– 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
