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Tema: Shaykh Ahmad Dede

Shaykh Ahmad Dede

His Islamic parents, the Pattisahusiwa family, from the Kampong

"Siri Sori Islam" a little town on the beach of the Indonesian
islands of Saparoea, came to the Netherlands in the fifties.
Ahmad was born in the Friesian village of Balk on 2nd of July
1960 as a 7th child of nine.
When Ahmad was 6 year old his family moved from Balk to
Ridderkerk.
In 1976 his father Hdj Usman Pattisahusiwa died and because of

this he began to think about the meaning of death. Some years

after his fathers death he told some of his friends;
"On my 22nd birthday I will die"
to which his friends reacted in a strange way. At that time he
himself did not understand why he told this. Early 1982 his life
changed completely. It was during that period that a number of
people, told him that they had dreamed that he was going to die.
The answer he gave to them was that it was his opinion that God
meant something different from what they thought. It was in the
spring of 1982 that something happened in his life which made
him completely turn his back on the world. As a result of this he
began to make a new start in life. He addressed himself to God
and asked Allah to accept his life so that he could totally devote
himself to His Kingdom. He had spiritual dreams and visions
which changed him completely. He told his mother about this
dreams and visions and she explained them to him and she said
to him;
"I have had portents about you as well, Ahmad, and I saw you
working for the Love of Allah and I saw you lead many people to
His Love"
Then she raised her eyes to heavens and said a prayer;
"O Allah please accept my son Ahmad, and make him strong for
Your Path".
Ever since that time a mystical and spiritual person appeared to
him again and again, but he was never able to have a good view
of that persons face. In April 1982 he was told by this person to
seclude himself from the world and stay in the old Mosque for a
period of two months. This happened in the holy months of
Rajab, Shaban 1402AH, April, May 1982. His experiences of that
time he has put into words in the following poem;
"Search and Find"
Oh, people
that little bit of Goodness that my Creator has given me,
has embraced me in such a way,
that I am not able to describe this bit of Goodness,

on any paper or with any pen in this world.

Oh Allah, that bit of Goodness that You are giving me,
Which leads us to a straight path.
Oh Allah, that Goodness that You have given me,
That is the fundament which You hand over to us
Oh believers, how Sweet will the Gardens be,
Where the rivers are flowing?
Oh believers, what will be the Greatness
Of this Goodness?
Oh believers, our Lord must be
everlasting Goodness, everlasting Greatness.
On 11 Ramadan 1402AH, 2nd July 1982, in the holy month of
Ramadan, Ahmad became 22. A complete transformation took
place. He read his first Sufi book "Whirling to Allah". After he
had read the book he appealed to God with this prayer:
"Oh Allah. How wonderful it will be to become a whirling dervish
and thus an instrument of Your Love, I am begging You please to
bless me with this Mevlevi Opening . Then I will promise You in
Your name that my whole life will be at Your Service".
Three years passed and in secrecy he swore on the Holy Qur'an
to Allah and His Beloved Prophet(S.A.W) never to follow another
Tariqat. In 1985 he met his Grandmaster, Grandshaykh
Muhammad Nazim al Haqqani an-Naqshibandi.
Completely overwhelmed by the charisma of this great Saint, he
could now clearly see the face of the spiritual person that had
always been with him. It was the face of this Holy man, "The
Grandshaykh". Now he received answers to his unanswered
questions. This was of such immense importance to him that he
broke his secret promise to the Mevlevi Tariqat and again swore
an oath of allegiance to the Imam of the Naqshbandi Tariqat.
In 1985 in Holland when the Grandshaykh led in Friday prayers,
a secret "Opening" was placed in his heart. It was in England in
1986, one year later, that his Grandshaykh told him the

following;
"Ahmad, what happened to you in Holland is a gift from our
Grandshaykh Abdullah ad-Daghistani at a later stage you will
understand this better".
Shaykh Ahmad ones said;
One of the blessings of my Grandmaster in 1986 in England was
that he appeared to me in the night and said to me:
"Come"
My Grandshaykh reached out his hand to me and held it saying:
"Come", I shall introduce you to Khidr(A.S)
At that very same moment, thanks to the blessing of my
Grandmaster I stood in front of Khidr(A.S) and received his
blessing as well. After this particularly great blessing my
Grandmaster said:
"Ahmad, one day you will meet Khidr(A.S) together with me
once more"
Ahmad tried to follow his Grandmaster as well as he could and
with Allahs blessing he succeeded in bringing many seekers to
his Grandmaster. In 1990 he invited his Grandmaster as a guest
of honour at a Sufi-camp. At that moment the Grandmaster was
in Germany. Then his Grandmaster told him to act on behalf of
him and to represent him wherever he went. There were several
Sufi-camps and gatherings and ever more new people got
acquainted with the blessed Naqshbandi Tariqat. In 1994 he
became increasingly aware of the hidden "Opening" and
gradually he felt its importance growing thanks to the spiritual
guidance of his Grandmaster. In 1995 his younger brother
Djailani passed away from this world and this weighed heavily on
him.
In his own words he tells about this experience;
On the 7th day after my younger brother had passed away I
called out full of grief;

"Oh Allah cherish me with Your Love now that I need Your
Embrace most, I do not know how, but if it is possible please
embrace me with Your Holy Breath".
I got up and suddenly I was whirled around in a forceful spin by
an invisible force. While this was taking place the Grandshaykh
of my Grandmaster appeared to me and while I was whirling,
Grandshaykh Abdullah ad-Daghistani (Qad) spoke in my heart;
"Ahmad, you have been chosen by Allah and His Prophet (SAW)
for the Mevlevi Tariqat, to be the Imam of the Mevlevi Tariqat".
During this occurrence everything disappeared from my heart , I
felt my self completely empty everything I knew was gone. I
was totally at a loss and when I called out to my Grandmaster
for help with the words, "Meded Ya Seyyidi", I started whirling
straight away. Again and again my Grandmaster brought me into
a state of "Hal" and in my heart I was led by my Grandmaster
and by the spiritual presence of Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi and
Grandshaykh Abdullah ad-Daghistani, into the secrets of the
knowledge of Haqqani-Mevlevi Tariqat, knowledge that had never
been opened before. My Grandmaster prevented entrance to this
gnosis from the outside, like a pearl protected within its shell.
He passed on an intimation from the Holiest Prophet Muhammad
(SAW) telling that I was chosen by Allah and His Prophet (SAW).
Because of the fact that the Grandmasters kept me whirling all
the time and the fact that I was not yet allowed to reveal the
secret, people began to say that I was mad and many of my
friends distanced themselves from me. And as Allah Almighty
had ordained , it was going to happen. In 1996 when I was alone
sitting in our Mosque in Ridderkerk, my spiritual Grandmaster
appeared to me and he asked me if I had any questions.
In my heart I knew that my Grandshaykh knows everything
about me, I asked him if I could go to Konya to visit the
Grandmaster Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi,
my Grandmaster put his sjahada finger up to Heaven and like a
bow of the rainbow he make a bow with his sjahada finger and
touching the floor before me he said;
"Ahmad this Place is now Konya, and you are now Rumi, Allah
will bring Konya to you, tomorrow you will receive a portent".

The following morning the telephone rang and a friend from The
Hague told me, Ahmad the Shaykh from Konya, Shaykh Nuri
Hadji Baba will shortly come to Holland and I wanted to ask you
if the Shaykh can do the Dzikr in your mosque on Thursday?
Earlier I had already received this message from my
Grandshaykh and my answer was of course that they would be
very welcome. Shaykh Nuri Hadji Baba visited our Mosque on
Thursday 31st October 1996 and did a Grand Dzikr. The following
day Shaykh Nuri Hadi Baba was going to Sint Niclaas in Belgium
and he asked me to join him. The Shaykh asked me to lead the
Friday prayers and after that, the Shaykh began to do the
Mevlevi Dzikr. Gods Love made the dervishes whirling and after
some time the Dzikr was ended. That night, on the same place,
another Dzikr was going to take place. Shortly before the start of
the evening programme the Shaykh asked a dervish, named
Nahid, to ask me the following question,
"If the Shaykh Nuri Hadji Baba asks you to go back to Holland,
what will then be your answer ?"
I said immediately that I would act on his request. Then the
Shaykh Nuri Hadji Baba told an older dervish, named Hafis, to
lead the programme. The Shaykh said that he would accompany
me back to Holland. Everybody was very much surprised,
because many people had especially come to see the Shaykh
from Konya and they begged him to stay. But Shaykh Nuri Hadji
Baba, left all his dervishes and people behind and sitting next to
me in the car he said to me;
"Holland"
I did not hesitate for one moment and left for the Netherlands.
We stopped in my town and in that holy night we stayed for a
definite period of time in our Mosque in Ridderkerk. Allah knows
what took place during that night, which had only become
possible thanks to Gods blessing. Then I thought of the words
spoken by my Grandmaster;
"Ahmad, you are now Rumi and Allah will bring Konya to you"
After that Blessed Holy night with Shaykh Nuri Hadji Baba, the
next morning one of the dervish came to me, and the dervish
Nahid told me;

Ahmad, I want to tell you this, before we went to Holland, our

Beloved Shaykh Nuri Hadji Baba told us so many times this;
"If I am going to Holland, Allah will open a new "Opening", my
Tekke will be there"
I could no longer walk away from the truth and I accepted the
intimation that had been passed on to me in 1995. With the help
and blessing of my Grandmaster I was being prepared for this
duty. Late in the summer of 1998 when I was completely alone,
my Grandmaster Grandshaykh Muhammad Nazim appeared to
me in a vision and said to me;
"Come"
And than the vision disappeared, shortly after this experience I
left directly for Cyprus to visit my Grandmaster in Lefke.
Arriving first on Istanbul airport, and waiting with hundreds of
people in front off the passport control.
Suddenly my Grandshaykh spoke to me in my heart saying;
"Ahmad look to the left, ( I looked and I saw a very thin light
like a laserlight, appointing someone, who was standing there.),
My Grandshaykh said in my heart; "Go Ahmad, go to him". I
went to him and I said;" Assalamualeikum my brother". I
introduce myself to him ,saying; I am Ahmad, he said; I am
Mithat, and we start to talk to each other.He was a Turkish
business man coming from Holland. He asked me if I like to go
with him to the Holy places in Istanbul. I said; InsjaAllah.
Suddenly my Grandshaykh appeared to me, he said; "Ahmad say
this..... to Mithat. and I told him what my Grandshaykh told me
about him, Mithat was very surprised saying "It is the truth, it is
the truth about me", I said, that my Grandshaykh has send me to
him.That night he took the initiation of the Naqshbandi alHaqqaniyya Tariqat. He stayed in Istanbul and I went the next
day to Cyprus. After one week I went back to Holland. One
month later in that year 1998, we went together back to Cyprus.
It was his first time to meet the Grandshaykh. It was for him like
my first time, you can't explain this in words, because it was
Divine! Our Grandshaykh blessed us with a new initiation
mentioning in the Bayat the name of Grandshaykh Maulana

Jalaluddin Rumi.Then our Grandshaykh asked Mithat ;

"What is your name?"
He said; Mithat Ozturk my Grandshaykh! Then the Grandshaykh
said;
"You are Celebi" (Celebi are the descendants of Maulana
Jalaludin Rumi(Qad),
Later Mithat said, also that his family, from the father from his
mothers side was a descendant of our Holiest Prophet(S.A.W)
coming from the line of the Great Master Grandshaykh Abdul
Qadir Al-Jilani(Qad).
Mithat's Grandfather Shaykh Ahmad(Qad), the father from his
mothers side was a Shaykh of the Nagshbandi Tariqat, inherited
his Secret from his Shaykh, who was his father, Shaykh
Sulayman an-Naqshbandi from Tatvan near Mus in the district
Van, near the border of Iran. Mithat mother told once, at the
time that Mithat was about 7 year old, her father Shaykh Ahmad
Karana (Qad) was sitting in the room and said to every one,
none of you will have my secret than he looked to his grandson
appointing him saying;
"Later when he will be older he will have our secret".
In 1998 Mithat met his Grand Master, Grandshaykh Muhammad
Nazim al-Haqqani who opened for him his secret. Mithat said,
from the moment that he met his Grandshaykh all the pieces fall
together. Mithat said that he have found the Love. One time he
told us;
"Short before I met Shaykh Ahmad I was in Konya visiting the
Grandshaykh Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi(Qad), I asked the Great
Master Rumi his blessings, and I prayed to our Lord Allah
Almighty for his opening, to make me working for his Kingdom.
Short after this prayer I met Shaykh Ahmad Dede on the airport
in Istanbul. Shaykh Ahmad himself came to me, saying that his
Grandshaykh has send him. Thanks to our Lord Allah Almighty
that was my opening.
From that moment Mithat Celebi Ozturk who is a descendant of

our Holiest Prophet(S.A.W) by the blessings of our Grandshaykh

has always supporting the Haqqani-Mevlevi Trust.
( This is a story in a story, about two brothers, Lovers of God,
who has meet it's other by the Divine plan, and by the blessings
of their Grandshaykh became "One" in friendship for the Love of
Allah Almighty)
Now the story starts from beginning again, short after the first
meeting of the two lovers of God, Mithat went from Istanbul back
to Holland, and Shaykh Ahmad Dede went from Istanbul to
Cyprus to Lefke.
Shaykh Ahmad said;
When I arrived there I was welcomed by my Grandshaykh, I
kissed his holy hands and I could not find a word to say. That
night there was a strong Dzikr, in which my Grandmaster
ordered me;" stand up and whirl". After this Dzikr I went to my
room and there was a knock on my door. I opened the door and
a young murid from Konya stood in the opening and told me;
"Ahmad, I have a message for you, just now I had a very
remarkable experience when I was in front of the kitchen of the
Darqa, the Grandmaster Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi suddenly
appeared before me and he said to me;
"Oh my son, go to Shaykh Ahmad and tell him that my hands are
on his shoulders and that the Sultan is above him"
After this message the Grandmaster Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi left
as suddenly as he had come. I embraced my brother and
expressed gratitude to Allah for this special news. That night in
Lefke I had a very peculiar dream, I saw myself searching and
standing in a wonderful area with many people around me, I held
my right hand up high and while I looked at the ring on my ring
finger I called out to the people;
"I have found it, I have found it, look I have the ring of Abu Bakr
as Siddiq(r.a)"
Then I showed the ring of Abu Bakr as-Siddiq(r.a) to everybody.
That morning I was invited for breakfast at my Grandmasters

place. I knew that this dream was coming from my

Grandshaykh, I told him about the dream and my Grandmaster
said;
"Yes, Abu Bakr as-Siddiq(r.a) was the first who whirled and
Ahmad you are the first to represent this whirling"
Some days later while I was still in Lefke an older murid, also
from Konya, came up to me and told me this;
"Ahmad, this morning I was with our Grandshaykh I had a
newspaper with me with a large portrait of Rumi in it, I showed
it to our Grandshaykh and he said to me that there is no longer a
Dede in Konya, nor is there one in Istanbul, now the Mevlevi
Dede is in Holland it is Shaykh Ahmad".
Shortly afterwards my Grandmaster sent me back to the
Netherlands and he said to me;
"I shall send you to a place where people will receive you with
open arms and that place will be England"
My Grandmaster blessed me and I went home. When I arrived
home my wife told me the news that Shaykh Nuri Hadji Baba
(r.a) had died on 19th October 1998. (May Allah cherish him with
His Love in eternity.)
Later in the year 2000 my Grandmaster asked me to come to
him in the holy months of Rajab en Shaban. Then he directed me
to stay with him for 40 days. On one of those days my
Grandmaster said to me that on my 40th birthday the hidden
"Opening" would be made known to the outside world. I had just
become 40. One year later in the summer of 2001 I stayed with
my Grandmaster again for 40 days in Lefke. It was on the 41st
day after the Dzikr that my Grandmaster asked me to come to
him. The Darqa was filled with murids from all over the world.
My Grandmaster spoke about "The Opening" and he told me to
go to all the places where people were in need of me, he said;
"Tomorrow you will go back to Holland, do your work and do
your utmost for the Prophet (SAW), propagate His Love and Allah
will open the east and west for you"

Once in a spiritual lesson, the Sultan ul Awliya, Grandsheikh

Muhammad Nazim spoke to one of his dervishes about the
spiritual meaning of the "Dede" in the Mevlevi Tariqat.
Grandsheikh Muhammad Nazim said;
"Dede" It means the "Grandsheikh" of the Mevlevi , and the real
representative of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, And Mevlana
Jalaluddin Rumi (Qad) is representing the Divine Love of Allah
Almighty on earth"
Shaykh Ahmad Dede is now the appointed head of the HaqqaniMevlevi Tariqat under the authority of his Grandmaster,
Grandshaykh Muhammad Nazim al-Haqqani.
Shaykh Ahmad said;
"I am Naqshbandi, I am taking from the Naqshbandi Tariqat, but
I am ordered by my Grandshaykh to represent it trough the
Mevlevi Tariqat".
And as such he travels all over Europe to spread the Whirling
Love Message of the Great Grandmaster, the Imam of the
Mevlevi Tariqat,
Grandshayk Maulana Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi.(Qad)
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