A SUFI TEA STORY: A COMMENTARY

Originally written by Khawja Yusuf al-Hamadhani about 800 years ago :

(this narrative is a backtracked sequence

until you know to figure it from

the original A Sufi Tea Story)

And it is still that Way.

Only fools asked such Questions.

When Tea was given to all who Taste.

When the Truth was widespread.

It looks like mud, not gold !

Yet again, prove to me this is.

Why do you boil Water when

All I want is the Celestial Drink !

but this is only dried leaves !

Protested then ambrosia

the sought wisdom possess

to pretend who those and

powerful the only first At.

(this sentence was fully reversed)

A man of understanding (arifun)

Spoke to the tea merchants (of dunya)

and tea drinkers

(of Lipton, Nescafe and Green Teas)

:“ The one who taste (dhawqi),

knows (alim/become learned).

( many Sufi Masters were called Wine Pourers

of Divine Knowledge, Marifa and Hikmah)

The one who taste not

(from the Awliya and Sufis),

knows not (jahil/veiled even though

had gone to overseas Universities

and gained Degrees, Masters

and Doctorates in field of Islamic studies,

Arabic,fiqh, sharia, revealed knowledge

Usuluddin, tafsirs etc).

Don’t speak of a Heavenly Beverage

(of sufic poem/qasida/nazam/mathnawi

from Arberry, Nicholson, Kebir Heminski,

Schimmel, Lewison, Henri Corbin, Schuon,

Qubrusi, Ahmad Dede, Chelebi, Rabbani,

Raihan, Hijjaz, M.Nasir, Bhagwan Shree

And many others )

Offer it (oh genuine Masters)

At your banquets (of dhikr, tekke, zawiyya,

khanaqah, pondok, ribat and caves of marifa

Not at Starbucks, Hard Rock Café and

Mamak Tea Tarik stalls)

And say Nothing !

(more than the state ahwal permitted in that moment,

place, people can absorb and digest. Say nothing to

the anti-sufis wahabi, tablighi, haraki and ikhwani )

Those who like it (with love/himma)

will ask for more (until annihilated);

Those who don’t (veiled/blind to it)

are not fit to drink it !

(Imam Junayd said those immature seekers

must use stone and dust to do purification

of outward by tayyamum because they

still don’t found the Pure Water.

What more to taste it by

The polished, pure hearts

Not by the foul mouth and lips)

NOW THIS IS THE WARNING VERSE

IN THE TEA STORY :

‘Close the Shop of Debate and Mystery’

(from my understanding this can referred to all the modern universities and professors who taught the students to propose, outline, defend, debate, argue, highlight, deconstruct, prove and win over their main thesis, anti-theses or arrived at perverted sythesis of new Religion, Philosophy and Cult so powerful that did not accept any value judgements !)

Return to original my comment- the word

Shop of Mystery used by Shaykh Khawja Yusuf ring a bell in our ears ! This is the Christian false Doctrine imposed or rather sold cheaply to their colonized third world natives and pagans who now turned the tables against their formers British, Spanish, Portugese, Dutch, French or American masters and declare:

Now we are Independent !

We won the Revolution

We are a free Nation

We became member of United Nation

But many still in debts and chains of usury.

The Christians celebrated, voted and killed their own Popes and the elite bankers laugh all the way to their vaults..And send thousands and millions citizens of the world to death, misery, pollution, corruption, overworks, undernourished, rape of natures, and race speedily to the industrial, agro or touristic model states. Choose any one of them. You are permitted to declare an Islamic State, Islamic Constitution, Islamic Law, Islamic Financial Exchange, Islamic Banks and Islamic International Universities so on but one Word and one World cannot make this thing HARAM – that is RIBA !

The Debate and Mystery of Usury, Interest, Credit, Debt, Derivatives, Bond, BLR, LIBOR, Futures, IMF, Gold Standard, Bretton Woods are all forgotten, buried and heavily guarded in underground vaults in Fort Knox. Only the terrorists know how to strike at their capitals and strengthen the current police / military states ! They fall into the Trap sprung by the wise intelligent operatives who were sent out to the muslim lands 300 years ago.

The proofs are the Oriental, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Faculties and Departments were set up well before any of our local ISO certified universities were created. What is world class when you are not sure of traveling onto the Path of the Garden or the Fire. Ask your esteem Professors if you dare to confront their academic credentials. Who are Dr.John Esposito, William Chittick, Sachiko Murata, Snouk Hungrove etc.

They will give a thousand replies. We need to study Islam Sufis and Tariqats, to preserve it as cultural heritage, to promote pseudo-sufis like Idris Shah, Inayat Khan, Wahid Yahya Guenon, Isa Nuradeen Schuon, So we arrive at the answer – Close the Shop of Those Pseudo Sufi Scholars !

Maulana Rumi had warned us (today) :

The false Sufis come, from street to street

Door to doors,

Inquire- where is the Wine

Let Dance and taste the Esctasy

Accompanied by soft Music.

Of Sitar, Rebana, Gamelan, Errhu and Ney-for tourist dollars!

NOW THE MAJESTIC-GOODNEWS

DECLARATION FROM KHAWJA YUSUFAL-HAMADANI :

OPEN THE TEA SHOP (TEACHING)

OF (REAL SUFIC) EXPERIENCE

( TO THOSE WANT THE REAL MARIFA ) !

CLEAN THE MARKETS AND YOUR HEARTS

BY USING AGAIN THE REAL GOLD DINAR

AND SILVER DIRHAM AS CURRENCY OF UMMAH !

THE RIBAWI SYSTEM ALREADY COLLAPSING......

Gold and Economic Freedom - From Ribawi Curse

A young Mr. Greenspan wrote in his 1966 essay Gold and Economic Freedom, "Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statist' antagonism toward the gold standard."
All money managers must define some sort of investment philosophy. But today, to ignore the issue of money is putting the cart before the horse. The nature of money must be an integral part of that philosophy. Normally, this should not be necessary, but we do not have free markets or free banking. Money has been politicized.

True diversification must include real assets along with the fiduciary assets. They have always been linked, as we are about to learn. Today investors must understand fully the nature of wealth. For the survival of wealth goes well beyond the field of conventional money management.

Economics and investing divorced from political ethics and the theory of money are vacuous and irrelevant. That is the message coming from these monetary firestorms, like Argentina.The progressive breakdown of world currencies has throttled economies and devastated global wealth. We need only look to the wealth destruction in Asia, Japan, Korea, Russia and Latin America to understand our future. In the absence of sound money fiduciary assets denominated by that fiat currency are eventually devastated. Paper money and government bonds are not wealth.

Our enemy is ignorance. The Federal Reserve Note is an instrument of debt, not of value. Fiduciary assets are only indirect forms of wealth. Honest money is the necessary foundation for financial assets and their performance. With our monetary system in collapse, financial assets will be the "killing fields" for wealth. In order to preserve wealth today, you must be financially independent of our current monetary system. And that means gold, which is the most liquid of all real assets. Gold is immune to default or devaluation.

Good Luck!

Malaysia Second Gold Mine and Dinar

Peninsular Gold Limited (PGL) listed in 1995 in UK and operated a gold mine in Raub, Pahang in 2008. Got an 12,000 ha prospective rights and a work force of 200. Its CEO Alvin Kam (from Malaysian Business magazine January 2011 edition) said this to us :

a. We had invested about RM200 millions.
b. Our mine had about 217,000 oz of gold tailings and 218,000 oz of other reserves.
c. PGL mission to discover 5,000,000 oz of gold in Malaysia.
d. Based on current gold price, PGL can easily generate RM1.0 billion revenues in next 5 years.

Based on estimated price of 1 gold Dinar RM800, we Malaysians can mint/produce an equivalent of 1,250,000 coins of Dinar in the next 5 years ! Wow www.....but just only 4.5 % of our 28 million population !

Question: What facts about the other/ First operating gold mine in Malaysia ? PENJOM GOLD MINE !

Biography of Sidi Fudul al-Huwari 25/11/11

By Hamza Yusuf.

One of the great traditions of Islam is what is referred to as “tabaqat” literature. It is essentially biographical material that highlights the lives and qualities of the great sages, scholars, ascetics, and saints of Islam. The earliest biographical literature, such as Ibn S’ad’s Tabaqat, pertains to the lives of the Prophet’s Companions. The benefit of reading such literature is feeling one’s own meager existence when compared with the luminaries of the past; it also rouses ourselves from our heedlessness in order to set out as those before us, who left, for those to follow, their footprints on that ancient and well-trodden path of purification and ensuing illumination. In light of this, I hope to share with my readers certain highlights and qualities I have witnessed and come to know of in the people whom God has blessed me with knowing and benefitting from.

The primary purpose here is to let those who have not been afforded such opportunities, but still love to hear the stories of the righteous, experience vicariously their presence. The scholars say, “When the righteous are remembered, grace descends.” That such luminaries still exist is testimony to the continued spiritual power and effectiveness of our Prophet’s teaching, peace and blessings of God be upon him. God has blessed this community with such men and women until the end of time, and even in this dark time of spiritual sloth and vanity they nurture those who come to know and love them. When the pleasures and the pastimes of the ego have blinded so many of us from the path of purity and piety that leads to salvation and sanctification, they reveal themselves as cogent reminders to those who will listen that the world is temporal, fleeting as dissipating before our very eyes and we too shall follow.

The first is that of the great Moroccan sage, scholar, and saint, Sidi Fudul al-Huwari. Though we make no claims about people’s ranks with God – as God alone knows the hearts – rather, we assume their high spiritual station from our good opinion of them based upon their outward noble character and exemplary piety.

Born around the turn of the twentieth century, Sidi Fudul al-Huwari grew up in Fes and served as an imam in the large mosque next to Bab Boujloud, and also taught Ibn Ashir and other basic texts in the Bou Inania Mosque.

In 1978, when he was still quite vibrant and able to teach, I visited him for the first time. Unbeknownst to me at the time, it was the beginning of a powerful and wonderful relationship that would last for over twenty years and leave an indelible mark on me that I feel to this day. On that first visit, he explained how, from being a barely literate craftsman, he became an imam and a scholar: One day while still in his teens and busy at his job in a shop, a shaykh, whom he had seen on many occasions walking to the Qarawiyyin, stopped and stood outside his workplace, watching him. Eventually Sidi Fudul realized he was being watched; the shaykh then asked the shop’s keeper if the young man could come with him. The man obliged, and the shaykh took Sidi Fudul to the Qarawiyyin and instructed him to sit in the outer circle and simply listen. The shaykh explained that not much would make sense to him but to be patient. He did this for some time, and, soon enough, the lessons did begin to make sense. After many years of study, Sidi Fudul became a scholar in his own right. The shaykh’s name was Sidi Muhammad bin al-Habib, and Sidi Fudul later became his leading student and a commentator of his diwan of mystical poetry. Sidi Fudul was himself a poet of some note.

On one visit, he gave me the original handwritten manuscripts of his commentaries on his shaykh’s diwan, which I still treasure. He also gave me a teaching license (ijazah) in person, orally, and then later had his student, Maulay Hasan Lamdaghari, send me a written one. Sidi Fudul was given the mantle of his own shaykh and was recognized as a spiritual adept but declined to accept it. He once told me, “I know my limits, and I could never fill the shoes of Shaykh Ibn al-Habib.”

Shaykh Bennani, a great scholar and qadi from Fes, told me, “Sidi Fudul is not one of the great scholars. His outward knowledge, while competent, is not vast like the great scholars, but he knows what most of the great scholars do not. He knows his Lord.” By contemporary standards, however, he is a notable scholar of the later part of the twentieth century. He loved to comment on the Qur’an, and had a special affinity for the Verse of Light, which he commented on countless times, always with new insights. His lectures on Ibn Ashir were some of the most well-attended and popular lectures in Fes among common people.

Sidi Fudul was a beautiful man, who symbolized a Morocco that is fast disappearing. He was a true gentleman, erudite, learned, forbearing, and above all, he was in a constant state of submission to his Lord. He once lamented to me that modern-day Morocco had drifted far from the Islam of their past, and he warned me of the new trends of Islamic revival, which he saw as having more to do with politics than with the spiritual center of Islam. In his earlier life, Sidi Fudul had been active in the politics of Fes, driven not by the utopian fantasies of some modern Islamists but rather by a sense of civic duty. He once said to me, “Calling other Muslims innovators is an innovation.”

Once, late in his life, I visited him when he was in a coma, lying on his bed. He had lost both his hearing and sight at this stage. His daughter, Fatima, at that time in her seventies, was looking after him. We greeted him, and Maulay Hasan said to me, “He cannot hear anymore.”

At that point, Sidi Fudul spoke up: “Give me a moment. I am coming to visit.”

A few minutes later, he asked to be helped to sit upright, and we complied. He then asked for his eyeglasses. Fatima brought them and put them on for him. He suddenly opened his eyes wide, scanned the room, and proclaimed, “Yasin!” He then began to recite Sura Yasin, the thirty-sixth chapter of the Qur’an. We all joined him in the recitation. When we finished, he began to tell us of wonders he had been experiencing in his state. He also conveyed to us that he had exhausted all of the demons and that they had given up on sowing doubt in his heart about his Lord. This memory of my last meeting with Sidi Fudul forever abides in my heart.

Sidi Fudul spent his life acquiring and then teaching the sciences of Islam. He was a well-respected scholar in Fes and present at the gatherings of notables. He had a gentle character, and should your eye fall upon his face, you were reminded of your Lord. His tongue was always moist with the remembrance of God, and he always had time for anyone who needed advice or to know a legal ruling.

He had a small spice shop in the market near his house, and he could be found there reciting Qur’an or reading a book of knowledge while waiting for his provision. Shaykh Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki, the great Meccan scholar, whenever he visited Morocco, would always visit Sidi Fudul in his house in Fes. Just as birds of a feather flock together, saints find sanctuary in one another’s company.

Extra Notes:

We heard from a malaysian muqaddim in the 1980s that when Sh.Muhammad ibn alHabib passed away, his light/secret/knowledge split into 3 parts. One goes to Sidi Fudul (city of Fez), second goes to Sh.Muhammad bin Kursi (desert of south Morocco) and third, inherited by Sh.Abdal Qadir as-Sufi (in the West). Allahu alim. Another great contemporary of Sidi Fudul was the aged/blind Walil of Bahlil whom many malaysian fuqara had visited him in Morocco and blessed with his firasat and prayers.

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Copyright: From the forthcoming book, Meetings with Mountains, by Peter Sanders. www.petersanders.com

New Gold Dinar of 2012/1433 Hijriah for Muslims

This is the coin that will cripple capitalism.
It is the best circulating coin ever in terms of quality
and security features in the history of gold coins.

Notice the hologram in the coin and the new 990 purity standard.
The most important is the heart of those behind it which beats incessantly
with the Name of Allah. For Him we do it, for Him we use it,
to Him belongs the Victory.

By: Shaykh Umar Vadillo

China, India, Kazakstan and Mexico Move Into Gold

Why are the gold policies of the developing world fundamentally different compared to the gold policies of the West?

Chris Berry: Well, let’s take China. I mentioned earlier that as recently as the 1930s, China was on a silver standard. The idea of sound money is not a foreign one to the Chinese. China of course has $ 2.5 to 3 trillion of foreign reserves that consists predominantly of paper fiat currencies.

The Chinese obviously realize this and that’s why they are diversifying out of dollars and Euros and into hard assets such as gold. Just as an example, in the year 2000 China was responsible for 6 percent of global gold bullion demand. Ten years later, in 2010, they were responsible for 18 percent, and that will increase allegedly again in 2011.

Another example is India, which is the largest importer of gold bullion in the world. Last year they imported 958 tons. This year they will import more than 1000 tons. China and India have to support their populations with sound money. Paper currencies will not rule the day – they never have.

Additionally, take a look at the recent actions of the Central Bank of Kazakhstan that has exercised what is known as “priority right.” That gives the central bank the right to buy all domestic gold production starting on January 1st, 2012.

One final example is Mexico. In January of 2011 they imported 7.3 tons of gold, in July of 2011 they imported 100 tons – it increased in seven months by more than a factor of ten. These are just two relatively obscure central banks in the developing world that are running towards gold because they seem to have realized the folly of fiat currencies.

The Collapse of Monetarist Society -part 3

Usury. The monetarist society is one based on usury. It is a society of usurers. That means, alas, all of us within the financial system now globally established. Recently, we were shown on TV a remote Amazon tribe previously unknown to the Brazilian government. When they saw the small ‘plane fly over them, they rushed into the jungle. They returned and fired arrows and spears at the ‘plane to drive it away. These were the last human beings on the planet, in what we name as Fitra, driving off the usurer sub-humans – us.

The foundation of modernist atheism lies not in a metaphysical construct which declares that man does not ‘need’ the idea of Divinity – it lies in the embracing of usury as no longer forbidden, but necessary. In a limited and finite world the modern men declared that increase in the exchange was not only permitted but theoretically without limits. Atheism has to precede usury.

The Divine Creator affirms His reality by the confirmation that since nothing is associated with Him, everything in existence, that is creation, is other-than-Him, thus is in-time, has form and limits. It is because of the limit nature of the universe, that an exchange system that admits of the theory that increase can function when what is at hand is limited, must be forbidden.

Now that, as I had only the week before demonstrated, the monetarist system has in effect collapsed, its theoretical foundations cannot sustain rational critique, cannot pretend that ‘business’ can continue using these instruments, institutions and protocols. However, the fundamental principle – usury – is not, apparently cannot, be confronted, let alone abolished.

It is for us to determine whether we can claw back the moral power to put an end to the monetarist (money ex nihilo) practice and re-establish a real-value exchange system in place of a fantasy numbers system.

In reporting the USA banking disaster one economist ruefully admitted, “Since the 700 billion may not be paid back under a couple of decades it must be understood that, given the interest due at the end of that time, the debt may be a non-number, since we will have no digital command over the calculation, no name for such a vast number.”

In the light of this extreme situation, on the edge of reason, mathematics, and sanity, the question has to be asked: “Why did people, and indeed do people, live without grasping the nature of the matter? Forget the kuffar – what happened to our ‘Umma, and what happened to the Arab nation, once its heart?”

Note: what freedom of action that one still can think and practice outside this usurious society ?

The Excesses of Arab Nations-

a. Saudi to buy 85 F-15 aircrafts for USD 29.4 bilions.
b. Qatar Foundation signed football jersey deal worth USD 230.0 millions with Barcelona FC.
c. Abu Dhabi Investment buy Manchester City FC at more than RM1.billion in 2008.
d. Libya foreign assets of more than USD 150 billions were frozen by western powers.

e. Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates capital and the holder of 7 percent of the world’s oil reserves, plans to invest $500 billion in industry, tourism and culture to increase non-oil revenue to 64 percent of the economy from 41 percent from 2005 to 2007. In Dubai, debt-fueled property speculation drove up prices and spurred development until the global credit crunch in 2008 caused the market to crash.

f. According to a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report published in October 2007, the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could cost taxpayers a total of $2.4 trillion dollars by 2017 when counting the huge interest costs because combat is being financed with borrowed money. The CBO estimated that of the $2.4 trillion long-term price tag for the war, about $1.9 trillion of that would be spent on Iraq, or $6,300 per U.S. citizen.

^g. The government's two reserve funds: the Fund for Future Generations and the General Reserve Fund, which totalled nearly $100 billion prior to the invasion in 1990, were the primary source of capital for the Kuwaiti Government during the war. While these funds were depleted to $40–$50 billion after the war, they currently are estimated around $208 billion. The bulk of this reserve is invested in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, and Southeast Asia. In order of importance, foreign assets are believed to be invested in stocks and bonds, fixed yield instruments (mostly short term), and real estate. Kuwait follows a generally conservative investment policy.