Diary 1963 - Murshid Sam's Living Stream

Diaries 1963-2Reason for writing at this time. The recent issue of “Asian Survey” published by the Universityof California states that the Mainland China government has been sending envoys to Sudan,Somaliland and other American countries where trouble may arise. We have blithely assumed—andthere is no proof either way—that the Assouan Dam will be finished without trouble and that theSudanese may be satiated with the aftermath. In fact there is as yet no absolute proof either of itscompletion or of mutual satisfaction and the Mainland Chinese could try to benefit from any difficultyif indeed they do not stir up trouble.Cairo incident. One day three scientists called at my rooms in Morland House, a pension, andtold me they were representatives, of the Dervish Orders. At that time I was a member of two Ordersfrom South Asia, though now I belong to at least seven such Orders. After a rather bizarre introduction,comprehensible only if one is deeply imbedded in Sufism, the philosophy of the Dervishes:“We have come to tell you what we are doing about the communists. The communists are 100%dialecticians you are 50%, we are 0%; the communists are 100% materialists, you are 50%, we are 0%;the communists are 100% atheists, you are 50%, we are 0%. So we are far more against the communiststhan you are. We want to be your friends, and you do not even acknowledge our existence.”They then told me of their agents in China and Russia and told me to look out because theyhave given instructions to their Russia agent to stir up the government against China and to theirChinese agent to stir up the government against Russia. They said I should look for an early eruption.Their leader was one Yusuf Wali, Sakura Villa, Dokki, Cairo and he wants to be contacted—butso far this has not been done to my knowledge, or, if done I do not know it.In two months a delegation of Chinese came to Cairo, stayed at the Shepherd’s (rebuilt) Hoteland stayed away from all functions where there were Russian communists. My “brothers” pointedthis out as the first elements of objectivity. There is another matter which will be taken up below.A. M. Attia, P. O. Box 236, Cairo, whose office is in the Immobilia Bldg, or was. He is an importantmember of the Rifai Dervish Order and had gone as Cotton Broker to China. After six months hecame back totally disillusioned, wildly anti-Communist and even toying with treason (he told me).But at the time not only did not recognize officially the Dervish Orders but the American Universityin Cairo which the Embassy depended on, taught the wildest subjective nonsense thereof, whichcould be refuted in ten minutes by anybody walking through the streets.Pakistan Dervishes. I am today, among other connections, a Khalif or Representative of PirDewwal Shereef who is the cultural representative of many Sufi Orders as well as spiritual leaderof one. He is also the acting head of the University of Islamabad which is being built. He is also thespiritual teacher of President Ayub Khan.