Posted in Events, Music, New York, Religion, Sufism, Video, tagged Faith, Islam, Muslims, Naksibendi, Rumi, Sufi, Whirling 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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Posted in History, Video, tagged Austria, Caspian Sea, Cyprus, Egypt, Eritrea, Gibraltar, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kanem-Borno, Lebanon, Middle East, Moldavia, Morocco, North Africa, Ottomans, Palestine, Persian Gulf, Slovakia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Transylvania, Turkey, Ukraine, Wallachia, Yemen on December 30, 2007 | 4 Comments »
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Shaykh Abdul-Kerim is here at the Osmanli Naksibendi-Hakkani Dergah in Sydney Center, New York speaking on men, women and the need to follow what Allah/God sent to the Holy Prophets. He also discusses the need for people, of our day and age, to be in association with the awliyullah/saints and shuyukh/righteous elders.
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