NATIONAL DHIKR DARS - MARCH 2023, by Shaykh Abdalhaqq Bewley

All of us are aware of the tremendous emphasis placed by our Shaykh on the restoration of zakat. He often referred to it as the fallen or missing pillar of the deen. He again and again stressed the need for the correct reimplementation of its collection and distribution. Indeed at times it seemed that he was more concerned about that than anything else. We have all accepted this aspect of his teaching and done our best in various ways to see it put into practice but why did he make it a matter of such paramount importance. It was because he understood the absolutely pivotal role played by zakat in the deen of Islam, not just in terms of taking care of those in need and ensuring the fair distribution of wealth in society, but in a far deeper way as that element in the deen that truly addresses the prevalent sickness of Islam in the present age.

Advice to the Community Following the Death of Our Shaykh: Reflections on Surat al-Hujurat

There is no doubt that that we, the world-wide community of Shaykh Abdalqadir al-Sufi, have been travelling through turbulent waters since his death, waters which were already unsettled as a result of the illness that took hold of him toward the end of his life, may Allah have mercy on him.

 

I do not wish in this short piece to make proclamations about the titles and positions afforded the great men and women of our path, rather I wanted to advise myself and all who read this to turn to the Wise Qur’an to help us through this difficult time. There are a number of passages that would offer profound advice, but I would particularly like to take a look at Surat al-Hujarat, in which Allah lays out some of the guidelines needed for a Muslim community to function in a healthy and balanced manner. It is enough to simply read the excellent translation of our dear teachers, Shaykh Abdalhaqq and Hajja Aisha Bewley, but I will offer some reflections on it to plunder some of its jewels.

 

Allah says:

 

In the name of Allah, All-Merciful, Most Merciful

1  You who believe! do not put yourselves forward in front of Allah and of His Messenger; and have taqwa of Allah. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.

Do not put forward your opinion, or assert the correctness or incorrectness of a thing, before first consulting the guidance found in the book of Allah and the Sunna of His Messenger ﷺ. Rather, we are warned that we must have taqwa of the One who hears our conversations, both those we have in our own minds and those we have with others.    

2  You who believe! do not raise your voices above the voice of the Prophet and do not be as loud when speaking to him as you are when speaking to one another, lest your actions should come to nothing without your realising it.

3  Those who lower their voices when they are with the Messenger of Allah are people whose hearts Allah has tested for taqwa. They will have forgiveness and an immense reward.

4  As for those who call out to you from outside your private quarters, most of them do not use their intellect.

5 If they had only been patient until you came out to them, it would have been better for them. But Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

Thus, when speaking to anyone who in one aspect or another is an inheritor of the Prophet ﷺ, such as our Amirs, Ulema, Shaykhs and awliya, it is imperative to do so in a way which is courteous. Moreover, Allah’s sunna is that the majority of the awliya are hidden, and are only known to Him. Thus, we must be careful of our behaviour because we may be dealing with someone that seems to be of no importance, but who is loved by Allah. We have in the famous Hadith Qudsi, that Allah says:

Whosoever shows enmity to a wali (friend) of Mine, 

then I have declared war against him

It is clear from this that we must be very careful. It can be said that good adab is a reason for spiritual growth and increase, as made clear in the Diwan in the Qasida ‘The Buraq of the Tariq’:

Make adab your companion as you follow the Shari‘a,

and as you recognise the Haqiqa.

The mithal of adab in these matters

is like mixing iron with elixir.

Do you not see how it turns the iron

in an instant to new gold?

In the same way adab acts on the heart and

carries it to the Presence of the Unseen.

How many a man of earnest right actions He has left to himself,

and how many men of adab He has brought near.

The adab of looking at created beings

is that you see the Creator – no second!

Thus you discern the Creator in the created

and the Provider in the provision.

Indeed, it is incumbent on us to have good adab in every situation in which we find ourselves, as Allah is present at every moment, and it is He who is the Actor that is manifesting in everything. Thus, bad adab is a means for diminishing the value of our actions and cutting ourselves off from Allah’s mercy. The People of the path are known for their adab, and it is this that our shuyukh have always been calling us to: “Tasawwuf is all adab”.

6 You who believe! if a deviator brings you a report, scrutinize it carefully in case you attack people in ignorance and so come to greatly regret what you have done. 

In an age of social media, smartphones and the technological ingress into every aspect of our lives, we are constantly being bombarded by information. Yet, it is difficult to ascertain who the information is coming from; we may know the website or even the name on the profile, but we cannot always be sure of the source. News corporations, political PR machines, and websites run using artificial intelligence to manipulate who we vote for are clear examples of “deviators”, but sometimes even our own thoughts are in fact Shaytan’s insinuations and the impulses of the nafs (self) and hawa (desire). Indeed, the deviator within is the one most likely to be a cause of our regret. Whatever the source, we must be extremely careful about what we listen to and what we pass on. Anyone who has been active in the political sphere of our tariqa can tell you that many of the problems faced by our community were enflamed by gossip and talebearing. 

7 Know that the Messenger of Allah is among you. If he were to obey you in many things, you would suffer for it. However, Allah has given you love of faith and made it pleasing to your hearts, and has made unbelief, deviance and disobedience hateful to you. People such as these are rightly guided. 

8 It is a great favour from Allah and a blessing. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.

We could never adequately thank Allah for His generosity to us. The gift of Islam is the greatest gift we have, and the fact someone loves Allah’s Deen and wishes to avoid that which He dislikes is a sign that Allah loves that person. This is guidance. 

9 If two parties of the believers fight, make peace between them. But if one of them attacks the other unjustly, fight the attackers until they revert to Allah’s command. If they revert, make peace between them with justice, and be even-handed. Allah loves those who are even-handed. 

Alhamdulillah, we are not generally given to physical acts of violence against each other. However, this advice can be applied to any disputes that may arise among us. We should be even-handed while defending the one who has been dealt with unfairly, had accusations thrown at him or her, or been subjected to insulting and discourteous treatment. Above all, the energy we should bring to such disputes is one that could lead to reconciliation, which implies patience, forgiveness and forbearance.

Courtesy of Khalil Mitchell

10 The believers are brothers, so make peace between your brothers and have taqwa of Allah so that hopefully you will gain mercy. 

This is what distinguishes the Muslims from other groups. We are bonded by an asabiya that is rooted in love of Allah and His Messenger ﷺ and it is vital to maintain this bond of brotherhood. The du’a of Shaykh Muhammad ibn al-Habib and all our shuyukh is: “O Allah, make us those who love each other in Allah” and it is through sharing our lives, working together to implement Allah’s Deen, and gathering to recite the Qur’an and do dhikr of Allah that this bond is strengthened. 

When a group of the fuqara from Britain had travelled to the Moussem in Cape Town one year, we were invited by Shaykh Abdalqadir to his house in the week following the nights of dhikr as was his custom. The shaykh wanted to address us and we gathered on a rug in his garden after the meal. Shaykh Abdalqadir was sitting at the end and we were gathered around him. He told us to huddle closer together and said, “it is like the prayer; if there are gaps, the shaytan will get between you.” It was understood from this that he was indicating something about us. He was teaching us at that we must be more united and that the way to do this was to come together. Distance leads to resentment. From this, quarterly national gatherings of dhikr were established, and I remember it as being a time of growth.

11 You who believe! people should not ridicule others who may be better than themselves; nor should any women ridicule other women who may be better than themselves. And do not find fault with one another or insult each other with derogatory nicknames. How evil it is to have a name for evil conduct after coming to faith! Those people who do not turn from it are wrongdoers. 

Therefore, we must be respectful on one another and speak well of one another. This is adab. We do not want to be wrongdoers, and we do not want to hurt others, especially those with whom we are bonded. In Imam al-Nawawi’s Forty Hadith, we have:

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Do not envy one another, and do not inflate prices for one another, and do not hate one another, and do not turn away from one another, and do not undercut one another in trade. Be slaves of Allah and brothers. 

A Muslim is the brother of a Muslim: he does not oppress him, nor does he fail him, nor does he lie to him, nor does he hold him in contempt. Taqwa is here [and he pointed to his chest three times]. It is bad enough for a man to hold his brother Muslim in contempt. 

The whole of a Muslim is inviolable for another Muslim: his blood, his property, and his honour.”

Shaykh Abdalqadir once said in a night of dhikr, “You must think well of Allah and think well of each other; you must speak well of Allah and speak well of each other.” This mirrors the lines from the Buraq of the Tariq:

The highest and most praiseworthy qualities are contained in these two good practices:

Think the best of Allah and then think the best of His slaves. Hold to these two things and avoid being wilful.

This is, in fact, a reference to a hadith that says:

Two qualities above which there is nothing higher and more noble are a good opinion of Allah and a good opinion of the slaves of Allah and the two most harmful qualities are a bad opinion of Allah and a bad opinion of the slaves of Allah.

Continuing the theme of the adab, Allah says:

12  You who believe! avoid most suspicion. Indeed some suspicion is a crime. And do not spy and do not backbite one another. Would any of you like to eat his brother’s dead flesh? No, you would hate it. And have taqwa of Allah. Allah is Ever-Returning, Most Merciful. 

We must have clean hearts. We cannot allow our hearts to be poisoned by bad opinion which leads to suspicion and bad behaviour towards others. Backbiting (ghiba) is to reveal the faults of others. If someone spreads false information about another Muslim, it is considered to be slander. While the latter is more serious, the first is no light matter and it is likened to eating the flesh of a dead brother in the ayat.

13  Mankind! We created you from a male and female, and made you into peoples and tribes so that you might come to know each other. The noblest among you in Allah’s sight is the one with the most taqwa. Allah is All- Knowing, All-Aware.

This is Allah’s criterion. The best of us is not the one with the nicest car, the biggest and most powerful family, or the most knowledge. It is the one who has the most taqwa. The lowest level of taqwa is to obey Allah in all the commands and prohibitions. The highest is to be aware of Allah at every moment. Whatever situation we are confronted with, Allah is the Actor. He is never absent, not even for the blink of an eye. Shaykh Muhammad ibn al-Habib says in the Qasida “Annihilation in Allah”:

With us, ‘other’ is impossible, 

for true existence belongs to Allah.

Constantly cut through your illusion 

with a Tawhid that is purely for Allah.

Again, the link between adab, which earlier was seen to be based on our awareness of tawhid, and spiritual growth is apparent. 

14  The desert Arabs say, ‘We believe.’ Say: ‘You do not believe. Say rather, “We have become Muslim,” for faith has not yet entered into your hearts. If you obey Allah and His Messenger, He will not undervalue your actions in any way. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful.’ 

The truth is that we are on a journey and there are degrees; Islam, Iman and Ihsan; or you could say, Sharia, Tariqa and Haqiqa; outward practice, inward journeying, direct perception of Reality. In taking this journey on Allah will not undervalue your actions in any way.

15  The believers are only those who have believed in Allah and His Messenger and then have had no doubt and have done jihad with their wealth and themselves in the Way of Allah. They are the ones who are true to their word. 

Becoming Muslim is only the beginning. It is both a great honour to be a follower of the Best of Creation ﷺ and a great responsibility. Shaykh Abdalqadir often used to say that we must take it on, that the responsibility is ours and that the fuqara are the princes of spiritual knowledge. He has left us with a blueprint which is set out in The Time of the Bedouin, The Interim is Mine, The Engines of the Broken World and The Entire City and we must do what we can to acquire the knowledge that will lead to right action (which implies recognising the time in which we live), sound domestic and social interactions and spiritual fulfilment. 

16  Say: ‘Do you presume to teach Allah your deen when Allah knows everything in the heavens and everything in the earth? Allah has knowledge of all things.’

After all, it is called Islam – Submission. We take the knowledge we have been given and act by it. Shaykh Abdalqadir left us a great legacy and renewed many aspects of the Deen of Allah that had been cast aside, and we – all of us – are his inheritors, on the condition that we take it on. 

17  They think they have done you a favour by becoming Muslims! Say: ‘Do not consider your Islam a favour to me. No indeed! It is Allah who has favoured you by guiding you to faith if you are telling the truth.’ 

18  Allah knows the unseen things of the heavens and the earth. Allah sees what you do. 

Allah knows everything, and He is with us at every moment. He is closer to us than our jugular vein. Shaykh Abdalqadir, may Allah have mercy on him, often used to quote the wird of Sahl al-Tustari:

 

Allah is with me; 

Allah is looking at me; 

Allah is the witness of my acts.

 

This brings to mind the very definition of Ihsan, the science for which is tasawwuf:

 

Ihsan is to worship Allah as though you see Him. 

If you are not seeing Him, 

He sees you.

Courtesy of Khalil Mitchell

Courtesy of Khalil Mitchell

Courtesy of Khalil Mitchell

Courtesy of Khalil Mitchell

BETWEEN THE PONYTAIL AND THE BURKA By Hajja Rabea Redpath

Originally posted on May 12, 2014 @ ladyaisha.org

Talk given January 11th 2014 by Hajja Rabea Redpath, Director of Lady Aisha College - Cape Town

A‘udhu billahi mina sahaytan ar-Rajeem, bismillahi arRahman ar-Raheem.

La hawla wa la quwwata illa billahi al-Aliyyi al-‘Atheem.

Allahumma salli ‘ala sayyidina Muhamadin ‘abdika wa rasulika an-Nabi al-Ummi

wa ‘ala aalihi wa sahbihi wa sallam.

As-Salamu ‘alaykum everybody, and welcome.

The purpose of this talk is to look at the needs and requirements of the modern-day Muslim young woman, and how we can help her. It is clear that we are in a rapidly changing age and there is a need to readdress and confront what the young woman needs in this new age we live in.

ISRAEL’S PROBLEM by Shaykh Dr Abdalqadir al-Sufi

Posted on August 6, 2014 on www.shaykhabdalqadir.com

Furorne caecus, an rapit vis acrior, an culpa? Responsum date!

Horace: Epodon VII. 13-14. Oxford.

(Is it blind frenzy that hurries you along, or some stronger force, or is it guilt? Answer my question!)

A strange phenomenon has emerged in the ancient Roman colony of the Jews. The Israeli populace spread out across the ancient territory of their – or some of their – ancestors are being bombarded by thousands of rockets so ineffective that, despite the psychological strain, kill only a handful, while the whole might of the state is bombing the huddled masses of arabs packed together on the tiny Gaza strip. Daily houses are destroyed there by bomb and drone, women and children are torn to shreds with their men – almost two thousand dead. The Israelis on their side are disturbingly untouched by this massacre. Educated, middle class matrons on television express approval of this lethal bombardment, bizarrely unmoved by sobbing mothers and mutilated infants.

The media directed view of the disaster posits two quite rationally unacceptable positions – the Israelis under rocket attack versus the bloodbath of neighbours controlled by a military group claiming their “just rights”.

How did we get to this unconfronted human disaster?

Let us begin at the trigger point in the 20th century.

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MAGNA CARTA AND THE END OF THE POLITICAL CLASS by Shaykh Abdalqadir al-Sufi

Posted June 23, 2014 on www.shaykhabdalqadir.com

The worst result has occurred in the issue of the trial of the men accused of terrorism. The trial was ordered to be held in camera, that meant in private unwitnessed by citizens or media. The evidence and the summation withheld from the people. The excuse was ‘national security’ – as yet undefined even in the law justifying the principle. The laws destroying the great and up until then honoured foundation of British society was enacted under a Prime Minister now revealed as a mentally unstable psychopath. Worse than his madness was his slavish obedience to the financial masters of Britain since 1945, the U.S.A. The laws that dismantled the great defining document of civic freedom, the Magna Carta were direct copies of the set of laws by which America dismantled the legal framework of the Founding Fathers.

At appeal the affair was decided by Lord Gross who declared that the sensitive matter (the evidence on which they stood accused) should be held in camera but that the rest of the trial (an inhibited defence) could proceed in public.

Who is Lord Gross? This is a man who attended South Africa’s most prestigious Jewish school, Herzlia, and then presumably turned his back on the injustices of apartheid to find a high place in English law. Now, having disdained the inhumanity of the South African regime, he sits in authority on an English bench and first pays lip-service to Magna Carta then smashes it in his judgement.

The accused will still stand judged on an unheard evidence. This doubly weakens civic society, for one group can now argue that the accused were victims of agents provocateurs and it was this that had to be concealed from the citizens.

If this fundamental and primal law of civic society is as it now is both traduced and then rejected – what, we must ask is of worth? What merits security? Or is it that national security is a euphemism for a national prison of its inhabitants.

As if to cover the open crime of Lord Gross, traitor to English justice and to his own people who were slaughtered in their million by the simple original mechanism of arrest without trial, the Prime Minister declares the traduced law a basis of our intrinsic values.

In Israel Cameron grovelled for acceptance, declaring that his family had jewish blood. An Israeli general walked out, declaring:

‘That cuts no ice! He thinks we think like Hitler thought we thought.’

Cameron’s loud affirmation of our ‘basic values’ in the middle of a campaign of denigration aimed at Muslim British citizens held up Magna Carta just as the shameful Law Lord was destroying it. Well, here, it is a Muslim leader and a Scot defending it and now to teach the poor man about values.

Let us call things by their proper names.

We take our definition from ‘The Shorter Oxford Dictionary, Vol. 2’.

Value: Middle English and Old French.

That amount of some commodity, medium of exchange, etc., which is 

considered to be an equivalent for something else.

The material or monetary worth of a thing: the amount at which it may be 

estimated in terms of some medium of exchange or other standards of a 

like nature.

Therefore to establish justice in our commonwealth, the proposal of this loyal Scottish Muslim citizen is that the political-class which invented should now abolish VALUE-ADDED-TAX since to tax value surely is to de-value.

CROWN AND CIVIL SOCIETY – THE CROSSROADS by Shaykh Dr Abdalqadir al-Sufi

[Taken from www.shaykhabdalqadir.com]

In Britain a legal decision has been taken that represents an absolute severing of the most fundamental element in what has been our boast for eight hundred years. Again and again the governance of Britain has been called to account over centuries and tested in this matter. First monarchy, then parliament, and then in that wedding of crown and people that became the renowned compromise between monarchy and a two tiered parliament – one elected by the masses and the other a hereditary land-owning house of correction and honing of common law – which was to become a praised model across Europe. At the end of the twentieth century the unbalanced socialist premier put the final marker on the House of Lords, already fatally wounded by the decision to create life-peers chosen by government. Opposed by Lord Cranbourne, direct descendent of Queen Elizabeth I’s ruling family, the Cecils, the hereditary principle was abolished, reducing the second chamber to an extension of the Commons. Thus one chamber government in effect destroyed the British Constitution.

The weakening of parliamentary government was exacerbated by the slow restructuring of Commons’ practice following World War II. The Conservatives were reformed from a gentry-based farming party to a new-rich business party while the socialists moved from being a trade-union based workers’ party to being an Americanised middle-class party.

The new century saw the gradual surrender of Britain to what, 1945 had made clear, was the new role of post-industrial Britain, a financial clearing-house under American control. It was this transfer that was the real explanation of the otherwise inexplicable entry of Britain into military adventures, first in Iraq, then in Afghanistan. This entrapment in turn led to a series of changes in the law which radically redesigned the British legal system. With the new and undefined concept of ‘national security’, directly following America’s path to abandonment of its own past, Britain’s civil order began to unravel.

Now, with the new situation, Britain stands to lose its long heritage of protected liberty, and that means to break the tie that binds monarchy to people.

Before defining this affair it is vital to put on record that it is in no way an oblique defence of the men on trial. I am, over years, on record opposed to the follies of political Islam and its bastard offspring, terrorism. What is at issue is the decision to hold a trial in absolute secrecy, on grounds of national security. Further, let us put on record our disgust that the jewish law Lord, Lord Carlile, has spoken in its favour. That is something that for a modern jew is shameful, for it was such a decision in Germany that ended with an unchallenged mass genocide.

Our great guide in all matters of civil society’s health and preservation, the noblest and most important voice of the Scottish Enlightenment, Adam Ferguson, spoke clearly. He said:

We must admire, as the key-stone of civil liberty, the statute which forces the secrets of every prison to be revealed, the cause of every commitment to be declared, and the person of the accused to be produced, that he may claim his enlargement, or his trial, within a limited time. No wiser form was ever opposed to the abuses of power. But it requires a fabric no less than the whole political constitution of Great Britain, a spirit no less than the refractory and turbulent zeal of this fortunate people, to secure its effects.

It is nearly the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, which alongside specific laws relating to land tenure, and kingly obligations, laid out a clear law assuring an accused person a trial in public hearing before his peers. Today it is about to be rescinded.

If these prisoners are tried in camera, in secret, and unwittnesed it will reverberate throughout Britain and indeed, the world. It will break Parliament’s bond with the British people, and worse, it will end justification for a monarchy indifferent to this essential human mark of liberty.

SYRIA – THE WORLD’S FEVER CHART by Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir al-Sufi

Posted on September 1, 2013 on www.shaykhabdalqadir.com

Helpless, though we certainly are as individuals before the sordid slaughter of the Shi’a family dictator’s fight for survival in Syria – it does not mean that we can not learn from it about the current state of world power. It gives us a reading on the condition of Russia, of China, of Britain and of the American republic’s collapse.

Russia. The world can now observe that after its disastrous attempt to engineer a technological society run by a pragmatic elite of politicians, bureaucrats and technicians, its whole governed by a rigid psychotic, it has blundered into a tiny oligarchic rule this time controlled by a below-stairs ex-KGB man. Putin is a man at the bottom of the pile, catapulted to a leadership that for a historical moment made him seem capable of the task. But, uneducated both culturally and politically, he has survived on cynical pragmatism doomed to be swept aside by the first Tartar star to rise in the east. The brutalism of his approach to Syria is clear to the Russian people. He fails to grasp that Stalin survived by his endless cold passion for the games of politics. He was an ascetic from a seminary. Putin is a man without background, his foreground now crammed with wealth. He is a push-over. It will come sooner than later.

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‘EGYPT. TO WHOM THE BELL TOLLS…’ by Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir al-Sufi

Originally posted on August 16, 2013 on his website: www.shaykhabdalqadir.com

Of course we are appalled at the massacre of a country’s citizens by its own military. We must step back from the frenzied scene of ‘breaking news’ and its dismal commentators. These events are profound in effect and by their nature will reconstruct political discourse as a result.

In these final days of the American experiment it was perhaps inevitable that its last two holders of the high office of Secretary of State should prove inadequate, a woman who had failed in the bedroom, followed by a man who had failed on the battlefield.

The End of the Beginning by Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir al-Sufi

Taken from his new website www.shaykhabdalqadir.com

Luciano Canfora, the great Italian political philosopher and classicist, has given us an important definition:

“What one calls a dictator is never one who rules alone, (Alleinherrscher), he is at the centre of a system of power and of consensus. To eliminate him does not necessarily imply a breaking of this system, and on the contrary sometimes that indicates its re-enforcement. The fact that some tyrants organise false provocative attempts against them should make us reflect.”

Reflecting on the Egyptian disaster it must first be recognised that the term Revolution was not instigated by the incoherent and howling mass in the public square. The term came directly from foreign media. Now, Napoleon stated that there never had been a Revolution without a change of ownership. This allows us to establish the first clarification of the situation. The mass have been convinced by the media that something has happened which never happened. There has been no transfer and expropriation of wealth in Egypt, hence, no Revolution.

The second clarification allows us to apply Canfora’s view to the Egyptian crisis. The elimination of Mubarak in no way changed the power nexus he upheld.

The third clarification allows us to follow Canfora in noting that the provocative attempt to further destabilise the State is in fact authored by the power system.

Thus Egypt remains as an anachronistic capitalist State, a date-republic in the mode of South America’s banana-republics. However, in South America, its intellectuals and its mass have already recognised that the enemy is not a local ‘national’ dictator.

The Brazilians are the first people to identify the enemy as being neither government, army nor police. They have perceived, and are the first to perceive, what neither Greece nor Spain has perceived, let alone Egypt, that the enslaving power is not what they have been (media) informed. It is beyond the defunct State – in the global system of banking, media, distribution and armaments. In naming the abominable Blatter, Fifa, and football itself, the Brazilians have opened the New Age. They have opened up a new dialogue of freedom and power, answering the challenge of Harold Laski who wrote in 1921:

“A new formula is needed for a state of which the roots have spread beyond the voting audience.”

He re-iterated this matter:

“We live in a new world and a new theory of state is necessary to its adequate operation.”

On the road to a post-capitalist and real-money society the recently unearthed carcass of a dinosaur lies blocking our way, the Muslim Brotherhood. The two opposing masses in the public squares are, equally, the obedient slaves of the ochlocracy (tyrannicide) ensconced in its banking palaces. We must move forward!

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Brazil Red - The Global Civil War by Shaykh Abdalqadir al-Sufi

Originally Posted on June 23, 2013 on www.shaykhabdalqadir.com

‘In these times of ours…’ So began Dickens’ final masterpiece ‘Our Mutual Friend’, the last in his life-series of novels, the final rejection of capitalism in its penultimate phase.

‘In our time the destiny of man presents its meaning in political terms’ – thus wrote Thomas Mann, Germany’s greatest writer. In mid-life the Nazi dictatorship forced him into American exile. In late-life American democracy forced him into Swiss exile.

‘The only defeat of fascism in our time has been military’, wrote French philosopher, Sartre in mid-twentieth century.

By the beginning of the twenty-first century political democracy had emerged as a world system. Based on a universal franchise elected governments claimed to govern by ‘the will of the people.’

Islam -- Its New Beginning by Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi

Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi gives the position of the emergent force of world Islam, and the necessary steps to social renewal.

Postscript to the video by Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi

[Taken from his website: www.shaykhabdalqadir.com]

The only way in which political discourse let alone dialogue can re-start after over a century of silence is by permitting a frank critique not only of structures – corporations and distribution systems – but also of money as numbers controlled abstractly in algorithms, as well as the need to dismantle complex legal frames designed to prevent the evolutionary moves to end oligarchic power.

Since the logic of the mathematical financial apparatus implies, and can be observed to be approaching, a final oligarchic leadership of a mere few hundred holding the world’s wealth and its people enslaved to them, in turn offering that oligarchy the irresistible urge to monarchic absolutism, the radical steps to rescue mankind insist on being taken. War in the mass and terror in the desperate individual have already been factored into the system thus demanding of those desirous of change a total rejection of these means.

Necessary  for this transformation are, one – worship of the Divine Creator, for the enemy of men is atheist, afraid and a victim of belief in chance: two – the ruthless application of reason identifying the persons behind the structures and the enslaving prohibitions they employ.

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ASSAD IN END GAME by Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir al-Sufi

26/03/2013 

Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir al-Sufi
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As the Assad regime goes into terminal rictus one is still reluctant to make a move, however, a matter of grave importance demands our attention.

Syria has become a lake of blood, but only the childrenʼs blood is innocent for deep down below lie the unmeasured depths of the historic swamp. Assad, squalid though his family are, is not the cause of their suffering, he is a result.

The result of the Syrian peopleʼs decades long plunge into a secular western dialectic in which power, political power had been detached from financial power, that is to say political socialism and nationalism, two worlds which when joined together gave Germany Nazi-ism. 

Nasser was the founding father of the destruction of the Arab world, one which left Arabia as Americaʼs gas station. The baathism, or secular socialism that swept Syria and Iraq, itself the vatican-blessed creation of a militant christian, proved irresistible to Arabs longing for modernity and the myth of independence. Soon in both countries the nationalism dominated and the socialism dissolved into modernity. 

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The Winds of Change by Parvez Asad Sheikh - 01/02/2013

Parvez Asad Sheikh

Introductory Note

It is a great honour and privilege to be able to present this text of Parvez Asad Sheikh. He is one of the leading intellectuals of the new generation of Muslims and is already manifesting the intellect and leadership which will undoubtedly lead to a major role for the Muslims at world level. Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi

    

Pakistan's Present, its Future and Imran Khan

Elections are well on their way in Pakistan and the tumult that is the norm of the country's political atmosphere has increased accordingly. New characters have entered the stage. Some represent the continuity of the civilian party politics headed by an increasingly dismal political class. Others remain a mystery and the cause and ultimate effect of their cathartic role remain to be seen. At least one relatively new player holds with him the promise of change in the face of incredible odds. The current narrative holds within it two potential directions and with it follows the unfolding story of what is a great country and an even greater people.

In one of these directions a deus ex machina can squeak onto the stage, hanging clumsily from political strings that no longer hold the strength they once did, pretending to unravel a difficult situation with ease while changing nothing. The other is a character in the mould of a Fortinbras, respectful of the great inner conflict of a young nation and ready to take the land to a new chapter.

QATAR TIMBUKTU AND AN ARAB RESCUE by Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi

Shaykh
Dr. Abdalqadir al-Sufi

30/01/2013 

The blessed relief of Timbuktu and the tragedy of the destruction of its great library faces us with the issue of the abysmal failure of the pseudo-salafi monotheist and anti-Islamic movement of ibn Abdalwahhab which began in the desert of Arabia and ended in ignominy in the desert of the Sahel. It was from its inception a denial of the city, the Messenger, and the social nexus. It was a curse and it is finished, only its ghost remains in Tunisia and Egypt. The whole mythic fabric of anti-Islamic wahhabism, insha’llah I will deal with in a separate text.

The purpose of the message is to point out how undefended modern Muslims are, and the still unconfronted problems of modernity facing our Arab brothers in the Gulf region. There is, now, the beginning of a way forward – for Islam and, yes, for the Arabs.

Firstly a defence. The openly fascist Right in France, despite its Republican pretensions, under Marine Le Pen, still adopts alongside its ‘nice’ democratic role-playing, an on-going anti-Arab position. It should be remembered that Le Pen, the founder, is openly regarded in France as an ex-torturer from the Algerian war.

The National Front media system has launched in Europe a slander against the Amir and State of Qatar. They have claimed that Qatar is playing ‘a double game’ in opposing the wahhabite rebels while secretly funding their futile venture.

This insult cleverly veils the genuine and important role of Qatar. Qatar, rightly, longs to rescue the Tuareg nation both from a wasted energy spent in a 20th century fantasy of nationalism, while at the same time persuading them to a respected federal position inside Mali. Equally, Qatar, desperately wanted to rescue Mali’s literary heritage.

The Euro-fascist attack on Qatar has two motives.

SHI'A DENIAL OF THE NEW by Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi - 14/12/2012

[A dars delivered by Shaykh Abdalhaqq Bewley which serves as a commentary for this article can be found by CLICKING HERE]

I must preface this statement by acknowledging two Shi‘a scholars who, by effectively barring my way to their doctrine, both revealed to me its flaw and their own abandonment of it. I must also mention Sayid Mahdi al-Hakim who asked me, “Are you saying that the only difference between us is political?” meaning, therefore, not theological. I replied in the affirmative. He was assassinated in Khartoum by Saddam’s secret police, so I am unable to tell him that what I answered as an instinctive Muslim, time has shown to me to be true. The issue I discovered, however, was not the politics of ‘Ali’s position, or Fatima’s orchard, or the martyrdom of the grandsons, but something much deeper, more troubling and profound, touching the very definition of the human situation.

The result of my present understanding allows me both categorically to reject Shi‘a doctrine, not as sectarian or even misguided but as the very denial and contradiction of the Islamic events, and at the same time also to oppose any violence private or public against the Shi‘a for this would validate their own macabre and brilliant denial of reality. As an Iraqi with a Shi‘a mother and a Muslim father warned me: “Do not bring rational argument to a Shi‘a – it is a psychology with a hidden source.”

Now. To begin our examination of the Shi‘a phenomenon it is necessary to go back, way back to before the great illumination of Islam’s arrival on earth. A doctor, seeking diagnosis, requires to know the prior family history, so with the human species as patient our elucidation begins at an earlier stage of the creatures and the earlier emergence of the fatal symptoms.

The Wahhabis and the Sufis A Commentary by Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir As-Sufi

[Please note, this article was first published 07/06/2004]

Madinah Press (www.madinahmedia.com) have just published a very important book, ‘Sufis and Sufism: a Defence’, that has been written by two of the leading ‘ulema of Morocco with the dual purpose of defending one of the Ummah’s greatest and most distinguished sons, Shaykh Dr. Muhammad ‘Alawi al-Maliki, while at the same time providing an overall defence of Sufis and Sufism, significantly including the positive opinions of Ibn Taymiyya, Al‑Jawziyya and Ibn Abdulwahhab. These latter views happen to reveal that the self-styled wahhabism of the ghastly Saudi regime is simply an innovatory political position against Islam, and not even that of the historically known reformers.

The authors, Shaykh Abdu’l-Hayy al-‘Amrawi and Shaykh Abdu’l-Karim Murad, are enormously prestigious ‘ulema based at the great Qarawwiyyin Mosque of Fes. Lest anybody think that the militant opposition to Sufism has stopped or even abated, we should be aware that the Saudi regime—we cannot call them a government—continues to promote the Zindiq teachings which they themselves openly see as a war against Islam and the Muslim masses.

We would not have mentioned this issue but for a recent evidence that the Zindiq regime arrogantly continues its progress, as if its militant sector just over two years ago had not spent the night with prostitutes drinking vodka-sours in a bar before flying two airliners into the now notorious skyscrapers. Yet in November of last year the Zindiq regime sent a representative to harangue the respected Muslim Judicial Council of Cape Town and film himself for an official Saudi television station. The obese form of Mr. Wajdi al-Ghazzawi berated the Council with that insolence we have foolishly taken for granted among the thuggish exports of the regime. He learned his Islam inside Arabia and studied something he calls ‘Interfaith Dialogue’, itself an open door onto kufr. Apparently he is an imam at the Al‑Minshaawi Mosque in Makkah.

Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir As-Sufi: Qadiriyya Moussem Discourse 2012