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Loving the Prophet, Blogging and Music

Posted in Blogs, Family, Life, Music, Thoughts, tagged , , , , on April 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Blogging! As some of you know, I am a musician of sorts, coming from a long line of musicians in my family. So I’ve started to make records again and will eventually write, arrange, produce and record a number of songs and some specifically for the readers of this blog.
I’ve been blogging for some time [...]

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Hadra

Posted in Music, Religion, Sufism, Video, tagged , , , on August 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »

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Traditional Islamic Music Sung at a Church

Posted in Culture, Events, Music, New York, Religion, tagged , , on April 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Video (01:19) – “Sheikh Nazim” ilahi performed at a New York church by murids from the Osmanli Dergahi
Video courtesy of nakshibendi.com

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Sultan Murat IV: Uyan Ey Gözlerim Gafletten Uyan

Posted in Biographies, Culture, History, Music, Ottomans, Poetry, Religion, tagged , , on March 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »

 

Uyan ey gözlerim gafletten uyan
Awake, mine eyes, from heedlessness!
Uyan uykusu çok gözlerim uyan
From your drowsiness, awake!
Azrail’in kasdı canadır inan…
Know that the Angel of Death seeks your soul…
Seherde uyanırlar cumle kuslar 
At sunrise the birds waken with a tumult
Dillü dillerince tesbihe başlar
Touching the heart with their tongues, they begin to pray
Tevhid eyler dağlar taşlar ağaçlar
Mountains, stones, trees—all [...]

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Sema: Traditional Sufi Worship and Whirling

Posted in Events, Music, New York, Religion, Sufism, Video, tagged , , , , , , on February 3, 2008 | 13 Comments »

For over 700 years Muslims have performed a devotional worship, a form of sema, whirling in continual remembrance of their Creator. This tradition of whirling became commonly known through the sufi poet Maulana Jalal’ud-din Rumi. The word sema, which is arabic for “sound” is described best by Shamsi Tabriz, Maulana Jalal’ud-din’s master and shaykh saying,
“There [...]

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