Sherif Baba has sent a poem to post on this site. I'm posting now in Turkish, but if anyone can please help to translate it, that would be very much appreciated, inshallah.
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Kibirli olma-tevazzulu ol
İnatcı olma-iteatkar ol
Kindar olma- affedici ol
hırslı olma- azimli ol
Tutucu olma- verici ol
Öfkeli olma- uysal ol
Laf taşıyıcı olma-itibarlı ol
Geveze olma- sukut ol
Aceleci olma- sakin ol
Şaşkın olma--akil ol
Taklidci olma-asil ol
Tenkidci olma-tasdikci ol
Tahrikci olma-sabırlı ol
Asi olma -razi ol
Kaba olma--nazik ol
Yıkıcı oLma-yapıcı ol
Zalim olma- adil ol
İtici olma- ilgili ol
Bilgiç olma-dinleyici ol
Karamsar olma- hoş görülü ol
Dik başlı olma-halim selim ol
Ok gibi olma- yay gibi ol
Zanlı olma- İZANLI OL.........
Aziz dostlarıma, maddi ve manevi evladlarıma ayine hükmündeki bu levhamız vasiyetim olsun.Merkezden asla ayrılmayınız,alemi olduğu üzre kabullenip,hakkınıza
rıza gösteriniz.. Halkın içinde Hakkı yaşayarak birbirinize ayine olunuz.Vesselam..Mehmed şerif çatalkaya(hilkati) 15 ekim 2009 ıst.maltepe
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
some pictures
With Shaykh Rasheed (Naqshbandi-Mujediddi) and Selma on the Eid a few weeks ago.
With Shaykh Nooruddeen Durkee (Shadhili) at the I.S.R.A. conference in High Point, NC
One of my favorite pictures of Sherif Baba
A few new pictures. I'll try to add a number of new ones over the next week or so, inshallah. By the way, I'm finally on Oovoo. I really have no idea how it works and I'm not on Cem's mailing list, so if you're more "in the know" than I am as to how to catch one of Baba's sohbets on Oovoo please, please, please give me some hints! ;)
Monday, October 12, 2009
Hu....
I'm finally posting again after quite a long while. Inshallah, everyone had a nice Ramadan and Eid (Bayram). Selma and I have had some very nice travels lately, elhamdulillah. We were up at Shaykh Ahmed abdur Rasheed's zawiya in Virginia for the last days of Ramadan, then off to a dhikr with Abdel Haqq and Abdel Hadi in Athens, GA and most recently to West Virginia for a Mevlevi retreat and sema workshops with Jelaleddin Loras.
It was our first time meeting Jelaleddin Effendi, though I've known about him for a good 15 years or so. Mashallah! We loved him and the whole community who gathered for the event. And we were very happy to meet lots of people who know Sherif Baba, too. Many very happy memories of the past were shared and many new ones were created. Eyvallah.
I had a very nice conversation with Jelaleddin Effendi about Baba. I knew that they were friends, but I hadn't realized that he knew Burhan Effendi well. When I asked if they had met, he said "I knew him before Sherif knew him!" with a big smile. He said that he had gone to his house many times, even as a child, because his father (Suleyman Dede)and Burhan Effendi had been good friends and would visit each other a couple of times a year.
Shaykh Ahmed's Naqshbandi-Mujeddidi community was also wonderful as always. Very warm and open-hearted, mashallah. And Abdel-Haqq's dhikr was really refreshing too... I hadn't seen him in about 10 years since I lived in Athens. And finally I seem to have found some decent contacts with the Jerrahi community in Atlanta, elhamdullillah. Inshallah, we may be able to go their dhikrs from time to time.
It's felt like roaming around in a desert for a while, but elhamdullillah, we've had a nice rest in a very pleasant oasis. Inshallah, we will continue to find such places.
I'll try to upload some new pictures in the next day or two, inshallah, so stay tuned. But for now, check out this link to a short film on Soul TV about the Ramadan retreat at Shaykh Rasheed's in Virgina. Selma and I both pop up in it a few times. See if you can figure out which ones we are ;)
It's not letting me post a link, but paste into the browser:
http://soultv.net/index.php
Lots of good things on that site. Click the "Spirituality" tab and then "Ramadan Retreat" under the screen.
It was our first time meeting Jelaleddin Effendi, though I've known about him for a good 15 years or so. Mashallah! We loved him and the whole community who gathered for the event. And we were very happy to meet lots of people who know Sherif Baba, too. Many very happy memories of the past were shared and many new ones were created. Eyvallah.
I had a very nice conversation with Jelaleddin Effendi about Baba. I knew that they were friends, but I hadn't realized that he knew Burhan Effendi well. When I asked if they had met, he said "I knew him before Sherif knew him!" with a big smile. He said that he had gone to his house many times, even as a child, because his father (Suleyman Dede)and Burhan Effendi had been good friends and would visit each other a couple of times a year.
Shaykh Ahmed's Naqshbandi-Mujeddidi community was also wonderful as always. Very warm and open-hearted, mashallah. And Abdel-Haqq's dhikr was really refreshing too... I hadn't seen him in about 10 years since I lived in Athens. And finally I seem to have found some decent contacts with the Jerrahi community in Atlanta, elhamdullillah. Inshallah, we may be able to go their dhikrs from time to time.
It's felt like roaming around in a desert for a while, but elhamdullillah, we've had a nice rest in a very pleasant oasis. Inshallah, we will continue to find such places.
I'll try to upload some new pictures in the next day or two, inshallah, so stay tuned. But for now, check out this link to a short film on Soul TV about the Ramadan retreat at Shaykh Rasheed's in Virgina. Selma and I both pop up in it a few times. See if you can figure out which ones we are ;)
It's not letting me post a link, but paste into the browser:
http://soultv.net/index.php
Lots of good things on that site. Click the "Spirituality" tab and then "Ramadan Retreat" under the screen.
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