So angry.....

[marco100]

May Allah spread Tableegh through Istanbul. Ameen.

[umar_italy]

I went in Istanbul last summer, and it had been one of the best periods of my life.

Maybe for the fact that it had been my first time in a muslim country, but I felt that the situation of Islam is not so bad like it's painted here .

Let's think about: for about 80 years, Islam had a very difficult period in Turkey: the secularists arrived to shut up the religious freedom and religious associations, forbade traditional muslim hats (fez) and the hijab, close all turuq, and so on..

Nonetheless, Turkey is one of the very few country in the world where a party of "islamic" tendency rules, and it's democratically elected.

If secularism is wordly widespread, and in about every corner of our Ummah we can see youngsters who weight american way of life (in Holliwood, Bolliwood, Gangsta-Rap fashion or what other) more than Shari`ah, Turkey isn't an exception, but nonotheless there are many practising brother whose kind of religiosity and manners aren't contaminated by post-modern salafism.

In some areas you can see without problem men with fistful beards and kurtas, and women with Niqab, also in the very centre of the city (like near Fatih mosque, near Sultanahmet, centre of tourism but also with majority of votes gone to "islamic" parties like Saadet Partisi and AK-Partisi).
I have my doubts about the possibility of doing the same in countries like Tunisia, where many muhajabaat experiment police's tortures and whoever goes to pray Fajr in the mosque is asked about, when not brought in police centers, not to talk about full beard or niqab..

My point: I think that there is too much attention towards what media tells about Turkey (like the mediatically-pumped story about the "reinterpretation of ahadith"), and not enough to what really happens there.

And God indeed knows best.

Amin to sister's du`a'!

[umar_italy]

May Allah spread Tableegh through Istanbul. Ameen.

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If someone is planning something for Istanbul, let me know, I'm ready for khuruj there!!!

[marco100]

Will find out Inshallah

[umar_italy]

While secularism is strong amongst the elite and many of the professionals, the public still have the strong love and desire for Islam in their hearts.
Tabligh is also spreading like wildfire in the country, which aids in creating a thirsts for Islam, thus the wide support for the Islamic party.

While, in Istanbul, the great Sufi, Mahmud Efendi has worked wonders and has a huge following. Istanbul is the furthest a city could be from Islamic, yet when one steps into his area in Fatih, one feels like one is in Madinah!

May Allah Ta'ala revive Islam in that country, to its past glory.
Amin

That's what I had in mind writing my post upthere, and the same that I felt walking through Fatih..

[Saad]

May Allah spread Tableegh through Istanbul. Ameen.

When I visited Raiwind in 2003, I met a jamat there from Turkey. MashAllah, very nice and humble brothers with alot of concern for the Deen.

[mospike]

Last month a Jamaat from our area returned from Turkey, there report was much along the lines of the posts above...

They added that Tabligh is becoming more and more wide spread in Turkey, though most musjids dont allow work to take place in the musjid on day one, after a day or two they had the imaam coming to them and spending time with them and also allowing them to make effort in the areas...

When the see sunnat libaas (the jamaat said) the old people come running to them with tears in their eyes

[SunniWaqas]

So encouraging to hear these words about Turkey. May Allah bless the defenders of the faith in that country and may He return that country to true Islam.

Shaykh Nuruddin - an Imam in Jamia Masjid Whitby near Toronto - is also on a 40 day Jamat trip to Turkey nowadays Alhamdulillah.

Can anyone shed more light on Shaykh Mahmud Efendi (Hafizahullah) and his efforts in Fatih? Is this the respected Maulana in the following video:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2eaGaFX5SnU&feature=related

Wassalam

[Husain]

See here:
http://www.sunniforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20790

[Shamli 1857]

So encouraging to hear these words about Turkey. May Allah bless the defenders of the faith in that country and may He return that country to true Islam.

Shaykh Nuruddin - an Imam in Jamia Masjid Whitby near Toronto - is also on a 40 day Jamat trip to Turkey nowadays Alhamdulillah.

Can anyone shed more light on Shaykh Mahmud Efendi (Hafizahullah) and his efforts in Fatih? Is this the respected Maulana in the following video:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2eaGaFX5SnU&feature=related

Wassalam

When he met Shaykh Yusuf Motala in the Haram of Madinah a few years ago he came over and kissed him on the forehead. Shaykh Yusuf did the same also.