tasawwuf - Metin Bobaroğlu

Anatolian Enlightenment and the Republic – Part 2

2021-02-17T00:07:54+03:00By Metin Bobaroğlu|Categories: Transcripts|Tags: Anatolia, Ataturkism, enlightenment, Hakkı Tonguç, Hasan Âli Yücel, Kemalism, Mustafa Kemal, Ottoman Empire, retroduction, sufism, tasawwuf, Turkish revolution, Turks, unity of education, village institutes|

The Turkish revolution is not a revolution that took place under normal conditions; it is a society gaining self-awareness after emerging victorious from the War of Independence. In other words, enlightenment here was realized through action. You tell people about the idea of enlightenment in order to motivate them to take an action.But the peoples of Anatolia gained this by themselves, emerging victorious from a war of survival by relying on themselves because they had no one else to rely on. This is my understanding of it.Gaining self-government means gaining one’s self. This could no longer be delegated to anyone [...]

A “Stranger” on Earth

2020-10-01T15:27:25+03:00By Metin Bobaroğlu|Categories: Essays|Tags: existentialist competition, French Revolution, humanist, nihilism, Political economy, positivist, sufism, Sword of Damocles, tasawwuf, Viktor E. Frankl, wisdom|

“Through painful toil you will eat food from the ground all the days of your life.” Genesis 3:17 The “identity crisis” that emerged after the two world wars left people uncertain about how to define themselves, what to believe in and what to hope for. Neither the institution of religion, nor the state authorities had been able to protect humanity from these disasters. Following the French Revolution, in particular, “nation-state” organizations and “humanist” and “positivist” approaches to education were adopted throughout the world. This was the new way of existence for societies, and the rally cry of this new [...]

The Concept of Feminine Principle in the Hajj Ritual

2020-07-02T21:12:40+03:00By Metin Bobaroğlu|Categories: Transcripts|Tags: Adam, Feminine Principle, Hajar, Hajar-al Aswad, Hajj Ritual, harmony, Hijr-al Ismail, Kaaba, Prophet Muhammad, Quran, salah, tasawwuf, theosophy|

Going back to the source in the terminology of Tasawwuf (theosophy/sufism), we find the feminine principle; the mother. In the Arabic language, umm means “mother” and ummah means “children” (ewlâd). The concepts of umm, ummah, and ummî derive from one another. Although it is used in the singular form, ewlâd is a plural word and means “unity in purity”. If people are one in purity, they are an ummah; however, if they have not attained unity in purity, it means they are not an ummah yet. Umm is a significant concept in the ritual of Hajj (pilgrimage) and is [...]