http://www.qadiriyya.com

http://gikm.org 

http://www.muhammediye.net

Sayyid Muhammad Efendi of Istanbul

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(photo: Sayyid Muhammad Efendi with his sufis)

A great sufi story from the time of prophet David! – By Sheikh Sayyid Muhammad Efendi

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The story of a lazy person and a butcher

A lazy person was praying without getting fed up and without giving up saying „O my Lord! I want sustenance from you without difficulty and suffering. As it is observable that, the creatures with feet search for food, but, you bring the food to the ones without feet.“ Allah almighty has accepted the prayer of this person due to his continuous persistence. One day while this person was praying, an ox has come to his garden. The man has thought „Allah almighty has accepted my prayer“ and cut the ox and run to bring the butcher to skin it. The real owner of the ox was the butcher, when he had seen the ox he had lost was cut by this person of poverty, he had got hold of his collar saying „why have you cut my ox“. Despite that poor person saying „Allah has accepted my prayer and sent this ox to me“, the butcher had pulled and brought the poor person to prophet David (Dawood) AS saying „if posessions were obtained thorugh prayers, all the beggers would have been people of posessions“.

The general public had gathered to listen to the the arguments between this poor person and the butcher. Prophet David AS after listening to the butcher and the poor person had asked: „O poor person! do you have an evidence that can be accepted by the religious commandments? Is this ox a donation to you, or have you inherited it? If you don’t have an evidence acceptable by the religious law, pay your debt to this man.“ The poor person had pleaded with Allah almighty upon the jurisdiction of prophet David AS, he had shed tears and prayed saying „O my Lord! give a light to the heart of David!“. Upon this, David AS had said to the butcher who is the claimant: „Give me respite for today so that I go into seclusion, pray and I give jurisdiction on your case tomorrow.“ and sent them home.

Prophet David has been into seclusion that night and he had learned the inner secret of the matter. The public had gathered together in the morning. The butcher comes there ans says haevy words to the poor person. When prophet David comes out he says to the butcher: „O butcher! abonden this claim of yours and donate the ox to this Muslim, and get away from here, as God almighty had covered your secret. Be thankful to Him for this reason.“ The butcher disagrees with the words of the prophet and said harsh words: „O David! your justice is spread over the West and the East. What kind of jurisdiction is this while you justice is filling the earth and the haevens, you have been cruel to me.“ The public also sides with the butcher and start criticizing the prophet. Allah almighty had been hurt by the ciriticizing words of the butcher to His prophet and He reveals the inner reality of the event to the public.

Thus, prophet David says his jurisdiction to the public as: „Go to this place, you will see a tree there. This man has killed his owner and buried under that tree. He had also left the knife he had used for killing next to him. This man was a slave of that person. He came together with a female slave of his owner and killed him. He then had claimed his posessions and goods. This poor person is the son of that man. Despite Allah almighty covering it, this ungrateful man has opened that cover veil himself, and show his sin himself. There will be retrubution for the butcher. His wife and children are the slaves of this poor person. And all the posessions and the goods of him belong to thid poor person, as the posessions of a slave belong to the owner.“

Abd al-Qadir al-Gilani (Persian: عبد القادر گیلانی‎,Urdu: عبد القادر آملی گیلانی AbdolqÄ�der GilÄ�ni) (also spelled Abdulqadir Gaylani, Abdelkader, Abdul Qadir, Abdul Khadir – Jilani, Jeelani, Gailani, Gillani, Gilani, Al Gilani, Keilany) (470–561 AH) (1077–1166 CE) was a Persian Islamic preacher who is highly esteemed by Sunni scholars. Among followers in Pakistan and India, he is also known as Ghaus-e-Azam. He was born on a Wednesday the 1st of ramadan in 470 AH, 1077 CE  south of the Caspian Sea in what is now the Mazandaran Province of Iran.

http://www.poetseers.org/spiritual_and_devotional_poets/sufi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jilani

• Traditional Islamic thought and Sufism
• Traditional and Neo-Sufi groups

http://www.urdupoetry.com/index.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu_poetry

http://www.facebook.com/Kadiriyye

http://www.facebook.com/Authentic-Sufi-Way

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International Day of Action for Rivers

We are already gearing up for March 14th 2012, which will mark the 15th annual International Day of Action for Rivers.

Last year saw the largest celebration of our world’s rivers by thousands of us who fight to keep them healthy and free flowing. Events took place in 36 countries – the broadest geographical participation in the last 14 years.

The theme of creativity shone through last year’s events. Around the world, from mountaintops to ocean shores, on many rivers and city streets in between, March 14th was filled with music, artwork, dancing and prayer. With such incredible momentum from last year, we wanted to start thinking about goals, ideas and possible themes for the 2012 International Day of Action for Rivers.

We would love to hear from you. Please post your ideas, possible themes, events that you are already planning, or anything you have to say! If you have any questions, please post them on Facebook or email dayofaction@internationalrivers.org.

http://www.facebook.com/DayofActionforRivers

P.S. To get you inspired take a look back at the last few years of the International Day of Action for Rivers, in pictures.

Greenwashing dams is high on the agenda
–  Activists Take on Greenwashing at the 6th World Water Forum

One corporate „solution“ on the agenda at this year’s meeting is the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol (HSAP), a voluntary, non-binding scorecard that allows dam builders to greenwash the social and environmental performance of each other’s projects. HSAP is more about protecting the right to build large dams than protecting the rights of the millions of people who depend on rivers for their daily needs. HSAP does nothing to require developers to follow high social and environmental standards.

• Read Zach’s most recent blog from Marseille: „Civil Society Rejects Greenwashing of Dams at World Water Forum„

Stay tuned for more direct updates from Marseille and news about the many different events surrounding the 6th World Water Forum. https://twitter.com/worldwaterforum

Water is a human right

Press Statement UN Resolution 64/292 The Right to Water and Sanitation

UN united to make the right to water and sanitation legally binding

“I wholeheartedly welcome this resolution from the Human Rights Council, which signals a global agreement that access to water and sanitation are no longer matters of charity,” Ms. de Albuquerque said. “The right to water and sanitation is a human right, equal to all other human rights, which implies that it is justiciable and enforceable. Hence from today onwards we have an even greater responsibility to concentrate all our efforts in the implementation and full realisation of this essential right.”

The Right to Water is the Right to Life

When the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights was drafted over 50 years ago, water was not included in the list of protected rights. The rationale was simple. Water, like air, was considered so fundamental to life that naming a right to it would have been redundant.

Times have changed.

Despite the everyday dependence we have on water, access to fresh water is far from equal or guaranteed. Of the world’s population of 6 billion, at least 1.5 billion people do not have access to clean drinking water and another 4 billion lack adequate sanitation services. In parts of the developing world, a child dies every 15 seconds due to easily preventable water-related diseases.

Global water corporations, international financial institutions, trade agreements, governments and even parts of the United Nations have been promoting privatization and commodification of water as a way to deal with this crisis.

But the evidence shows that privatization leads to rising water rates, unclean water – and of course, soaring corporate profits. Water should be safe, affordable, and accessible to everyone – not just those who can afford to pay.

Time for Action

Without action, inequality and human suffering will only worsen. The UN predicts that by 2025, the number of people deprived of water will climb to over 3 billion. Such disparity is an affront to the world’s shared humanity and threatens our future security. Water scarcity is a common source of conflict in this new century and promises to become more so. And for many developing nations, the lack of proper infrastructure to deliver clean water only perpetuates and worsens poverty.

The only way to solve this crisis is to ensure that water remains under public control. Governments must enshrine the human right to water and protect the eco-systems that people and nature rely upon.

Friends of the Right to Water

In recognition that water is the essence of life, a group known as “The Friends of the Right to Water” (FRW) has begun an international campaign seeking to affirm the universal right to water. Building upon General Comment No. 15 (GC 15) adopted in November 2002 by the UNCommittee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the FRW is inviting organizations to join in the effort to secure the right to water.

General Comment 15 notes that the right to water has already been established in a wide range of international documents and underscores the fundamental importance that water plays in the realization of all other human rights.

As it stands, all 144 signatories to the UN Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural rights are bound by the pronouncements of GC 15. The problem is that countries can ignore their responsibilities because there is no effective means of holding them to account. The campaign proposed by the Friends of the Right to Water is working to create a binding means to hold these states accountable.

Water belongs to the earth and all species andis an inalienable human right that must not be appropriated for profit.

— Maude Barlow,

National Chairperson of The Council of Canadians and co-founder of The Blue Planet project.

http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water

http://www.blueplanetproject.net/RightToWater/human_right.html

http://farmlandgrab.org Governments and corporations are buying up farmland in other countries to grow their own food – or simply to make money.

http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/reports/casino-of-hunger-how-wall-street-speculators-fueled-the-global-food-crisis

Increasing demand and climate change threaten global water supplies: At the moment, 70 per cent of freshwater is already being used for agricultural purposes. – UN report http://shar.espaEZB

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