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Establishment and Purposes.
England
Alevi Cultural Centre & Cem Evi is a registered charity
organization. The centre was established in May 1993.
Contact by Email: info@alevi.org.uk
, liaison@alevi.org.uk
women@alevi.org.uk, youth@alevi.org.uk
Tel: 0207 241 62 85
About
Alevizim or Alevies (Alevi)
 God's
messages were the same since Adam and Eve created. Of
course these messages have changed in accordance
with human's needs at the time, and their level of
personal understanding in accordance with their
development.
Alevies do not go
to the Mosque, and they do not fast at Ramadan. They
dress like western people do and their women do not
cover their hair with a scarf or veil. They have
meetings for prayer, spiritual dance called SEMAH, which is made with
music with great humanity.
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Alevies' latest news
Hunkar Haci Bektas Veli
has been celebrated at the Alevi Cultural Centre and Cem
Evi on 14-15 October 2006. The Community Centre was full
of Alevies on both days who wished to join and share
alevi values and support the Community's solidarity. The
professional singers who were invited as guests from
Turkey, Oguz and Devrim, took all the audience
into a marvelous spiritual atmosphere. The Local singer
Ali Ihsan Temel also performed a marvelous sufi music
show to the audience. Various MPs and mayors came
& honored the night of the Community. The mayor of
Walthamstow who joined this type of festival for the
first time has promised support for the community. He
has given an appointment to the chairman of the
Community, Mr Huseyin Cifci to visit him in his office
together with an MP from Turkey who also was invited by
the Mayor. Full pictures of the nights are in process of
display : for further information please click
here. Click
OGUZ
AKSAC
ALI IHSAN
TEPE
DEVRIM KAYA
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Persecution
Persecution
of Alevies and fundamentalists'
attacks upon Alevies in Turkey. BIA News
Center
03/07/2006 Emine
OZCAN
BİA (Istanbul) - The death of 37 people by
suffocation and fire in a July 2, 1993 arson attack on
the Madimak Hotel in the eastern Turkish city of
Sivas was commemorated on Sunday, marking 13 years where
truths behind the incident have never been fully
revealed. when 37
progressive civilian people were burned down by the
illiterates and backwards whilst the police, and state
security forces just watched.
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Hazret-i Hunkar Haji
Bektashi Veli (1248CE -1337CE)
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Our most
esteemed Master, the
pillar of the Saints, the Succour of
the Hopeless, Hazret-i Hunkar
Haji Bektashi Veli (1248CE -
1337CE) is known to have had his
Sohbets (discourses)
contained in
at least five works, the largest
being the Maqalat (Words).
Other
works are the Kitab al-Fawa'id
(Book of Morals), the Sharh
al-Basmala (Comentary
on
Bismillah), the Hurdenamah (The
Small Treaties), the Shathiyyah
(the Ecstatic Utterances). Below
are excerpts from these collections
of wisdom.
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"The heart is the window to
the Sovereign of the worlds. Between Allah and all
things is a veil, but between Allah and the heart of Man
there is none. The heart
is like the Ka'bah. The person
who would visit the Ka'bah, who would go
there
on foot and by the heart, should walk in prostration. It
is for this reason that
lovers prostrate themselves, faces to the ground. Those
who visit the Ka'bah
need a guide. The Qur'an is their travelling companion.
But the travelling
companion of those who journey there by means of the
heart is none but Allah.
What is called love is but Allah's divine kindling and
the fireplace of that
kindling is the heart of those who have arrived."
(Maqalat-i
Haci Bektas Veli)
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