Posted in Culture, Food, Howto, tagged London, Sufi, Tea, Turkey on March 10, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Turkish Tea is one of the staples of the Osmanli Naks-i’bendi-Hakkani Dergah (what is a dergah?). Turkish tea is a brewed tea. It is not bagged and steeped, in fact it is loose but processed leaves, herbs and spices that are brewed for a period of about 15 minutes or more. Our shaykh, [...]
Posted in Howto, Prayer, Religion, tagged Ablution, Cleanliness, Islam, Muslims, Purity, Ritual, Wudu on November 29, 2007 | 3 Comments »
For a religiously valid salat (Islamic ritual prayer), a minor-ablution (wudu’ 
is an obligatory (fard) precondition. Without it, the salat is not complete. The Prophet Muhammad (alayhi salatu wa sallim) has said,
“The key of the salat is the wudu’” (Jami’ al-Saghir, v.2 pp156)
The Obligations of Minor-Ablution:
Washing the whole face, from the top of the [...]
Posted in Food, Howto, Religion, tagged Bible, David, Hadith, Muhammad, Quran, Vinegar on November 25, 2007 | 16 Comments »
Vinegar is a liquid substance produced from the fermentation of ethanol in a process that yields acetic acid, a corrosive organic chemical compound, represented as CH3COOH. Vinegar is made from the oxidation of ethanol in cider, fermented fruit juice, or nearly any other liquid containing alcohol. It has been used for food, household, miscellaneous and [...]
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