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**IssuessBratte** · 05-05-2011, 03:06 PM

Pir Zulfiqar Ahmed Naqshbandi (DB) has mentioned, in a travelogue, the presence of some Turkish appointed religious guards in some of the Central Asian countries who'll sort of monitor that secularized Islam is practiced there. Do you have some perspective on that?
Wassalam Salam

i'm, reading that book right now i find it highly humorous that almost every where shaykh goes in uzbekistan he encounters these "modern clean shaven turkish scholars" who look at him with distrust almost like an antagonist in novel ...jk.

i was also in istanbul a year ago and was very astonished when the takbeer was done before the iqamah was over, but then read in nur ul idda that that was in accordance with the hanafi madhab as many others have already pointed out.

on my last night there i went to sultan ahmet cami for maghrib and this one guy waved me to come and sit by him and immediately started conversing with me. i had a good discussion with him, but his English wasn't the greatest which made it a little difficult. the first thing he asked me was where are you from, then whats the longest surah in the quran, then what surah comes after that surah? it was actually kind of strange that before knowing anything about me this was the first thing he asked me.

one thing he told me was that istanbul contained 3000 mosques br. Verdana can you confirm this? it is possible that i may have misunderstood him as his English wasn't great.

he also invited me to stay for isha and "zikr" after isha. does anyone one know exactly what type of zikr goes on?

i had to leave as i was with my sisters who were worried about getting back to the hotel before dark (which was some distance away) so i never witnessed or participated in it, but i was very curious about the zikr.

05-05-2011, 03:06 PM	#11
IssuessBratte Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 607 Senior Member	Pir Zulfiqar Ahmed Naqshbandi (DB) has mentioned, in a travelogue, the presence of some Turkish appointed religious guards in some of the Central Asian countries who'll sort of monitor that secularized Islam is practiced there. Do you have some perspective on that? Wassalam Salam i'm, reading that book right now i find it highly humorous that almost every where shaykh goes in uzbekistan he encounters these "modern clean shaven turkish scholars" who look at him with distrust almost like an antagonist in novel ...jk. i was also in istanbul a year ago and was very astonished when the takbeer was done before the iqamah was over, but then read in nur ul idda that that was in accordance with the hanafi madhab as many others have already pointed out. on my last night there i went to sultan ahmet cami for maghrib and this one guy waved me to come and sit by him and immediately started conversing with me. i had a good discussion with him, but his English wasn't the greatest which made it a little difficult. the first thing he asked me was where are you from, then whats the longest surah in the quran, then what surah comes after that surah? it was actually kind of strange that before knowing anything about me this was the first thing he asked me. one thing he told me was that istanbul contained 3000 mosques br. Verdana can you confirm this? it is possible that i may have misunderstood him as his English wasn't great. he also invited me to stay for isha and "zikr" after isha. does anyone one know exactly what type of zikr goes on? i had to leave as i was with my sisters who were worried about getting back to the hotel before dark (which was some distance away) so i never witnessed or participated in it, but i was very curious about the zikr.
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