Sunday, May 06, 2007

Tears of Diamond

My dearest Charlene :

Let us brighten you up with many prayers which we learned from Maulana Rumi, he said:

Dont grief if the world slip away and sorrow came they are guests of God that bring fortitude and joys
Stand bow and sajda longer in your salat and munajat until tears became your diamonds in His sight
He will bring you out of darkness into light

Learn and recite His Divine Words until it is yours Rabbi habli hukman wa ahiqni bis-salihin
Allahu waliyul lazi amanu yukhriju minaz zulumati ilan nur Anta Waliyyi fid Dunya wa Akhira wa tawaffani musliman

There are billions people outside there dont get this blessing of iman
everyday they running after money and work and enjoyment
our happiness are when we able to wash purify and face Qibla
Allahu akbar..Fatiha..then everything became small and gone
swirling and journeying into His vast mercy of Rahman and Rahim
answering the echo of 'Alastu bi-rabbikum and Irji ila Rabbiki
radhiyyatan mardhiyya.

Sometimes we envy the people of zen who can meditate for hours
in stillness and emptiness of being and at peace with existence
while we muslims agitated just for a few minutes of 5 prayers
why because our hearts are filled with dunya and fear of provision.

Fasting is the food of lovers and patience is fortress of certainty
shake the dry palm tree trunk and dates fell at maryam feets
See and wonder how Allah Taala honored the righteous women
How the mother of Moses forced to throw her baby to the river
and Siti Hajar with a young son were send into deep desert
...the rest of event is history that commemorated by more
than 2 millions believers in the rite of hajji pilgirmage

Make niyyat and doa to be there , insya Allah, my Charlene
will be there exhausted and totally overhelmed one day
beyond words, beyond intellect and beyond pictures.
Fasalamun ala man tabaal huda. Fastaqim kama umirtu.

Note: Charlene is a young and divorced american women
who recently embraced by the light and love of Islam...

Retrieved and edited at the teahut office of Dailin Nur 6 June 2006

Marhaban and Maryah From Turkey


Just like to say marhaban to Muslima and

Maryah hailed from the blessed land of Turkey :

To begin with when I was fortunate and amply blessed by Allah to perform hajji in 2004 to met a lot of turkish muslims there in Makkah and Madinah. Here are they as listed from my little memory :

Sidi Orhan and Abdal Jalil whom guide me to visit tomb

of late Sheikh Sami Mahmud Effendi in Baqi sanctuary in Madinah

Sidi Abu Bakr Rifaii of Istanbul

Two Turkish hajj at Masjdil haram that gave me a copy of Dalailul Khayrat
and we parted with kisses and warm embraces after Fajr prayer.

Sidi Vahid Bayrak of Madina aged over 70 years at Masjid Nabawi

Sidi Mustafa Sozen and wife who invited me to partake their food

in Masjidil haram and later gave me the copy of Nursi prayers book.


And last, I had to admit secretly that I am a longtime lover and poet apprentice of Maulana Jalaludin Rumi of Konya. His poems and Mathnawi almost dance and rains in my endless seeker encounters. Last month I bought a book by Sefik Can on Rumi, what an illuminating soul he was and helping others to understand and guided by Rumi almost 700 years ago.

Anyway, who is this stranger abuzuhri of malaysia dambling in deep Turkish territory and picking walnuts along with Yunus Emre. Actually twenty years ago I already fall in love with Badeeuzaman said Nursi and all the great Ottoman sultans and ulama awliya than defended Islam from western kuffar dark forces for more 300 years.

May Allah always protect and keep the great generous people and land of

Turkey with pure living and unfolding of islam.


A You Seeker Or Trepasser

Read in the name of your Creator Zhen Zhu

You will never know your fate Ming Ching

Then set out to discover life of Yin or Yang

The school cannot teach the seeker without a Master

They are programming achievers and engineers


My friend, Do you want a piercing advice ?

From the sage of a hundred generation /Sheng Ren

How can forgot about Mencius or Lao Tzu

Oh Chinese seeker, here here not in China


You will find the answer not in Tao Te Ching

Al-Hujwiri says in Kashful Mahjub Unveiling The Mask

A reality without a name in beginning

Now too many fighting over a sufi name

Find out more from The Book of Stranger


Ming bu fu shi-goes the saying of Lun Yun

The Heaven and Earth cannot contain

My precious secret, only the true ones can bear it

All men within four seas are brothers


China is not the central kingdom anymore

The Tao of Heaven appear everywhere

The Tao of men slowly disappeared

Follow what the Heaven Decrees


Call it- Ming, call it Revelation or Wahyu

Gnosis or Illumination sounds better.

Master Pai Chang say: quick quick grasp it

or your wild ducks fly away from Zen Blue Cliff Mountains !


Try comprehend Tao and Islam as painted Sachiko Murata

In beautiful calligraphic strokes but still not complete

Why not learn the movements of Qigong Taiji

Stand still inwardly in harmony ya Ulil Absari

Embrace the Tiger and return to the Mountain of Arafah

This is your original nature. Consult your Oracle.


Ask yourself why Marx and Mao rise up

To sweep away decadent beliefs of atheist China

The masses cannot think.


‘Old wisdom only in books’

help me oh my seeker friend !

you speak a very different language

like a Sufic-Wu Li dancing Masters (read Gary Zukav

he still on nine beclouded guy unless get re-Rumized)


Openly witness the One Reality

and affirm the Noble Messenger-Glorious Sage

Who honored you before your Ancestors

His wisdom light already in your chest

An Illuminated path neither East or West


Nurun alan-nur, yahdiLlahu li-nurihi man yasyaau.

Wa Allahu bi-kulli syain alim


Translate it for me. Be brave.

The Straight Path is in front of you.


The men of Tao delights in flowing water

The superior men delight in mountains

Why, the wise sages alway in the move, never still

Master Kung says: Set your heart upon the Way.

Support yourself by its power.


The Messenger of Peace says:

Seek knowledge even unto China

A few seconds of reflection is better than a thousand prayers

Your life is a testing journey

To the Garden or the Fire

Do not be cheated by pretenders

All the Gurus self appointed leaders


Shaykh Ibnu Athaillah indicated in Hikam:

Idfin wujuka fil-ardhi khumuli

Enrich yourself in the earth of obscurity

In order to bloom perfectly later

Sidi Nuh Ha Mim Keeler from America

unexpected got it right in Jordan...

assembled The Reliance of The Traveller

Umdat as-Salik in just under 7 years


My Blue Colored I Ching Hexagram Text says:


When the Sage is in a lowly position

Is like a dragon concealed in depths.

One the should nurture/cultivate inner virtues

In obscurity while awaiting the proper time to act.

The rest is your choice.


Yin and Yang, don’t let the Shadow of fears and doubts

Cover your future destiny

Uncover the Light of iman within that will

Lead you to the Garden of Bliss Eternally


Otherwise you get only the sunburns (Yang) or

Remains in the shades (Yin) of cover up forever.


From old Notes Dailin Nur 14 April 2007

talks by Dr.Anqaravi Bursevi

Saturday, May 05, 2007

The Reflowering of Islam in China


Preface Note by Dailin Nur Editor:

A friend told this writer that while performing the Hajj in 2004 at Mecca, he met several Uighur Muslims from Urumqi and Kasghar who openly told him that they are the followers of Bekhtasi and Qadiriyya tariqas but unffortunately back in China, they had to practice it in a hidden way and to survive another day. May Allah proctect the muslims in china, make them strong in brotherhood and the deen and spread the light of Islam to the new lost generations of the kuffar.

Recently a notable muslim leader, businessman, activist lady Rebia Kader who vigorously championed the islamic worship and freedom of ethnic Uighurs was nominated for Nobel Peace prize. She was jailed many years, later exiled to America and still propagating from overseas. Another dedicated East Turkistan muslim leader was Abdal Jalil Karkash where he operate a Islamic center in Germany for exiled and persecuted muslims across central Asia and Europe. We as muslim one ummah must support and help these noble muslims in china to keep the deen strong and may Allah guides them alway, and to produce new scholars, awliya, ulama, leaders and salihun that strive in His Path.


The Second Tide of Islam in China : Spread of Sufic Brotherhood

A young Chinese murid/disciple whom destined to be a great sufi shaykh was told by Nashqabandi teacher Khawja Afaq in 1672, after receiving the initial training in Middle East and Central Asia was told :

“ I am not to be your (complete/perfect) Teacher (yu er fei shi ),
my Ancient Teaching is not to be passed to you, your real Shaykh
has already crossed the Eastern Sea and arrived in Eastern land
(of China). You must therefore return home quickly, and you
will become a famous (sufi) Teacher in the land (later)”.


This student was famously known as Master Qi Jingyi ( Shaykh Hilal-addin)or Qi Doazhu. He was buried in Linxia’s great tomb which became an active center of Qadiriyya Sufism in china. He had preached Islam in the province ofGuandong, Guangxi,Yunnan, Guizhou and Ningxia before his death in 1674. Another record traced that Qi Jingyi had studied in the Prophet Illuminated City of Madina under the renown mystic Shaykh Ibrahim al-Kurani of the Shattariyya-Qadiriyya Tariqa, the same teacher of the Sumatra ulama Abdul Rauf Fansuri ( author of Umdatul Muhtajin).

The main Qadiri teaching are :

“ Those who know their self, clearly will know Allah”
(man arafa nafsahu, fa qad arafa Rabbahu)

and “ The Awliya-saints help us to know-correct ourselves first before knowing Allah (perfectly in worship and devotion)”.

There are three stages of sufic teaching are known in Chinese expressions as

-Sharia / Chang Dao
-Tariqa / Zhong Dao
- Haqiqah / Zhen Cheng / Zhi Dao.

Joseph Flectcher ‘s cogent observation is worth citing : “ many sufi reforms spread throughout china during the decades of Qing Dynasty. Increased travels and communication between muslims both east and west, generated revival and exposition to new teaching.

There are now 4 main menhuan tariqa exist in china : the Tariqa of Qadiriyya (traced back to shaykh Abdal Qadir al-Jilani), Jahriyya and Khufiyya (from Shaykh Bahauddin Nashqabandi) and Kubrawiyya ( from Shaykh Najmuddin al-Kubrawi of Persia). Interesting enough, the sufic text/poems of Mathnawi of Maulana Rumi are still recited/ chanted in Ningxia province until today”.


According to another sufic saying – ‘True Tao/Way are unceasing (Ti tao wu she ) which means that authentic sufic paths will always exist and sustained by the power, decree and overflowing of Allah’s immense knowledge, secrets and lights deposited through His Awliya/Friends. The Khufiyya menhuan preferred silent zikr remembrance of God. It is more suited to the hostile opposition from the Chinese governments which sought to assimilate them.

Shaykh Ma Laichi was the founder of Nasqabandi in china. From 1728-1733, Ma Laichi went to hajj to Mecca, then passing to Yemen and Bukhara wher he studied with several sufi masters. He emphasised on a more active participation in society beside infusion of knowledge, zikr and reverence of past saints. The Nashqabandi Jahriyya was another important sufic order in china founded by Shaykh Ma Mingxin a dynamic leader. His teaching was thought to be novel, heterodox and subject to many conflicts in north west china. He preached the vocal-loud zikr (jahri).

Many of his murids stated that : “ The root of our Way is from Arabia, the branches and leaves are in China” This remind us of the Prophetic Hadith :‘ Seek knowledge even unto China’.

After extensive search, Fletcher discovered that Ma Mingxin spiritual lineage was connected to a Nasqhbandi sufi named shaykh Abu Duha Halik from Yemen. This sufic silsila contained in the documnents found by a missionary FW Martin Taylor who was based in Jinxi, Ningxia.

After him, there are other sufi shaykhs such as Ma Hualong, Ma Jinxi and Ma Yuanzhang, active until the late 1920s. Gellner suggested that , “ Sufism provide a theory, terminology and technique of leadership for the Chinese muslims for future survival”.

At the 1985 Commemoration Ceremony ( Ermaili) on the death of the Jahriyya founder Ma Mingxin, over 20,000 adherents gathered for 3 days at his tomb complex at Langzhou for zikr, prayers and cultural/business activites as well. Eventually, the Chinese Government allowed the Provincial Islamic Society to rebuilt the centre as tourism attraction.

The exclusivity of sufi orders in china illustrates the crucial identity and authority for the Hui Muslims. Anyone can enter the orders through ritual vow (ba’aya) or by birth, but seldom the murids maintain allegiance to 2 menhuan-tariqas at once.

The well acceptance of Islamic teaching by the Ming Emperor can be shown in an imperial edict which read :

“ The Confucian study can order men and complete tasks (in society) but it is inadequate for penetrating the Unseen reality or understandingthe transformation of Nature.

The other similar sufic sayings to attract the Chinese by comparing Confucius
and Lao Tzu to the Messenger of Islam are : “ A thousand sages have only one heart (inner truth) and ten thousands years have only one principle” and “ Their hearts are One, therefore their Ways are the same from (Divine Source)”.

There are another two great Chinese Ulama and Sufi Teachers widely acknowledged in the 1500-1700 century namely Imam Wang Daiyue and Shaykh Liu Chi whom masterly employed the Confucian ethics and Taoist classical philosophy imbued with Islamic light, wisdom and Tawhid/Quranic teachings to replace/renew the lost/decayed Ancients Teaching of the sages. They travelled extensively for da’wa and debate with Chinese scholars and monks, many of them embraced Islam after the illuminating exchanges. They are both proficient in Mandarin, Arabic and even Persian scripts/language. The early kitab on Aqidah by an-Nasafi were translated into Chinese as early in 1300. Dr.William Chittick had recently edited and translated an abridged version of Jami al- Lawaih (Gleams of Spiritual Lights) by Wang Daiyue and Liu Chih into English from mandarin texts.

Insya’Allah, we hope to publish more insightful articles on Islam in China and how the new generation preserved their unique Hui identity and keep the light of Qing zhen Jiao bright and shining. In another encounter with the real Mr.Shu Yumin showed us the potential attracting new muslims only if we are ready to hold genuine dialogue and exchange of understanding on the fragmented Chinese philosophy and delusion of the materialistic atheistic society in need of spiritual awakening.

My Hajj Journal 2004

Oh Allah, by Your Name I begin my affairs

and by Your Qudra I make my deliberations

and unto You is our returning

If you engage upon travel

You will arrive- and may Allah,

be praise be to Him

Guide you and us !

(The Makkan Revelations –Shaykh al-Akbar)


AlhamduliLlah wa syukriLlah. I would like to thanks the wonderful muslims and fellow hajjis and hajjahs whom gave me inspirations to write this journal. Capturing all their blessed embraces, presence, advice and prayers they uttered for this humble seeker. Here are part of the names and descriptions which I managed to remember:

Sidi Muhammad Ridha Lua

Sidi Abu Bakar of Casablanca

Sidi Yassir Abdullah al- Manooni of Meknes

Sidi Abdul Jalil Ahmad and wife

Sidi Muhammad Muazzam of Kasghar, Xinqiang

(a murid of Bekthasi tariqa)

Sidi Shaji of UAE, Haji Zulkifli Jusoh of Pekan

Sidi Mustafa Sozen- a Nursi/Risalai Nur student of Turkey

Sidi Malik and wife Safia of East London

Sidi Muhammad Jiddan al-Qadiri al-Fulani of Sokoto

Sidi Ahmad Saidi of Banting

Sidi Moazzaz – nuclear scientist from Pakistan

Two noble fuqara of Nasqabandiyya Shaykh Abdul Baqi of Turkey

(who parted with their precious copy of Dalailul Khairat at MH)

Sidi Muhammad Dury of Atleb, Kuryn District Officer of Syria

Sidi Abu Bakar Rifai of Istanbul

Sidi Dato’ Abdur Rahman Ibrahim

An Uighur/Kazak Muslim who prayed incessantly

(At the outer Nabawi Mosque near the Raudhah)

Sidi Vahid Bayrak al-Madani ( over 80 years)


Sidi Luqman Chua of Kota Bharu whom I missed to meet

And Sidi Yusof Ong of Sham Alam, Sidi Ali Yahya al-Aghla al-Jiraini -born in Madinah

A Hajji from Aleppo, Syria, A Senegal student of

(who memorizing Quran in the Nabawi Mosque and corrected my recitation)


Six Fuqara of Shaykh Omar Abu Bakar al-Rifai of Ankara

A Majestic Turkish Sufi at the side of tawaf perimeter first floor

Of Masjidil haram on Friday, Three hajjis from Hotan, China

A Nephew of Dr.Yunus we met on Jabal Qubais

A Mujahidin fund raiser on the roof of MH

A group of Thai Muslims near the Raudhah

A Turkish alim at the Prophet Mosque, A faqir of Abu Ayyub Ansari descendant

(who presented us a copy of Hisbul Haqaiq an-Nuriyyah)


A hajji from Maharasta, India. Sidi Agus of Tasik Malaya, Bandung

Sidi Muhammad Shafii of Yangon, Mynmar

Dr. Shuja Ali of Tyler University, Texas

Three fuqara of Shaykh Sami Mahmud Effendi ( who passed away

and buried in Madinah near Imam Malik at Baqi)- Sidi Abdul Jalil,

Sidi Orhan and Sidi Umar. Sidi Said ibn Zakaria al-Qadiri of Kano

Haji Ramli of Gombak Setia ( Hotel Wardah Andalus roommate in Madinah)

Haji Yahaya of Kuala Lumpur. Three hajjis from Meknes who sang Lakal-hamdu

Sidi Ibrahim Hassan of Kasghar-Nasqabandi Khufiyya.


A Yemeni shopowner (who sold the Darqawi black tasbih in Madinah)

Sidi Muhammad Samin al-Madani (who recited doa for us at Masjid Nabawi

hand as greeting of salam toward the Rawdah) and not the last..

Two hajjis from Makasar, Sulawesi (land of Sh.Yusuf Makassar Khalwati)


The Beginning

1. This seeker journey to Hajj begin more than 25 years ago. One young Chinese economics student had decided that after his final third year exam in University of Malaya in January 1979 is the time to declare the mighty Witnessing of Reality , the Shahada : Ashadu anla ilaha illa Allah, wa ashadu anna Muhammadun rasuluLlah. This is the secret formula to the Door of The Garden. Whoever proclaimed it sincerely deep from his being will be granted by Allah the Garden. He only had to follow the Sunna of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him pecae in fulfilling the five basic pillars of worship. In fact, the seeker had done serious research for 5 years since 1974 in comparative religions. I still remember the magazine Nuggets of Wisdom which I read in the library of Sekolah Alam Shah which contains the excerpts from various sages of the world. Ibnul Arabi the great master said: Engage in travel, you will arrive.


2. 9 Januari 2005- Climb up to the third floor of the Mosque to pray Fajar. Can look down directly at the magnificent House of Allah drapped in black velvet with Quranic inscriptions. Thousand and thousands of pilgrims never stop swirling around it, proclaiming labayka Allahumma labayk. That morning was extra chilling and windy. I was wearing 4 layers of clothing without the outer black jacket. After finish the jamaah prayer, make my way down through the stairs. I saw sleeping figure tucked in one corner at the passageway. May be this is the right man to receive the first sadaqah. Slowly I approach him and tapped him lightly at the shoulder. Assalamualaikum. Allahu akbar, wake up. He turned and opened up the eyes still misty and saw my smiling face. Then I put the money warmly into his hand saying :


“From the Sufis-the Sufis, (meaning) please honor

and think well of the Sufis.”


They looked around for the poor and give out for the Face of Allah without hesitation. He must be poor if not why this arab looking man slept at the mosque with bare possessions, why not in his hotel room ?

I make my way down to ground floor after people had dispersed to get better dhikr position in front of Kaaba. There an ardent mumin praying the nawafil salat or Dhuha almost non-stop facing the House. Up and down may be more than 8 rakaats. Then he stops to raise his hand in prayer just beside me. Suddenly he spread across his hand to lift my copy of Diwan Shaykh Muhammad ibn alHabib without asking my permission. I glanced at him and talked with him several minutes. At last, I gave a black tasbih to him and asked his prayer for the muslims and all the Sufis. He was a student at Cairo and doing his hajj first time.


Two Old Uighurs From East Turkestan and We Are Sufiyye


After this encounter, I moved to another corner of the Mosque to continue my doa, dhikr, salawat and Quran. Two old hajji from Uighur China caught my attention. They are easily discernable by the Chinese Turkic face and wearing the cotton brown jacket. I gave salam and kissed both of them on their cheek, how happy when two strangers muslim meet each with greeting, respect, honor and love of Allah. The elder Uighur said to me : Shariat – Tariqat –Haqiqat and Marifat ! He seems to be a sufi lovers.


Nahnu kullu sufiyyat ! We are all Sufis when travel fisabilillah, we yearn for the Awliya of Allah, we see the lights of iman in their frugal faces. So I prayed for their people in Xinqiang or East Turkestan, may Allah bless you and make their deen strong there. I mentioned all the name of places I know about them : Kasghar, Urumqi and about the tariqas or menhuan: Khufiyya, Jahriyya, Qadiriyya and Nasqabandiyya. They nodded in agreement.before departing, we embraced each other again. Tears almost flowing down their cheeks.

Somewhere in midday, I encountered 3 old Hui women from China in the mosque about the age of 60-70 but still strong and healthy. They smiled at me when I gave greeting of salam, saying that I am Chinese muslim from Malaysia. I put something into their hands- baraka Allah and may Allah bless you all, your family and people at home.


Perfume of Awliya From Tetuoan, Mostaganem and Meknes


Alhamdulillah, met 3 muslims from Algeria, they wore the distinctive jellaba, noble looking and very relaxed sitting at some pillars. I gave salam, approach them and talked with them inquired where they came from : Tetouan-this place sound familiar. So I tell them I know about Shaykh Ahmad Mustafa Alawi of Mostaganem and Shaykh Abdus Salam ibnu Mashish. They are delighted with this news. Again the key word is sufi-tasawwuf seem to unite our hearts. We kissed each other hands and get a warm embrace. I bring out the little green book Diwan of SMH to show them our linkage with the Darqawi-Shadhili tariqa. They happily glanced through the introduction page…..al-Arif biLlah Shaykh Muhammad ibn alhabib al Maghari al-
.Hassani. My heart indicated that if a man do dhikr intensely in one right place, it will attract the lovers of Allah to be near him without realizing it or unexpectedly.


Mistakes and Lessons From The Shoppers


During the first week at Makkah before departing to the great plains of Arafa for wuquf, we had many opportunity to wander around the streets and shops. You can see through the shopkeepers greedy look. Come, come ,come , buy, buy..at my shop, cheap, cheap..glitterings goods. The aggressive ones will stop you at your track. Pull you to their side shopwares. I was angry when one of the young arab pulled my hand despite my dislike and strong prostest. I stared my angry face
tost them. You want to fight ! Not me ! Realising this nafs ugly clash with others, I quickly retreated. Make a firm resolution- no buying or shopping at Makkah until I finish my hajj !


· Mistakes learned :

a. Don’t haggle over prices.

  1. Don’t set your heart upon the good displayed at the market.
  2. Avoid the road/street that lined up with busy people.
  3. If pulled or held by sellers, don’t fight. Just turn away fast, don’t look at them.
  4. Wear a serious look and don’t loiter slowly inspecting the goods.
  5. Don’t stay too long at top floor of Mosque during Fajar prayer, you will get cold/flu.


Today is Friday, a festival day of dhikr, prayer and gifts from Allah. The faqir had tasted the meaning of being poor, nothing left at the pockets. Emptying out. Yaumul Jumaat, you must be extra generous. Fisabilillah. Not nice to count your tijarah which will never lose. Allah Taala had bought the selves and belongings of the muminun in exchange for His Garden. Read surah at-Taubat : Inna Allaha sytaral minal muminuna anfusahum wa amwalahum bi-anna lahumul-jannah….

Another lesson –even performing a good action can be a trap and distraction. Not you are doing it, not your power or your intellect but the source is from Him. Min fadhliLlah-the overflowing of Allah.

To Be At The Heart of Existence

Shaykh Abdal Qadir as-sufi says in the book –The Way of Muhammad :

Hajj means – “to struggle with, to make a spiritual journey, an argument , a single hajj, a year”. To circle the Kaaba, in the phrase of the Greatest Master, ‘ to be at the heart of existence of the world’. It is clear that to the hajji that the Saee(running in straight line seven times between Safa and Marwa) is about his existence and the Tawaff (around the Ancient House) is about Allah’s reality and the slave non-existence.


The seeker was astonished to find some shops at Makkah are selling exotic teas from the East. As connosoeir of Chinese teas, he bought two packets of Rabea Jasmine Scented Tear. A Khawja Sufi from Persia hundred years ago wrote a masterpiece of story on the hidden secret of the tea where the merchants valued it highly but the common people just treat it as a boiled water with some kinds of leaves and herbs. What important is the Sufis had opened up the Shops of Tea Experience everywhere they traveled to share this divine drink.


Secrets of Hajj From Maulana Rumi


Maulana Rumi tell us something about this merchants in his Mathnawi :


‘And come to us like a caravan. This is not a long road

Can the desert stop the merchants ? The heart travels to Kaaba

Every moment. Who bow his head to the King


Not of this world. You are like the Day of Arafah

And the Day of Idhul Adha. I am at the beginning of month Dzul Hijjah

I can never reach You nor can I cut myself from You.

.Where a re you, where are you ?

The Friend is in this very place (near you), come here

. His wall and yours are one –

Bewildered in the desert, what do

You seek and roam, when you behold

Without forms of this your Friend

Then, the Lord, The House and Kaaba

Will you become yourself.


The most powerful allegory by Rumi about Kaaba and the Qibla of the worshippers are as below:


The longer the Way. The more companions are necessary –

The way to Kaaba is hard. One needs a long caravan and

A Caravan Leader (Shaykh). And how much more difficult is

It to come closer to God through so

Many veils, steep mountains and Highway robbers !


The Kaaba of Jibrail and the spirits Is a Lotus Tree

the qibla of the belly slave is food on the table cloth

The Qibla of the Gnostics.. Is the Light of Arrival,


The qibla of the philosophers.. Intellect is phantasy.

The qibla od the ascetic/zahid Is the Generous Lord (al-Karim)

The qibla of the flatterer is A purse of gold.


To be continued, insya’Allah and still 70 pages

to be retyped from old tattered diary.