Ezan is Universal, Should Not Be Read in Turkish!

İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality organized a Seb-i Arus ceremony for the anniversary of Mevlana's death the previous day. However, the rules that violated the event were marked. The dhikr, known as the Mevlevi ritual, was performed together by male and female whirling dervishes. Not satisfied with this, the IMM administration performed the Quran recitation, Adhan and Naat-ı Şerifi in Turkish. The reactions to this scandal initiative of IMM administration do not stop.

Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality organized the Seb-i Arus program for the 747th anniversary of Mevlana's death. However, the practices at the event caused reactions. In the scandal event, in addition to the recitation of the Quran, Adhan and Naat-ı Şerif in Turkish, she performed sema together, although it was not included in the Mevlevi tradition. The reading of the Adhan and the Quran in Turkish at the Seb-i Arus ceremony held by the IMM administration brought to mind the CHP's one-party rule to recite the adhan in Turkish for 18 years.

‘WHAT HAPPENS TO US?’

Director of Mevlana Studies Institute Prof. Dr. Ali Temizel said, "Nobody wants to read the Holy Quran in English, nobody wants to read the Quran in German. Nobody wants to study Persian, what happens to us? Do people who want the Quran to be taught in Turkish as if they are reading the Quran? So they have such a problem? If they had a genuine concern about the Qur'an, they would be loyal to the essence of the Qur'an and act in the language of the Qur'an. Stating that it is a feature of the Quran to be downloaded in Arabic, Temizel said, “There is a language of a religion, a culture, a ritual, and that language should be acted upon. It is necessary to know the truth first, if the truth is known, the wrong is known. "If it is known wrong first, the truth cannot be reached," says Farabi. Therefore, the work to be done with Mevlana should be done according to tradition ”.

‘CONTAINS MESSAGE’

Underlining that not performing the sema ritual in Istanbul in accordance with the original causes information pollution, Temizel said, "This program was not made as an alternative to Konya. This program was a program that he wrote according to his own mind, acted according to his own thoughts and wanted to give other messages through Mevlana. We often come across the questions 'Should such programs be made outside of Konya?' Of course, because we think that Mevlana's thoughts are universal, sema shows must be held all over the world, since the Ottoman period, 150 Mevlevihane were established from North Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans, and sema were also made in these Mevlevihane. We want to give a message to the world through Mevlana. For this reason, we cannot limit Mevlana to Konya. Otherwise, our message cannot reach anywhere ”he said.

‘EVERYTHING IS TAKING PLACE ON THE AXIS OF ALLAH AND THE QUR'AN’

“Sema is not a folkloric dance, it is not a folkloric show, it is not something to be performed in the association at a wedding,” said Temizel, who said, "All kinds of behaviors registered in the religion of Islam, all kinds of programs, all kinds of performances make the spirit of Mevlana sore." Because sema is a performance that people with ablution can do and consists of four parts. In the first part, it is a ceremony of dhikr for our Prophet (pbuh), starting with Naat-ı Sharif, especially without music. In the second part, it is the salutation of God, made by believing that the human being created from the earth as a body is a part of God as soul and spirit. In the third part, it is to salute Allah by remembering Allah. The fourth part consists of four greetings. There, the whirling dervishes make dhikr with various attributes of Allah and in the last chapter the dhikr ceremony ends by reciting the Quran. In other words, everything takes place in the axis of Allah and the Quran ”.

'IF WE START FROM THE RIGHT PLACE, WE WILL GET OUT FROM THE WRONG FAST'

Lastly, Temizel pointed out that the person who will perform the sema should live according to the rules of the religion of Islam and said, “It is religiously objectionable for men and women to perform such a demonstration without a marriage. Rumi said at every opportunity that he was a Muslim, that he adhered to the hadith and sunnah of our Prophet, and that he was a slave of the Quran. He concluded his words by saying, "If we start from the right place, we will get rid of mistakes quickly."

‘EZAN IS UNIVERSAL’                                                         

Emphasizing that adhan is a fundamental element that unites Muslims from all over the world, Selcuk University Faculty of Islamic Sciences Dean Prof. Dr. Ramazan Altintas, "worship in their mother tongue on Turkey's history was a situation he said. Adhan was read in Turkish, prayers were performed in Turkish. However, there is no worship in the mother tongue. Adhan is a universal message, it is the slogan of Islam. Reading Arabic is also very important in ensuring the religion of Muslims in the world. Therefore, there is no adhan in Turkish. Our tradition in the 1400-year-old Islamic history is obvious, our language of worship is Arabic. It is necessary to continue this. Such attempts also lead to sedition and disorder in the society. However, society needs peace and unity, not disorder or chaos. Such initiatives have begun to be implemented through print path in Turkey, but he was holding and hatred in Muslims. During the Menderes period, when Azan was translated into Arabic, started to be read from our minarets, and prayers were performed in Arabic from our mosques, our nation declared those days a holiday. One should not disturb the peace of the nation, and not play with the religion of the nation. "These are the basic elements that unite us and must be protected."

SÜMEYRA KENESARI / YENİ HABER GAZETESİ