Sunday, June 13, 2010

God's Benevolence

By AMAY Editor, *Sufi council to abide by new ministry regulations * - Al-Masri Al-Youm - Cairo, Egypt
Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Egypt's Board of Sufi Orders has instructed its branches throughout the country to abide by new Endowment Ministry (Awqaf) regulations so as to allow them to continue performing their traditional zikr rituals.

"We want to make sure these rituals don't violate the sanctity of our mosques," said Endowments Minister Hamdy Zaqzouq.

The ministry set down nine conditions that Sufis must abide by in order to perform the ritual, including a ban on the use of megaphones and loudspeakers so as not to disturb others.

Supreme Sheikh of the Sufi Orders Abdel Hady el-Qasby said that the ministry's conditions were in line with Sufi ideology. "Those who violated the regulations in the past did not belong to acknowledged Sufi orders in the first place," he said.

The Sufi zikr ritual is performed to remind worshipers of God's benevolence towards man.

Picture: Hamdy Zaqzouq minister of Awqaf (Endowments). Photo: Hafez Diab

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Sunday, June 13, 2010

God's Benevolence
By AMAY Editor, *Sufi council to abide by new ministry regulations * - Al-Masri Al-Youm - Cairo, Egypt
Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Egypt's Board of Sufi Orders has instructed its branches throughout the country to abide by new Endowment Ministry (Awqaf) regulations so as to allow them to continue performing their traditional zikr rituals.

"We want to make sure these rituals don't violate the sanctity of our mosques," said Endowments Minister Hamdy Zaqzouq.

The ministry set down nine conditions that Sufis must abide by in order to perform the ritual, including a ban on the use of megaphones and loudspeakers so as not to disturb others.

Supreme Sheikh of the Sufi Orders Abdel Hady el-Qasby said that the ministry's conditions were in line with Sufi ideology. "Those who violated the regulations in the past did not belong to acknowledged Sufi orders in the first place," he said.

The Sufi zikr ritual is performed to remind worshipers of God's benevolence towards man.

Picture: Hamdy Zaqzouq minister of Awqaf (Endowments). Photo: Hafez Diab

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