friends, dato and tansri,
in a day and week when all right thinking malaysians can feel seriously despondent and very very disappointed on the 'goings on' and lack of wisdom in the country with respect to our top institutions,, let us remain sabr and nurse our collective grief and drown our sorrow on the next group of ayat, ayat 10 to ayat 15, this time commentary coming from sister taymiyyah zubair of al magribi institute.
[ maintaining these institutions, like the judiciary and etc , etc and etc and etc are a big drain on our already depleted resources and proving to be quite useless when it matters most.! everyone from the very top to bottom have to behave appropriately, otherwise even they will be victim and dinousaurs of this time of superfast communication and information age.]
and if you gentlemen and ladies have the time, move on to prof brown's short exposition and prof tj winter's lenghty and scholarly discourse on sufism.
not many know this , but if not for the sufis, much of maldive, the indian-pakistan subcontinent and the nusantara, would still be praying to mole hills and idols till now!
the 'stans' of russia and chechens would still be orthodox christians!
that our islam came from the sufis explain why our particular brand of islam persist.
a 'wahabbi' good friend and old malay collegian classmate of mine the other day insisted that the rest of the world do not do zikr following the imam after each jemaah prayer and over here, we do.
this to him is gross 'bidaah'!
i pointed to my friend, who choose to go through life like a horse wearing street blinkers , and i must admit that his choice is his choice, that i look at this wird stuff post sembahyang jemaah as a blessing! it is a matter of looking beyond the ordinary, beyond the narrow confine of self restricted contraction of minds borne through lack of knowledge and wisdom!.
for all you know this chap's tok guru may just commit to memory 400 to 600 hadiths and regurgitates in public and say this and that as bida'ah, this and that haram!
there are thousands of hadiths out there......soheeh , hasan , gharib, dhaif and maudho'.
despite our populace's relative ignorance in things ugama and the qur'an, at least by this practice , we have the chance to do collective zikr and remembrance in every masjid and madrasah in the country five times a day, 7 days a week!
.[.....and who knows that despite so many other negatives in our so called 'cultural traits', we remain fairly intact in terms of mega natural events like quakes and tsunamis!...and i can just hear even now some of my secular friends chuckling there in the background already..... ]
elsewhere the sufis have to convene weekly to their special meeting place , zawiyas and lodges to do just this...
in the alam malikut, angels gather in droves, filling the whole skies up to the heavens around the vicinity of circles of zikr!
this is hadith soheeh , mind you.
dr maza, dr rozaimi , dr abdullah yasin, ustad fathul bari et al can have their blinkers on if that is what their tok guru from nejd taught them, thank you.....
we are ok with you guys!
we appreciate your alternative , albeit narrow views even.
you guys need to just sow down on the gallery play, though.
allahualam.
dr nik isahak wan abdullah
Have they not travelled in the land to see the nature of the consequence for those who were before them? Allah wiped them out. And for the disbelievers there will be the like thereof. (10) That is because Allah is patron of those who believe, and because the disbelievers have no patron. (11) Lo! Allah will cause those who believe and do good works to enter Gardens underneath which rivers flow; while those who disbelieve take their comfort in this life and eat even as the cattle eat, and the Fire is their habitation. (12) And how many a township stronger than thy township (O Muhammad) which hath cast thee out, have We destroyed, and they had no helper! (13) Is he who relieth on a clear proof from his Lord like those for whom the evil that they do is beautified while they follow their own lusts? (14) A similitude of the Garden which those who keep their duty (to Allah) are promised: Therein are rivers of water unpolluted, and rivers of milk whereof the flavour changeth not, and rivers of wine delicious to the drinkers, and rivers of clear-run honey; therein for them is every kind of fruit, with pardon from their Lord. (Are those who enjoy all this) like those who are immortal in the Fire and are given boiling water to drink so that it teareth their bowels? (15)
translation by pickthal
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_9OnMczb8Q&t=14s ]
commentary by sister taimiyyah zubair, of al magreb institute, maryland, usa, ayat 10 to ayat 15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoIbD3Ip6Hs
' in a nutshell, over centuries of islam'sspread over the globe, sufism/tarekat/tassauwuf played a pivotal important role...nonetheless it is not without controversy '
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQWNeGyRu0k&t=1211s
prof tj winter aka abdal hakim murad on ,' is traditional islam possible without sufism? '
a lenghty discourse but excellent in content and depth.
should be 'islam 101' for all potential 'closet and non closet' wahabbis....
[ 25. 15 ].......nabi's household
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