Comments on: Afternoon tea with Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad http://usma.wordpress.com/2007/01/15/afternoon-tea-with-shaykh-abdal-hakim-murad/ Chaotic Soul Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:08:40 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Afternoon Tea with Shaykh Abdal-Hakim Murad « Stray Reflections http://usma.wordpress.com/2007/01/15/afternoon-tea-with-shaykh-abdal-hakim-murad/#comment-1782 Afternoon Tea with Shaykh Abdal-Hakim Murad « Stray Reflections Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:39:46 +0000 http://usma.wordpress.com/2007/01/15/afternoon-tea-with-shaykh-abdal-hakim-murad/#comment-1782 [...] Abdal Hakim Murad which I found transcribed on Usma’s Just Another Blog. Read it in full here. [...] [...] Abdal Hakim Murad which I found transcribed on Usma’s Just Another Blog. Read it in full here. [...]

]]> By: chaiwala http://usma.wordpress.com/2007/01/15/afternoon-tea-with-shaykh-abdal-hakim-murad/#comment-1757 chaiwala Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:13:32 +0000 http://usma.wordpress.com/2007/01/15/afternoon-tea-with-shaykh-abdal-hakim-murad/#comment-1757 Thank you for sharing this Usma. Excellent stuff from the Shaykh as usual. What's amazing is that he always manages to teach us the core sufi truths whatever he speaks about. Thank you for sharing this Usma. Excellent stuff from the Shaykh as usual. What’s amazing is that he always manages to teach us the core sufi truths whatever he speaks about.

]]> By: usma http://usma.wordpress.com/2007/01/15/afternoon-tea-with-shaykh-abdal-hakim-murad/#comment-66 usma Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:32:58 +0000 http://usma.wordpress.com/2007/01/15/afternoon-tea-with-shaykh-abdal-hakim-murad/#comment-66 Next time something like this happens, I'll let you know...and nomadic soul, we have a deal remember! ;) Next time something like this happens, I’ll let you know…and nomadic soul, we have a deal remember! ;)

]]> By: nomadic soul http://usma.wordpress.com/2007/01/15/afternoon-tea-with-shaykh-abdal-hakim-murad/#comment-65 nomadic soul Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:29:39 +0000 http://usma.wordpress.com/2007/01/15/afternoon-tea-with-shaykh-abdal-hakim-murad/#comment-65 very enlightening, jazak'Allah khair usma! very enlightening, jazak’Allah khair usma!

]]> By: usma http://usma.wordpress.com/2007/01/15/afternoon-tea-with-shaykh-abdal-hakim-murad/#comment-61 usma Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:21:26 +0000 http://usma.wordpress.com/2007/01/15/afternoon-tea-with-shaykh-abdal-hakim-murad/#comment-61 aaaww, nice mashallah! you managed to do that essay quite quick; I still never completely understood the title/question of your essay :S aaaww, nice mashallah!
you managed to do that essay quite quick; I still never completely understood the title/question of your essay :S

]]> By: razipoo http://usma.wordpress.com/2007/01/15/afternoon-tea-with-shaykh-abdal-hakim-murad/#comment-60 razipoo Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:16:24 +0000 http://usma.wordpress.com/2007/01/15/afternoon-tea-with-shaykh-abdal-hakim-murad/#comment-60 Your post was a very timely one..about the Hajj and its significance. My mind can still hark back to the very first time i saw the kabah..it was breathtaking! literally! i think the sheer stillness and in someways obsucurity of it- being a cube like building-explain the way people have such different expressions on thier faces. There were beams of smiles, as well as heart rendering tears and just sheer awe on the faces of those people who took to accepting the invite to their Lord. any way as i was saying timely..its just that i submitted a rather weird essay today, astaghfiruAllah, on the five pillars of Islam 'rituals' as they say were taken from a compromise between Pagan and Judaic beliefs. i wont narrate you my essay, but to all of those thinking why the hell is she doing this subject in the first place..in a peculiar way to know what they say about your very meaning and purpose of life, really really motivates you to understand and appreciate Islam from within, and not what Proffessors and lectures have said. It really makes you think about explanation and historic accounts of the deen. But hark! this should not be the sole journey of your learning of the deen as Islam was not only kitab it was from what is within "As well as information (books of fiqh, shariah) we have to have something else, Rumi says this it is the voice of Ishq; “While the intellect is still sadelling the camel, the love has already circled the Ka’bah” . this coins the conteracting argument in my essay that may not be academically proven but for me this was something that lightened the burden in me when i handed the pieces of papers in feeling like a sell out. In a way this little essay i did was a reflection of what is needed from us a educated muslims..we are trapped like the bird in the hands of the dunya and we cant just keep singing our oppression, we need to struggle and perservere and the freedom we get from it will feel like the winds from underneath the wings of the bird. The Hajj is such a beatiful process of cleansing getting touch with the fitra, one should never let that be taken away from him. It goes all the way back to our father Ibrahim as so ingranied in our nature, and where he once asked 'How will anybody hear me in this dessert ridden valley' the call of Labbaik that drummed through the streets of Makkah is testimony to our one true faith. :-D Your post was a very timely one..about the Hajj and its significance. My mind can still hark back to the very first time i saw the kabah..it was breathtaking! literally! i think the sheer stillness and in someways obsucurity of it- being a cube like building-explain the way people have such different expressions on thier faces. There were beams of smiles, as well as heart rendering tears and just sheer awe on the faces of those people who took to accepting the invite to their Lord.
any way as i was saying timely..its just that i submitted a rather weird essay today, astaghfiruAllah, on the five pillars of Islam ‘rituals’ as they say were taken from a compromise between Pagan and Judaic beliefs. i wont narrate you my essay, but to all of those thinking why the hell is she doing this subject in the first place..in a peculiar way to know what they say about your very meaning and purpose of life, really really motivates you to understand and appreciate Islam from within, and not what Proffessors and lectures have said. It really makes you think about explanation and historic accounts of the deen. But hark! this should not be the sole journey of your learning of the deen as Islam was not only kitab it was from what is within

“As well as information (books of fiqh, shariah) we have to have something else, Rumi says this it is the voice of Ishq;

“While the intellect is still sadelling the camel, the love has already circled the Ka’bah” .

this coins the conteracting argument in my essay that may not be academically proven but for me this was something that lightened the burden in me when i handed the pieces of papers in feeling like a sell out.

In a way this little essay i did was a reflection of what is needed from us a educated muslims..we are trapped like the bird in the hands of the dunya and we cant just keep singing our oppression, we need to struggle and perservere and the freedom we get from it will feel like the winds from underneath the wings of the bird.

The Hajj is such a beatiful process of cleansing getting touch with the fitra, one should never let that be taken away from him. It goes all the way back to our father Ibrahim as so ingranied in our nature, and where he once asked ‘How will anybody hear me in this dessert ridden valley’ the call of Labbaik that drummed through the streets of Makkah is testimony to our one true faith. :-D

]]> By: usma http://usma.wordpress.com/2007/01/15/afternoon-tea-with-shaykh-abdal-hakim-murad/#comment-59 usma Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:50:27 +0000 http://usma.wordpress.com/2007/01/15/afternoon-tea-with-shaykh-abdal-hakim-murad/#comment-59 It was like a last minute thing and plus it was at someone's house and I went with Khadija who had been invited... Trust me, you were the first person I thought off!reminded me of when we sat with him on Shaz TV. Remember his little poem about the boy who woke up late for fajr! Winters all the way we say :D I look forward to your insight, oh wise one It was like a last minute thing and plus it was at someone’s house and I went with Khadija who had been invited…

Trust me, you were the first person I thought off!reminded me of when we sat with him on Shaz TV. Remember his little poem about the boy who woke up late for fajr!
Winters all the way we say :D

I look forward to your insight, oh wise one

]]> By: razi-poo http://usma.wordpress.com/2007/01/15/afternoon-tea-with-shaykh-abdal-hakim-murad/#comment-57 razi-poo Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:51:35 +0000 http://usma.wordpress.com/2007/01/15/afternoon-tea-with-shaykh-abdal-hakim-murad/#comment-57 HOW DAAAARE YOOOOU! You didnt even think to tell me?? im soo deeply hurt...*after she takes a deep breath* There was no cream tea and scones??and apple pie? if i was there i wouldve said..looking at my watch..."By Jove..is that the tiime? where are the cucumber sandwiches and English tea? our dear shaykh must be famished!"lol! Deep insight coming later.... HOW DAAAARE YOOOOU! You didnt even think to tell me?? im soo deeply hurt…*after she takes a deep breath*
There was no cream tea and scones??and apple pie? if i was there i wouldve said..looking at my watch…”By Jove..is that the tiime? where are the cucumber sandwiches and English tea? our dear shaykh must be famished!”lol!
Deep insight coming later….

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