Wa SalaamWa Salaam******************A Muslim-American Journal****************** 
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2008-04-10 07:00:00 Ottoman Ilahi (Apr '08) Audio of Illahi?s Brought to you by the Osmanli Naksibendi-Hakkani Tariqat under the direction of Shaykh Abdul Kerim al-Kibrisi with ijazaat and instruction from Maulana Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani More About: Links , 2008
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2008-04-09 07:00:00 BBC NEWS | 'Ex-slave' takes Niger to court Ms Mani says the government continues to legitimise the practice of slavery through customary law, which discriminates against women in direct conflict with the constitution and criminal code. More About: Links , 2008
Foolish Speech
2008-04-07 22:34:00 These days I find the sohbet of my shaykh to be more important than I could have ever imagined. As the days and nights pass I am appreciating, more and more, the sentiments of the Qawwali, Ilahi, the traditional sufi poets and their diwan devoted to their beloved murshid. And as I continue to trip ... More About: Religion , Life , Thoughts , Speech
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2008-04-05 07:00:00 The Untold History of Post-Civil War 'Neoslavery' Talk of the Nation, March 25, 2008 · In Slavery by Another Name, Douglas Blackmon of the Wall Street Journal argues that slavery did not end in the United States with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862. He writes that it continued for another 80 year NYT | Students of Virginity There was a time when not having sex consumed a very small part of Janie Fredell?s life, but that, of course, was back in Colorado Springs. It seemed to Fredell that almost no one had sex in Colorado Springs. Her hometown was extremely conservative, and NYT | Old Ways Future of Farming STRYSZOW, Poland ?Depending on your point of view, Szczepan Master is either an incorrigible Luddite or a visionary. A small farmer, proud of his pure high-quality products, he works his land the way Polish farmers have for centuries. More About: Links
MashaAllah!
2008-04-04 06:58:00 namaz, originally uploaded by kapkara. More About: Religion , Turkey , Prayer , Namaz , Snow
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2008-03-21 06:00:00 Two killed in Yemen school attack Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh visits an injured schoolgirl after mortar rounds struck the courtyard of a school next to the U.S. embassy in Sanaa March 18, 2008 . According to media reports, the mortar attack took place near the U.S. embassy in Yemen Hamas, Fatah far apart as Yemen tries to mediate | Reuters GAZA, March 19 (Reuters) - Hamas voiced willingness on Wednesday to talk to Fatah as part of a Yemeni reconciliation initiative but said the secular faction must drop its demand the Islamist group first give up control of the Gaza Strip. More About: Links
Sultan Murat IV: Uyan Ey Gözlerim Gafletten Uyan
2008-03-21 01:45:00 Uyan ey gözlerim gafletten uyan Awake, mine eyes, from heedlessness! Uyan uykusu çok gözlerim uyan From your drowsiness, awake! Azrail?in kasd? canad?r inan? Know that the Angel of Death seeks your soul? Seherde uyan?rlar cumle kuslar At sunrise the birds waken with a tumult Dillü dillerince tesbihe ba?lar Touching the heart with their tongues, they begin to pray Tevhid eyler da?lar ta?lar a?açlar Mountains, stones, trees?all ... More About: Religion , Music , Culture , History , Poetry
Turkish Red Lentil Soup (Mercimek Çorbasi)
2008-03-20 07:31:00 Lentils are one of the blessed foods mentioned in the Qur’an al-kerim. And according to the Holy Prophet’s medicine (may Peace and Blessings be upon him), lentils ’soften the belly’ increasing ’sympathy and humility’. Red lentil soup is a Turkish favorite and is good to be served with bread prior to your main dish. In ... More About: Food , Turkey , Olive Oil , Quran , Soup
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2008-03-20 06:00:00 Turkey's secular constitution | See you in court | Economist.com AUTOCRATIC regimes in the Muslim world often ban religious parties, which then go underground and turn violent. Turkey's Islamists have taken a different path. Despite being repeatedly outlawed and ejected from power, pious politicians have shunned violen More About: Links , 2008
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2008-03-19 06:00:00 The Guardian | The beauty products from the skin of executed Chinese prisoners A Chinese cosmetics company is using skin harvested from the corpses of executed convicts to develop beauty products for sale in Europe, an investigation by the Guardian has discovered. More About: Links , 2008
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2008-03-18 06:00:00 Lights, Camera….War Before the recent War for Oil against Iraq and her people, 42% of the American public believed Saddam was personally responsible for 9/11 and 80% of Brits believe he had weapons of mass destruction. Zikr & Qasida (Mar '08) Zikr and Qasida on Friday Nights @ Rm 304, 353 W 39th St Manhattan NY 8pm More About: Links , 2008
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2008-03-16 06:00:00 New York Times: Why Shariah? Last month, Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, gave a nuanced, scholarly lecture in London about whether the British legal system should allow non-Christian courts to decide certain matters of family law. Britain has no constitutional separatio More About: Links , 2008
The Holy Nights
2008-03-15 22:59:00 If I were to ask you what are the five Holy Nights, what would come to your mind? Perhaps nothing or perhaps something. The fact of the matter is that the Holy Days and Nights are not discussed very often among religious people in America. But for Muslims in America there are evenings that should ... More About: Religion , Islam , Life , Muhammad
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2008-03-15 06:00:00 MUST SEE: United Nations is a Center of Shaitan More About: Links , 2008
What Do Muslims Believe?
2008-03-12 22:04:00 I have noticed an increase in readership from either people considering Islam or non-Muslims who are curious and would like to know more about Muslims. There are also those from Wordpress.com who are wondering why-in-heck is a guy wearing a bright green turban; talking about about tea and geishas on the front page of Wordpress.com? The ... More About: Religion , Life , Faith
How To Make Naqshbandi Sufi Tea
2008-03-11 02:39:00 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, ... More About: Food , Culture , Turkey , London , Sufi
The Ottomans and The Yemen
2008-03-10 18:01:00 The early history of the Yemen is rich and full of influences of migrations of peoples from Akkad, Sumer and other ancient Mesopotamian Kingdoms. Historians have recorded these migrations as far back as the 8th century B.C.. However, the medieval period is just as rich, complex and perhaps more significant with respect to ... More About: Military , History , Architecture , Empires
Pope Approves Permanent Catholic-Muslim Forum
2008-03-07 17:50:00 Interesting… clipped from www.timesonline.co.uk In a ground breaking move Pope Benedict XVI has approved the setting up of a permanent Catholic -Muslim Forum - the first of its kind - which is to hold its inaugural summit meeting in the Vatican in November. The historic move follows three days of talks in Rome between Vatican officials and a Muslim delegation representing 138 Muslim scholars who last year wrote an open letter to the Pope and other Christian leaders calling for dialogue, a move inspired by Prince Ghazi bin Muhammed bin Talal of Jordan. The Muslim initiative was a reponse to the Pope’s controversial speech at Regensburg University in his native Germany in 2006, where he appeared to describe Islam as inherently violent and irrational by quoting a Byzantine Emperor. He later said he had been misunderstood, and prayed alongside an imam at the Blue Mosque in Istanbul during a visit to Turkey. Related Articles: NYT - New For... More About: Permanent
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2008-03-05 07:00:00 Hadra With Shaykh Maulana Nazim and Shaykh Abdul Kerim Hadra Zikir with Sheikh Mawlana Nazim Haqqani & Sheikh Abdul Kerim Qubrusi on February 29, 2008 More About: Links
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2008-03-04 07:00:00 The Associated Press: US Launches Airstrike in Somalia MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) ? The U.S. launched an airstrike Monday on a Somali town held by Islamic extremists to go after a group of terrorist suspects, U.S. defense officials said. NPR: Americans Changing Religion Morning Edition, February 26, 2008 · Americans are comfortable with change. They not only change jobs and swap hometowns, but, according to a new report, they also try out different faiths. More About: Links
Sultan Murat III: Uyan Ey Gözlerim Gafletten Uyan
2008-03-04 03:53:00 Sultan Murat ibn Selim was born on a Sunday on the 6th of Jumada al-Awwal 953 AH / July 4, 1546 CE. His father was the powerful Sultan Selim II and his mother was the most favored wife of Sultan Selim II, a Venetian Jew of noble birth named Nur-Banu. Sultan Murat ... More About: Religion , Music , History , Sultan
Our Grand Shaykh, Maulana Nazim al-Haqqani
2008-02-28 18:52:00 Our Grand Shaykh, Sultan Awliya Shaykh Mehmet Nazim al-Hakkani is the Grand Shaykh of the Osmanli Naks-i’bendi Sufi Association. And it is difficult to put his life into words. The impact that his sohbet (association) and instruction has had on people across the world has served to renew the faith of so many Muslims ... More About: Religion , Travel , Maulana , Cyprus
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2008-02-27 07:00:00 Wheat Jumps on Supply Concerns More About: Links , 2008
The Prophet Muhammad s.a.w.s. - Childhood
2008-02-23 17:05:00 THE CHILDHOOD OF SAYYIDINA MEVLANA MUHAMMAD MUSTAFA s.a.w.s. As a boy, Rasulullah (may Peace and Blessings be upon him) was cared for and suckled for seven days by Thuwaybah, the freed slave of Abu-Lahab-ibn-Abdul Muttalib, incidentally, Hazrat Hamza (R.A.) was also suckled by Thuwaybah. and because of this good fortune, Hazrart Hamza (R.A.) became Rasulullah (may Peace ... More About: Religion , Islam , History , Childhood , Muhammad
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2008-02-23 07:00:00 Researcher Shocked By Nightingale's Song in Gambia But the biggest surprise was a pulse of nightingale song from deep in an acacia thicket? so they do sing in Africa in winter! We even managed to get a recording to prove it, but why are they singing here in Africa? We always thought it was a territorial FACTBOX-Bird flu's spread around the globe | Reuters Feb 22 - The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday confirmed the death of a 41-year-old Chinese man from the H5N1 strain of bird flu. BBC NEWS | Turkish troops enter north Iraq Turkish ground forces have crossed the border into northern Iraq to target Kurdish rebels said to be sheltering there, Ankara has said. More About: Links , 2008
New York Times: Mainstream vs. Traditional MSA
2008-02-22 02:33:00 The New York Times takes a look at the current controversy within the American Muslim Students Association (MSA). This time the hot button is gender issues. The debate that is discussed in this article is whether or not Islam ic values and Sharia compliant codes of conduct should be applied to the standards of ... More About: News , Religion , Life , Culture
African American Muslims: A Possible Future
2008-02-21 08:23:00 In past posts I have discussed the importance of heritage, culture and history as they relate to various peoples all over the world. But the severity of this issue may not be understood by all. In fact some of us may just think, heritage, culture and a person’s historical lineage are interesting but benign facts ... More About: Religion , Family , Culture , Future , Blogs
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2008-02-20 07:00:00 IslamCrunch: Black History Month Interview - Joshua Salaam More About: Links , 2008
The Prophet Muhammad s.a.w.s. - Birth
2008-02-20 04:21:00 THE BIRTH OF SAYYIDINA MEVLANA MUHAMMAD MUSTAFA s.a.w.s. The prophesies and divine events that were taking place in Arabia were sure signs of the coming of our Prophet Rasulullah The Christian priest according to their Gospel (Injeel) and the Jewish Rabbis according to their book (Tauraat) declared that ‘The last of all Nabees’ will ... More About: Religion , Family , History , Muhammad
Book Meme: The History of the Ottoman Turks
More articles from this author:2008-02-19 09:33:00 Alright folks, its time for another meme. Muslims have been putting out a number of memes lately. This one is a book-meme coming from the Saha Blog. The Rules: You have to look up page 123 in the nearest book around you. Look for the fifth sentence. Then post the three sentences that follow that fifth sentence on page ... More About: Religion , Meme , History , Blogs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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