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The function of the dergah is fundamentally distinct to that of the university. The university presents a repository of historical information related to our faith tradition. The dergah aims to bring souls to life.

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🌍 Sufi lodge in Blagaj, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Dervish Lodge The Blagaj Tekke in Bosnia, also known as the Dervish monastery built in the 1500s with elements of Ottoman architecture and Mediterranean style and used as a place where the dervishes would meet for their friendly talks and debates, as well as other spiritual practices. The Tekke belonged to various dervish orders, first there were Bektashi order, then Halveti and Kaderi orders. Today the place is headed by Vekil of the Naqshbandi order. Inside you will find the tombs of the two Tajik dervishes, Sari Saltuk and Achik Basha who lived here in the 15th century, There are many legends about Sari Saltuk, of which one is that in one of his many wills he ordered eight coffins to be made after his death and sent to eight countries, but only one of them would contain his body, so that the pilgrims would travel and look for his real tomb and at the same time spread Islam. However, it is believed that the tomb in Blagaj contains his remains. The tekke is open and is visited by people throughout the year

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The view from the Sufi lodge in Beykoz, Akbaba, Istanbul. The area was named Akbaba, After Akbaba Sultan Whos real name is Akmehmet Efendi. He is believed to have heralded the victory to Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror before his conquest of Istanbul. His tomb is said to be the most visited place in Beykoz after the tomb of Prophet Yusha (Alayhi Salaam).

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The traditional young person, especially the male I suppose, was initiated. In every culture, there was an initiation by the elders of the teenager, which was an initiation into manhood, but also into the belief system and the moral system of the tribe. That's fundamental to being part of the human family. We have always had those rituals and those ceremonies. And part of that is the lesson of overcoming self and exploring transcendence. So, modernity only believes in nafs (desires). We believe in ruh (soul), and the nafs being something that is a kind of trap, an illusion, unreal. And all of the religions really agree on that. This is not specifically Islamic. So the big fight, the futuwwa (virtue) for young people has to be overwhelmingly against the lower self. Unless that is subdued and one becomes a beautiful, balanced, restrained, courteous person, full of compassion rather than anxiety, one is never going to overcome any of these issues. One becomes just another turbulent, shouting voice in the crowd. We need to reinvent, rediscover those traditions of futuwwa. And I am probably not making many friends because I am very critical of Sufism in the West, and the fact that the traditional policy of the ummah (Muslim nation) when it expanded into a new territory was, first of all, before the muftis or the qadis (judges) or any of that got going, was to create the Sufi lodges and the shrines and that infrastructure which was the network of Islamisation. We haven't really done that in the Western world. And as a result there is a whole dimension of the religion and the deepening of peoples' faith that is simply absent and there is no access to it. Where do you go if you want to go to a Muslim retreat centre, for instance, for the weekend? You can do it with the Buddhists or the Christian monasteries. Where do you do it in Australia for instance? Are there established places the way there used to be across the Muslim world? Plenty of Turks in Australia. Before Ataturk there were 400 Sufi lodges just in Istanbul. It was just part of Muslim life. For the training of akhlaq, adab, futuwwa (virtue, morality, and etiquette), sacrifice, beauty. Where is that now? So we need to deepen our infrastructure I think, and that's where young people, especially young men, need to be. -Sheikh Abdul Hakim Murad (may Allah grant him long life).

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The Sufis dwell on the fringes of society, liberated from suffocating social norms, living a frontier life, the knight-errants of the soul. The Sufis are not the enemies of society; far from it. Their presence is an indispensable counterbalance to the tendency for materialistic extremism amongst men. The Sufis gather up the romantics, the eccentrics, and the rejected, helping them to understand the spirit within that has led to their 'otherness'.

The Sufis offer shelter to the spiritually sensitive, engaging them in the ultimate human endeavour: the exploration of the self. The Sufis are incomparably hospitable and unpredictable in equal measure. The Sufis will strip you of your carefully crafted persona of piety, exchanging it for access to the Real.

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Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim

Adab

Spiritual courtesy

(Adab) is spiritual courtesy and gracious behaviour of the Path and perfect refinement of words and deeds.

Adab is giving each thing and each moment its proper due. The science of the higher teaching is based upon adab, which encompasses all of human life. It extends from right behaviour with regard to the Sacred Law (Shari'a), right behaviour with one's fellow travellers, proper conduct towards the teaching and one's teacher, and reaches to unceasing spiritual courtesy to Allah Himself. The proper courtesy towards the Law is to stay within its boundaries, the proper conduct with regards to good actions is to complete the action and disconnect from it.

Adab with regard to the Real is knowing what belongs to oneself and what belongs to Allah. Each moment and each situation has it's own adab. It has been said that the higher teaching is all adab and the greater your understanding and implementation of proper conduct is, the higher you are in the teaching.