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Biddahbasher
It's warped you can accuse me of slandering and I haven't said anything yet from myself just pointed to stuff thats been publicised by your friends, while your having a bash at deobandis is ok. And why isn't your comment against Hisham Kabbani another slander?
Everytime I'm inclined towards sufism I get put off by this sort of thing. Can you explain to me the following:
Sharjeel Aslam
July 14, 2010 at 2:38 pm
One question for Sidi Gibril Haddad: Is participating in hadra with non-mahrams (literally holding hands with opposite genders) permissible or apprehended in our path?
I will eagerly anticipate your response. But let me give you little background to my question. Back in April of 2008 Shaykh Hisham visited Southern California. An event was organized on April 19th at the Muslla Tauhid in Los Angeles with the Village Lutheran Church and Ahavat Torah Jewish congregation and Shaykh Hisham was the keynote speaker, after the talk Shaykh Hisham invited all of the attendees to enjoy the Sufi music (which is fine) and after that to join the hadra. The hadra consisted of male and females along with each other holding hands and all this happened in front of Shaykh Hisham….Not only I witnessed it but many of the other attendees (non-mureeds) who out of immense respect for Shaykh Hisham came to attend his talk.
However, witnessing such a behavior totally turned all of us off. How long will this go on? will not anyone apprehend such public behavior? which to my limited knowledge this is totally contrary to the Sunnah of our beloved Messenger (SWS) and the Shairah in general. I know you have spend some time with the light of of our times, Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoobi (May Allah Preserve and Sanctify his soul) would he approve of such acts during the pur practice of hadra?
Gibril Fouad Haddad
July 21, 2010 at 6:08 am
Al-Hamdulillah you understand the tanazzul of the Awliya and how far they go in order to reach their target. You mention that there is no doubt about the vision and deep wisdom of Mawlana Shaykh Nazim. You should know that in 1993 he did a hadra at the Lama Foundation in New Mexico and he was in the middle of a huge circle with all men and women joining hands and doing hadra around him. After that more than 20 people took shahada and bay`a with him. Yes, all holding hands and mixing. Do you think Sayyidi `Ali al-Budaylimi or Habib Mashhur rahimahumallah would have objected? I believe they would have prayed two rak`as of shukr if it had happened to them because they knew that al-Sufi Ibnul Waqt.
I wonder if we would have lasted one day with the Sufi Shuyukh bringing Islam to pagan India. Muslims in the West live in the midst of fire but they still want to go by the book and smell like a rose; sometimes it will smell like smoke. Regarding the California event with Lutheran and Jewish attendants it is not whether it is ‘they’ or ‘we’ who touch hands that matters, it is the fact that after that hadra there were three shahadas with Shaykh Hisham. You should not come to his gatherings with your own prepared expectancies. If you do, then you are not yet respecting the one who deputized him over the US but still following your own choices; which yes, if it matters, I do understand, and may Allah guide you and us.
This means that none of those dodgy sufis can be criticized for the funny stuff they get up to because it will be a horrible slander as we do not understand the hidden reasons by their action. The whole sufism thing is a big mess. The ends justify the means. Music, dancing, free-mixing, holding hands, are all allowed for dawa purposes. Why not go further and include zina? It's all good as long as she converts to Islam.
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