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Ph Cons. Meeting 13/11/2022 Western Mindanao

– Seedlings of Hope/ Hamza abi and Husrev abi with 15 students.
– Kastamonu dersane/ Rajuna- 7 (faslıbahar) students
– Çare orph / nursida- 12 (2017-2019 faslıbahar graduate)
– Barla kuruan / farhana- 5 (next year nominee for faslıbahar)
– Maasin- zahra dersane- adzlina- 7 (2018-2021 fasli graduate) needs for cabinets.
– Asinan dersane- jan abi- 7 (320 m2 masjeed )
– Sibugay 6 ladies nurkisa abla
– Bitlis ders. Amina abla w/ 3 students. Amina abla will send her adress for books to be sent from manila. She will send to sulu also.
– Basilan Care Madrasa Orph. 20 kah Jubaira
– Basilan Madrasatuzzahra 27 Orphans Jubaira

Nuayma (faslıbahar nominee)
Farhana (faslıbahar nominee)
Sulu siasi 4 students/ rajuna

CAGAYAN DE ORO
Care Shelter – Sally abla, Salvy abla- 23 students

Kayı Medrese Cdo Hafız Abdulbasit abi, Hafız Osman, Muhammad Easa, – 41 students (needs construction of additional 2 cr, 1 bath, canopy, aircons for guest rooms, cabinets for students)

MARAWİ
Boys dersane Hafız Abdulbasit abi and Easa abi alternately will stay. 5 students.

Marawi-girls Nikita/Leyla 15 students. Need a construction of additional ablution area.

İLİGAN
İligan girls- Afia/Şeyma/Jamila- 15 (needs water tank)

İligan Boys Ders abdulwaheed- 6
– needs major roof repair

MANİLA
Boys dersane 4 Ahmed abi/ Abdulwalie abi
(Will make a proposal for sending container of books, NBS book distribution will be followed up)
Hafiz Ruhaida regular classes in small dersane

Twenty years ago, before our second expedition to the Far East (September 18, 2003), the late Mustafa Sungur Agabey (r.aleyh) gave the good news: “May Allah make you a means of guidance, I saw our Ustadz conquering those places in the spiritual realm”.
With this good news, we traveled tens of thousands of kilometers with the prayer of being the last soldier of that spiritual conquest for twenty years. We were employed without our consciousness and will. We are among those who wish that this divine employment should not be interrupted. May our Lord not separate us.
second; Hüsnü Bayramoğlu Agabey (r.aleyh) had said one before one of my trip to abroad, “May your service be a means to the unity of Islam, let those oppressed people pray for us as well”. He had indicated a goal in prayer. Unity of Islam!
Agabeys such as Abdullah Yeğin, Ahmet Aytimur, Said Özdemir were also injecting this love of service to us either by letters or telephone calls or by visiting the land we were in, despite their age. Can one complain of tiredness, laziness and temperance when one sees the enthusiasm, effort and determination of these venerable people, who are over eighty years old and have gray hair?
When we reached the oppressed geographies, being greeted with Turkish Flags, being welcomed with welcome Caliph’s descendant’s and being shouted out took all our tiredness away. Especially when leaving, the words “you are our hope, if Turkiye stands up, the world of Islam will stand up, stabd up and gather us” and finally those old people with gray hair and bent back, with their tears “ALLAHUMME YUZAFFEREKÜMMU’L ETRAKİ İLEL EBED!” While their prayers put an end to the boringness of those long journeys and our physical fatigue, he caused us to reconsider our primary and eternal goals! I don’t know how many times we have experienced these things.
•In the waterless Sahara villages of Africa,
• In the mujahid Moro geography of the Philippines,
• Among the oppressed Chimer Muslims of Cambodia,
• With innocent refugees in a Viet mosque in Vietnam,
• With the Malay ulama in white turbans in Patani,
• Rohingya orphans’ shelter with refugee families in a Turkish madrasah…
• Even in Latin American countries that we visit many times… the same hope, the same spirit, the same witnesses , the same faith, the same prayer… How can we be indifferent to these lofty expectations of the Ummah of Muhammad from us…
How meaningful was Osman Nuri Efendi’s prayer before such an expedition; “May Allah bless your life and bless you, my dear son, you are the representatives of our Prophet in that country in this century, you are employed in such a virtuous service, may Allah bless your services abundantly, protect you from evil, bring goodness, my Lord, in this world, in the hereafter and in heaven. bring us together! May the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) keep us close around him!”
“Both sincerity and righteousness is to be a supporter of the benefit of Muslims no matter where or from whomever they come from.” May Allah be pleased with those who live according to the rules of the Qur’an and live the characteristic of isar, which is why companions of Rasulullah (saw) praised in the Qur’an.
This time we reached Zamboanga. Eight of the nearly 30 madrasas in the Philippines are located in this region (We have two orphanages and a school on Basilan Island, which is nearby. The name of our school is Medresetuz’zehra primary school…)
Apart from this region, we have classes and madrasas in almost all the big cities of Mindanao Island, especially in the capital Manila. In all of them, our wakif brothers and sisters some of whom are converts and some of them Hafez Filipino, remain. In our madrasahs, hundreds of students are trained, there are prisons, hospitals, ongoing lessons in the villages, and there are converts who entered Islam. On this occasion, we look forward to your prayers for the continuation and maintenance of the services in the Philippines.
May Allah Almighty not stop us from serving the Risale-i Nur with perseverance and loyalty until our last breath. May it employ us in the publication and training of these Qur’anic Nurs.
M. Riza Derindag
16/11/2022
Philippines

Erkam Publications Book launching

In the name of Allah, and may peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah.

With the works Erkam have sent and its spiritual support, we have returned to our service and migration lands, and in the face of the divine grace of the Almighty and the high truths that many have expressed and ordered during our visits, we once again dare to present these services for your prayers and blessings.

Firstly, nearly half a ton of our works entered the Philippines with extraordinary ease. As soon as the works arrived in the Moro region, we organized a reading competition among both our own students and other students. 213 students participated, and after reading for almost two weeks, they took exams at the end of the program. We awarded prizes to the top five students. The day after the exam, Muhammad Mustafa presented your work to a family we had previously gifted it to, and the entire family, including four daughters, converted to Islam (both parents as well).

Secondly, with the participation of university professors and madrasa teachers, we organized a workshop. The workshop, which focused on integrating the biography of the Prophet into the curriculum for young people, was quite fruitful. Involving the professors in this matter, taking their ideas, and engaging them in the process has led to a greater sense of ownership.

Thirdly, we decided, through consultation, to share the results of the workshop with universities and madrasas, hold a book launch event, and organize a conference where some scholars and opinion leaders would speak and introduce your works. We immediately translated your eloquent and important letter into English and later into local Moro languages. We distributed it to the participants before the conference and read it at the Mindanao State University Institute of Islamic Studies Melik Faysal Mosque before Friday Prayer, distributing a thousand copies afterward. Alongside these copies, we prepared a 6-page brochure as a quick history summary to answer inquiries about Your Excellency.

On the morning of July 21, we held a book launch event, which was attended by Dr. Alim Faruk Saduddin Abdulreşid, President of Maarif Madrasas, Dr. Alim Hasan Nur Alapa, translator of the Quran into Moro, Prof. Dr. Ameluddin Şerif, Rector of Muslim Mindanao University, and Reshad Bakaraman, leader of Hayatu’l Ulema, and a Moro opinion leader. In their speeches, they expressed gratitude for Your Excellency’s message and acknowledged that, beyond the arrival of these works, you are earning the gratitude of all believing generations, including their own ancestors up to the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Your message and the speeches made during the conference were featured in the evening news on local television stations in the Moro Autonomous Region. We also presented a promotional feature from the brochure. It became a general announcement. Additionally, this was the first gathering held in this region after 2018. So, four years later, in Marawi, the Islamic city that was destroyed and bombed, praise be to Allah, it served as a herald of the city’s reconstruction. We started with the blessings of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), and with your accepted and answered prayers, the city has resumed social life. The importance of this is that the prevailing mindset here is of the Salafi school, so through the program attended by scholars, opinion leaders, rectors, and theologians, the hearts of those who were hesitant are turning towards us. The virtue is that even the enemy acknowledges you; therefore, reaching out to people becomes easier. Hearts are truly in the hands of our Lord. Let us do our duty, and let us entrust ourselves to the Almighty, who knows how to appreciate. Let us see what He does, and whatever He does is good.

In conclusion, may the Almighty be infinitely pleased with you. May He not waste our efforts. God willing, as long as our tongue and strength allow us, we will continue to explain Islam and use our actions to spread the beauty befitting Islam everywhere.