via Shaykh Faraz Rabbani:- THE PASSING OF THE LAST OTTOMAN SCHOLAR To Allah we belong and to Him we return. We mourn the passing of Shaykh Muhammad Emin Er of Turkey, one of the great spiritual giants of our time. May Allah forgive his sins and enter him into the highest levels of paradise in the company of our Messenger Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family) - Amin. His biography has been provided by Shaykh Khalil Abdur Rashid (USA): Shaykh Muhammad Emin Er was born in 1909 in the village of Kuluyan (recently renamed Kalash) in the province of Diyarbakir, in the southeast of what is now Turkey but was at that time the Ottoman Empire. Shaykh Emin’s family belonged to a Kurdish tribe called Miran. His father, Haji Zulfikar, was a wealthy farmer who took a great interest in science and education, and happened to be a person of some wealth. There being no school in the village of Kuluyan, Haji Zulfikar employed a private tutor to educate his two young sons, Muhammad and his elder brother Ali. Then just as his sons were learning to read and write in the Arabic script (at the time still the official script of the Ottoman language and state), Haji Zulfikar passed away. The future Shaykh had already lost his mother Hawa while he was still a young child of the age of three or four and thus (like the Prophet Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace) he was left an orphan. To this day, Shaykh Emin travels to the graves of his mother and father in the village of Kuluyan at least once per year. ~al-fatihah~
Posted on: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:39:34 +0000
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