tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20878279463432074412024-03-13T12:18:25.907-07:00Progressive Sufi Muslim MovementProgressive Sufi Muslim Movementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09227705707947652616noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2087827946343207441.post-70911658103731578722010-05-27T13:26:00.001-07:002010-05-27T13:28:48.901-07:00Press release<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><div style="text-align: justify;"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CUser%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><link rel="themeData" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CUser%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx"><link rel="colorSchemeMapping" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CUser%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml"><!--[if gte mso 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<br />Press release: The law that forces women to wear a "veil" or receive punishment is forbidden according to the laws of Islam.
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<br />The statement of the International Committee in Support of the Rights of Dervishes and Students in Iran is as following:
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<br />The statement concludes: "We Muslims see the insults against the Quran by a bunch of repressors that use the name of Islam and the Quran for their evil intentions - we condemn their acts and announce that the Muslim world knows that “enforced veil” has no place in the Quran. We declare that you should avoid the lies and suppression of free Iranian women that ends up in the name of Islam and the Quran. The verses of Quran stands not only against your shameless tricks like “enforced veil”, but says that the best veil, is “the veil of faith and dignity”.
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<br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >وَ لِباسُ التّفوَی ذَلِکَ خَیر</span><span style="font-size:130%;">
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<br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >“The clothes of piety is the best clothing”</span><span style="font-size:130%;">
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<br />Quran, Surah: Al Araf, Verse: 26
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<br />25th of May 2010
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<br />The International Committee in Support of the Rights of Dervishes and Students in Iran
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<br />Berlin - Toronto - Washington
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<br />Oslo branch</span><strong><span lang="SV"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></div> Progressive Sufi Muslim Movementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09227705707947652616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2087827946343207441.post-11764335729646416662010-05-26T13:10:00.001-07:002010-05-26T13:10:50.717-07:00Face for human rights in Iran<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LeY7vY5bQaY/S_2ALB9326I/AAAAAAAAAcs/wILkBw8OYpQ/s1600/poster+june+12%5B1%5D.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 359px; height: 508px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LeY7vY5bQaY/S_2ALB9326I/AAAAAAAAAcs/wILkBw8OYpQ/s320/poster+june+12%5B1%5D.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475673648947256226" border="0" /></a>Progressive Sufi Muslim 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<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">The conference “<span style="font-weight: bold;">Human rights in Iran</span> - how can we support the freedom movement from Europe?” attracted many guests to Brussels and achieved serious results. There were six speakers on the panel of the Brussels conference and more than 60 guests who liked to discuss and engage for Human Rights in Iran. Both facts were a welcome sign that the conference was needed and staged a necessity of time. Not only exiled Iranians were present but several people from Belgium, The Netherlands, France and Germany helped to achieve some conclusions.
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<br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" > The frame of the conference consisted of three main steps:</span><span style="font-size:130%;">
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<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"> 1. Trying to define the ruling system in Iran, in order to be able to understand, why the Human Rights situation is utmost alarming.
<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"> 2. Description of the Human Rights violations in Iran through authentic reports.
<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"> 3. Putting up proposals how European citizens can support the civil society in Iran.
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<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;">The speakers in the panel Emile Franck from Amnesty International, Belgium condemned the state of human rights in Iran since the last elections and pointed out that his Organisation constantly bemoaned the violations of human rights in Iran before as well.
<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;">Dirk Tieleman, who is an experienced journalist in service of Belgian TV and travelled in the same plane that brought 1979 Ayatollah Khomeini from Paris to Teheran, reported about what he considered as changes in the Iranian society since the revolution. He stressed that many people had learned to read and write and infrastructure had improved. While filming in Iran he had different encounters with some friendly and some fierce watchdogs from the Iranian Ministry for Culture. Tieleman is convinced that the state system would collapse the day there would be no more money left to pay the poor people. The Iranian state has a widespread subsidiary practice for its followers. Some participants confronted him later with statistics of massive drug addicts and unemployed to show that little real improvement has been achieved, but agreed with him there should be no military intervention from the Western powers in Iran.
<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;">Ebrahim Nabavi is an Iranian journalist and satirist, who lives in Belgium and assigns himself to the green movement. He publishes for Roozonline and Gooya, which are Iranian Online-Media. Nabavi discribed the green movement as a strong popular movement for civil rights, freedom and democracy in Iran. He indicated, that the subject of the human rights never had a high rank on the political agenda, but became more important through the work of the green movement. He claimed to be proud about the fact that this green movement had managed to bring hundreds of Thousands to the streets who demonstrated peaceful. His main statement: "We want you to help us to secure freedom, human rights and democracy which are not only necessities for the people of Iran but are also a great concern for the whole world....We want to ask you not to sacrifice the issue of human rights for any political or economic game and until now, the governments of the EU and the US have approached the issue of human rights in a rational way. But this is not enough, as the regime in Iran spreads its lies in the world; we need you to listen to the voice of the regime's opposition and to become aware of the situation of human rights in Iran and its continuous violation." Therefore the audience applauded.
<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;">Nasser Fakhteh originates from Iran, he lives in The Netherlands where he is an author. He told about his Odyssee when he fled from Iran, just how nowadays many Iranians, especially young journalists, experience. Fakhteh described his personal experiences about growing up in a surrounding that would have liked to control every detail of his life. He was put into prison for investigating too curiously in the field of Philosophy and background informations. His sentence was lifelong, but as he was not 18 years old yet, he was released after a few years for formal reasons of the regime wanting to keep a clean face in front of the world. It did help a lot when BBC investigated and reported about prisons in Iran in his time in jail. The awareness of the foreign countries towards the state of the prisoners in Iran gave him a lot of relieve and hope and courage. Furtheron Fakhteh pointed out that the usage of modern media like twitter and e-mail is subject to many mistakes and misunderstandings, if the content is not being thoroughly checked and passed over to others. The regime in Iran is specialized in distributing lies and starting distracting campaigns. Fakhteh appealed for a clear mind dealing with news from Iran.
<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;">He called the freedom movement of Iran a social movement with deep roots. He proposed to start a committee in support of refugees from Iran.
<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"> The fifth speaker was Prof. Dr. Firouzeh Nahavandi who structured her speech in three parts and stressed that she would speak from a scholars point of view. She described in the first step Iran as the hardest regime in the world. More and more death sentences would receive a religious cause. She talked about the client-politics inside the country and mentioned that there are still incredibly poor people who sell their children because they cannot provide them with food. She reminded of the numerous Iranian women who struggle for more rights of women. In a second step she characterized the green movement as a sponatanously formed movement which MirHosain Mousawi and Mehdi Karoubi had joined without really being their leaders. In her view the green movement has achieved that people in the world talk about what is going on in Iran and people in the whole world saw the true face of the persons in power. She felt it important to really clear how everybody talking about democracy would define this term and if democracy would be possible in a religious system. She did not provide an own interpretation during the conference, though. She finished with her third step in which she demanded a separation of religion and politics and delivered an appeal to the European states to stick to its own values and not to place economic interests before their own values. Professor Nahavandi suggested to european media and politicians to give Iranian dissidents more room to express their thoughts and experiences.
<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"> The row of speakers was completed by Dr. Mostafa Azmayesh, who is an Islamologue and religious scientist. On the one hand he pointed out that Iranians could participate in a referendum in 1979 but could only choose between continuing with the shah and a new constitution, whereas Ayatollah Khomeini added the principle of Velayat-e-faghi after the referendum to the new constitution. In so far the calls of the Iranians for a new referendum in Dr. Azmayesh’s opinion are legitimate and one has to trust to the maturity of Iranians that they would bring the system of Velayat-e-faghi to an end. On the other hand he elobarted that there was a cold coup d’état in Iran by a sect that has a messianic ideology and that was named by Azmayesh as the Armaggedonist sect that has come to power in Iran. Officially they would support the system of Velayat-e-faghi behind Khameneii but secretely they install a military dictatorship with clearly fascist features. The essence of the ideology of the Armaggedonist sect according to Dr. Azmayesh is messianic, only true and epansionist. The so called Hojiatieh society stands behind this movement. Other terms for this radical sect are Mahdiists, Mesbahists or the term found by Azmayesh, Armaggedonists. One the powerbrokers and most influential figure in the background is Mesbah Yazdi, who names himself an Ayatollah but represents such radical views on Islam that all pious Muslims regard him as unworthy. Mesbah Yazdi is director of various religious institutes in Qom and receives vast amounts of money from the government. He supports president Ahmadinedjad fully. The chief ideologue of a group that controls the revoltutionary guards called Hadjane Seasineh Sepah, is a man called Dr. Hassan Abassi. He educates the cadre that shall provide the return of the awaited Messiah Al-Mahdi. Normally the Shiite wait for the appearance of the Hidden Imam. Abassi has fulfilled a change of paradigm and has turned the nature of waiting from passive to becoming very active. Abassi holds that the Hidden Imam waits for his believers to create the circumstances under which he can reappear. This switch of paradigm is the incitement for a world revolution, a legitimation for the export of unrest, chaos, disarray, conceivement and bloodshed to Europe and the rest of the world. Therefore Dr. Azmayesh reasoned in the conference is engagement of European citizens and politicians for people and their rights in Iran in the same time an engagement for the rights and the freedom of our children in Europe.
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<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"> In this spirit all participants felt united and agreed that the conference might only be a start and the newly found coalitions must continue with further actions. One of the participants claimed for a greater involvement of student groups and offered to be an intermediary.
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<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;">Conclusions In the end there were several ideas about the support of the freedom movement in Iran on the table:
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<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"> 1. Europe! Stick to the values you have proclaimed yourself. Don’t put economical interests before human rights in Iran.
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<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"> 2. Citizens of Europe! Inform youselves about the nature of the political forces that have taken over Iran. It makes you aware of what people in Iran are fighting against.
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<br />3. Citizens of Europe! Inform yourselves about the events in Iran, demand from the press more insight in the human rights situation and the violations of simple citizens rights.
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<br />4. European countries! Support the representatives of opposition groups building up their own media instead of creating more and more administrative barriers. You don’t even need to invest money in that.
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<br /> 5. Citizens of Europe! Please help to shelter the refugees from Iran from the persecutions of their regime. Support Nasser Fakhteh to build a Committee in support of these refugees.
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<br /> 6. Military! Keep your fingers out of the game. When the human rights situation will find more attention and the freedom movement in Iran will be fully backed from the West, it will deal by itself with the regime inside the country.
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<br />7. Community of the entire world! Insist on the creation of an independent international commission that surveys the human rights inside of Iran, similar to the commission that surveys the nuclear case.
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<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"> The conference was finalized with a recitation by Nasser Fakhteh of a poem composed by him about Neda Agha-Soltan, the young woman who was shot dead in the streets and who grew to a symbol of the resistance of the Iranians confronting their regime.
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<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"> Helmut N. Gabel, mehriran.de</span></div> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";" lang="ES-MX"></span></span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p> Progressive Sufi Muslim Movementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09227705707947652616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2087827946343207441.post-84834829814608015762010-03-06T11:26:00.000-08:002010-03-06T11:27:57.111-08:00Open Letter to the department of justice in Iran<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Mr. Mohammad Sadegh Larijani<br /><br />With greetings<br /><br />More than one year have passed since the destruction of the Shiite Muslims prayer house belonging to the followers of Nematollahi Gonabadi and the surrounding cemetery in Isfahan. This heinous act to is not only disrespect to the prayer house of the Shiites, but also disrespect to the Muslim cemetery in the famous city of Isfahan (half the world). Insulting news and photos related to this event in have spread through international media and have been translated in Greek, English, Turkish, French, Arabic, Persian and ... This event have not been looked into by the officials in the Islamic Republic and have brought further shame to the ninth regime.<br /><br />Since justice had lost its meaning in the system during Mr. Mahmoud Hashemi Shahrudi as the head of the justice department, the voice of the Sufi Dervisches was not heard by the government and all attemts to take action according to the laws of the Islamic Republic faild and this led to the Sufis beeing more oppressed than ever! Inevitably members, supporters, and those interested in the "The International Committee in Defence of Daravish and Students of Iran" to arouse and spread the public opinion around the world (especially for Muslims living in western countries) and have worked for this and held demonstrations and marches and sit-ins in various cities throughout Europe and America and Canada, and have expand awareness around the globe and made contact to relevant authorities in the section of human rights and the international communities.<br /><br />To have praying houses and to be buried in the cemetery in the city one lives, and preserve the sanctity of these places are basic rights of citizenship all around the world countries and international conventions and agreements related to these cases have been signed by "The Islamic Republic" and inevitably "the regime" is obliged to comply and act according with these cases and otherwise, the international community will ask questions demanding answers from Iran and we witnessed an exampel of this in the Geneva meeting with your brother Mr. Mohammad Javad Larijani.<br /><br />And for these reasons we request of you as a new steersman in the department of justic to make the right choices and to restore these forgotten rights of the Nematollahi Gonabadi Sufis and to hand out neccesary and urgent orders, especially the reconstruction of the praying house of the Nematollahi Gonabadi Sufi Dervisches in the cemetary of “Takhte Foulad” in Esfahan and the tomb beside it belonging to the late “Mr. Izad Goshap – Darvisch Naser Aly”.<br /><br />We like to inform you that the members, supporters and those interested in " The International Committee in Defence of Daravish and Students of Iran " will - if all that is requested in not put to action in the end of this year - to make new movments in the new year in a chain of coordinated actions spreading the truth, including sit-ins and hunger strikes in front of the Agency's offices, embassies, businesses and banks buildings affiliated to the regime of Iran around the world, and also hold protests and hand out flyers in front of popular buildings in various, as well as spreading the awareness with meetings, inviting news sections and the famouse international names in various fields. Necessary measures will be taken in order to attract the public opinion to protect the rights of dervishes, to denounce and condemn the perpetrators and the cause for these un-human behaviors.<br /><br />The Light that shines on the way for the supporters of the " The International Committee in Defence of Daravish and Students of Iran", is the word of the The great third Imam of Shiite Muslims, “Hossein son of Aly” that "even if you do not have any religion, at least be humans"<br /><br />God is behind those fighting for peace and justice<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >The International Committee in Defence of Daravish and Students of Iran</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br />Brussels - Washington - Toronto<br /><br />15 Esfand 1388<br />Tuesday, second of Mars, 2010</span><br /></div>Progressive Sufi Muslim Movementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09227705707947652616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2087827946343207441.post-7061516599444947942010-03-05T08:04:00.000-08:002010-03-05T08:07:49.380-08:00The ruling systems view point on "Sufism and mysticism"<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;color:black;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />During recent years and in particularly during the presidency of Mahmud Ahamedinejad the followers of Gonanabadi Sufi order have been under severe restrictions. Under the reign of this executive branch which places emphasis on hard line Shiite doctrine the Sufis of Gonabadi order have been under consistent attack and threats both physically and through rumours and innuendoes which have support from Ministry of Information. These forces publish and dream up false rumours and innuendoes in order to influence public opinion against Sufis. These attacks provide ammunition to the central and local government authorities and help to mobilize certain hooligan elements within the system, such as Basiji forces, in order to destroy Sufi house of worships in different Iranian cities such as in Qom , Isfahan , Borujerd and Kish . These attacks are cantered against all Sufi places of gathering around the country. These government backed hooligans are funded from large sums of Money that are supposed to go towards helping Islamic brotherhood but instead are used to fund mercenary groups disguised as ordinary citizens with mission to destroy the Sufi movement which stands for peace and tolerance.<br /><br />Today, those who control power structure within Iran are in effect member of an anonymous cult with non Islamic agenda whose worship is not oriented towards Mecca or Islamic values but instead is oriented towards what they call "Hnysa" and represent value system that is totally in opposition to tolerant Islamic values.<br /><br />Their extremists views will not stop at destroying places of worship of Muslim brothers and will not end with destruction of cultural, geographical Patriotic centres and value systems. These people who are able to simply wipe a historical place such as (Beydokht - Gonabad) from the map of the country and Geography books, will not be able to safe guard the geographical boundaries of the country.<br /><br />International Committee for Student and Sufi rights in Iran , while condemning such actions on the one hand, with all seriousness also demands an end to the destructive actions of this extremist cult. It asks those who are in the Iranian power structure to compensate the Sufis for material, moral and emotional damages they have suffered as results of threats and physical abuses they have suffered. They demand permanent halt to all forms Human Rights violations. It also asks those in power to respect all the international community standards and rights for all and Iranian citizens and put a permanent stop to all forms of oppression.<br /><br />Some of the demands of Sufis in Iran that has reached the committee for support of student and Sufi rights in recent years are as follows:<br /><br />1 – To compensated the Sufis for the physical, emotional and financial hardship they have suffered from assaults that they and their families have endured as result of plainclothes thugs who are supported by Basijis and funded by the Iranian government ;<br /><br />2 – To allow Issuance of building permits for rebuilding of Hosseiniehs (Sufi House of Worship) in the cities of Qom, Borujerd ,Kish and Isfahan which belonged to Gonabadi Sufi order and were subsequently destroyed by plane clothed thugs and hooligans backed by the regime.<br />3 – Compensate the Sufis for the cost of rebuilding the above houses of worships.<br /><br />4 - Eliminate the ban on Sufis from being buried in the cemetery Gonabad;<br /><br />5 – Reinstate the name of town of Beydokht and Gonabad in geographical maps and textbooks;<br /><br />6 – Stop the social discrimination of Sufis and recognise their rights as citizens and allow them to hold positions in public schools and universities especially in the fields of social and religious education<br />7 – Allow permits for development of Mazar-e Soltani and extension of pilgrim area around the site.<br />8 – Allow Defence lawyers to represent the rights of Nematollahi Gonabadi Sufis and allow lawyers who are Sufis to practice the law.<br />9 – Prevent spreading and issuance of false rumours and innuendoes against the Gonabadi Sufis and stop funding anti-Sufi movements within the local and central governments departments.<br /><br />10 - Eliminate all travel restrictions on Sufis within the country especially on Sufi masters and the Grand Master: Nour Ali Tabandeh. Also remove the restrictions in place on Nour Ali Tabandeh visiting and living in his hometown of Beydokht in Gonabad;<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Committee to protect the rights of students and Dervishes</span><br /><br />Brussels, Washington and Toronto<br /><br />Tuesday Saturday, 11 Esfand 1388<br /><br />2 March 2010 </span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;"><br /></span></p>Progressive Sufi Muslim Movementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09227705707947652616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2087827946343207441.post-25669003984099130122010-02-10T17:04:00.000-08:002010-02-10T17:07:07.414-08:00Day of Darvish<div align="justify"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LeY7vY5bQaY/S3NYCyMOCjI/AAAAAAAAAFo/UkFxNw-cLtE/s1600-h/psmm-logo.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436785980022327858" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 138px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 165px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LeY7vY5bQaY/S3NYCyMOCjI/AAAAAAAAAFo/UkFxNw-cLtE/s400/psmm-logo.jpg" border="0" /></a> In order to implement and impose the doctrine of “Absolute Supreme Leader” or “God’s Viceroy on Earth” in every corner of the land, the oppressive regime in Iran, over night and without any legal or moral basis, bulldozed the Hosseinieh (Gathering Place) of Nematollahi-Gonabadi Daravish (Sufis) in Takhte-Fulad, Isfahan and desecrated their burial place. This catastrophic event was one in a sequence of a grand and organized events thoroughly planed many years in advance, to eradicate Sufis and Sufi school of thought in Iran and Iranian culture. Previously they had closed and destroyed many of their centers in Iran from Qom to Bojnourd, Charmahin and Kish among many others.<br />But as much as they abhor violence and aggression, Sufis are committed to defending right and justice. (They are unified as a single shield).<br />Last year on 3rd of Esfand, 1387, while the atmosphere of oppression and despair had dominated every aspect of Iranians, the Nematollahi-Gonabadi Sufis, despite grave danger facing them, rallied from all across Iran to the capital. They protested in front of the Parliament against the systematic and continual oppression, violence and injustice bestowed upon them for many years.<br />Numbering in tens of thousands they demanded justice and retribution. In the stifling atmosphere of fear and despair, against a powerful system that skillfully had for many years crafted a culture based on superstition devoid of slightest remnants of rational thinking, basic standards of fairness and justice, the Darvishes’ movement laid the foundation for hope. Hope for a nation, of resistance against physical, cultural, emotional, and spiritual violence that had been imposed on them for decades.<br />According to official reports eight hundred and fifty people were arrested on that day. Many spent months in the infamous Evin prison subjected to daily violence and torture. But they resisted their captors , honoring and preserving their principles and their pact with their God.<br />Remembrance of this day matters because it symbolizes the principles of altruism, fight for truth, justice and freedom for all, without resorting to violence.<br />May the Darvishes (Sufis), through their teachings, writings, struggles, and perseverance help all Iranians to reach their long overdue right – Freedom, Democracy, Peace and Prosperity.<br /><br />The International Committee in Defense of Daravish and Students of Iran</div>Progressive Sufi Muslim Movementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09227705707947652616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2087827946343207441.post-22957801130174769172009-05-05T07:51:00.000-07:002009-05-11T08:52:29.796-07:0011 Students and 5 students of Amir-Kabir University where released from Evin Prison.the committee for freedom of Sufi and students announced that at 11 p.m. local time, on 5th of May 2009, 11 Sufis and 5 students of Amir Kabir universities who were arrested illegally were freed. The freed Sufis were:<br /><br />1. Mohammed Ali Taban,<br />2. Firouz Bedabad<br />3. Gholam Ali Baghstani,<br />4. Mohammed Hamrahi,<br />5. Reza Shali,<br />6. Nasser Popy,<br />7. Payman Amraie,<br />8. Abufazl Salehie,<br />9. Hamid Rahmani,<br />10. Heshmat-allah Vafie,<br />11. Abdulmanf Gholamy.<br />Currently there are still four remaining Sufi being held illegally of the original 15 who were arrested. The remaining illegally imprisoned Sufis are:<br />Moslem Sanaat-Parast,<br />Yadallah Shams Khani,<br />Mechiel Ghorbany,<br />Esmail Sanaat-Parast<br />In addition to the 11 freed suits on the previous day 5 students of Amir Kabir universities were also set free.<br />1. Esmail Salmanpour,<br />2. Nariman Mastoufy,<br />3. Yasar Turkman,<br />4. Koroush Daneshyar,<br />5. Hussein Turkashavand.<br /><br />The committee for freedom of Sufis and students will continue its protest against all arrests that are in violation of individual human rights. It will also continue to highlight threats that violate individual freedom. This committee sees all these violations of human rights as affront to Islamic values stated in the Koran, and will continue its struggle to free the remaining prisoners and to bring forth all violations of human rights, threats and tortures that are carried out by the Iranian regime to the attention of world press and authorities.Progressive Sufi Muslim Movementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09227705707947652616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2087827946343207441.post-79906835190053063862009-04-30T21:50:00.000-07:002009-05-11T10:56:42.431-07:00A Political Manifest in front of Denmark’s Parliament organized by Committee for Support of Sufis&Students<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LeY7vY5bQaY/SghmmGiovMI/AAAAAAAAABc/6D1ZZQI-6o4/s1600-h/cfss.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334626563397303490" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 468px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 371px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LeY7vY5bQaY/SghmmGiovMI/AAAAAAAAABc/6D1ZZQI-6o4/s400/cfss.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Freedom-lovers, Human Rights activists and Democracy seeker Iranians, had a political manifest in front of Denmark’s Parliament yesterday 29Th April 2009. By holding a banner, spreading fliers, and collecting signatures they demand release of Political prisoners from Notorious jails such as Evin and elsewhere and also declare their disgust against violations of HUMAN RIGHTS in Iran by It’s mullacracy government. </div><div><br />In an interview, They also declare and demand release of religious minorities such as Sunnis, Sufis, Behaiis, Reporters, Students and Others from torture and prisons. This group is going to continue its political manifest until release of prisoners from Mullah jails, respect of Universal Human Rights , Brotherhood, Equality, Freedom, Liberalism and True DEMOCRACY in Iran</div><div> </div><div>Source: <a href="http://www.insideofiran.com/en">www.insideofiran.com/en</a></div>Progressive Sufi Muslim Movementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09227705707947652616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2087827946343207441.post-29318748149168833962009-04-30T10:56:00.000-07:002009-05-11T11:23:33.249-07:00A Political Manifest in Amsterdam in Holland Organized by the Committee for support of Sufis&Students<div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LeY7vY5bQaY/SghpV-GDeWI/AAAAAAAAABs/jHyh2gE_nUk/s1600-h/amsterdam-31.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334629584786913634" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 299px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LeY7vY5bQaY/SghpV-GDeWI/AAAAAAAAABs/jHyh2gE_nUk/s400/amsterdam-31.bmp" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>Amsterdam, according to an exclusive report from Inside of Iran, a political manifest was carry out at the Dam Square, on Saturday 18Th April 2009 from 12:00 to 16:00pm. The aim of this political manifest was a demand for releasing Students, Reporters and Sufi detainees from Mullah jails and also a stop for demolition of gathering places and violation of Universal Human Rights and suppression of religious minorities in Iran. The committee of defence of Students and Sufi rights in Holland declared also if the pressure and suppression against Sufis, students, Sunnis and other minorities does not come to an end it will carry out similar manifestations again.<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LeY7vY5bQaY/SghnqcGbe3I/AAAAAAAAABk/SxhL902A2wE/s1600-h/amsterdam-21.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334627737415678834" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 486px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 388px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LeY7vY5bQaY/SghnqcGbe3I/AAAAAAAAABk/SxhL902A2wE/s400/amsterdam-21.bmp" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div>The Committee activists and also human right activists by holding a banner, spreading fliers and flowers, and collecting signatures demand release of Political Prisoners from notorious jails such as Evin and elsewhere and also declare their disgust against violation of HUMAN RIGHTS in Iran by It’s mullacracy government</div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LeY7vY5bQaY/SghqypfO9lI/AAAAAAAAAB0/EgcPLlakXvk/s1600-h/4.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334631176983213650" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 299px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LeY7vY5bQaY/SghqypfO9lI/AAAAAAAAAB0/EgcPLlakXvk/s400/4.bmp" border="0" /></a><br />In an interview with radio Zamaneh, the speaker also declared and demand an end to oppression of religious minorities and release of Political Perisoners from torture and prisons. This group is going to continue its political manifest until release of all prisoners from Mullah jails, respect of Universal Human Rights, Brotherhood, Equality, Freedom, Liberalism and True DEMOCRACY in Iran.<br /><div> </div></div></div>Progressive Sufi Muslim Movementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09227705707947652616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2087827946343207441.post-28436869242526676212009-04-03T08:53:00.000-07:002009-05-11T08:55:47.788-07:00A Political Manifest in DenmarkCopenhagen, according to an exclusive report from Inside of Iran, a political manifestation was carry out in front of the Municipal building ( Rådhuset), in the heart of Copenhagen City, today Friday 3rd April 2009 from 8am to 8pm.<br /><br /><br /><p align="center"><object height="364" width="445"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hchOEQ-1axo&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hchOEQ-1axo&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object></p><br /><br />The aim of this manifestation was a demand for releasing students and Sufi detainees from Jails and also a stop for demolition and violence against human rights and religious minorities in Iran. The committee of Students and Sufi practitioners in Denmark announced also if the pressure against Sufis and students does not come to an end it will carry out similar manifestations all over DenmarkProgressive Sufi Muslim Movementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09227705707947652616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2087827946343207441.post-16350317532031704392009-04-02T09:22:00.000-07:002009-05-11T09:34:45.248-07:00The demonstration organised by the committee for support of rights of students and Sufis was successfully completed<div><br /><div><div><div>02/04/09<br /><br />The demonstration in support of Neymatallah Sufis was successfully completed on 2nd April 2009 in London . <strong>The supporters of Students and Sufis </strong>expressed their protest against the treatment of Sufis and Students in Iran by placing green bushels of wheat as form of protest in front of Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi London head quarters.</div><div> </div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334604883907131250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LeY7vY5bQaY/SghS4MJZN3I/AAAAAAAAABU/bcCU_Ba1ack/s400/2.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334604722740327746" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 225px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LeY7vY5bQaY/SghSuzwO9UI/AAAAAAAAABM/taDZMrewuAY/s400/1.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><div>These demonstrations were organised by the committee for support of rights of students and Sufis who wish to highlight the treatment of students and Sufis in Iran under the current Islamic regime. The supports gathered in front of the Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi London head quarters for two hours and showed their support for Sufis and Students by shouting slogans in support of love, peace, tolerance, fair and just treatment of Students and Sufis in Iran .<br />At the end of the demonstration a statement was read in support of Sufis and students and stressed if the current regime and Ayatollah Nasser Makarem continue with their ill-treatment of Sufis and students the committee for support of students and Sufis will continue its protest through future demonstrations</div></div></div></div>Progressive Sufi Muslim Movementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09227705707947652616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2087827946343207441.post-47079084602951148972009-03-29T09:08:00.000-07:002009-05-11T09:09:06.981-07:00Demonstration<div align="justify">The Committee for the support of rights of Sufis and Students has requested that friends and supporters of human rights to gather on 2nd April 2009 from 12:00 noon to 2 pm outside the head quarters of Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi in London; in order to protest against his extreme views and open support for destruction of Sufi sacred sites and house of worships in Iran.<br />We hope that by showing your open and boisterous support we can not only show our distain for Ayatollah’s views but put a stop to his open support for persecution of Sufis and other minority groups in Iran . By supporting this open protest you will also be supporting the rights of students and Sufis who are tortured and imprisoned without charge or justification in Iran .<br />We hope you can all join us in this important protest in support of Human rights.<br /></div><strong></strong><br /><strong>The Committee for defense of Sufis and Students</strong><br /><br />Date of Protest: 2nd April 2009<br />Time: 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm<br />Location: 856-8 Harrow Road Wembley, Middx , HA0 2PXProgressive Sufi Muslim Movementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09227705707947652616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2087827946343207441.post-87718230259249871782009-03-21T09:00:00.000-07:002009-05-11T09:01:47.652-07:00Sufis Are Under Attack inside of Iran: Video Evidence Part (3)+Photo story<p align="left"><object height="349" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vit3wgErAD8&border=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vit3wgErAD8&border=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="349"></embed></object></p>Progressive Sufi Muslim Movementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09227705707947652616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2087827946343207441.post-6707670172080457592009-03-18T09:03:00.000-07:002009-05-11T09:20:00.588-07:00Sufi Are under Attack Inside of Iran : Video Evidence Part (2)<object height="364" width="445"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/EZJbuq9dyvI&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/EZJbuq9dyvI&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object>Progressive Sufi Muslim Movementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09227705707947652616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2087827946343207441.post-61137662887496318372009-03-17T09:04:00.000-07:002009-05-11T09:16:01.682-07:00Sufis Are Under Attack inside of Iran: Video Evidence Part (1)<object height="364" width="445"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Cb1p4X6AGZw&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Cb1p4X6AGZw&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object>Progressive Sufi Muslim Movementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09227705707947652616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2087827946343207441.post-31865881599276847392009-03-11T04:30:00.000-07:002009-05-11T04:45:32.859-07:00Letter from The Committee for Defense of Rights of Sufis and Students of Iran<div align="justify">The Committee for Defense of Rights of Sufis and Students of Iran<br /><br />Tuesday, March 10, 2009<br /><br /><br />The Committee for Defense of Rights of Sufis and Students of Iran has issued an open letter announcing the success of its photos and slide show exhibitions in different cities of Europe .<br /><br />These exhibitions were shown concurrently in several cities such as Brussels , Koln, Lyon and Strasbourg . The exhibitions were well received by many concerned and compassionate Europeans. These enthusiastic visitors have requested for the continuation of these kinds of displays and revealing programs, which would break the silence against the brutality and oppression of the Iranian government toward Iranian Sufis and students.<br /><br />These presentations clearly portrayed the level of destruction of the Sufis’ sacred places, and prayer centers (Hosseiniehs), in various cities of Iran , such as Qom , Isfahan and Boroujerd. These exhibitions also provided documentation and ample evidence related to apprehensions and tortures of Sufis and students.<br /><br />Moreover, these exhibitions showed the pictures of the destroyed Sunni mosques and schools in the city of Zabol and other cities in Iran as well; followed by informative discussions among various Sunni groups. A collection of photos depicting mass demonstrations by University and college students in places such as Tehran , Shiraz and Isfahan were shown to the interested and peace loving audience.<br /><br />Because of the enormous interest shown by visitors, the committee is planning to conduct similar chains of informative exposes in different cities of Europe such as Stockholm , Copenhagen , Malmo , Amsterdam , Rotterdam and London</div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><strong>The Committee for Defense of Rights of Sufis and Students of Iran</strong> </div>Progressive Sufi Muslim Movementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09227705707947652616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2087827946343207441.post-34260564202125014172009-03-11T03:54:00.000-07:002009-05-11T08:59:41.120-07:00Demand a Stop for Repression of Religious Minorities<strong><span style="color:#660000;">Demand a Stop for Repression of Religious Minorities and Demolition of Important Historical Sufi Places at Different Cities in Iran</span></strong><br /><br /><a href="http://www.insideofiran.com/en/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/letter.pdf"><strong>Please click here to read an open letter from The Committee of Islamic Sufi Friends in Europe</strong></a>Progressive Sufi Muslim Movementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09227705707947652616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2087827946343207441.post-14462797311937884562009-03-10T04:27:00.000-07:002009-05-11T04:45:13.621-07:00Another Big Step toward Discovering the Truth<div align="justify">The demolition of the Nematollahi Goanabadi Prayer center, “Hosseinieh”, in Isfahan , Iran took place on Tuesday February 24th 2009, at 12 A.M. This destruction happened in the middle of the night unexpectedly and without any prior warnings. Later on that day, when Sufis gathered for the prayer around their shattered prayer center, they were faced with the brutal attacks from the special governmental forces. The intensity of these atrocious acts against the peaceful Muslims have stunned the people all around the world, particularly, since no provocation, harsh remarks and wrong gesture were initiated by Sufis. This recurring oppression toward Sufis is taking place in violation of the mandate issued by Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamehnei on protecting the rights of all Muslims.<br /><br />A few days later, the City Officials in Isfahan announced that the demolition was in accordance with the Ruling of #100 of the city commission! This act was absolutely at odds with all previous agreements regarding preservation of this Hosseinieh, which is located next to the mausoleum of Dervish Nasser Ali in Takhte Foulad cemetery, as a place of the Cultural Heritage. As such this Hosseinieh were to be protected and immune from and zoning by laws. Hence, the demolition of the Hosseinieh and suppression of Sufis have turned into a very complex situation.<br /><br />On Wednesday March 12, 2009, the mystery unfolds itself and we found out the reasons this puzzling issue. Javad Arian-Manesh the representative from Mashhad and Kalat in Majlis [parliament] said:<br /><br />Link:http://www.insideofiran.com/en/?p=985<br /><br />Defending Baha’ism, Wahabism and Sufism in Islamic Republic of Iran is a Non-Issue.<br /><br />On the other hand Kazem Jalali, the speaker from the National Security and Foreign Policy:<br /><a href="http://www.insideofiran.com/fs/?p=4964" target="_blank"></a><br />Link:http://www.insideofiran.com/en/?p=984<br /><br />Promoting Baha’ism, Wahabism and Sufism is the enemies approach to confront the Islamic regime.<br /><br />The two parliamentarians have independently expressed their views to Rasa News Agency (political news division), stating that the oppression of Sufis and the destruction of their prayer centers are legal and legitimate acts. Because in the Islamic Republic of Iran Sufis have no legal rights not even as a religious minority or a sect of Islam. Although religious minorities have representatives in the parliament such as Zoroastrians, Assyrians, Christians, and Jews have representatives in the parliament, however, the followers of Sufis are denied the right to have a prayer place and to perform their prayer services.<br /><br />In their statements, these two representatives of the parliament (Javad Arian-Manesh and Kazem Jalali) have placed the Sufis, Baha’is and Wahabis in the same category. This is in line with the chief public prosecutor standing accusing Baha’is as spies and Wahabis as terrorists. Also the Imam Jom’ah of Rasht has called the Sufism a deviation and a diversion of Islam and grouped them as satanic devil worshipers.<br /><br />At the minimum, we hope these writings will inform the people around the globe that Sufis are peaceful individuals, not guilty of any wrongdoings and are not responsible for any public disorder. They have not disobeyed any laws and there have not been any dispute or any problems over their “Namaz Khanehs” with any governmental agencies in the past.<br /><br />Today, it is apparent that the systematic oppression of the Sufis in Iran is based on a political agenda. The aim of this plot is to wipe out all the Sufis inside of Iran particularly the Nematollahi Goanabadi Sufi order. Their master plan was published in a book by Mehdi Emadi, one of the ideologists of the Islamic Republic, called “Hassan Basri” the provocative face of Tasavof.<br /><br />Therefore, in order to defend their legal and civil rights of worship as Iranian Shia Muslims, all Sufis and in particular the Nematollahi Goanabadi Sufis call on all the international Human Rights Organizations and Dr. Asma Jahangir the Special Rapporteur of the UN Commission on Human Rights to stop these inhumane atrocities that are affecting the lives of more than two million people in Iran. We are requesting their outmost effective use of power and tools necessary to bring a stop to this eradication of ideas and beliefs against our Sufi fellow countrymen.<br /><br /><br /><strong>The Committee for the Support of Sufis and Students</strong></div>Progressive Sufi Muslim Movementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09227705707947652616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2087827946343207441.post-26171348556026763742009-03-06T03:50:00.000-08:002009-05-11T04:46:13.198-07:00An Open Letter from the Committee for Defence of Rights of Sufis and Iranian Students<div align="justify"><strong><span style="color:#660000;">What Do They Have in Their Minds for Dervishes?</span></strong><br /><br />06/03/09<br />According to the latest news, Judicial and the Intelligence apparatus of the Islamic Republic of Iran have begun releasing more than 8500 of the Nematollahi Gonabadi Sufis who have been detained in the Evin prison in Tehran, since Saturday February 22nd 2009.<br /><br />Sufis driving licenses were taken, salary stubs were withheld along with their birth certificates. They had to submit to a legal oat consent and agreement that they shall appear before the judge, and in some cases a bail, close to100 millions of Tomans, were set before they release. However, there are thirty other Sufis remain in solitary confinement in Section 240 in the Evin prison.<br /><br />The Dervishes have been interrogated repeatedly and systematically and tortured severely. The inhuman treatments of these innocent Sufis resulted in a sudden heart attack for Mr. Ali Akbar Bonakdarpour who was rushed to the intensive care unit by his tormentors. The rest of the people who are being held in single cells are denied contacts and visitation by their family members and are being brutally mistreated.<br /><br />The lawyers have not been granted permission to meet with their clients since their arrests. The Sufis are being held without committing any crimes or any wrongdoings what so ever and they are not being told why they have been arrested for.<br /><br />Unfortunately, we do not have access to the complete list of the names of people in prison, but those who were recently released, have provided us the following names:<br /><br />Ali Bonakdar<br />Hasan Kashani<br />Parviz Shams<br />Firouz Bidabad<br />Behrouz Bidabad<br />Amin Karampour<br />Mohammad Sadegh Moradi Sarvestani<br />Mehdi Dajm<br />Sayf Abadi<br />Mohammad Ali Taban<br />Ismael Sanatparast<br />Mehrdad Sanatparast<br />Mikhail Ghorbani<br />Ahmad Jamali<br />Heshmatallah Vafaie Shoar<br />Mohhamad Hamrahi<br />Abufazl Salehi<br />Mehrdad Karami<br />Hamid Nazari<br /><br /><br />The Objectives of Torture and Interrogation of Sufis:<br /><br />The first goal of detention and questioning of the jailed Sufis is to obtain information.<br /><br />The second goal is using the procedure called “Tavab Sazi”. This approach of forced interrogation is designed by the Intelligence apparatus to fabricate lies and plan a scheme by compiling false confessions in the name of the detained Sufis, in order to make a case against the Gonabadi Dervishes. Eventually, this will further their plan to wipe out Sufism from Iran.<br /><br />The third goal is implementing a detailed plan for shattering and destroying the activities of all the non-profit organizations affiliated with the Nematollahi Gonabadi Sufi path.. The arrest and the torture of Mr. Ali Akbar Bonakdarpour in this case clearly demonstrate the official interrogators intent to find out more about the charitable and non- profit “Reza Organization”.<br /><br />The fourth goal is to put a stop to all the web sites and the internet activities related to the Sufis. The police and the Intelligence services have failed in their repeated attempts to stop the internet sites by filtering, hacking and blocking methods. In order to compensate their unsuccessful attempts at sabotage in these matters, the Intelligence group continue to arrest and torture those whom they think are responsible. They are trying to find a clue as who the sources behind the internet web sites are.<br /><br />Due to their ignorance, they will not succeed in their deceitful ways. Sufis’ actions are based on their true faith and their responsibilities toward spreading the True and Spiritual Islam. This struggle will not be stopped by harassing and detaining Sufis. Hundreds and thousands will step forward, raise the flag of true Islam, and walk on the path of God.<br /><br /><br />The Committee for Defense of Rights of Sufis and Iranian Students calls all the International Human Rights Organizations to join forces and support us for the immediate release of the these innocent Sufis imprisoned by the government.<br /><br /><strong>The Committee for Support of Rights of Sufis and students</strong></div>Progressive Sufi Muslim Movementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09227705707947652616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2087827946343207441.post-47018359975399059542009-03-01T04:42:00.000-08:002009-05-11T04:43:57.245-07:00An Open Letter to: Dr. Ekmel eddin Ihsan Oghlu(The secretary general of the Islamic Conference) (OIC)<div align="justify">March, 4, 2009<br /><br /><strong>Dr. Ekmel eddin Ihsan Oghlu<br />The secretary general of the Islamic Conference (OIC)</strong><br /><br />Honorable <strong>Dr. Ihsan Oghlu,<br /></strong><br />Asallam Alykom,<br /><br />As you are informed by now, Darvishes in Iran are being constantly under direct and systematic oppression by the Iranian government. As of now there have not been any legal discourses, laws and rules under the Islamic Republic judicial systems to protect the dervishes and their civil rights. The destruction and the demolition of their place of prayers (Namaz Khaneh) in addition to the endless suppression of the Darvishes are becoming widespread and ordinary practices in today’s Iran. This is an unprecedented dangerous heresy that may cause and bring about unfortunate and regrettable devastations.<br /><br />The suppression of Sufis in Iran has been rapidly increasing for the past few years which include many different incidents that are stated in enclosed attachments for your kind consideration. These oppressions include the destruction of the Prayer places in the different cities namely, Tehran, Qom, Boroujerd, Esfahan, Shahr-e-Kord, and Kish Island, and arresting, detaining and jailing Sufi followers in these cities.. In addition, the Iranian government is disregarding and violating the Darvish’s basic legal rights. As soon as the government finds out about an individual’s affiliation with Sufism he/she is immediately stripped of their job and is faced with many difficulties. There have been instances of disbarring of licenses of the lawyers defending Sufi clients. i.e., Mustafa Daneshjoo, Omid Behrouzi, and the expulsion of college students ,such as Mohammad Ismail Salahi, who were studying in the University and other educational institutions, thereby breaking the barriers of respect and disrespecting the sufi masters and the elders of Darvishes and imposing house arrest on them, unable to travel or even reside in their own hometown, as well as illegal entry into their houses, taking their belongings and sealing off their property and possessions across the country..<br /><br />Considering that the Islamic Republic is one of the signatories and participants of the international conventions intended to respect and uphold the right of religious and ethnic minorities, their oppressive approach towards the minorities on one hand and the silence and the lack of objection of the legal and the justice system of Iran on the other hand and also the lack of freedom of speech and the obligatory silence on the part of the independent religious scholars on these situations is clearly at odds with the convention’s rules and regulations. It is such a hypo racy that the same people, who have no regards for human rights or the right of each ethnic and religious minority within Iran, claim that the rights of Shi’ia and Islamic faith have been violated by protesting and writing to the media outlets. <br /><br />What the Iranian government is doing to its fellow Shi’ia citizens is against the Islamic laws and the international rules and policies. Continuously, there have been daily programs of widespread and systematic atrocities throughout the country for destroying the holy places of worship through issuing Fatwas by a group called ” Amerin”, so-called government proxies.. They have destroyed the many “Namaz Khaneh”, insulted, attacked the people as they were praying during the month of Moharam, in the city of Qom, and arrested one twelve hundred fifty innocent individuals. They expelled the Imam Jamaat (Mohandes Amir Labaf) from his home town, and detained him for more than five years, which is clearly against the teachings of the Koran according to the verse:: “ان الصلوه تنهی عن الفحشاء و المنکر و لذکر الله هو اکبر”. Attacking and beating people while they are praying leads to more violence, destruction and moral decay of the society..<br /><br />Even though some the followers of Sufism have invited these fundamentalists to participate in a group discussion to discuss these problems, there have not been any responses as of now. Ironically, these atrocities are happening now that the Human Right organizations mandate countries to recognize the individual rights of each citizen in their home countries by providing them protection against fundamentalism and extremism.<br /><br />Surely the OIC will not be silent against these violent attacks and will do what is necessary to provide unity and harmony for all followers of Islamic faith.<br /><br /> We are requesting your outmost cooperation in this dire situation. If the government of Iran is not willing or capable of stopping this small group of extremists who are against the rest of the Islamic world, then there should be another solution to resolve this matter. We are hoping that these unresolved cases will be investigated by proper authorities and the outcome will be documented for the public view. Thank you very much.<br /><br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br /><strong>The Committee of Sufis & Students of Iran</strong></div>Progressive Sufi Muslim Movementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09227705707947652616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2087827946343207441.post-15215024927322978792009-02-11T04:20:00.000-08:002009-05-11T04:27:46.404-07:00MUSLIM BROTHERS & SISTERS IN EUROPEThe world knows of the horrible conditions forced upon your fellow Sunni Muslims in Palestine. It deeply affects us all and brings sorrow to every human being with a kind heart and a dream of justice. However, Ahmadinejad’s government ironically, claims to be sympathetic toward the oppressed Palestinians. With empty rhetoric and an opportunistic agenda he tries to take advantage of the muddy waters in this situation. Instead of finding meaningful solutions, Ahmainejad is jeopardizing the Palestinian peace process. In fact, the general policy of the Iranian government particularly during Ahmadinejad’s presidency is very convoluted and complex, producing terrible results, worse than one could ever imagine....<br /><br /><strong><a href="http://p-s-m-m2.blogspot.com/">Please click here to read..................</a></strong>Progressive Sufi Muslim Movementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09227705707947652616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2087827946343207441.post-75955743824997015532007-12-26T02:56:00.000-08:002007-12-26T03:14:20.415-08:00A Letter<div align="justify"><span style="color:#990000;">A Letter</span></div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify">Dear Udaba,</div><div align="justify"><br />In February 2006, I wrote a detailed report to scholars who subscribe to this list about destruction of the Ni‘matullahi-Gunabadi Hosseiniyya ( Sufi Center or Khanaqah) in Qom , Iran . I described how on Feb. 13, 2006, a vigilante mob, abetted by the baton-wielding police of the Islamic Republic of Iran, seized, burned down and then bulldozed this Sufi prayer and meditation center, arresting hundreds of dervishes and wounding many demonstrators in the process. Unfortunately, that attack has proven to be but one in a series of ongoing attempted pogroms of Sufis in the Land of the Ayatollahs. The most recent attack took place a month ago in Borujerd, a city in the province of Loristan in the west of Iran, where some 1000 followers of the Gunabadi branch of the Ni‘matullahi Order currently live.</div><div align="justify"><br />On November 4, 2007, an irregular armed, vigilante gang of thugs sponsored and funded by the fundamentalist, Islamicist regime, known as the Basij-i Mostaza‘fin (nicknamed ‘Basiji’), along with the state security services, attacked the center of this same group of Sufis in Borujerd. After pillaging all its possessions and furnishings, they burned it down. Some 70 people were injured and more than 150 dervishes or dervish sympathizers were imprisoned.</div><div align="justify"><br />It may be useful to know something of the historical background to this event. Since 2005, several prominent exoteric clerics (‘ulama) in the city had been delivering sermons against Sufism, haranguing the populace about the evils of the Sufis, branding the Sufi mystical tradition in Islam as a dangerous heresy and aberration of faith. They incited their followers to destroy the Sufi Hosseiniyya (Khanaqah) there. In late October 2007, a conference on the greatest Muslim Sufi poet Jalal al-Din Rumi (d. 1273) of Iran , sponsored by the Institute of Philosophy in Tehran , was held in Tehran and Tabriz . A week after the conference the influential fundamentalist ideologue Ayatollah Safi Golpayegani issued a statement describing Rumi’s poetry as being full of “perverted and misleading ideas and against our principles [i.e. of the fundamentalist brand of Shi‘ite Islam propounded by the religious ideologues of the Islamic Republic of Iran].” The Hamshahri newspaper in Tehran furthermore reported him as saying, “I condemn this conference and its organizers… Its content comprised much dangerous innovation (bid‘at), including things such as listening to music (sama‘) and dance… Everyone should feel shame before the Imam of the Age that such a conference has been convened [in Iran ].” Unfortunately, Ayatollah Safi belongs to that select group of mafioso clerics known as ‘Sources of Religious Emulation’, the pronouncements of whom, however outrageous, theologically biased and theosophically misinformed they may be, no one dares criticize, for to do so is to risk losing one’s job, or being blacklisted as an anti-revolutionary, or face imprisonment, or worse. I was in Tehran during the same week that Sign-of-God Safi’s comments were published so am a witness that none of the distraught organizers of the conference (friends of mine) dared raise their voice in the media to try to directly refute this mullah in order to expose the rank barrenness of literary and intellectual culture beneath his large turban. Safi ’s characterization of Rumi’s Sufi poetry as being “dangerous innovation,” of course, provided just the right ammunition that the ideological enemies of the Ni‘matullahi Sufis needed. A few days later after Safi attacked Rumi, the Ni‘matullahi-Gunabadi Sufi center in Borujerd was appropriately razed to the ground—without, of course, hardly a word of protest at this religious vigilantism being voiced in the media. The psychology of this behaviour Rumi had described quite well incidentally: "The passional soul carries a rosary and the Holy Scripture in its right hand, but has a dagger and a sword up its sleeve." (Nafs ra tasbih u mushaf dar yamin/ khanjar u shamshir andar asetin). (Mathnawi, III: 2554)</div><div align="justify"><br />It should be emphasized that the Ni‘matullahi Order is the largest Sufi Order in Iran, with the members of all its various branches currently suffering persecution at the hands of the fundamentalist regime. The background, history and various details underlying this fresh assault on the Persian Sufi tradition, which are discussed and analysed by news-sites and other links in English and Persian, are provided below:<br /><br />Dr. Leonard Lewisohn<br />Lecturer in Persian,<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.majzob.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">www.majzob.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/20071112_Sufi_site_attacked_in_Iran.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/20071112_Sufi_site_attacked_in_Iran.html</a><br /><a href="http://www.30morgh-121.blogfa.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WWW.30morgh-121.blogfa.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.soofee.blogfa.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WWW.soofee.blogfa.com</a><br />WWW.<a href="http://gonabadie-news.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Gonabadie-news.blogspot.com</a><br />WWW.<a href="http://soltanalishahi.blogspot.com/2006/02/blog-post_08.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">soltanalishahi.blogspot.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.darvishan.info/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WWW.darvishan.info</a></div>Progressive Sufi Muslim Movementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09227705707947652616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2087827946343207441.post-68063778466500637792007-12-18T09:29:00.000-08:002007-12-18T16:01:21.493-08:00Cry for freedom<div align="left"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#660000;">Cry for freedom</span></strong> </div><div align="left"><br /><strong><span style="color:#990000;">Opposition in Iran unites behind the value of freedom</span></strong></div><div align="left"><br />Progressive Sufi Muslim Movement:</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">„The people of Iran are entitled to freedom, democracy and human rights. We Iranians hope that the United Nations and all the forums that defend democracy and human rights will be unflinching in their support for Iran’s quest for freedom and democracy.” The cry for freedom comes from Akbar Ganji and it goes towards Ban Ki-Moon, the UN Secretary-General. </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><a href="http://www.angelika-beer.de/index.php?/s,2,4,10/o,article,586/">www.angelika-beer.de/index.php?/s,2,4,10/o,article,586/</a></div><div align="left"><br />Freedom is a rare good in this region. The government of Mr Ahmadinedschad started in 2005 by promising more possibilities and more wealth to the poor. Especially members of the Bassiji-militia supported the movement of the hardliners, hoping for a more strict realization of Islamic rules, as they interpret Islam, and for more money.</div><div align="left"><br />Concerning their last hope, we learn that Pasdaran and Bassiji organizations have been granted huge amounts of money. Pasdaran control petrol, construction and communication industries. <a href="http://www.bfai.de/fdb-SE,MKT200710298000,Google.html">www.bfai.de/fdb-SE,MKT200710298000,Google.html</a> But many of those who had given their voice to M. Ahmadinedschad are gutted by the hard economic conditions, which they attribute to the politics of their president.</div><div align="left"><br />Whereas strictness in observing Islamic rules and reduction of personal rights, the supporter of the hardliners find more often fulfilled. Women fighting for women’s rights, find themselves in jail or being flogged. Jail and violence awaits as well students, representatives of labor unions, religious minorities or journalists who dare to criticize the system or the government.</div><div align="left"><br />“Iran’s dangerous international situation and the consequences of Iran’s dispute with the West have totally deflected the world’s attention and especially the attention of the United Nations from the intolerable conditions that the Iranian regime has created for the Iranian people.” </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">It was in September 2007 when Akbar Ganji addressed his letter to Ban Ki-Moon. Meanwhile the world knows that there seems to be no nuclear weapons program in Iran and thus no threat of war. Can we then consecrate some attention to the conditions of the Iranian people and especially to those who go for freedom in Iran?<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#990000;">Looking forward towards next election</span></strong></div><div align="left"><br />When Mr Ahmadinedschad won elections in 2005, many followers of the reformist movement of preceding president Mohammad Khatami, refused to vote, because they were disappointed of the results of Khatami’s time of presidency. Mehdi Karroubi, Speaker of Majles until 2004 and an advisor to the Supreme Leader, was the candidate of the reformist movement in 2005. He finished third in the vote count. After the announcement of the election results, Karroubi alleged that a network of mosques, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, and Basiji militia forces, had been illegally used to generate and mobilize support for Ahmadinedschad. He alleged a son of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei among the conspirators. But in the end he resigned from all his political posts, after the Supreme Leader repelled his accusations brusque. In fact the reformist had a poor result compared to the hardliners and the conservatives.<br />Later elections to the Iranian Assembly of Experts in 2006 brought conservative forces in front, hardliner represented by Ayatollah Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><a href="http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_Murders_of_Iran">www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_Murders_of_Iran</a> failed to live up to their expectations. Local elections were another sign of discontent with the performance of Ahmadinedschad’s government. Conservatives won a majority of seats, followed by reformists and poor performance for the hardliners. <a href="http://www.citymayors.com/politics/iran_elections_06.html">www.citymayors.com/politics/iran_elections_06.html</a><br />In March 2008 will be the next election for the Majles in Iran. Reformists want to make it this time. They want to go for freedom in Iran in the frame of the Islamic Revolutionary System. Behind the freedom movement 21 political parties are uniting to a coalition. Nehzat-e-Azadi, which is the religious moderate nationalist stream, Mosharekat, which is the organization of the Mujahidin of the Islamic Revolution and various other organizations try to find a common crystallization point. Freedom might be a successful lodestar. <a href="http://www.nachrichten.ch/detail/295642.htm">www.nachrichten.ch/detail/295642.htm</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#990000;">The apocalyptic vision</span></strong></div><div align="left"><br />The hardliner government is backed by certain Ayatollahs, who have an apocalyptic interpretation of Schia-Islam. They claim that it is the duty of the government to prepare the nation for the expected Messiah, the Hidden 12th Imam, named Muhammad al-Mahdi. Part of this preparation is the cleaning of society of “impure elements” and the other part is the causing of the conditions for his reappearance which is chaos, turmoil and clamor. They release Fatwas to enable the government to put away with adversaries. </div><div align="left"><br />One dangerous adversary is the Nematollahi Gonabadi Sufi Order. This mystical order gains more and more supporters from young Iranians who are fed up with intolerant and suppressive interpretations of Islam. So they participate in the ceremonies of the order, listen to a tolerant and peace loving interpretation of Islam, experience the inner meaning of freedom and bring their Zakat to the Sufi. </div><div align="left"><br />To get rid of this threefold danger to the hardliner government, Bassiji-militia has been first prepared ideologically to regard Sufis as Non-Muslims, as impure and as the third power behind Israel and the US in being agents of the West. In a second step Sufi houses of worship have been demolished violently by the Bassiji-militia. <a href="http://www.iran-now.net/$180801">www.iran-now.net/$180801</a> In February 2006 more than 1000 Sufis had been beaten and severely injured, when they tried to resist the demolition of their prayer-house. In November 2007 around 500 Sufis were treated in the same way in Boroujerd. Their prayer-house was burned and knocked down with bull-dozers. <a href="http://www.iran-now.net/$207944">www.iran-now.net/$207944</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#990000;">Resistance for freedom</span></strong></div><div align="left"><br />The hope of the radical Ayatollahs to finish in silence with this danger and mobilize in every city the Bassiji to attack the Sufis has not been accomplished. In Iran Mr Karroubi first protested against the violence in Boroujerd in an open letter to the Minister of Interior Mostafa Pourmohammadi. The well known philosopher Javad Amoli protested and Ayatollah Fazel Meybody spoke in favor of the Sufis.</div><div align="left"><br />A petition to stop the radical Ayatollahs from agitating against the Sufis in Iran was written and gathered more than one thousand signatures of important intellectual and religious leaders in Iran. <a href="http://www.insideofiran.com/en/?p=696">www.insideofiran.com/en/?p=696</a></div><div align="left"><br />Those who signed are not at all interested in being Dervishes. Their interest is freedom. Their interest is to put an end to the government of Mr Ahmadinedschad. Dr Sadr Haj Seyed Javadi and Hashem Sabbaghian from Nehzat-e-Azadi put their signature under the petition. <a href="http://www.jomhouri.com/plus/german.htm">www.jomhouri.com/plus/german.htm</a> Former advisor to Mohammad Khatami and member of Tehran’s city council Saeed Hajjarian, who helped to uncover the responsible persons of the Chain massacres in the time of Rafsandschani’s presidency, put his signature. Yousefi Eshkevari, Mohsen Kadivar, Fazel Meybody, Ahmad Ghabel, who are reformist clerics and writers signed, and many others respected persons, who cry for freedom in Iran. </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><a href="http://www.paywand.com/news/05/feb/1057.html">www.paywand.com/news/05/feb/1057.html</a> <a href="http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/10/3EF66742-3374-45C6-B07E-391CA350D6EC.html">www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/10/3EF66742-3374-45C6-B07E-391CA350D6EC.html</a> They all make part of the reformist coalition. </div><div align="left"><br />A group of delegates of the European Parliament went to Iran to investigate on the human rights situation. <a href="http://www.taz.de/1/politik/nahost/artikel/1/eu-sollte-bush-nicht-folgen/?src=AR&cHash=904319053d">http://www.taz.de/1/politik/nahost/artikel/1/eu-sollte-bush-nicht-folgen/?src=AR&cHash=904319053d</a> They informed themselves about Boroujerd attacks. This increased pressure on the government. Some representatives don’t like the negative publicity in the West. Subsequently the demission of Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, Deputy Minister of the Intelligence Department was announced. Experts think his demission is an act of reconciliation in order not to attract too many questions from outside and more important to calm the Sufi, who try to make the entire world aware of the conduct of the responsible persons for the Islamic Revolution against their own population. <a href="http://www.rojname.com/index.kurd?nuce=188307">www.rojname.com/index.kurd?nuce=188307</a><br /><a href="http://www.gozaar.org/template1_en.php?d=608">www.gozaar.org/template1_en.php?d=608</a><br /><a href="http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/kultur/aktuell/das-gespenst_der_sanften_revolution_1.570803.html">www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/kultur/aktuell/das-gespenst_der_sanften_revolution_1.570803.html</a><br /><a href="http://www.free.de/Zope/linksrhein/AliSchirasi/daylist_html?year=2006&month=5&day=27">www.free.de/Zope/linksrhein/AliSchirasi/daylist_html?year=2006&month=5&day=27</a><br />Most of the delegates who went to Iran, plea for fewer sanctions on the mullah-regime, because they fear pressure will be heightened for the religious and ethnic minorities. <a href="http://www.tobiaspflueger.twoday.net/stories/4531763/">www.tobiaspflueger.twoday.net/stories/4531763/</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#990000;">The suspected enemies</span></strong></div><div align="left"><br />In Iran the hardliner observe the activities of the opposition meticulously and try to discredit every criticism as treacherous to the Islamic Revolution. Every link to persons living in foreign countries is being interpreted as an activity as a foreign agent. Now, before the elections to the Majles, the hardliners want to intimidate their adversaries or instigate them to make a mistake.<br />In Keyhan, Mr. Shariatmadari’s hard line newspaper <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/22/world/middleeast/22shariamadari.html?ex=1348200000&en=eb55affe88c849ae&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink">www.nytimes.com/2007/09/22/world/middleeast/22shariamadari.html?ex=1348200000&en=eb55affe88c849ae&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink</a>, which is said to be linked to the Intelligence Services, published a very long and important article about the dangers to the Islamic Republic of Iran. It claims to be the sum of 2 years intelligence research. </div><div align="left"><br />The strongest thesis held in this article is that the Dutch government is the leading European performer in activities against Islam and against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Aim of the activities of the Dutch government is alleged to lead a cultural stream for breaking the values of the Islamic Republic and introduce the cheap and meaningless values of Western countries.</div><div align="left"><br />The main instrument of the Dutch government to destroy Islamic values and westernize Iranian youths is Radio Zamaaneh. <a href="http://www.radiozamaneh.com/">http://www.radiozamaneh.com/</a>; <a href="http://www.pressnow.org/asp/countries_news_details.asp?NewsID=63&CountryID=56&offset">www.pressnow.org/asp/countries_news_details.asp?NewsID=63&CountryID=56&offset</a><br />Farahnaz Karimi <a href="http://www.parlement.com/9291000/biof/02255">www.parlement.com/9291000/biof/02255</a> who was connected to the Mujahidin-e-Kalkh organization in Iran turned towards the Dutch green party, when she went to live in The Nederlands. She is member of the Dutch parliament since 1998. She is meant to be the person engaged by the Dutch government to build up Radio Zamaaneh (new times), which is broadcasting from Amsterdam on short waves to Iran from the 11th of September 2006. The Keyhan article names all journalists working for Radio Zamaaneh, its address and every detail concerning financing it. </div><div align="left"><br />Director of Radio Zamaaneh is the notable Mehdi Jami, a journalist and photographer. The Keyhan article considers him a puppet of the Dutch government. <a href="http://www.iranvajahan.net/cgi-bin/news.pl?l=en&y=2007&m=10&d=11&a=8">www.iranvajahan.net/cgi-bin/news.pl?l=en&y=2007&m=10&d=11&a=8</a> Exiled Iranians think Radio Zamaaneh is not complying with its targets to foster free journalism, they say it only keeps the line of the reformist movement in Iran and stays in the fringe of the system. They wish to have more critique with the regime and their violation of freedom in Iran. But Keyhan’s article gives more importance to this Radio. The difference to Radio Farda, BBC or Deutsche Welle is seen in the attempt not to persuade listeners in Iran by criticizing, but by introducing western culture into Iran. Several points are mentioned. A certain style of music and the open talk about sex are bothering the hardliners. Young Iranians are invited to contribute to Radio Zamaaneh from inside of Iran;</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">this is commented as an act of spying and giving dissidents the possibility to establish their contacts to western Intelligence. Radio Zamaaneh broadcasted an interview with Dr Nour Ali Tabandeh the head of the Gonabadi Sufi order, concerning the demonization and violation of his order. According to Keyhan Dr Tabandeh proclaims himself the representative of the Hidden Imam and only wanted to gain room for his Sufi sect, which is the worst Sufi sect claiming to be a branch of Shiism and being in contact with representatives of several political parties in Iran. Supporting this sect seems to be an act of treachery.</div><div align="left"><br />Theo van Gogh was a Dutch filmmaker, who produced the controversial film “Submission” together with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a liberal Dutch politician who fled Somalia and has renounced the Islamic faith, was brutally killed in public three years ago. </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><a href="http://www.news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3974179.stm">www.news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3974179.stm</a> This film portrayed violence against women in Islamic societies. Many Muslims living in The Nederlands felt insulted by the picture of a woman whose skin was painted with Koran verses next to whip marks. The fact that this film was publicly shown, and a second film called “Submission2” is on its way has been assessed by the article in Keyhan as an Anti-Islamic activity of the Dutch government.</div><div align="left"><br />In Den Haag they have a Museum, whose director is Wim van Krimpen. He wanted to exhibit photos of the Exiled Iranian artist Sooreh Hera, because he found them “special”. The photos show gay men - refugees from Iran – who for reasons of anonymity wear masks. Shortly before the exhibition van Krimpen decided to let some of the photos aside. He had discovered that the persons are wearing masks of Mohammed and Ali. He didn’t want to hurt the feelings of Muslims. Sooreh Hera received calls from persons threatening her life. </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><a href="http://www.20min.ch/news/kreuz_und_quer/story/16950792">www.20min.ch/news/kreuz_und_quer/story/16950792</a> Keyhan article regards the existence of these photos as an activity of the Dutch government to challenge the Islamic world. So The Nederlands are demonized and every person being in contact with this country will be regarded as bad.</div><div align="left"><br />Ardeshir Zandi, a refugee intellectual from Iran who lives in The Nederlands since 30 years, has a bad reminiscence of some methods of Iranian Intelligence. It is the principle of the agitating agents. At the Heinrich-Boell-Stiftung conference in April 2000 several reformers appeared and held speeches in preparation of Mohammad Khatami’s visit to Germany. Vevak <a href="http://www.de.wikipedia.org/wiki/VEVAK">www.de.wikipedia.org/wiki/VEVAK</a> <a href="http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2158">www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2158</a> agents had been recognized between leftwing disturbers, who tried to discredit the participants by shouting slogans against the Islam and the system in Iran and dance half-naked. All this had been recorded by Iranian Television and cut to a film that roused the impression that the Iranian participants agreed to the provocations. When the participants returned to their country, they were immediately seized by the authorities and put before court. </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><a href="http://www.2.amnesty.de/internet/deall.nsf/AlleDok/2A5424F203F8B107C1256AA00045D81A?Open">www.2.amnesty.de/internet/deall.nsf/AlleDok/2A5424F203F8B107C1256AA00045D81A?Open</a> Akbar Ganji, who later received various Freedom Awards from western countries, was one of the participants of the conference and he was sentenced to jail. “This is an example how radical forces in Iran often discredit their adversaries. They provoke some incidents, attribute them to their adversaries and put them out of the way, so they can keep their power,” says Zandi and he concludes: “one never knows were these agent-provocateurs will appear all of a sudden.” </div><div align="left"><br />This conclusion will not make it easy to look at things going on in Iran. But it can keep alert. The friends of personal rights, the ones who go for freedom, have to face strong challenges. The hardliners will not give power easily out of their hands. If the cry for freedom will cause dedication and determination under the freedom loving Iranian population, the case for freedom in Iran will improve.<br /><br />©Helmut N. Gabel, Radio Flora, Hannover, Germany - December 2007</div>Progressive Sufi Muslim Movementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09227705707947652616noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2087827946343207441.post-39899734116479013092007-12-17T10:52:00.000-08:002007-12-18T16:01:55.865-08:00Humanity, Hate and Love<div align="justify"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">Humanity, Hate and Love</span></strong><br />December 2007<br /><strong><span style="color:#660000;">This manifest is an appeal to the whole world for love and tolerance.</span></strong><br /></div><div align="justify">Progressive Sufi Muslim Movement</div><div align="justify"><br />Some Muslims believe they are superior to everyone else. They don’t accept a dialogue about the Koran and the Islam with Christians or Jews or any other religion. If we make a dialogue with them from Muslim to Muslim and we can show them that their conception of Islam does not correspond to the Koran, it will be a powerful logic.<br /><br />It is more reasonable to participate in an international dialogue about the human rights in the Koran, than to sit in the corner and release Fatwas against human rights.<br />We are an organization of independent members. The name of the organization is Progressive Sufi-Muslim Movement. We are concerned about the sources of inspiration and we are concerned about the future of humanity.<br /><br />We hereby launch an international appeal to have a dialogue about the place of the human rights in the Koran.</div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><strong><span style="color:#660000;">The crisis</span></strong> </div><div align="justify"><br />The conflict between the East and the West is a reality, which existed and exists. In the Eastern countries there is a bad reminiscence of the period of colonialism. Perhaps because of this period and the reminiscence of the negative consequences for the population in this region, there are a lot of people in the Middle East, who do not look at all with friendly eyes unto the Western countries and they desperately hate the culture there. </div><div align="justify"><br />The authorities, the government of certain Muslim dominated countries they try to manipulate this historical conflict of the Eastern population against the Western cultures and countries, to manipulate them by the way of religion. They are using the religion as an instrument of manipulation of the mass. They are manipulating the mass by religion and they are manipulating the religion for manipulating the mass. The authorities of certain Muslim countries say: if we tell the people, USA is the Satan and if you go to suicide yourself for damaging the interest of, for example USA, you will reach paradise, and it is God, who promises you to reach paradise by doing so, this person will accept to do a suicide act because of the perspective offered to him. For his believe he accepts to do. Thus it is very easy to manipulate the mind of the people by the instrument of religion. So if we put away this instrument, how can we manipulate the people, or how can we resist in the confrontation with the Western countries?<br />In certain Muslim countries authorities spread populist messages in their public speeches: “Each aspect of a religion like the Islam has a political note.”(1)<br />________________________________________________________<br />[1] Rouh ollah Hossienian/ ref- <a href="http://www.insideofiran.com/">http://www.insideofiran.com/</a> 3 july-2007/ 12 /4/1386</div><div align="justify"><br />آیتالله نوری همدانی گفت هدف از ترویج تصوف سرکوب اسلام خروشان و ناشی از فرهنگ اهل بیت(ع) است و سلاطین جبار با پرو بال دادن به شخصیت هایی چون بایزید بسطامی و فضیل عیاض، قصد بدل سازی برای ائمه اطهار(ع) را داشتند تا به وسیله ارتباط با این افراد، تدین خود را که برای مردم اهمیت داشت، اظهار کنند. اینها بلایایی بود تا اسلام دارای فرهنگ جهاد را به کشکول و تبرزین و سبیل و چله نشینی تبدیل کنند<br /></div><div align="justify">Ayatollah Nouri Hamedani, Qom/ Wednesday 4th July 2007/ 13/4/1386, <a href="http://www.sufinews.blogfa.com/">http://www.sufinews.blogfa.com/</a>; <a href="http://www.insideofiran.com/">http://www.insideofiran.com/</a>;<br /></div><div align="justify">Ayatollah Nouri Hamedani gave a warning about the development of Sufism in the Muslim-World .The Excellency Ayatollah Hossein Nouri Hamedani, one of the religious authorities of Qom, warned about the danger of Sufism in the world of Islam and told: This sect made bear the worst knock to the religion of Islam. IRNA’s report says: He reminded during his teachings of “Kharej” in the biggest mosque of Qom: the world-vision of Sufism is very dangerous and harmful against the Muslim-world, and we should watch their conspiracy.</div><div align="justify"><br />He told also: a lot of points in their thoughts and ideas are closer to the polytheism, and it is rejected from our point of view. He told: They [the Sufis] try to make the propaganda of their thought in different gatherings and assemblies, and because of this danger, the Muslims entirely should be aware and awoke in front of them.</div><div align="justify"><br />This religious authority told: the Sufis are the disastrous phenomenon for Islam, and he added: a lot of very considerable important men of the religious sciences like Ayatollah Mar’ashi Najafi have felt their dangers, and warned about their harmful knocks against Islam.<br />He added: a lot of Sufis are supported by the enemies of Islam in order to harm the religion.</div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">Ayatollah Nouri Hamedani, Qom/ Monday 5th December 2007 / 26/9/1386 <a href="http://www.insideofiran.com/en/?p=694">http://www.insideofiran.com/en/?p=694</a></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><strong><span style="color:#660000;">Sufis and the Koran</span></strong></div><strong></strong><div align="justify"><br />The answer of the Sufi is: God never send the holy books in order to be manipulated by humans in times of crisis for their own purposes. They must refrain from commenting and interpreting the Koran. They must not involve Koran and Islam and the belief of the people in their calculation and in their policy. This is not fair. Not only that people cannot resist in front of imperialism and capitalism - but more than this, the country becomes weaker and weaker, because people are losing their faith and their belief and they start to abuse drugs and alcohol. One of the biggest problems of Iran of today and a lot of Islamic countries is the problem of drug abuse. It is very widespread and really out of the control of the governments.<br />People lose their hope to religion and to spirituality. For giving quietness to their mind, they choose to use the drugs. The time for manipulation of the belief of the people is very, very short. It is not a long term plan. And the people responsible for these manipulations know themselves this fact. So it is better to find another solution to confront as they pretend to do with the imperialist and former colonialist countries, than to use the Koran for their purposes. It is not allowed at all to manipulate God and Gods book and the belief of the people to God for political affairs.</div><div align="justify"><br />There is confusion about the intentions of Sufism. As we are writing these thoughts, we can be sure to be accused by these same governments to work on account of the imperialist countries and that we don’t want people to be revolutionary in the name of Islam. But what we would like is not to stop the revolution of the people. The revolution of the people has nothing to do with Sufism. The Sufi as a right Muslim would like to defend the respect of the holiness of the Koran and the Islam. Each Sufi should be engaged in this way to defend the respect and the dearness of the holy book of the Koran and of the Islam teachings. A Sufi cannot rest closed hands in front of what is happening against Islam, because the damage that the fundamentalist authorities are making to Islam is certainly more than the damage that the Imperialists and the Capitalists are making for the Muslim countries. So the authorities must find another solution for their own problem. We as Sufis would like to defend the holiness of the book. This is very important for us.<br />The Eastern and Western countries are in the summit of their historical conflict which started with Marco Polo. Each one of them would like to have the supremacy in the world and they are confronting each other. It is clear that after the dismantlement of the Soviet Union, the </div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">ideology of Marxism-Leninism based on the dialectical materialism was eliminated and meanwhile the event of Islamic revolution in Iran with the Shiite ideology, took the place of the Soviet Union as a pole to the USA and Islam became a governmental religion, a religion in service of the government. Of a government that manipulates religion in its own benefit.<br />Before this event in Iran the Madresse, the religious seminaries in Iran, like in Mashad, in Qom etc. were independent from the government. But after the revolution all of the religious centers lost their independency. All of the independent religious persons lost their position and place in Iran. Now the system manipulates the religion. The religion is in service of the system and it is said that it is a religious system and religious government and a governmental religion. Besides there are a lot of other fanatic and extremist movements like Salafism, like Wahabism, like the Islam of the Taliban etc which are more radical than the Extremists in Iran. So we see that the world is going more and more towards a big dangerous hole, which opens its mouth like a dragon to swallow everything. And first the human rights and the human values are going to be swallowed in the mouth of this dragon.</div><div align="justify"><br />How are these problems to be solved? This is the most important dilemma of our time. First thing which is sacrificed in this conflict of this agitated world is the holiness of the Koran and the holiness of the teachings of the Prophets who came to bring a spiritual education for human beings and showed the way of the substantial evolution to each individual. All of these teachings which are the content of each religion, including Islam, are totally forgotten and each aspect of extremism and non-tolerance is introduced to the entire world as Islam. We would like to understand what Islam really is. We would like to know if there is another version of Islam and if there is another understanding of Islam defended by Muslims, who like to rest in the frame of the Koran, outside of the historical conflict of Sunnism and Shiism and all of this. We would like to discover what the Koran teaches us and how we can understand better the Koran to find the place of the Koran of today. What is another version of Islam, which can help to bring peace in the entire world and peace in each individual? By this we are going to discover Sufism.<br /></div><div align="justify"><strong><span style="color:#990000;">What is Sufism?</span></strong><strong></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#660000;"></span><span style="color:#660000;"></span><br /></strong>There are different possibilities to explain what Sufism is. We can refer to a lot of books and a lot of explanations given by a lot of Sufi teachers and Sufi Masters very differently. But if we would like to extract the common point of all the Sufi masters in the world during the centuries, we reach to this point that it means: study the book of yourself, it is enough for you. (1) (اقراء کتابک کفی بنفسک ) In other words we can tell: know yourself and you will know God. It is the same thing.<br />But „know yourself and you will know God” is older than Sufism. It is written in an antique temple in Greece (Delphi: Gnothi seauton).<br />This message kept being respected by the Sufi. But we have this other sentence: „read the book of your own creation, of your own existence, it is enough for you.” We would like to explain a little more about this sentence. (2)<br /><br /><br />[1] <a title="سورة الإسراء (سورة رقم: 17)؛ آية رقم: 14" href="javascript:AyatServices(" l="arb&nSora=17&nAya=14')"">اقْرَأْ كِتَابَكَ كَفَى بِنَفْسِكَ الْيَوْمَ عَلَيْكَ حَسِيبًا </a>Koran/ S 17- v.14<br />2<a title="سورة فصلت (سورة رقم: 41)؛ آية رقم: 53" href="javascript:AyatServices(" l="arb&nSora=41&nAya=53')"">سَنُرِيهِمْ آيَاتِنَا فِي الآفَاقِ وَفِي أَنْفُسِهِمْ حَتَّى يَتَبَيَّنَ لَهُمْ أَنَّهُ الْحَقُّ </a>Koran/S 41- v.53<br /><br /><br />It is said that a sign orienting the attention of the searchers for the creator exists everywhere in the universe, in each horizon and in the researcher in the creation of the researcher. So when a researcher starts to do a research for himself, he reaches to the truth. He understands that the truth is true. And only by his personal research he can reach to the truth. So this sentence is very important. It says: „study the book of yourself, it is enough for you“.<br />This is a verse of the Koran. It means that in the Koran the individual is invited, to know himself after a deep study about himself, about a substantial study. To pass layer by layer toward the substance of him or herself, to emerge in the ocean of his or her own self.<br />So the common point of Sufism and the teachings of all Sufi Masters during the centuries is: know yourself and you will know the truth. It is amazing to know that this sentence is the most important appeal of the Koran.</div><div align="justify"><br />But how can I emerge in the depth of myself? How can I know myself? By which method can I get to know myself? I don’t know. Only by me and my reason it works not, because reason is limited. My Self is not limited. A not-limited thing cannot be understood by limited equipment. How can I do?</div><div align="justify"><br />The Sufi says that out of his clemency God send his own teachers, the spiritual teachers, to bring an adequate method and teach us how to know ourselves.<br />In the eyes of the Sufi the method of Self-realizing and Self-understanding is the main message of the spiritual teachers who are named the Prophets and the Saints. So for the Sufi each Prophet is a spiritual teacher. Each Prophet is send by God, to bring to humanity the method of self discovering, how to study yourself. By this manner we see that the message of the Sufi for each individual is how to discover your Self.</div><div align="justify"><br />The Sufi didn’t invent anything about this method of self discovering, but they know this method from generation to generation, either by the divine teachers or the Prophets. The Sufi masters are the frame-keeper of the spiritual teachings of the prophets, which permit to the individual to discover him or herself.</div><div align="justify"><br /><span style="color:#000000;">This is the main message of the Sufi.</span></div><div align="justify"><br />Further on the Sufi tells, you don’t know your creator and you don’t know your universe and you don’t know your neighbor. When you don’t know yourself you are living in ignorance. The ignorant people are used to put themselves as the center of the universe and to claim everything for themselves and to start conflicts and wars and a lot of problems for others, because they are not in quietness in themselves. When you know and discover yourself you reach to a universe of quietness. When you don’t know yourself you are living in an inner conflict inside of yourself.<br />The first step in Sufism is to know your Self. After you discover yourself, you discover quietness and your way changes, you start to become tolerant. You understand the meaning of the quality of tolerance.<br />In the eyes of the Sufis the main problem of the conqueror is that they are after something, but they don’t know what the subject of their search is.<br />They are going from the East to the West and vice-versa. The reality of the purpose of their search is inside of themselves, but they are going so far from themselves.<br />What is the purpose of Sufism? What is the method of Sufism? What is the source of inspiration of Sufism? What is the world vision of Sufism?</div><div align="justify"><br />All of this what we explain, you can find in the explanation of every Sufi master. This is the message of Hafez, this is the message of Shah Nematollah, and this is the message of Saadi, of every important Sufi master. Especially we find all of this in the teachings of Rumi. We can give a thousand examples of this appeal of each Sufi.</div><div align="justify"><br />Know yourself. When you know yourself you become tolerant. When you know yourself you can control and dominate your emotions, your imagination, you reach to control yourself. Thus you can reach to inner peace. And when peace dominates inside of your existence, you will be in peace with everything outside of you.</div><div align="justify"><br />This is the message and the purpose of Sufism.</div><div align="justify"><br />Mewlana Rumi is well known in the entire world. He gives us a manner of self-discovery. He thinks by applying this manner a lot of individual and social problems will be solved. He is convinced by this.<br /><br />I give this example: when two persons close a pact with each other, they marry or associate to each other, they are very very sincere, but all of a sudden something happens which was not expected.<br />Why does something happen? I do something which is totally unexpected to my friend, and my friend would like to break with me and will tell me: “I didn’t know you are like this, I didn’t know that you are able to do this. If I had known before I would not have made a pact with you.”</div><div align="justify"><br />And it is true. But in reality the person who is pointed at with the finger, which is accused of doing something unexpected in the eyes of the other one, did not expect herself to do something like this. The person’s friend says: “I didn’t expect you to do something like this, I didn’t know you.” But in fact the person does not know herself. I am not aware about myself and about my reactions. There are a milliard possibilities and I don’t how to do. How can I control myself?<br /><br />So only when something happens the persons who are around me criticize me for doing this or that and not doing something else. They say: “we didn’t know you might be able to do this”, and they are right, “because I didn’t know myself that I was able to do like this”. All of the problems which happen in the society between the individuals are due to not-understanding oneself. So everything is possible. It is right for everybody. For everybody is the same thing. Nobody knows him or herself. </div><div align="justify"><br />I would like to know everything about everything, not about myself. And this is the biggest wrong that we are doing. We are going so far out of ourselves.</div><div align="justify"><br />There is a Persian proverb: You are thirsty and the water is in the jar. And you are going so far for searching the water. You are going next the sea, searching for the river and you cannot find the river, it becomes more and more complicated – and the water is in the jar.</div><div align="justify"><br />Your friend is in the house and you are travelling everywhere in the world for searching the trace of your beloved. And your beloved is in the house. </div><div align="justify"><br />So the truth is inside of yourself. You are going everywhere for finding the truth and you forget finally the truth and yourself and everything will be possible.</div><div align="justify"><br />As a Sufi master Rumi is applying exactly the appeal of the Koran which invites each individual to study the book of his own creation, of his self to discover oneself. Rumi first worked on his own discovery and afterwards he guided people in this way and he gave an appeal to humanity, to the history of humanity to do a personal research for finding oneself.</div><div align="justify"><br />I would like to give a very important example of this fact of the book of Rumi.</div><div align="justify"><br />Rumi explained in the 6th volume of the Mathnawi about a man whose father passed away and let a lot of money for this man. And because this man who had a sudden access to all this wealth had never worked and never had a hard time to gain this heritage, he didn’t know the value of that heritage. So he started to spend largely this money and after a few years he became poor. He didn’t have any money left. He was not used to work and had no profession and no job. So he started to cry and asked God to help him to find a way to have something to eat. One night after a lot of crying and a lot of insistence to God, he slept and during his dream he saw a hidden treasure and for finding this hidden treasure he should go to Baghdad. So he travelled from his own city in Egypt to Baghdad, where he was put to jail the moment he arrived in Baghdad. He was mistaken for a robber whom the police in Baghdad was looking for since very long. And the police wouldn‘t believe his words claiming not to be the robber and to be in Baghdad for the first time and keep him in jail. And only after a period of long investigation they started to believe him that he is for the first time in Baghdad and not at all the searched for robber. But before they let him go, they asked him why he had left his country and had gone to Baghdad. And he talked about his dream where he had seen the treasure and was send to Baghdad. When the investigating policeman heard about the dream he laughed and told the man how stupid he was, because he had once found a map where a treasure was marked in exactly the city in Egypt in the street and in the house where our dreamer came from. So he went back to Egypt and dug in his garden for the treasure and found it there.</div><div align="justify"><br />So in his dream he was told there is a hidden treasure. For finding this hidden treasure he should go to Baghdad. And he understood that he must go to Baghdad for finding the treasure in Baghdad. But it was meant that he had to go to Baghdad to find out how to find the treasure. So finally the treasure was under his feet. This story existed long time before Rumi and Rumi talked about it in his book.</div><div align="justify"><br />But Nezami, who lived 150 years before Rumi, explained a story about a man who was living in a ruin. In that ruin there was a hidden treasure. This man was very very poor. He was a beggar. Every day he went into the streets for begging and came back in the night to the house. He died like this and the treasure rested covered and hidden under his feet. His whole life he was a beggar. So he gives this message that we are the same beggar. We are asking the money from left and right and the most valuable treasure exists in ourselves. But we are not aware of this and we are indifferent to this.</div><div align="justify"><br />So we must start to dig a vertical channel to our substance to discover this hidden treasure which is given by God to us.</div><div align="justify"><br />Rumi like other Sufi masters pointed out for discovering this hidden treasure the method of the Vali and of the Prophets and the Saints were always different than the method of the thinkers and the philosophers and the scientists.</div><div align="justify"><br />Why? Because they are using their five senses and their intellect for reasoning by a rational manner to find the things and to think about the things and to understand the mechanism of the things.</div><div align="justify"><br />Rumi says that the method of the Sufi is different.</div><div align="justify"><br />The method and interest of the Sufi is to develop the supra-sensorial senses for opening the door to another dimension, because the substance of human being is a spiritual substance which is coming from divinity. It is the breath of God. And via the ordinary equipment like the five senses and the intellect, we cannot understand it. So by using our five senses we cannot discover our real self. By reasoning we cannot understand our real selves. How we should do for discovering our real selves to develop the extraordinary senses?</div><div align="justify"><br />Rumi and all Sufi masters, who follow the trace of the Prophet say: It is clear that the appeal of the Prophet and of the Koran is: study your own book of life, it is enough for you. It is not necessary to make war, to stifle conflicts and so on. Try to know yourself.</div><div align="justify"><br />Here we understood two things: it is necessary to know ourselves. For this we must use a particular method. Because by using our intellect as the philosophers do, we cannot discover our real selves. Our real self is a spiritual reality which is coming from another world and has nothing to do with the material world and with nature. So we cannot discover our spiritual nature by material equipment.</div><div align="justify"><br />Rumi said we need to use another method in order to develop another capacity inside ourselves which permits to discover ourselves and this other capacity is the supra-sensorial understanding. So this grants us another perspective and deeper understanding of ourselves.<br />When someone discovers the real reality of love, the energy of love starts to run in his existence. By this he starts to understand what love is and the interference of the whole universe and each particle of the universe to each other. So he starts to be in love with the Creator and with creation. </div><div align="justify"><br />The result of self-discovering, self-understanding, self-realization, self-accomplishment is this energy of love, which is enormous and which doesn’t stop as Hafez says: „I am dear, in the eyes of the server of the fire temple, because the eternal fire which never dies is in my heart. “<br />The result is there. If we see, that Hafez is full of love, the style of Hafez’ poetry, of Rumi‘s poetry, of Saadi’s poetry and so on is full of energy of love, it is because they discovered themselves. They accomplished this travel inside of themselves. Saadi says: “I am in love with the entire world. My beloved is in every piece of the world, so I am in love with my beloved, who is running everywhere in everything.”<br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#660000;">Developing an extra sensorial understanding</span></strong> </div><div align="justify"><br />For this the Sufi method is very very clear. The method of the Sufi education is based on two pillars. One pillar is silent meditation and being connected to the muscle of the heart. Second pillar is to fly to other dimensions with the wings of specific rhythms.</div><div align="justify"><br />This method is taught by Rumi to his students and by his students to other students. Before Rumi it was like this and after Rumi it rested like this, that mainly and absolutely the method of Sufi education has nothing to do neither with reasoning nor with sensorial perception. They are developing the extra sensorial perception by meditation in silence and by using the rhythms.<br />The source of inspiration for the Sufi is the Koran. It could be all of the divine and holy and sacred books in the world. But the particularity of this time is that there is a lot of confusion and misunderstanding and amalgam about the Koran teachings.</div><div align="justify"><br />A lot of people who name themselves a Muslim they are doing a lot of acts which can only be described as fanaticism and they are doing all of this, they permit to do all of this, they permit to cross every red limit under the name of Islam. But what is the source of their inspiration? About which Islam are they talking? Often they are talking about a revolutionary Islam. But what does it mean a revolutionary Islam? </div><div align="justify"><br />Finally each kind of Islam should be in correspondence with the Koranic teachings. It cannot be in the opposite sense of the Koranic teachings. So we must know from which Islam they are talking. We would like to know if these persons who proclaim to be Muslim they really believe to the Koran or not. Do they accept the Koran as the main source of inspiration or not? If we look at the Koran a lot of things which happen now under the name of Islam, are not possible to do according to the principles you will find in the Koran.</div><div align="justify"><br />The importance of Sufism is that their own method of education, their purpose, their goal, their destination, their point of departure is extracted from the Koran teachings and it is based and referred to the Koran verses. This is not the case with the non-tolerant people who do everything under the name of Islam and they are transgressing the teachings of the Koran.<br />One of the reasons for which we think that Sufism was always looked at suspiciously and badly in past times and nowadays, is that the Sufi are relying on the Koran.<br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#660000;">The importance of the Koran</span></strong></div><div align="justify"><br />Why is the Koran important? In the Islamic countries all of the other books, like the Bhagavad-Gita, the Bible, the Thora, the Avesta and other holy books, cannot be an alternative to Islam in the Islamic countries. The Islamic countries have the population who believe to Islam, and you cannot tell that something else is written in the Bible or in the Bhagavad-Gita or in any other book of revelation, because the Muslims say, all right it is good for them. We are following our belief to Islam and we are not interested to other books and other culture or other religion. For us is important the content of Islam. </div><div align="justify"><br />Throughout the history the Sufi appeal to the Muslim people to become aware of the question what Islam means, what conception of Islam they have. We don’t know their conception, but for us the main pillar of Islam is the Koran and what is written in the Koran we are applying in daily life. For each thing that we are doing we have the support of the Koran. So we are Muslim but we have another version of Islam. Thus we must compare our version of Islam with each other to know which one is closer to the Koran. The main source of Islam is the Koran. And we must choose by this method, which is the way of the Koran. The Koran is the talk of God; it is the speech of God. Afterwards, every other thing is the reasoning or the pretention or the invention of mankind. The Koran is sacred, other things are not sacred. So when we have the Koran why should we refer to other books? So the Sufis proclaim to try to follow the teachings of the Koran, no more, no less. That is all. For this reason Sufism was always considered as an alternative of Islam in the Muslim countries which existed always in the margin, because nobody under the name of Sufism governed any country.<br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#660000;">Past and present mission of Sufism</span></strong></div><strong><div align="justify"><br /></strong>Sufism is for developing the super sensorial understanding in order to accomplish oneself, to discover oneself. But what is important for the entire world is that the main source of inspiration is the Koran and nothing else. The Sufi are the real Muslim, they think that they are the real Muslim. They think they have the knowledge of the Koran and everything they do is corresponding to the Koran. Rumi précised and insisted very much in this fact. Rumi lived in a very agitated time of history. It was the time of attack of the Mongolian army in many regions of the world, especially in the Muslim countries. </div><div align="justify"><br />So Rumi could not give advice Dschingis Khan in that moment. There was no ideological relationship between them, because Dschingis Khan followed the order of Jassa, his own book. But Saadi or Hafez could criticize the emperor of their region and time, because he pretended to be Muslim. Hafez told him: „what you are doing doesn’t correspond with Islam, because it is against the Koran. </div><div align="justify"><br />Why is this not only important for Muslim countries? </div><div align="justify"><br />The main attention of the entire world is how to deal with the problem which is coming from the Muslim countries. Many people from Muslim countries want to destroy and attack the signs of civilization and modern times by the name of Islam. If we can solve the problem of the misunderstanding of Islam, if we can tell to the Muslim people, that there is another way closer to the teachings of the Koran, another version of Islam more human and closer to the spirit of the teachings of the Koran, if a lot of Muslim people will change their mind, a lot of problems in the world will be solved. </div><div align="justify"><br />It is the importance of Sufism in this moment. It was always important, but the difference to our times is there that Sufism was always busy by its own purpose which was giving the teachings and the education to each individual to bring peace and quietness inside of each person. But now the question is how we can bring the message of peace, to show a way to peace to the entire world. This is the mission of Sufism nowadays.<br /><br />The Sufi would like to tell that if you look at the Koran with open eyes and read the Koran you will find that there is another version of Islam. We can be Muslim and not be reactionary, we can be Muslim and not be fanatic, we can be Muslim and be tolerant, and everything is possible. Nowadays Sufism has a hidden historical mission: to show to the whole world and not only to the Muslim people that there is a big misunderstanding about the teachings of the Koran, about Islam.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#660000;">Mohammad’s mission</span></strong></div><div align="justify"><br />In this time we are confronted with a very big dilemma. When Mohammad was living in Arabia 15 centuries before our time, he was born in a tribe, which was immersed in superstition and obscurantism. They were people who were not able to write or read. They worshipped the idols of stone and wood. They were people who didn’t have any experience of rationality, philosophy, science, wisdom. Mohammad was a prophet, a divine messenger, a spiritual teacher and one of the consequences of his mission was the accomplishment of a cultural revolution in the region in which he was living. For the first time he brought to his people the word of Ketab: the book. What does it mean a book? How to write a book? How to read a book? How to study a book? He taught them all of that.</div><div align="justify"><br />He told his people don’t worship the stones and in place of that go the way of God. How? By knowing yourself. Study yourself, it is enough for you. He showed them the way of culture and wisdom and transmission of science and of wisdom to the coming generation by the manner of writing and reading books. It was a very big historical mission in his time. But now we see that in certain parts of the world with the majority of the Muslim population we see that despite of the fact that the people are Muslim and they think that they are followers of Mohammad they are going in the contrary sense of the Cultural Revolution and spiritual mission of their own prophet. In the time of Mohammad they converted the Beytullah, the house of God in Mecca to an idol house. It was filled with 360 idols. Each tribe had posed its stony idol inside. So it was no longer the Allah house, but it was the house of the idols. It was the time of the reign of superstition and obscurantism and darkness. The mission of Mohammad was to delete and to eliminate all of the idols and to put away the idols from the house of Allah.<br /><br /><br /><strong>The necessity of our time</strong></div><div align="justify"><br />Now we live in the 21st century and we see people who worship and expect the miracle from a dried and forgotten well in the middle of the desert.<br />So if this is not superstition, what is superstition? This belief to the dry well and to expect the miracle from the dry well has nothing to do with Islam, with the Koran. It is on the contrary sense of the mission of Mohammad.</div><div align="justify"><br />It is very hard to accept and unbelievable that there are Millions of people who follow this way, the way of superstition. And they think they are the good Muslim. They think that they are the best people ever created by God. In the Koran there is a verse which says: „the most loser people are the persons who are doing the wrong things and they think they are doing the good thing. “ They are losing their energy and their time and they believe they are doing the good thing and they are doing the worst thing. They are the most loser creature of God. This is the example what we experience today. </div><div align="justify"><br />The problem is that a lot of superstitions are applied each day under the name of Islam. Because Islam is unknown, because Koran is unknown, because the majority of those people don’t know what the teachings of the Koran are. It is necessary to tell them that all of this is contrary to the teachings and the mission of Mohammad.</div><div align="justify"><br />It is not something we would like to invent; it is being said for 15 centuries by the Sufis. The Sufis don’t expect any miracle from any dry well. They are searching for Gods light in their heart. If the way of Sufism is known by the Muslim people and by Non-Muslim people, it will be peace and tolerance between the civilization and the cultures and the religions. From the other hand it will be less room for superstition inside of the Muslim countries. I regard this as very very important.</div><div align="justify"><br /><strong>The necessity of our time is to build a barrier against superstition.</strong></div><div align="justify"><br />We must sensitize the societies in the entire world and especially in the West to talk about the real Islam, because we see that in the Western countries this misunderstanding about Islam is going to be developed more and more among the Muslim people who live in the Western countries. They think if they are against the society or are angry against the society they are good Muslims. We must tell the world it is not true. The Islam is the way of evolution and progress and discovery. It is very important to sensitize the entire world to the teachings of the Koran and the fact that the Islam has nothing to do with all of the violence and intolerance, and emphasize on the fact that worshipping the dry well and things like this has any place at all in Islam and it is not necessary to fanaticize the people and wash the minds of the people by this kind of things and bring them to do the suicide act and to do the violent actions against modern society and to place bombs and so on. </div><div align="justify"><br />Only by an intellectual manner or by delivering speeches about the human rights, it is not possible to achieve anything in the minds of the people in Muslim countries. When the UN for example condemns the Muslim government for not respecting the human rights, the Muslim government replies: „ You are following the human rights that you invented by yourself. We are following the right written in the Islam which is the inspiration of God and for us it is more important than your human rights. But we must tell them, that it is not true. What they are following is not written in the Koran. In the Koran is written the contrary of what they are doing.</div><div align="justify"><br />We must talk with them from Muslim to Muslim. Christian people or say Buddhist people cannot criticize, because their point of view is not accepted by a Muslim from the beginning. A Muslim says he is right, because he is already a Muslim and a Non- Muslim is wrong, because he simply is not a Muslim. It is not possible to make a dialogue. They believe they are superior to everyone else. But if we make a dialogue with them as a Muslim and we can show them that their conception of Islam does not correspond to the Koran, it will be a powerful logic.</div><div align="justify"><br />It is more reasonable to participate in an international dialogue about the human rights in the Koran, than to sit in the corner and release Fatwas against human rights. We launch an international appeal to have a dialogue about the place of the human rights in the Koran. P-S-M-M<br />(Progressive Sufi –Muslim Movement)</div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div>Progressive Sufi Muslim Movementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09227705707947652616noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2087827946343207441.post-14980040241358768562007-11-21T12:23:00.000-08:002007-11-21T12:26:18.570-08:00<div align="left"><strong><a href="http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/11/3C8F4CDA-A232-4B93-A631-8E4A5FD9697D.html"><span style="color:#990000;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Iranian Lawyer Representing Dervishes Is Detained</span> </span></a></strong></div><div align="left"><br />November 21, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- One of the lawyers representing a Sufi order targeted by a recent crackdown has been detained in Iran, Radio Farda reported.</div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><br />Mostafa Daneshju was detained in Karaj on November 20, but the reason for his arrest has not been made clear, nor is it known where Daneshju is being held. </div><div align="left"><br />A fellow lawyer, Farshid Yadollahi, told Radio Farda that Daneshju had previously been sentenced to a prison term and lashes on charges of spreading lies and insulting officials. He reportedly appealed against the sentence.</div><div align="left"><br />Yadollahi also said Daneshju has been active in defending the rights of the Gonabadi order of dervishes. "Following the destruction of the Gonabadi worship house in Ghom, [Daneshju] launched a complaint about the legal and religious violations that happened there," Yadollahi said. "He also represented the case of a Sufi who had been attacked in Loristan Province."<br />Daneshju's arrest comes about 10 days after clashes broke out between dervishes and Shi'ite hard-liners in the Western city of Borujerd. </div><div align="left"><br />Dozens of people were injured and arrested during the skirmishes, and the Sufis' prayer house was partly destroyed.</div><div align="left"><br />Human rights groups have expressed concern over what appears to be increased state pressure on the Sufi order in Iran. </div><div align="left"><br />The U.S. State Department says respect for religious freedom in Iran is extremely poor and has been deteriorating since Ahmadinejad came to power in 2005 -- especially for Sufi Muslims and members of the Baha'i faith.</div>Progressive Sufi Muslim Movementhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09227705707947652616noreply@blogger.com0