Sheikh Mehmet biography

The biography of Sheikh Mahmud Efendi in our century, describing the development of Islam, historians cannot ignore Mahmud Stosmanoglu, who is also known as Mahmoud Efendi. The thing is that Sheikh Mahmoud Efendi is one of the first figures not only in Turkey, but throughout the Islamic world that comes to mind at the mention of the word “takua” or the idea of ​​following a blessed Sunnah, and all this thanks to his concern for these issues.

Mahmoud Efendi lived in Istanbul and devoted his whole life to the service of Islam, humanity and the world. He worked with such ambitiousness and enthusiasm that others were almost impossible to keep up with him. Mahmoud Efendi was born in the year in the village of Micho Tavshanly, which is located in the province of Trabzon Türkiye. At the age of 6, Mahmoud Efendi, under the leadership of his parents, learned the sacred Koran by heart.

And, although he was still a very little boy, he made prayers in the mosque, attaching great importance to additional worship and optional, but recommended prayers Nafil. The adulthood of Mahmoud Efendi in childhood struck everyone around him. People in his village called their children “Mahmoud” in the hope that they will also look like him. Being still very young, Mahmoud Efendi went to Kaiseri to study Islam and took lessons in sciences such as the Sarf and the Nahv Grammar of the Arabic language, and also studied the Persian language, at the Tesbihizade of Akhmet Khoja Efendi, a respected scientist in this region.

Having stayed in Kaiseri for a year, he returned to his native village of of the OF and studied Kyraat Reading the Qur'an by Mehmed Ryushdya Ashikkutlu Khoja Efendi, the most famous Kyraat scientist of that period. Mahmud Efendi studied the science of the balustic rhetoric, Ilm al-Kalam Islamic Theology, Tafsir Interpretation of the Qur'an, Ilmul-Hadis of the Word, Acts and Consent of the Prophet Muhammad, may Allah bless him, Fikh Islamic Law, Use al-Fikh and other Islamic sciences at the senior professor of medical Suleimania Chalekli Haji Dursun Fazi Efendi, who was an outstanding and qualified scientist in the field of AKLI of intellectual and rational and naccles based on the legend of sciences.

Mahmud Efendi received a diploma with a letter of thanks when he was only 16 years old. In the same year, when Mahmoud Efendi finished his studies, he married Zekhra Hanam. The couple had three children who were called Ahmed, Abdullah and Fatima. After receiving the diploma, Mahmoud Efendi began to work by an imam on a voluntary basis and continued to teach and preach.

In June, Mahmoud Efendi went to a Bandard for military service; It was at this time that he met his Murshid as a spiritual mentor Sheikh Ali Haidar Ahiskavi An-Nakshibanda Al-Khalidi. Sheikh Ali Haidar Efendi was a worthy scientist and Hodge at the last four Ottoman Sultans, as well as the mufti of four Mazhabs in Islamic religious law. He was aware of the four main schools and could endure the fatwa for each of them.

Ali Haidar Efendi told his followers who surrounded him: "Here, in a Bandard, there is a soldier, find it and bring it to me." Listening to this call, they began to look for a soldier in a Bandard. But this was a very difficult task, since this soldier had neither a name, nor a surname, nor address. Mahmud Efendi explains what happened next: “I have always, from a very young age, have a great love to visit scientists and sheikhs.

Whenever I heard about the scientist or one of the Avliy friends of Allah, I visited them. During service in the army, when I was in the training camp, I thought if there is a knowledgeable scientist or Sheikh there, whom I could visit. A very devout person named Khalil Efendi lived in a Bandard, and once I asked him: “Is there known sheikhs in a Bandard?

Pointing to the tomb of Ali Riza Bezaz Efendi in the Tekke mosque, he replied: "Well, there is a successor to this spiritual mentor, but he is in Istanbul." So, I visited this grave, and since I wanted to visit and get the blessing of his successor, I began to think: “How would I find the opportunity to visit Istanbul? And from that moment my heart was filled with attachment to this spiritual mentor.

Once I made a Friday prayer in the mosque Hyidar Chavush, located near the sea. After prayer, I noticed an impressive and shining figure in a white turban and Jubbe in the corner of the mosque. He looked majestic, like a sultan. I asked Imam who this man was, and he replied: "This is Sheikh Ali Haidar Efendi, a man whom you have long dreamed of seeing." Sheikh Ali Haidar Efendi showed great interest in Mahmud Efendi and experienced great affection and respect for this young man.

The surrounding Sheikh Ali Haidar Efendi at times asked: “Why do you attach such a meaning to a soldier that you don’t even know? Sheikh Ali Haidar Efendi answered: "The patronage of Allah in his book of deeds has not yet been recorded a single sin." In the year, he completed military service, after which he was appointed official imam in the Ismail Aga Mosque in Fatikha, Istanbul.He prepared Mahmud Efendi as his successor and handed him his spiritual powers.

After the death of his Sheikh Ali Haidar Efendi, a new era began with noble duties in Mahmoud Efendi's life. He was engaged in the work with the community as an imam, and also engaged in the Islamic education of students and performed the duties of a spiritual mentor. Many of the studies of wisdom, especially imams, clergy and mufti, took lessons from Mahmud Efendi.

For the first time, Sheikh Mahmoud Efendi went to make a Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca from Istanbul in the year; In the year he went a second time, traveling from Ankara by plane. Since then, he has committed Hajj at every opportunity. During the constant conflicts between the right and left groups preceding the coup on September 12, Sheikh Mahmud Efendi told people who came to him with the words: “Let us commit a holy struggle” that: “Our duty is to revive people, instructing them to good and preventing bad misconduct, but not our duty to kill people.” He tried to reassure people and greatly succeeded in this.

In the year, Mahmoud Efendi first visited Damascus - Syria. In the year, he made a trip to England and Germany with the aim of the table of the transfer and report of the Epistle of Islam, and in the same year he again went to Bukhara and visited the graves of the Sufi Sheikhs and Alims of Islamic scientists. In the year, when he was 65 years old, he retired from the state post of Imam.

In the same year, Mahmoud Efendi went to the deceased a small pilgrimage, which lasted 40 days. Then he went to Bukhara, Samarkand and Tashkent for the second time to visit the Shah of An-Nakshibanda and other sheikhs of Uzbekistan. The second time, Mahmoud Efendi visited Damascus in June, and at a blessed meeting organized in his honor by a large scientist Husamaddin Farfur, he met with outstanding figures and scientists of Damascus, such as Abdur-razak al-Khalyabi, Muhammad Adiba al-Kallas and Ramadan al-Buti.

As far as possible, he annually visited Mecca and Medina for Hajj and once a year to commit an umbra. In April, on his last visit, he made an impressive die along with more than 50 of his followers - this has not been observed for several centuries. The outstanding knowledge of Sheikh Mahmud Efendi in the field of the Sunnah, his deep knowledge in the Shariah sciences and his Islamic behavior as a whole made a great impression both on scientists and educated representatives of the Islamic world, whom he met during his travels and those who came to visit him.

Thus, Sheikh Mahmoud Efendi rightfully occupied the leading position in the Islamic world and was admired and affected by people from all layers of society. He chaired many Islamic scientific sessions and symposia, urge people to receive knowledge and act in accordance with the Sunny Prophet Muhammad, may Allah bless him. The Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said: “Truly, Allah at the beginning of each century will erect a man who will revive religion for this ummah.” Thus, based on this hadith, scientists tried to determine Mujaddid at the beginning of each century.

Mujaddid Sheikh Mahmud Efendi encouraged people to obtain knowledge and committing worship not only in their own words, but also by actions; He never left and did not neglect a single form of worship and was a source of motivation for those who witnessed his resistance. He committed a lot of things to raise his people in faith, Takua, good morality, respect for people and knowledge.

Muhammad Mazhar al-Faurku, the seventh grandson of Imam Ar-Rabbani Mujaddti Alfi-Sanya Sheikh Ahmad al-Faruka al-Sirhinda and the last sheikh of Mazharyan Ribat in the radiant Medina, visited Sheikh Mahmud Efendi in Istanbul and said: “I traveled through the worlds, but in this century I never in this century I have not met a person who would live complete Islam, both the external and inner sharia and spirituality of the tariff, as Mahmoud Efendi does.

” Yusuf al-Kardavi, president of the International Union of Muslim scientists, said the following about Sheikh Mahmoud Efendi: “He did a lot of works to educate his people in faith, Takua, good morality, respect for people and knowledge.” Sheikh Mahmoud Efendi An-Nakshibanda-Sufi and Hanafit scientist. However, it does not belong to those people who spread superstitions, vanity, innovations or deviations.

On the contrary, he firmly adheres to the book of Allah and the Sunnah of the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. Sayid Muhammad Alyavi al-Maliki, one of the greatest scientists of the Islamic world and one of the greatest defenders Ahl Sunna, several times visited Sheikh Mahmud Efendi in his house in Istanbul and said about him: “I saw many communities around the world.Some of them attach the importance of wisdom and lost Sufism, some attach the importance of Sufism and lost wisdom, but Mahmud Efendi and his community are one of the exceptional communities that practices and perpetuates wisdom through practice, sharia with a tariff.

” Sheikh Mahmoud Efendi always urged people to strive for education, to realize wisdom and strive for good. Many statesmen visited him and paid him special attention. Mahmud Efendi gave advice to many governors and officials, as well as many other people. The sermons of Mahmud Efendi, which he regularly led over the years, were collected and packed by his followers; As a result, six volumes were published.

Mahmoud Efendi read the sermons for more than fifty years, on every day of the week; If we take into account only the number of sermons for women who were regularly recorded over the past 10 years, it is obvious that the complete collection of sermons will reach volumes. The most original and useful work of Sheikh Mahmud Efendi is the work of translating the Holy Quran into Turkish, called the “Koran Medzhid”.

This work, prepared by the Academic Commission, headed by Sheikh Mahmoud Efendi, remains faithful to the Qur'an until the smallest details. The other most voluminous work of Sheikh Mahmud Efendi is the interpretation of the Qur'an in Turkish entitled "Ruh al-Furkan." This interpretation was also drawn up by the Academic Commission under the leadership of Sheikh Mahmud Efendi; This process continues today.

His organizations and funds provide services in the field of education, culture, scientific research, healthcare, charity, national and international public organizations. Mahmoud Efendi strove for the development of relations and cooperation, especially between Muslim peoples and countries, and wished peace worldwide. Today, Mujaddid, Sheikh Mahmud Efendi, has millions of followers and admirers around the world, and he was the most outstanding figure in the promotion of Islam.

Sheikh left the world of June at the age of 93. More than a million Muslims gathered at his Dzhanaz in the Fatikh area of ​​Fatikh Istanbul, including the country's leadership in the person of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other government members.