Stories with Our Sheikh

A year after the passing of Sheikh Nazim Effendi ق, his loss is still keenly felt, as the time with our Sheikh on this earth has irretrievably passed. All the more do memories, experiences, stories, and moments with him now gain value, eternities in the endless ocean of divine mercy.

In this collection of beautiful and adventurous stories, Salim, whom our Sheikh lovingly calls "Doctor Salim," vividly and heartily recounts his experiences and encounters with a saint revered as the "Pole" of our age.

For decades, Sheikh Nazim ق traveled the world, especially Europe, where he found numerous followers – people who were deeply impressed by him, converted to Islam, or at least never forgot an overwhelming personality and cherished him for a lifetime. And it is the fortune of our lives to be among such people. For the last eight years, we, Salim, Abdurrahman, and I (Hagar), were also physically close to him, as we were allowed to move to Cyprus with his sweet permission.

Even at the time we met the Sheikh, thousands were already his students, yet he always devoted himself to individuals and attended to things and people, great and small, important and seemingly unimportant, with his characteristic concentration and love. He exerted a special attraction on a wide variety of people. He once said that saints are like dragonflies; they can land anywhere.

It was a great blessing to meet our Sheikh in various situations, be it in London's Peckham Mosque, in Switzerland, or in his homeland in Northern Cyprus, or when he honored his people with a visit even in the remotest areas, for example, us in our home in the deep Black Forest.
In recent years, an increasing number of young people came to the Sheikh, who, due to his advanced age, could hardly get to know him properly.

The stories told here are intended to offer precisely them unexpected insights into the vitality of our Sheikh, while reminding older students of their own similar encounters: each one like the flash of precious jewels, in which the Lord of the Worlds allows us, through our Sheikh, to taste something of His beauty. May they refresh us and bring a ray of heavenly joy into our hearts.

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