Sheikh Nazim passes away !! (May 07, 2014)

Sheikh Nazim passes away !!

Influential Turkish Cypriot Islamic scholar Shaykh Nazım al-Haqqani died May 7 after being hospitalized for lung and kidney failure last month. (Source: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com) inna lilla-hey-wa-inna-alaihay-rajayoon - He was born on April 23, 1922, a Turkish Cypriot Sufi, leader of the Naqshbandi-Haqqani. Shaykh Nazım became an influential figure throughout the 1950s and 1960s in Turkey, known for his active opposition to the ban on the ezan (call to prayer) being recited in Arabic. Shaykh Nazım has many followers in Turkey, but also in Europe and particularly in Britain and Germany. Born in Larnaca, on the southern coast of Cyprus, Shaykh Nazım spoke Greek fluently. He was the disciple of Damascus-based Sheikh Abdullah Deghestani, who himself had many followers in the Middle East.

- Read an article written in 1990 which contains his views on the coming of Al-Mahdi (ra), Anti-Christ and Prophet Jesus (as) which he definitely believes in. An interesting insight is that he also believed that all technology will cease to exist in the time of descent of Prophet Jesus or Isa (as), a little detail of which is given in this article. Of course, Allah knows best but spirituality is always rated much higher than technology, the fruits of which will be revealed in the forty years of Golden Age (The objective of sharing this is not to discourage our pursuits of technology, though a little balance is desired in all spheres of iife)...

THE COMING OF IMAM AL-MAHDI

http://khidr.org/al-mahdi.htm