Egypt. So it must have been quite a
journey from a deer near to Cairo at the time. And it seems that
they weren't by land. So he follows him as his assistant and
the kadhi doesn't have a more age because he doesn't teach he has a
deputy called a narrative. Again, who's his kind of assistant and
presents the cases, sometimes we'll do some investigation
because there's really a kind of police force that often the judge
has to investigate witnesses and evidence himself. It's a complex
investigatory job in Shetty, so he goes with him to fire off Cairo,
which is a flourishing Ottoman province. There's the palace of
the Ottoman governor, as seen, I guess, at the end of the 18th
century. This is Shubhra Palace, which was the nerve center of
Muhammad Ali's, basically Albanian, the royal family of
Egypt, basically of Albanian origin.
And it was ruined for many years, as so many wonderful monuments in
Cairo. But recently, thankfully, somebody decided, well, let's
rebuild it as a kind of nice hotel. So you can actually visit
this Ottoman rather magnificent palace in Cairo. And it's actually
been restored rather nicely to its kind of slightly guilt. Louie
says, sort of Versailles type interiors with mirrors and gold
furniture everywhere, maybe not to everybody's taste, but an
interesting example of westernized Ottoman taste in Cairo. So he is
there
as quite a senior official in this Ottoman province where he again
connects with the holidays because they have a branch and I mentioned
chimps Veblen.
This film, they still exist in, in Cairo, and in Egypt generally
called Watier is big they exist in the hijas as well.
Abdullah Farage, who is one of the great magazines of the prophetic
mosque in Medina when I was that was from karate tariqa and had a
truly astonishing voice. I remember I was once at a Molad
gathering, near Mount offered, it was out in the open at night with
trees and so forth. And because it was in the open, they were using
speakers, which doesn't always do wonders for the sensitivity of the
voice and then great excitement. It's hundreds of people that
Abdullah Faraj has come, he's one of the great wasn't is in
retirement, little old African guy. And he sits down there given
the microphone,
which is I don't need a microphone.
Didn't need a microphone. And he says the voice comes from love he
said min on the hubba and this is just he said it's like a 500 amp
amplifier. He knew about these things, but my mom had those 5000
amps because I love the Holy Prophet. And this little man belts
it out kind of Wow. Really amazing. He was one of the secrets
of Medina expect that he has passed on now but yeah, he was
called wetty very much from that Medina called what is in Cairo Of
course you can find the converti tariqa as most of the Ottoman
orders, so he encounters this holiday che called Karima Dean
and Karima Dean is associated with a big hello tea center in Cairo,
which is now like so many other place, places there in ruins.
Ibrahim good shinny was from originally Nagorno Karabakh,
really remote part of the Caucasus, a kind of ecstatic,
difficult wandering dervish, a little bit like Rumi, who would
produce extemporary these amazing poems, but in a kind of Eastern
Turkish, and his disciples would write them down so his divan not
Masnavi but he's called the mandovi. The Divine imaginery of
Ibrahim Goshen is regarded as one of the masterpieces of classical
Turkish literature, but because he was a very kind of ecstatic type
Jellal rather than Jamala, more like Shamcey Tabriz the tradition
in Turkey is that you never venture to publish this book.
And if you do they say your house will burn down. Currently a pastor
in the 19th century thought he'd do a pious work by publishing the
book halfway through his house fell down, bent down so he decided
to stop it's kind of specialized text with a lot of hochkar outcome
or gerada and ecstatic things are really hard to understand even if
you know that very convoluted ancient type of Turkish in any
case, he makes his way to carry it is buried in this place, which is
a jewel, may be a world heritage site if it doesn't fall down
first.
Unfortunately the Egyptian elite like to spend money on
shopping malls and things and these wonders are just left to
cave in.
But the place is still there he's buried near I think it's the Babs
away the southern gate of Cairo and it's certainly worth
you can usually find somebody that get a key you give them some money
and you can wander around that it's
splendid place so he's spent time in this place with this curry
Modine and then with Carrie Modine, for reasons which we don't
really understand some kind of spiritual companionship the two
together then leave the call this office and go to Borsa
and who die. balsa is of course, the great
before it didn't it was the Ottoman capital so the Ottomans
start off in this place called suit Iznik becomes the capital and
then it didn't it on the European side becomes the capital. And then
finally, when it's captured Constantinople becomes the capital
so bolsa as a form of capital is full of amazing wonders and Oulu
Gianni the great Friday mosque of Bourassa maybe some of you have
visited a great hot surrogacy a great exhibition of calligraphy,
most of which is from Wafi Ahmed Pasha has time after an earthquake
in the middle of the 19th century. So this is a sign of what it
looked like before the earthquake, I guess.
Now who die is now h 33. and gets his first major break as an
academic.
So he becomes mudras chief lecturer at one of the main mother
offices of balsa, madrassa, alpha Hadiya. And he stays there for
three years.
And during which time his former federal teacher on his honor Fenty
dies, and then he goes on to get the job of
Becoming the kadhi, who is caught is actually held here in the big
mosque of Barossa. Very often because he would have his own
house where judgment will be given, or there'll be a specific
Mac ama or law court. But very often, a judge, particularly if
there was a large number of people who wanted to attend a case would
hold court actually in the mosque itself. And that was thought to
inspire witnesses and others to take the proceedings seriously,
and even to tell the truth. So this is the Jammie RTX, the old
mosque of versa. During this time,
this kind of bizarre alien relationship between his outward
career and his inward development starts to break surface and
according to his biography, as he starts to see a series of dreams.
And these dreams are unsettling.
As a party, he deals with the reality of society. And the body
is supposed to have certain key virtues, the first of which is
Mahama, you have to have compassion for people, because the
body is supposed to be a healer of society. So he sees a dream of the
yellow piano, a very terrifying dream in which the Muslims are
being judged. And he sees quite a lot of the kind of respectable
people, the scholars and judges and dignitaries and pastors being
judged, very fiercely singled out by the angels of punishment, who
seemed to be going to the mass of the Muslims with hooks of fire,
dragging out all of these distinguished people in order to
take them away to *, versus that kind of unsettling dream.
So he's going through this kind of inner
transformation or unsettled time. And then according to all of his
biographers, the first strange kind of supernatural event of his
career takes place when a woman comes to his court with a case
which is very weird.
She says, Last year, my husband says, I really want to go to Hajj
this year.
And if I don't, I swear, I will divorce you irrevocably. It'll be
the threefold divorce, and that will be it. And he does this,
presumably to incentivize himself to go on the hedge.
And she says, he's still around. I don't want to be divorced, am I
divorced? Is there somewhere around this? Cause a hazard
clearly is can we can we deal with this?
Now the man is brought, and the man said, Well, I have been on
Hajj and I came back and said, No, you haven't you've been here.
And then the man says, Well, I'm a disciple of the best known wellI
of balsa, we've Tada has directly.
And we do these things differently.
It took me just two days, I went there. And he describes Arafat and
the GMO crops and all of those things that God is listening, can
back just in two days
or more, then he can not be Aziz anything's possible for God.
So what's the judge supposed to do? He doesn't really want to
divorce them because of this rash. Promise. But Is this acceptable
evidence in Sharia?
Can he possibly accept this? So he says, Well,
I'm going to wait until the boss, the real Bourassa * has come
back from the Hajj. And then we'll talk to them as how long does it
take? And what's the journey like? And did you see this guy? So they
come? And he summons some of them as witnesses. And they say, Yo, he
did see that guy in in Makkah. He was in his her arm. And we saw all
of these things. The judge still doesn't think this is enough
evidence. And then they say, Oh, he gave us some of his stuff to
bring back
with us as an Amana. And they show the body that they've got some of
this man's property and the watches he says stuff.
So this is an example of Allah's breaking of norms, kind of
breaking the norms of the law court. Is this admissible
evidence? What's he supposed to do? This is a kind of credit and
Mosa type situation where the normal laws of ethics that seem to
be working, so he gives his judgment, but he says he rules
that the marriage is still valid and the woman's not divorced, even
though it seems like a kind of impossible case. So he's having
these dreams.
And he encounters this strange guy who's been with us Tada, who seems
to kind of have suddenly books or something that he went on, Hudson
came back. Nowadays of course, we have the
Express hunch which you might have heard of you if you're super rich,
you fly in. And you just go for the afternoon to Arafat. And
basically that's it, you fly out again and then you pay a sum of
money. That's the light hedge and there's people who choose to do it
like that. But back then, of course, this would have to be
karama miraculous intervention. And of course, belief in the
miracles of the saints as part of some of the doctrine.
What SB 10, laying out the Oklahoma woman never happened. But
then Kalama basic as every creed that you memorize when you're with
her, as her mother says, and it affirmed that the Polyak can have
miracles, whoever rejects this just hit his hit the wall with his
words, something like that. So it's part of suddenly doctrine
that miracles are not just prophetic, but a lark and break
the normal rules of cause and effect at the hands of certain
other individuals as well.
He talks to his alma colleagues about this case, and they don't
really know what to make of it.
And so he starts to reestablish his connection with the * what
is and also the KNOX Bundys of the city of Bolsa,
which is also a great center and Mirasol turn of a central Asian
center and Dr. Bandy lineage. This is what his tomb and Moscon
madrasa looks like today and it's another huge magnet for visitors
and pilgrims. This is a very definitely knock Bundy place. But
of course, the guy he really wants to meet is this If Tada
who has seen around because we've taught it used to be them was one
of the main mosque in Boris Barossa is a well known person who
has this amazing voice.
And if Todd it has his own story, which is really just as
interesting as, as he's McLemore today's story.
And he has his own ticket. Zarya, Durga, Hunka, which has recently
been restored. Happily, it was a ruin thanks to Ataturk's reforms
when all of these spaces were closed is to be hundreds and 1000s
of them. But this was his, and it's been restored and turned into
quite a nice kind of cultural center that tariqa
is defunct. But I think on Sundays they do have a vicar that some
local GMAT performs but it's not really part of the original line
because that was broken by artifact. So there it is in the
model, the finale district of
balsa Walla Furnari.
One of the first really great Ottoman scholars in this district
is named after him. He was Mufti of the Ottoman Empire in the time
of Murad, the second buffed in Anam they called him because he
was like Mufti of the whole world anybody could
come to get a photo from him.
He has this book for solar but our fee or solar shara, which is an
important book on the kind of philosophical and ethical
groundings of solid fuck.
And he has sharp or solid pezzoli, which is an invalid code and
basically an esoteric figure, as you'd expect from a shameful
Islam.
taught in Jerusalem, Cairo, etc. A body of balsa found the story
about him is that there was a law case again in the same place that
who die is giving judgment in the scenario is that
and one of the defendants says, Well, I'm going to call as my next
witness, the assault on
yielded an assault on Bay as it buys it, the Thunderbolt terror of
the world is awesome and assault on is just coming. He said he's
going to testify on my behalf.
And Muller Furnari says, there are certain rumors about this assault
on
that he's been taking land that doesn't belong to him. And
therefore according to Sharia, I can't accept him as an upright
witness.
When he kind of looks around, but he's adamant. So this also gets to
the mosque and just told us it has to go back to the palace again. So
these people are not like the Mufti as of today. And I get an
email from the Iraqi soldier on Korea or somebody saying we want
this photo please and it will kind of magically de facto appears
these are people who will, even though this whole time, this kind
of the terror of the world. It's not a good witness, send them away
with like, personal insult but he doesn't care. So Moeller fernery,
very important kind of person for early Ottoman religion and this is
his district, and it was in this district that positively father
Have Tada built this amazing place. And as you can walk around
now since it's been opened, I think nine to five you can get to,
you can wander around and you can see where the area was for the,
for the women, you can see the public fountain you can see the
Sheila Harnett because this is from the halwa tea tradition.
Chile Ohana is the room where you're going to retreat, or there
might be a whole line of rooms. And there's some of the
techies in Bosnia still have this tradition and go up to these
remote places on mountain tops and they have these little
windowless rooms and they bring you food tend to be particularly
busy during Ramadan. So
yeah, another thing that they're doing with this place now since
it's no longer Sufi solace, and is that it's a big place for HEFCE,
and they have kids from particularly Central Asian
countries, they've got little walk, so they subsidize kids from
coming sounders, Pakistan, wherever to come here and complete
their life. So it's nice that this place has been resurrected, it was
kind of a car park and part of it was used as a metal workshop.
So, these things are slowly coming back to life, but kind of in terms
of the exoteric function.
So
who die has already asked around about his dreams? Who can
interpret them? These alarming depressing dreams? So he goes to
somebody called SPG magnet dead is another famous dream
interpretation. A dream interpreter of Barstow says those
dreams are not qualified to interpret.
That he says Barbie coddle the door of Destiny few is if target
if targeted at the same guy who had trained the strange dervish
who does this Express hudge the whole thing seems problematic, but
he seeks him up.
So he goes to the take care of beef Tada. And actually, it's a
nice book now about Iftar day by Paul ban author was translated
some of his poems the nightingale of the garden of love.
Definitely worth looking at quite beautiful poems still very well
known in Turkey.
So who is if Target maybe the second or the third best known
Wali of the city of balsa of all time.
He is from
Bahraini branch of the cada dia de cada is voluntary because it wants
branch and sub branch into all kinds of subdivisions and holidays
are one. The Bahraini are specifically Turkish branch from a
* bayaran Valley, who's buried in Ankara. It is complex, again,
it's been recently done up and it's a nice place to buy books.
Take your children.
And it's a very interesting building because it was originally
a temple of Caesar Augustus, under still the big Roman thing there.
And the other half is a kind of early Ottoman building, it's
quite, quite remarkable. And you can go underneath and there's
tunnels and again, you can see the rooms where people would go for
the self isolation.
So if Target is from this tradition, hudgell Byron Valley
who reinvigorates the gada retrica and becomes the teacher of actions
that Dean who is the murshid of salt I met him at 30.
And there's the famous picture which you see on kind of calendars
on the walls of Kebab shops and Istanbul, there is the gates of
Istanbul, the moment of glory flags, of course, banners of
various kinds, and two men are coming through the gate.
And there's one is on the horse and the other is leading the
horse. But of course, it's the chef who's on the horse and sort
of method 30 kind of humbly leading the reins, because he knew
that this victory was the result of actions that Dean's teaching.
So the Byron is kind of marketing urban Araby what it will do it
oriented branch of the Kataria and this place originates as the
bahrami the Borromean turkey. Now that exists very much, but in
Bosnia, they're still active. And you can see in the decorous people
with the Bahraini touch on their
their heads. So his bahrami cadre,
is familiar with Rumi, which you can see from if DARDIS translated
poetry, but he's also initiated into another branch of the halwa
to call the gel Watier.
Remember this opposition that we cited earlier? Halwa retreat Jalwa
being in public
Sometimes Jalwa Kalwa and Andrew man is one of the four principles
of the notch bandier that you have to be alone, even with the crowd.
When you're with others, you don't get swept up by their psychic
energies and distracted, but you retain your mindfulness. So they
say, Oh, hello, Phil Jalwa solitude in the crowd or Halbert
that Angelman in Persian. So this is a branch of the halwa Tia that
is more inclined to public service and less inclined to
introspection, but we'll talk about their specific orientation
and method a little bit later. Insha Allah so the Java TF founded
by somebody called up VX or Thailand who also from this
amazing central Anatolian world that produces the the bio Rania.
He's another disciple of hudgell bayaran belly up shamsudeen is one
branch
tariqa Shem sia and then the gel VirtIO from upbeat salt on so it's
halwa T sub branch of the halwa tea but not not the main branch
which passes through somebody called Zahidi Ghailani, which also
is still alive in some places, and the Genova to continue really
until the time when the Tarik was suppressed in Turkey by Ataturk,
but nowadays
doesn't exist, you can't get a bailout or an initiation in this
Talica any longer, its line has come to an end it's like
an English peerage, which is extinct, the last Baron of
wherever dies, and that's the end of the, the nessip or the lineage.
So it's of historical interest, but Places like this are no longer
functioning within the tradition.
So what does he find when he encounters Hazaragi? If Tada? What
are the traditions of this velvety tariqa?
Well, let's
look at some of the poetry because this is very much this, the Sufi
world is all about literature because of the ceremonies where
people would be.
The poetry is basically there to be sung. So very often, they'll
use the simpler meters, and they'll turn the two Hennis
stitches of the original Arabic qasida into divide each hemstitch
into two so called a quatrain, which is the ribeye, which
originates in Iran, but it's very big in popular Turkish literature
as well. So Genuity they're very deliberate * Allah Holika
although not uninjected volved or Ananda, dahi Bucha Tea Bar boo
chin DEVAR Madhu Bueller, our car Teskey that is fear Vigilia
Woollahra Aina dear Bill kuliah herkes rt buckreef After Tierra
Bhullar Surah, Taka satirical chi Bhullar very simple Nita and this
is designed to be memorized or designed to be chanted. So this is
a poem that defines who are the
gel vertices. To that name, gel VT is given the practice of Jilla
purification of the RA.
And for this reason, mankind takes them as leaders
within it, to achieve this, there are three principles.
And the one who, and before reaching the end of the third
principles, one has to work constantly, test Skia tasveer
tachypnea. These are the three pieces of key jargon for the for
the gel Watier, which I'll talk about shortly.
This is the beginning and the end of all of our work.
When you have achieved this, you will drown in the sea of Divine
unity.
You will see beyond outwards forms to see the truth of things. It's
kind of very rough and ready. Translation, but it sums up what
they think that they're about. So these three principles texcare
tasveer, Tegile. Yeah. And if you read the Divan of Muhammad, as
he's much more to die or you listen to often on Turkish radio,
they're singing his songs, everybody knows them. These are
the three terms that come up very frequently.
So let's take a look at them because this is really the three
three foundations of the terracotta Ischia.
In English basically all of these words would mean something like
purification, but it gives them a specific meaning. So Tez Kia
basically means treating the ego the lower self as one enemy as
one's true enemy, so to be purified from the ruses of that
enemy, to be aware of the dangers of the knifes and Teleki dunya
to cold shoulder the world not to be impressed by status, money,
prestige, self glorification, the seven deadly sins. So at the
beginning it's a kind of moralistic Tez Kia
Soul river manatee Mujahidin. So there is formal and and symbolic.
Mujahidin, which is spiritual effort. Formal means you actually
have to do certain things like the formal practices of the Sharia.
But there has to be none of it work as well. You can't just
discipline your body in obedience to God and prophetic emulation.
You have to force your inward to prostrate and to fast and to give
an account as well. There has to be a mirroring of the surah and
the manner, the outward form with the inward reality of the use, the
alternative is the fuck so they believe that we have as well as
our who God sorry, the physical body, those of God MonaVie a
spiritual body which is coterminous with his body but
which is spiritual and which survives after death. Marty 13 Sir
inserra realize that the secret of knowledge is self discipline. So
know thyself, overcome these monkeys and pigs and demons within
and knowledge will be the result.
So that's number one. That's Teskey tasveer. They define as a
focus on the heart and training the heart always to accept it
rather to law, God's decree whatever he does
accept it.
So
they use the proverb men earn and Abby Okada. Me nominal Kadar,
whoever believes in padar Allah's decree is at peace and is safe
from any kind of stress or depression.
So that's a state of inward tranquility and this degree, that
particular practice which is believed to help inwardly in this
is tilava Tea Quran, reading the Quran. This is a tarot card, which
maybe that's why they have Huff's. I don't know if that's a
coincidence or not. It's a very cool and recital oriented tariqa.
And much of the training is to Quranic recitation, which of
course, not just for gaining information, but also about
ontologically, engaging with the uncreated divine speech. The Quran
is not of this world, it is the word and therefore, when we hear
it when we breathe it when we recite it when we khaligraph it,
we are engaging with the divine mystery. It's not just a book,
it's Cunnamulla Hill, Kadeem, God's uncreated speech so to
engage with that aspect of the Divine is something that is going
to push us along spiritually.
And
now, so much can be settled on this one.
Yeah, that's right. There's a number of sub principles. Under
this, I'll just go through them. Briefly number one TV bit of it,
you know, in our bay at manga statamic, to genuinely
direct oneself to a state of Toba and Inaba. Repentance and
expressing sorrow for one's errors. Number two sooner teary
eyed kar olmak to be somebody who is constantly guarding the
principle of the Sunnah and following the Sunnah in all
things.
Dunya Marlena Tama it's Mimic, not to feel in one soul a kind of rush
of attraction for things of this world.
Number four Palais Tom,
reducing the amount one eats. Number five, Ilya Callum not
talking too much. Number six Zicree die me constantly
remembering God, not just with the test B and formally but to be
constantly in a state of recollecting the divine reality.
Number seven halvah te di me to be constantly in a state of retreat.
Says like the Nuxe. The principle of Calvert or Angelman, even if
you're in a crowd, you're not just part of the herd impulses of the
crowd and being pulled by whatever it is that's distracting them, but
you are distinctive, because your axis is not horizontal but
vertical. So you are there not to seek service from them or
influence from them, but to see how to serve them and how to
influence them. So you become active rather than passive through
this inward detachment and this halwa
She set up to call the ethnic for one's heart to be connected to the
heart of the shift to be constantly
bearing in mind that the perfection of the
spiritual
guide Nithya, Hiawatha developed at MC two to be on one's guard for
and to push back the kind of random thoughts and impulses that
come into the head, kind of meaningless chips out of the lower
self distraction stream of consciousness type ideas, which
are part of inward lack of clarity. So this task, fear means
also purifying yourself of these thoughts that jump like monkeys
into your head just distract you and have no benefit. So those are
some of the principles of this task, fear thing. And then number
three, after test gear, and toss, fear, you have Ted Leah
also means purification, but something like manifesting making
clear so that when a mirror is cleaned, something can shine in
it. And this is the classic image of the heart as a mirror. And we
need with thicker and our rails that are self discipline to polish
it and clean it so that the light can shine in the mirror. Light
doesn't come from us, we just have clay. It's from the Divine, but we
need to polish ourselves so that that light can
manifest itself. And this is for the gel what is characterized by
the state of seeing God's name as Zaha.
The Quran says will a willow will act hero was our hero. Well,
Bolton is the first and the last and the hidden of the manifest.
Firstly, easy to understand, what does it mean when God is manifest?
Does it mean that the world is made of God Evidently not. So what
is this manifestation. So this technically is a divine action,
which responding to the self discipline of the disciple, but
ultimately through pure divine gift
opens the heart. So that God can be seen as Zaha.
So they say, the ordinary person sees the windmill, but the Welly
sees the wind in other words, sees the divine agency and everything
not this did that but God did that.
So the agency of God
so in who dies per tree, this is per day. So whole paradigm almost
towards the Hora gives you all on Delete? Is there a menorah? Ganesh
saw here today with the current ash divulgar Missy Ana jiscmail
Fash she does are here to do math Lochness to head off on Omaha
Catan two rows
which means
there's a whole penalty almost also for God's that which is the
veil of a god's manifest nature is His manifest nature itself
which is the Quran is nearer to us than the jugular vein so close
that we can't see.
Because you all under nearly stare me Nora. Does the open eye require
proof? For the existence of light?
Ganesh saw her damage current dosh Oh my brother is the sun not
completely plain DEVAR girl miss her honor cherish me Who fosh Only
the eye of a bat could fail to see the sun.
Who does our heritage my flock Mr. God desire manifest, but we the
creature backlog are veiled.
See LaFawn they have all Mohawk Tandel somebody who understands
anything else is very far knocked on door or door should be is very
far door from from the real. Right. So at this high degree of
Talia purification of the heart means that
the divine name Zaha actually starts to mean something.
And this is something that is understood by people who are at
that degree.
So another thing that the djellaba Tia are famous for is that they
give you just to run your changes a few more images of the tech here
that's how they've arranged it inside. That's the little mosque
that's attached to it, which is now open for the prayers again.
It's not the same as that we've started Jamia which is his mosque
which is elsewhere in in borsa This is the kind of prayer room
inside the tech.
The Java tear show the Huberty lineage in adhering to the famous
halwa T seven fold division of
The soul.
And this becomes psychologically very precise because medieval
Islamic civilization, unlike ourselves tend to be focused on
outward things. So spend a lot of time studying details of
the inward life. Who knows, in sha Allah and worthless. There's,
there's an inward science, which we really need to master if the
near is going to be correct if we're going to be genuine people
with an inward horizon as well as just the outward surah the outward
form, that the whole world is a fitness in analyzing the
dimensions of the soul in terms of seven degrees.
Some of you might have seen Abdullah Holika Shabbat always
book degrees of the soul, it's a 20th century Egyptian Kalavati
converti manual, so that's available in English if you want
to see how it works. So, there are these Marathi
and each of these Marathi is associated with a particular
litany or vicar, a particular formula which is appropriate at
helping one to move above that stage to the one above so number
one, of course is enough. So, Amara, some sort of use of in the
NAFSA, the Amara to be so
that the knifes in an Egyptian Palace sure is rampant. There are
the seven deadly sins, gluttony and lust and status and pride and
all of that. The palace is that and the ego finds that to be its
natural home, not a place like that, which the ego finds a bit
boring very quickly. A palace Sure. Wine women and song status
prestige, the Sultan's carriage, Pharaohs glitter,
the neffs Amara inclined to that. So this is the commanding soul,
the lowest self that is drawn towards that thing, which is the
lowest the darker, animalistic possibility within us. And that's
where we all begin. And the thicker at that stage
or the Essam, they sometimes say it's my Sabbath, the seven names,
seven phrases that you use, they just say let you in on
that a particular way of, of moving the head during that
because that fundamental reality, which is the boundary between
cough and unbelief, to the extent that the Salic is Wayfarer, still
Muslim, we will say let in a lot and reflecting on that. The only
reality is the divine focus on God. And don't take these other
things to be your idols and your gods. Because in the face of the
divine majesty and power that then nothing, so see things in
proportion.
So that's the first stage and the first isn't. And then an FC
lawanna, which is again, a Quranic phrase, the blaming soul,
which is where most of us are at, we do that stuff, and then we feel
bad about it.
And sometimes we get into a kind of
loop, we do something bad, and we get a dopamine hit. And then we
feel bad about that. And then because we're feeling bad, we want
to do something bad again, and a lot of people are stuck. This is
the world of addiction, isn't it very easy. can see the
some of the gambling websites got into trouble got into this
morning's press for specifically trying to reach out to outside
those patients, which is pretty low, but industries like that,
they want to get us into that dopamine loop. So they can keep
their hands in our pockets indefinitely. So and then we feel
bad. We have this self blame, we blame ourselves. Sometimes it's
such a strong impulse, we can blame ourselves and stuff we
didn't do feel guilty when a relative dies or something is it's
a strong part of the human psyche.
And that's the next stage. So from the next stage, the vicar is
Allah. That's just the last general you just say, Allah,
Allah, Allah at that stage, along with all of the other our odd was
that if the Rica has, but that's specific to somebody who is in
that state? Why? Because the divine name helps us to see things
in proportion.
And it's still the case in traditional Muslim countries that
if people see something happening, that's really awful.
Or something that's really amazing. They'll just say Allah,
you'll hear that sometimes it's the first word that naturally
comes to the surface of the believing consciousness, because
it's a solace, isn't it? That this is a catastrophe, but Allah is
still there.
That's why belief is associated with positive mental health
outcomes, for instance. So you remember just the divine Allah the
existence of God, not even La la la la. And that will help you to
deal with this guilt inducing loop and
To move onwards number three and lifts and will hammer
the inspired soul. So this is where it's not just us trying to
fight our way up, but we're helping hand comes to pull us up
in the form of Ill hand, and perhaps cash where the seeker
starts to see, as we dyed it. And as a member of sanity. The world
is not what it seems to be not taking things at face value, which
is actually very terrifying interpretation of things behind
the surface of things. There's the divine reality, and the Divine
Mercy. So the Quran says when I've seen as sort of chumps, isn't it
when I've seen what Mercer were her, for Alabama, her for Georgia,
her what Ocklawaha the ego and that which made it and he inspired
in it, its corruption and its guidance. So this is the divine
movement into the soul. And in order to benefit from that vicar
at this level of isn't it who just the divine name, who wishes the
permanent of absence from Israel, Arabs would say? He still feels
distant at that point. Where is God? Where's God Zaha? seems
strange. But still, his existence is to be affirmed. Number four and
NIFS Ultima inner,
sometimes described as the degree of the island Yaqeen.
The neffs the soul at peace?
Yeah, are you enough so much my inner
sort of fragile at this point, because the divine inspiration,
the overcoming of the lower self brings a kind of settling of that
dust which is constantly being kicked up in the ego of the
egotistic, undisciplined self there is a kind of calm ripples on
the surface of the lake account, there is a serenity and have some
ultimate inner which in the Quran. Surah Fajr is the way God
addresses people when he will welcomes them into paradise, which
is the abode of complete peace Daraa Salaam.
So the impulses are subdued. And this tranquility results and the
vicar here is hawk.
If you go to if you went to a GLBT, vicar and it was missing
Hawk, Hawk, Hawk,
number five, and lifts are robably. The soul that is
satisfied or well pleased, sometimes called knock on them, or
Shahada. This is where you completely accept God's decree,
the kuduk
Whatever happens, good or ill, you're not afraid.
Good response to our time of plague, I think we would say,
Allah's Will let's not freak out and empty the supermarket shelves.
So this is part of a nursing multiple in the solid piece, but
it's higher because it's actually happy with what God is doing, even
if we can't always see the reason for it. And why should we, whether
they could hear is high, the divine as living,
number six, and if so, model the year, the soul with whom God is
pleased, Rod yet and NovelTea pleased with God, God is pleased
with them a higher degree, the degree of happily up in the degree
where there is divine approval. This is a servant who is truly a
servant, rather than just going through the motions every Friday,
but somebody who is actively in harmony with the Divine Will, and
kala full possibilities of Benny Erden number seven, sometimes
called a nested Camela, or a NIFS, a soffia, the perfect soul, the
pure soul. This is where the reality of the prophetic
commandment to Halak will be Aflac in there, emulate God's qualities
becomes actual. So instead of our own qualities, which are
animalistic, if left to their own devices, we reconfigure ourselves
according to perfections, which are known to be perfect because
they're in the divine nature. So God is a rock man. So we become
merciful. God is the just, we become just God is the mild, we
become mild, God is the forgiving, and so forth with these names and
Mendel has Ali's book a nocturnal Esna explains, in with reference
to each of the 99 names, how each name can be reflected as part of a
human being spiritual development.
And this McCallum which is very it's just a divine gift you can't
work to achieve it is just given one becomes qualified to be in
* or a spiritual teacher. In the name here, which is invoked
is the alcohol which is one of the most majestic and rigorous of the
Divine Names and a name not to be used on its own by people at a
lower dose.
Green, as their sources explained, so, this is the tradition which is
going on in this place and being taught
to people who are coming from all over the Ottoman world and beyond
to sit at the feet of a man who's quite old by this time, you've
Tada.
And unusual, but it turns out even in English now
an ongoing influence born in 1490, it is father makes him an
apprentice to a silk makeup, but also as the capital but you have
to remember this is the western end of the Silk Road. If you go to
Basa to this day, you'll see the, the silk market and the very
splendid sort of hotels caravanserais hands that were used
by the merchants who come from this enormous journey from from
China on the Silk Road. So this is the terminus of the big
superhighway of pre modern commerce, at least a commerce that
traveled by land so really cosmopolitan place and this is why
a lot of these central Asian influences are coming in because
these people are coming from silicon Bukhara, shush all the
time.
So his apprentice to the a silk maker,
but he doesn't stay with that because he starts hanging around
with middle major Zoopla. This kind of ecstatic, difficult
Dervishes,
who say unpredictable and strange and apparently subversive things.
The historians record that he used to hang out with them, but it's
also known that he became the chief katiba, of the main mosque
in in Barsa. And also the khateeb of the Emir Sultan Mosque, which
we saw earlier, which is one of the two or three big mosques of
the city, we must indicate that he'd had a good mother's education
as well,
is the disciple of Hazzard dead from this
Java tea tradition. And when his chef dies, he becomes what's known
as we see,
nowadays, if you hang out in Sufi circles, you might hear this word,
quite often, and always hear somebody who takes his inspiration
from Satan at Wasel colony, who hears of the Holy Prophet but gets
to Medina, after he's died. But he's, he's known and is praised by
the Holy Prophet before he arrived. So, an oasis somebody who
has a spiritual attachment to a particular spiritual presence or
lineage, but doesn't actually take the formal ritual of beta or
initiation, perhaps, because this is separating them. So he has this
wasted affiliation, particularly to the way of marketing even Araby
whose influence is everywhere, amongst the automat and the Sufis
of the Ottoman Empire, Mala Furnari, who I mentioned earlier,
the one who had led the assault on that witness in the mosque also
has one of the most influential commentaries on the fossil. So
hey, Cam, maki din, Ibn Arabi and the first of all of the Ottoman
Modares is in the first Ottoman capital of Iznik
which is the Orhan Gazi madressa the first Madras and this huge
empire that's going to last six centuries is WD Caesarea. Who is
separated by only three teachers from urban r&b himself and is
again one of the big commentators on the full source. So if an r&b
is a major part of the Ottoman intellectual world, so he has this
connection with Urban r&b
We got some original
texts Yeah, this is one of the historians says, You've tidier has
read Larry Miller, whom she Akbar.
A Akbar
goddess allowed zero hazard learning they should have been
deadly either. So
of Tada
was
the set from the same mashup the drinking place, same inspiration
as that of MOCVD Ibn Arabi factory to Air India let him sit in with
Aberdeen the ruler it was called the pride of those who came after
him and the most exemplary of worshippers
Yeah, I said then we get this way see explanation. machinery has or
didn't without and done, did it in the forefront and Sondra shakey
Akbar has led Lenin Rouhani right Lenin then is the fossa Bucha
artist. So after his own murshid has died he died. He started is
the fossa get the phase the spiritual emanation from the row
Hania the principle of Sheikh Akbar. And in this time, if you
can still find this world
In some way that hasn't been subverted or cheapened living
lineage. And you ask a little old guy who knows that he's the last
in the line. And generally that's what happens. They don't find
worthy successes. What happens when you're gone? Often they will
say that waste is a way of attaching yourself spiritually to
one of the great ones of the past.
And this is something that can have very manifest benefits and
can keep people kind of spiritually alive and alert and
energetic in their Ibadah in times where everything seems to be
falling apart. So
if Tada has this mysterious connection, he's like if an Arab
is representative in Barossa, even though there's three centuries
between them,
and this is very evident in his works, if you look at balance out
his translation of bits of his divan, it's very awkward burying
it in his Hotspurs as well, but it's that he's giving me an
assault on.
He also following the Hello tea line does his halwa in various
mosques very many of which have little chillier harness or rooms
for halwa attached to the Arctic Ali Pasha Mosque in in balsa
traditionally, they will point out the place where he had his chili
Ohana
and some other mosques as well. And who die used to do the same
thing, leave his ticket and go to another place that is chilled. So
there's even a bus stop on the Anatolian side of Istanbul called
chilla. Hana which is the place where as his maternal to die would
do his chilla, which is some way from his ticket, but it's still
the name of a district in Istanbul.
So if Tada his name, which is strange is Persian for the Fallen
One who fell down
And the story goes, that when he was was in at the main mosque that
Lulu Jami of balsa,
he had such an extraordinary voice because of inner spiritual
clarity, that people will go there just to listen. They say even the
Greeks of course, I used to go to listen to his Amazon, and some
people would go into ecstasy. And once somebody came up to him after
his Amazon
and gives him a gift, financial gift.
Alright, so after.
After that he feels bad about it. And that night he has a dream in
which he sees himself. And while he's giving the Amazon from the
high brick minaret, he falls off.
So he realizes that you're not supposed to take a financial
reward for something that people find spiritually beneficial. So he
adopts this as his own name. If Todd is the one who fell from the
minaret
So, to get back to as he has nothing more to die, he he comes
to this guy.
Maybe that who knows.
And the if Todd is very surprised to see this kind of exoteric Chief
Justice
turning up
in his goddess outfit and kaftan and pomp pageantry of Ottoman
officialdom. If daddy sees him and says a yoga club Olson a call the
offender, I'm very sorry, cardi, your Your Honor, the judge, you've
come to the wrong place. Bourassa your clock Kopitar ABS book Kopin
and Koleos. This is the gate of nothingness of nothing at all.
There is here only nothing. And were the slaves that doorkeepers
of the door of nothingness.
Halbrook he sent valid XIV since you're a person of something,
status and wealth, this enormous turbine. So what what are you
doing here? What do we have in common?
With a slaves all we have here is a lot.
This has an impact as these non motor die starts to cry
in this place,
and he says Efendim Hara Shamim Ibarra. Kopin is an SU in the tech
elite. He says, I have left all of that stuff behind me just to come
to your
blessing threshold.
delay in Tallinn is Allah Bill make for his meeting is
economically Sheriff Lynn McTeer. It is just my desire to have the
honor of serving you and becoming your student.
Her name readers in his Yup, my husband, I'm ready to anything
that you command.
So he's come for beta for to become his disciple.
For
now, if Tada hears this and sees that he's actually serious, this
is this big state official who says, I'll do whatever you say
you'll just dervishes the servant of the door of nothingness. I will
do what you say. So, he sets him his first task. He says, okay,
called the offending. You'll do anything that I say. I want you to
go to the main marketplace in Barossa and sell tripe, in your
judges robes. With the turban and the silk can differ and the whole
thing and your tribe seller and you have to say giardia, giardia,
which is what the tripe sellers say, kind of so that's the lowest
cost really is lower than being a butcher selling this kind of
spleens and bladders, and livers and things you have to get
everybody knows you're the kadhi. And you're doing this so.
So he does this.
After there's a movie, which is popular in Turkey.
There he is. He's kind of in the side street and he said, I can't
do this. I can't do this.
And it's very difficult. But the love for the chef and the
determination to make progress.
Means that Off he goes, and he does it. Everybody thinks the
quality has gone mad. There's a big scandal, because if he's mad,
what about that judgment, and I divorce, this is a problem. The
father is mad. You can see him shouting, setting bladder bladders
and the marketplace in his robes, very subversive. So he gets
sacked, he loses his job. And he works in the tech
cleaning the toilets.
And he is put through a process of typical dervish austerity,
fast for days on end each time is if tar is one apple, if Target
consultant by saying that this self abasement is only a stage in
the dervishes education, because that's the meaning of the prayer,
you stand. And then you base yourself but you don't stay in
sujood. You're in a tranquil position of settlement, the Jessa
between the two.
Incidentally, the gel that is have their own particular
form of sitting in the car. And the only time that you have done
this, they don't stand or they don't sit either on the haunches
or cross legged, but they would
be on their knees, but kind of upright.
And there's various stories that account for this. And one is that
the founder of the Tahrir con,
was visited by a hidden according to some of the stories, and he
rose out of respect, and Heather didn't really want him to rise,
but he wouldn't go down again. And so from that time onwards, for
hundreds of years, they did their ticker on their knees, but in a
kind of upright position.
Yeah, they call it Mr. PM,
or the hazard Kiama. The standing for is
that this would be done until the 20th century. So a series of
master pupil encounters which are kind of part of the standard diet
of Turkish storytelling, to this day.
Stories of the two together on horseback by the river of walking
in the mountain early dark, which is Mount Olympus, which is the
snowy peak, where Sufis would traditionally go for retreats,
especially in Ramadan, and people still do that you'll find people
from Borsa especially young men taking tents and spending the last
10 days of Ramadan up in the mountain. I've known people who
who do that.
Certain strange things overcome the guardi so he goes through a
period where he can only see people who are in control of
themselves inwardly in a gathering. So sometimes he'd be
greeting a whole bunch of people and you'd miss some people out
because in some way, he just wouldn't see them sometimes ignore
great caches or once he was invited to the house of Ottoman
prince, and he greeted all the servants but ignored all of the
high ranking state dignitaries.
There's another thing that story narrated of him which occurs in
the winter and the winters in Barcia. more severe than English
winters it's really snowy and icy. It's a mountainous area.
Some of the other dervishes are kind of jealous of if target and
the they think, Well, this is a new, more read, and why is he
getting so much quality time with the chef?
And the chef says well, sometimes the youngest and the freshest
grapes are the sweetest. They don't like this result. And so
he's kind of angry with them for this sort of jealousy and says,
Okay, go up the mountain to my garden, my cottage then pick me a
bunch of grapes. And I'll show you.
It's the middle of the winter. And there's a snowstorm outside the
windows of the tech here in Barossa. And he's telling them to
go and pick grapes in the winter up the mountain.
So they seem doubtful, and
they think maybe the shape is really off his rocker now, grapes,
the snow do we really want to go up there? That's just a piece he
uses in the summer. But as his memorial day agrees to go, because
his acceptance of his shakes, wisdom is absolute. So he works
his way up to the chef's little hut or cottage, and we as a little
garden, near the top of the mountain, no one there, of course,
and the snow and the winds are blasting there's a blizzard. And
in the garden, of course, he finds a vine with one miraculous bunch
of grips. So he picks it and clutching it, he goes down the
hill again, but it's dark by this time and the Blizzard is still
that and he falls into a hole some kind of well, that he can't get
out.
Nobody there to help
but suddenly he hears a voice from the top of the well give me your
hand and I'll pull you up
as he's Nakamoto dices who are you?
And he says, I am hidden come to help you. But as his maternal to
die According to historians has reached the degree of alfalfa chef
wants to be helped only by his shave. So he says I will never
take the hand of anyone except my teacher please excuse me
and at this if tardy of course appears side by side with Federer
and says
stretch out your hand of law than my son and his pulled up. And he
kind of dust the snow off himself and looks around but there's
nobody that
after a difficult journey, he gets back to the tech and
everybody there's kind of sitting down. Nothing has happened.
And he offers his bag we've tied it takes it and uncovers the
grapes. There's fresh vine leaves and he offers the grapes around to
the dervishes
and then he says Why have you bought these so late? What held
you up? So he realizes an important lesson in this
another famous story.
It was his job early in the morning for the fajr prayer so
bafna Maza to get up early in order to warm the water for
everybody's will
subzero temperatures outside and you have to
break that ice and heat it up light a fire not not easy it knows
pre electric pre gas heated these in the dark. So this was his job.
One day he over sleeps.
The wakes up only says few minutes that sun's going to rise. The chef
is going to miss his Fajr dervishes are going to miss their
Fajr I'm
on for the chop.
And the chef calls out to him.
It says Hi Dave. Love them soil duck. Come on my son pour the
water
gauge color Joe's we're late. We're going to be late Come on.
Where's the water? It's time to pray. And he knows that what is
absolutely ice there's lumps of ice in this frozen water and how
can he pull this out for his shape?
He's blown it
but he does what he's told and he pulls the water and then the
shakes is laden multiple Swan they cover us in Miss Bella says what
was really hot this morning.
My son and he says but I know this is not warmed with ordinary fire
but with good new artists share with the souls heat with the souls
fire.
And then he summons the DonorsChoose and says two lines
too many for a single forest. It's time for you to make yourself
known. Go light your own fire and may assault on hold the reins of
your horse. That blessing. He goes off having received the formal
permission to teach the ijazat and the right of he'll outfit the
succession. So he goes back to sit very far remember the wooden
mosque where he spends a few months but then he hears that
you've taught it is sick is already 9090 And he goes back to
spend last few months with him and he dies
in the 15th at
incidentally the Ottoman
seems to like Chrono Graham's if any of you are familiar with this
tradition because each letter of the Arabic alphabet and also the
Ottoman Persian alphabets, which is derived from it has a numerical
value it's a kind of cool thing for a literate person to do to
write a line of poetry that when you add up the letters gives you
the date the death date of that person. And you see these quite
often on the doors of mosques and things. So it Mr. Kim's are they
right this to delay column then 3030 Holly if Tada
the pen fell from his and put his heart is there, the date of of
TARDIS departure
988 which is the history date
15 at this and other Tadese kilograms.
So then from Barossa, he goes to European Turkey to Thrace, and in
Thrace. We don't know exactly where he is, but it's probably the
area of adherence. Again, he gets a formal letter of invitation by
the Sheikh Al Islam sounded Dean offended, who is the top scholar
of the whole empire. And he goes back to Istanbul Back to the
Future chi Sofia, which you'll remember is that the mother said
the former Byzantium complex, where he was teaching in his 20s
and he becomes a teacher that of Tafseer filk. And he also teaches
at the Sun which is the the colleges attached to the fatty
Mosque, which was the top now there are certain, I guess, the
whole Islamic world at the time.
But while he is earning a hello income from this profession, he is
also building his own demigod, his own tech or spiritual center
across the Bosphorus in Iskandar, you may remember from our lecture
on Ebisu, defended that the Ottomans would speak of Bill Addis
selasa, the three towns, Istanbul, and then also Galatia, which is
the other side of the Golden Horn, if you know the geography and then
the other side of the sea, the Bosphorus, you have Iskandar and
the satellite town of kodoku. And Iskandar
was a place where people would go
in order to retire very often.
So quite a lot of quite wealthy people would live there. And
there's some very magnificent satanic mosques. Incidentally, all
three of the
incidentally, all three of the big famous historic moszkowicz
Ghidorah built by women, including memory, muscle time, the daughter
of salt and Solomon, the magnificent story said to have
been the wealthiest woman in the world at the time, who built this
amazing building right next to the sea, so she could take her boat up
to the mosque, and pray and then go back again back to the palace.
That was apparently
a magnificent, magnificent sight. So he is in Iskandar, which is at
a kind of respectful distance from the hustle and bustle of the town
on a hill, the place in the hill where he can look out over the
amazing view, maybe the best view in the world to the minarets of
Istanbul and see the Sultan's palace, and the great mosques but
from a distance. So
yeah, this is it. At the moment, it's quite a, I guess, as you'd
expect quite a humble place. The tickets to dervish lodges are not
the kind of spectacular kind of blue mosque Imperial bling, partly
because they had to be built early with unambiguously Sharia
compliant donations, which a lot of the big mosques of Istanbul
aren't.
So to this day, there's an issue about whether you can pray or Juma
in some of the mosques because the mosques might have been built with
money that was
unlawfully extracted for construction.
But these fairly humble structures, the tech is
the main part of the tech in the sheiks houses up there. There's
various graves, and on this side, there's a kind of college and a
nice garden where they sit around seeing, and this is the entrance
to the mosque. And there's cats everywhere, by the way, I used to
live about two minutes away and my kids love together in order to
play with the cats and part of the walk is feeding the cats. So yeah,
it's still to this day, four centuries later, a major hub. So
he does the traditional Sufi things. So he provides a soup
kitchen to feed the poor, works in his own vegetable garden heals the
sick and so forth, but it actually becomes one of the leading
cultural centers of the Empire.
Generally, the Sufi lodges were words, were kind of hives of
activity for literary figures,
and creative people of all kinds of mosques who have a Bader and
for formal classes, cultural things
tended to happen in the tech is so there's hundreds of students who
show up
Hear from all over the Islamic world.
And the audience that he has he has is really mixed. So Grand
Vizier might find himself sitting next to her shoe maker. And
several subtle times actually become his mortgage and formally
take a pledge of Sufi initiation with him,
including Murad, the third method, the third and
areas
that know if that's an accurate representation. But
that is
assault on ashmit, who, of course, commissioned the famous blue
mosque in Istanbul and who because of his closeness to who they
invited him to give the very first Scottsboro in the Blue Mosque when
it was opened, and he used to travel there, taking his boat
across the Bosphorus quite regularly in order to teach that
and to give the Hotspurs and actually he preaches in a lot of
Istanbul mosques, as well. And after Sultan athlet, the first
dies, we have
to morsel times, who also become His disciples of man the second
and Murad the fourth. And by this time, his fame and blessings are
so well known that he is he presides over the official kind of
coronation ceremony of the Ottoman sometimes, which is the Coolidge
Kush atma ceremony, which is instead of being given a crown by
the Archbishop of Canterbury, it's the formal investiture of the sort
of Office.
So the sort of OS nine is carried by the current Saltanat formally
handed to him by
a spiritual eminence. But he actually spends quite a bit of
time at the palace in order to provide the Saltanat with
spiritual direction to interpret his dreams to function as a
physician some of the time and he's following his teacher. We've
tardy who had been quite close to Murad, the third so one night the
Sultan has a dream in the palace. He's wrestling with that. It was
the king of Austria, the Habsburg emperor, they're kind of doing
this Turkish wrestling thing.
And the Austrian King throws him on his back.
Sounds like
bad news, and he's wakes up disturbed, and he calls for
Aziz Muhammad to die. But He does this by writing the dream down and
sending a Janissary a soldier across to
as his motto today, who then takes the letter. But again, according
to the historians, doesn't open it, but tells the Janissary my
respects to his majesty, I already have written the response to he
hands him another letter, and the soldier is kind of amazed but goes
back, back to top Kappa, the Salton opens the envelope. And
this is what the interpretation is, a lot to Allah has created the
back as the strongest part of the human body, at the surface of the
Earth is the strongest of all lifeless things. When the bat
comes into contact with the earth, two great powers are combined, two
great strengths have been brought together in you for this reason,
the enemies will be defeated at your hands. This is his
interpretation, and the salt I'm so happy that he sends a whole
fleet of boats each with magnificent gifts for the chef
who refuses them all.
But from that time on the salt on kind of gets religion and starts
to ripe Sufi poetry, didn't know that the Ottomans sometimes took
their poetry quite seriously. So here's sort enough met is maybe
the most powerful man in the world who builds the Blue Mosque which
all the tourist goggle at the Sony Lumia every night, but you can get
an insight into his soul in poems like this. I've given myself to
Allah, nothing that I own remains mine he has taken all of it, and
nothing shall be mine in this world or the next. For God's love
has swept upon the and has taken myself for me. It has opened wide
the eyes of my heart, no darkness is remain. I'm set alight by the
prayers of the righteous I've become a slave to God, my heart is
light. Nothing shall be mine in this world for the next.
Allah thanks to you shall never end Praise to Allah from love of
Him nothing that I owned remains and others,
which you be a bad person and the magnificent. Using the pen name
would be also to divine psalter, NEPAD 30. Also to divine any kind
of EPA Nairobi inspired Waterloo type poetry. So he also says Ben
Edna beer Abdi RCM de la her, like a prayer cup and a beer good iron
party show her behalf the sooner you're seen or Taha Benny cool ol
me ma nada suit on. So this is his prayer.
written to God,
I am the lowest of the disobedient slaves. Oh my god. I am the lowest
beggar at your gate. Oh my soul time by the power of Surah Yaseen
and Taha, make me a soul Tom in the world of meaning.
Both find the ILM in your total majali hire Lucille Gibby. The
remove Kumala very procedures are the Kadri Ali, Ben equal Alami ma
nada. So, Tom
my scope is nothing. I have no role in this transient world. All
the wealth and all of the kingdom of this world is just like a
shadow or an imagining.
Give me a high standing on the day of reward and make me assault on
in the invisible world. The hockey roja factory, Alden Habibi, Akram
Rahmani Azam Becerra, Turkey Ibrahim add him. Benny killed al
me ma nada assault on by the rights of the face of the pride of
the world. That's the Holy Prophet Habibi Akram, the greatest beloved
descendant of Turkey Ibrahim Adam by the secret of Ibrahim bin Adams
Tarek Ibrahim bin Adhan famous Sufi who was the prince of bulk,
who made Toba and renounced everything to call people to
Allah. So this is a kind of precedent for the righteous king
in Islamic culture.
Make me assault on in the real world in the world of meaning, so
he produces this Deewan of poetry using the pen name, ottoman and
Persian poets usually use a pen name of bhakti.
And he dies relatively young his brother is a problem, Mustafa, he
seems to have been insane but the next weeks Alton Murad, the fourth
is somebody who really revives the Empire's fortunes. But in any
case, one day the Sultan is riding he can imagine what a magnificent
cavalcade that would have been.
On a great Arab horse down the main street, the Cheshire Iskandar
as his mom would when it comes to watch assault on season in the
crowd, gets off his horse and makes as his mom or today ride in
his stead. And all the dervishes are saying no, of course, not
going to do this. He's not going to ride on the salterns horse. And
the courtiers also that kind of caught guys think this is what the
shape is really about. He wants pomp and circumstance. But the
chef does do it. But after a few steps, he gets off an assistance
or Tom Rides Again. And he explains, when my teacher sent me
to Istanbul, his prayer was maicel tons hold the reins of your horse.
So I did this so that my teachers prediction or to art should come
about.
So I mentioned that this this place this ticket
is full of amazing people
for the kinds of cultural activities, calligraphy and other
traditional arts that will be practice to poetry, but also
Ottoman music by the stage this may be the highest development of
classical Ottoman music, which is a hugely sophisticated
technique. So one of the most interesting people who come and is
a historian autarky, who's the greatest Ottoman historian of the
time has spent a lot of time here. The Grand Vizier, Helene Pasha.
Everybody turns up at this place. And at one of my favorite is this
Ali offski. We even have a picture of him, drawn by a Genovese
traveler, who is one of the most interesting people in the Ottoman
Empire. And he's a convert. And at this period, as Professor Graff
has recently told us in his book, The Sultan's renegades, Christian
European converts to Islam and the making of the Ottoman elite 1575
to 1610. The Empire is really built on the efforts of large
numbers of Europeans converted not just in the military, but also in
the state administration. The first printing press ever in the
Islamic world is founded by Abraham multiferroic, who is a
Hungarian Unitarian convert who comes to the salt hands domains,
writes and books and prints books. The Arabic script for the first
time is printing press is still one of the
amazing facts he didn't hang out. Ibrahim autofac a displacement is
good. But the main Mevlevi Hana in Istanbul, which is in Galatia, and
actually you can see his grave it's still buried. So but this
guy, off P
is Polish.
I'm not going to try and pronounce his name Albertus Baba Vyas as his
Latin name, who is captured during a Polish Lithuanian invasion of
Ottoman Ukraine and is a slave. After 20 years, one has been taken
to the palace and trained up to a very high level.
His freed and he ends up eventually going to Cairo retiring
that is converted to Islam, he does the Hajj. But he's really a
kind of polymath is said to have known 16 languages and was one of
the official dragons caught interpreters. So he knew not just
polish and Latin but German and English and Greek and Armenian,
and Islamic languages as well. He is the first person even though
he's a convert to Islam, to translate the Bible into Ottoman
Turkish, which is still the only complete translation of the Bible
in Turkish.
He writes, but is also because it seems that he was a chorister in
Poland. As a musical bent, he studied Ottoman music. And he
publishes a really important book called much more is SARS, which
says,
of which only two copies survive. One is in the British Library.
It's one of the amazing treasures. And it's the first time ever that
Islamic music has been written down using Western notation. A few
attempts have been made before then using the Armenian notation,
which is really quite difficult. But here he's using Western
staves, and so forth, and you've got the words to be sung
underneath if you can see them. But instead of being written from
left to right, the music is actually written from right to
left, which is kind of take you a long time to be able to sight
read, using that system. But you can see the innovative of novelty
of this guy and grasp point is that after the first flush of
conquests, the Ottoman Empire was reinvigorated by new blood and
these converts who came in in order to keep the society lively.
He also
wrote down from memory, the Protestant sorter, the Geneva
Salter, the Psalms that the Protestants would use in their
ceremonies, because Protestant, even in England on the 19th
century didn't really sing hymns, but just in Psalms.
So he sets this to Turkish music.
So you can see is really a kind of globalized individual and this is
even sort of revived. So here's our CD that you can get.
And there have been different groups. I think there was one at
Harvard recently did a concert of his Mizmor lar, his Turkish
translation of the Geneva Salter, but using Ottoman
modes and rhythms. So Istanbul was this meeting of Eastern Western
all kinds of interesting people, whether
he also writes a grammar of the Turkish language.
And he also translated Hugo Grotius into Turkish Grotius was
one of the great legal theorists and jurisprudence of early modern
Europe. And his first appearance in Turkish was at the hands of Ali
offski. But he did his Hajj she was sincere member of the Ummah,
but in a kind of relaxed Imperial age where people were not very
stressed about boundaries. He did these bridge building things. So
yep,
some interesting people are attracted to who die Hazzard Lily,
and his ticket
Yeah, this again, the soul tons, so many stories.
The rated of this, there's one famous story in which
who die is going to pray in the palace and deed the Sultan's
family. And the Sultan is out of respect, pouring the water for his
will door.
And the mother is waiting with a with a towel. And she says, die
hazard lady say to God, we would really like to see a miracle. And
please, can you do us a miracle? Please, please, please?
Because he's not going to do that. And it's by Allah's command
anyway, but instead, he finishes his AP test is ablutions at any
tells her some people asked for miracles. Is it enough of a
miracle that a man with no money at all is here in this palace,
while the ruler of the world is pouring water for him while his
mother is waiting with a towel? So they get something out of that?
All kinds of other miracle stories, but maybe we should
But let's just have one more because they have such tremendous
perennial value. Well, one day he is
sitting in the courtyard of his takecare, doing his dhikr. And the
young man comes up. And again, he wants some kind of interesting ego
stimulating secret. So he says, Is it true that you know alchemy can
do this thing of turning things into gold? Yes, it's true. We
faces we can do alchemy.
And then the wind starts to blow through the garden of the ticker.
And there's a grapevine that on a trellis, and some of the leaves
fall down.
And they can hear the divine name, who.
And when the young man looks at the leaves, he sees it's actually
gold leaf.
And
as he's modeled when he stands up and kind of brushes these things
off his patch group, and says to the young man, real alchemy is to
change yourself. Anything else is a kind of conjuring trick.
1000s of stories like that.
So he's there, but he's also of course, preaching the most amazing
Sultan Ahmed mosque.
But he also writes, and some of these books are still
celebrated. So his
you can pick up lots of editions of his divan, still very popular
in Turkey, partly because they're pretty simple.
He can write in the very complicated subkey Hindi Indian
style of elaborate Baroque word wordplay. He can do that, but
mostly he just wants to get the basic principles of religion
across in order to benefit the common people and to provide a
kind of package of Dawa material for his disciples who are going up
all over Anatolia and Ottoman Europe. So he has his divan, which
is his most significant book that he left behind him. But he has
lots of other books, as far as we can tell.
And most of them are held in
this library, which is a really nice place to visit.
Is good are very close down the hill,
from his ticket 19 books in Arabic,
which include a while and Nabil matar Allah, he's Salah word and
Malika Aha, which is about certain spiritual dimensions of the
Prophet's life, which has a very nice chapter. I think it's chapter
three, which is about the Miraj commemoration of that, of course,
is coming up.
Jeremy alpha.com, or rather, is
a collection of stories about merit, in order to suppress
vicious habits. And an interesting book called habit and muhabba, a
grain of love, which is about the three great forms of
religious love that he wants to talk about Muhammad, Allah, the
love of God, Muhammad Rasul, the different kinds of love that we
have for the Holy Prophet. And then Mahabharata, corroborating
the love for the actual beat. The family of the Prophet that's about
those three things is a collection of Hotspurs.
And
one or two books on Arcada.
Although even though he has his academic career as well, he's not
really publishing much in the formal world. And
then he has a number of books in Turkish I mentioned the Divan
which has some Arabic poems, and I think some Persian as well, but
it's, it's a whelmingly Turkish. He has a famous MIT idea. It was
the tradition in the Ottoman Empire and in some quarters, they
still do this to have just as as a particular recital on the night of
the mullet. On the night of the Mirage, they also have an assembly
of off car and poems and things that they they will sing. So he's
written one of these main ideas
Tarak number which is formal instruction on the practices of
the Java tutorial,
and then a book of his letters that is accurate, including some
famous letters to somebody called Monier fnd, who was based in
Belgrade, who was the head of the the scholarly hierarchy there
in response to various questions of people asking him and also a
book that seems to have been written for the soul times Nazi
Hunter Moloch, the hoarseness SoloQ
which means canceling the Kings on
meritorious or noble behead.
AVR it's a kind of mirror for Prince's book to encourage the
soul time to conform to moral excellence.
So here's buried in 1623, buried in the garden of his ticket is
good art in a simple grave. And it's today one of the most
popular, there's the library again, it's really a nice, nice
place to visit library hasn't been kept. As you can see, I forget
what it's called. But it's a really great place. That's his
mosque.
And then, so it's buried next to that, and the ticker no longer
functioning at a tour close the mall. And the Republicans in their
wisdom decided that a lot of books that they had there, the archives,
well didn't really look interesting enough to put in a
museum. So they put them in the basement of the military muscle
time Mosque, which is right next to the sea. So when in about 10
years time, somebody said, Well, maybe these are historically
really important. They looked at them, and they'd all become damp
and destroyed and unusable. So a lot of the records unfortunately,
were lost as a result of Turkish Republican mania.
But the precious books, went to the Salim Alpha library in good
art, and some of them are at the main Manuscript Library Suleimani
in Istanbul,
so that Tahrir no longer functioning,
and the GLBT tariqa
is extinct. We did as they occur in this Noosphere pm form, ever
again. But the ticket given that in recent years, it's become a
little bit easier to do religious things in Turkey. So I've pointed
out that if you've tardy takeout has been reopened and has a
certain sacral function again, even though Sufism technically is
still illegal in Turkey, and the telcos can't publicly in the
really classical way, do their thing.
But you can get a lot of things done around the edges. So in 2011,
they established a big walk, charity, which owns the land and
receives a lot of donations. And they've got a lot of activities,
not just a university, which they run in Kazakhstan,
but also a lot of Quran courses.
And just finishing off with some of the things that the young men
that do around the Islamic world, our walk has a very big kind of
humanitarian program. They were one of the first humanitarian aid
agencies to deal with the Albanian earthquake, for instance. So here
they are in Gaza, doing a Iftar.
Then Idlib in Syria right now,
West Africa.
And they're building settlements for the Rohingya in
refugee camps near Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh. So, it's interesting
that the impact of this guy, even though the servant of the
threshold of the Void had nothing. The love that people have for
these people can survive fire and pestilence and political
oppression to go on to serve people in the way that these great
ones would have intended. So that's the end of the story, but
inshallah it's kind of emblematic window into Ottoman greatness and
a dimension of Islam that in our rather more formulaic and anxious
times has been partly lost sight of mostre still open. These places
are not and I think we're only beginning to realize how much the
religion has lost as a result of the lack of interest in the inner
horizon.
But a lot of people are forming within a more eloquent
Cambridge Muslim College, training the next generation of Muslim
thinkers.