What is Buyuk Dogu (The Great Orient)-IBDA (The Unique Becoming - Genesis)?

   There is a unique salvation hope for Muslims, especially for Turkish Muslims, that is, Buyuk Dogu-IBDA, which is the name of a "system of thought". Buyuk Dogu is a system of thought. It has no other objective than to serve as a means in establishing an Islamic state in accordance with Islamic truth upon which it is based. It stems from Islamic truth to which all Islamic revivalist movements should devote their resources to reinforce it, not to change. N. F. Kisakurek wrote:

"Buyuk Dogu (The Great Orient) is the key system for the "application of Islam" to the contemporary world at the threshold of the twenty-first century, It is the adjutant of Islam; Buyuk Dogu is neither a modern school (Madhab) nor a new door for ijdihad. It is only a passageway to Islam under the absolute and unbargaining framework of Ahl as-Sunnat."*

Buyuk Dogu is described by Necip Fazil Kisakurek as "the batman of Islamdom... Buyuk Dogu is neither a modern -reformist way (madhab) nor a new door for judicial renovation (ijdihad) in Islam... It is a passage way which makes way for Islamdom with its whole originality and pureness within such an absolute and unbargained framework that only the statement of "Sunnet ve Cemaat Ehli" [The community of Sunnet (the way of the prophet) and congregation] indicates; and practicing those originality and pureness, which had been lost a long time ago, into things and events at the threshold of the twenty first century."

   Buyuk Dogu firstly asks that question: What is wrong with Muslims?
Is Islam a mistake path which leads Muslims to failure and unhappiness? Or, do Muslims perceive and understand Islam in an incorrect way? Regarding of the fact that we believe that Islam is the absolute truth, that is, of the fact that we are Muslims, we can conclude that what goes wrong is related to our thinking structure; the question is not of Islam, but of what we comprehend as Islam. Kisakurek says that "Islam is like sun and we Muslims are the eyes receiving sunlight. What must be renewed are our eyes, not Islam itself"

    For Buyuk Dogu considers all the principles of Islam are unchangeable because these principles are above the time, which means they cover all the times and these principles are able to produce solutions to the problems of the contemporary world. So, what is necessary is not to change these principles, but to change the way to perceive these principles. "Perception? It is the reflection of the Sun in the mirror!" Kısakürek notes. It suggests thatMuslims should firstly look in all the history of Islam in general and last five centuries in particular. The result arrived after the investigation is that Muslims were successful when they were tied on Islamic truth and that Muslims failed when they lost the eagerness and love to acquire wisdom and knowledge of material and immaterial worlds. The fire of eagerness and love which are driving powers at the back of progress and success had gradually decreased in the Muslim individual.

This, in turn, led to failure of the individual, and the failure of the individual resulted failure of the Islamic state, namely, the Ottoman Empire. Shortly, the love and eagerness upon which all human actions and becoming depend once disappeared, everything that Muslims had possessed were lost. Then, Muslims should regain the love and eagerness to be able to form a new understanding of Islam. This is prerequisite for resurgence of Islam, according to Buyuk Dogu.

   Second phase of the description of salvation, which is offered by Buyuk Dogu, is generated from the starting point above: Forming a new universal thought system to solve the problems of Muslims at the individual as well as societal level once after re-gaining the spirit of Islam. Kisakurek divides man into two aspects, spiritual and social, and an ideology in line with Islam should satisfy both aspects. He defines the term of ideology as "a system determining all the foundations necessary in constructing the individual and society". As can be seen here, while many groups and movements discuss whether there is an ideological aspect of Islam or not, Buyuk Dogu develops an ideology dependent on Islam by using the fruits of humanity regardless of their sources. No longer do we discuss the existence of ideology in Islam but the outlines of this ideology. All human beings have an ideology because, at the theoretical level, the ideology means the individual's perceptions of the world and the thoughts in response to these perceptions through language. To every problem humanity have faced in modern ages so far are to be found proper solutions fitting Islamic truth, and thus an ideology which is in essence tied to Islam has been built gradually with the name of Buyuk Dogu.

    As mentioned above, though Buyuk Dogu is not Islam itself, yet it's completely based upon and derived from Islam. In other words, it is a system of reflections of the religion of Allah, which has been formed by Necip Fazil Kisakurek.

    In fact, the word Muslim points out the person whom Islam, and consequently Allah, addresses. As long as Muslims do not pay proper attention to this point, they can not make a clear distinction between what they understand as Islam and Islam itself. The relationship between the subject and the object, as in Islam and human, is certainly one of the most prominent concepts in philosophy.

    Necip Fazil Kisakurek has drawn the very general outlines of the description of salvation, which will be put in practice in Turkey firstly, then in the Muslim world, and then all over the world. Considering the facts ordered from the beginning of this paper, we can describe the movement of Buyuk Dogu-IBDA as an ideology, of which Necip fazil Kisakurek and Salih Mirzabeyoglu have formed in complementary, rearranging religious principles regarding their prominence in response to contemporary world conditions.

At the same time, it is called as "the instrumental system" by which the "absolute idea" (Islam) will be brought into application. Islam as an "absolute idea" takes unceasingly new appearences regarding the perception of every Muslim. It is the very natural process that every human being has the right of choosing freely during his life between good or evil, and understands divine truths as much as his capacity. What he understands must at least conform to the basic principles of Islam such as oneness of Allah, the necessity of the prophethood etc. This is also the reason of why some people do not believe in the truth of Islam even though they know all about it (e.g. orientalist) while some others endanger even their lives for the sake of achievement of it.

   Our assertion is that only BD-IBDA can bring Muslims closer to success and salvation. In our opinion, the very truth is nothing but Islam, and we should choose a way to arrive at this truth. In other words, what we have seen as the description of salvation is BD-IBDA, since it has been the most comprehensive, the most coherent, and the most systematic attempt to resolve the Muslim plight thus far.

Who is Necip Fazil?     Necip Fazil Kisakurek has 130 published books on the Islamic thought, Islamic arts and various issues. He is the pioneer of Islamic thinking in Turkey and the architect of the notion of "Ideal Islamic Society". The basic principles of this society are described in his works. Some of his works are Ideolocya Orgusu (the Network of Ideology), Ihtilal (Revolution), Dunya Bir Inkilap Bekliyor (The World Looking Forward A Revolution), Cole Inen Nur (Heavenly light descending to the Desert. -This book is about the life of our prophet and His followers-), Ulu hakan Sultan Abdulhamid II (Great Khan Sultan Abdulhamid II), Iman ve Islam Atlasi (The Atlas of Faith and Islam), Bati Tefekkuru ve Islam Tasavvufu (The Thought of the West and the Tasawwouf of Islam)

Necip Fazil Kisakürek

IBDA (The Unique Becoming - Genesis)

    As for IBDA, it is the continuation of Buyuk Dogu. The Architect of Ibda, Salih Mirzabeyoglu, is an honest follower of Necip Fazil Kisakurek and the "Commander" (Kumandan) of the IBDA movement. Both Buyuk Dogu and Ibda are the systems of thought to understand Islam in the best way, and they are very closely linked and complementary to each other. While Salih Mirzabeyoglu has been forming a new structure on the context of "thinking" and "action", his works has been based on Buyuk Dogu as the reference point, and he has evolved the thesis of Buyuk Dogu theoretically and practically. This ideological cohesion between Fazil Kisakurek and Salih Mirzabeyoglu resembles the intellectual connection between Socrates and Plato. The works of Plato are the products of his cooperation with Socrates.

    One of the main topics in the Buyuk Dogu-Ibda system is the concept of "the understanding towards Islam" (Islama muhatap anlayis). "Islama Muhatap anlayis" refers to a universal understanding fitting to completeness of Islam, and is remarkable of its ideological coherence, methodical over looking, and aesthetical profundity.

Reinforcing Islam in the aesthetical, methodical, ideological, and political spheres is the primary aim of Buyuk Dogu -Ibda. IBDA requires Muslims to pay proper attention to their missions and responsibilities in order to come to power.

"The synthesis of Islamist thought" is rising in a worldwide process, in which the West and the East are settling outstanding accounts with each other. This method has the ability to transform the "anti-thesis'" into satisfactory results of the thesis of IBDA.

The Library of Buyuk Dogu-IBDA

Ideology and Revolution (by Mirzabeyoglu)

   A high level of strategy of the Islamic struggle is drown up in this book in harmony with the general understanding of Buyuk Dogu-IBDA. This book is the first and unique example of the systematization of "understanding" in the sphere of action.

"Every person who faced with BUYUK DOGU-IBDA has the responsibility and obligation of acting in accordance with his belief. He has to perform what is necessary. His guiding light is the Hadith of Rasulullah (S.A.V):
"One Muslim has to correct the evil when he faced with it. First of all he tries to correct the badness with his hands (with action). If impossible, he endeavors to react with his words. If this is also impossible, he feeds the feelings of hatred in his heart. But this is the lowest degree of the faith."

Some subjects that are studied in the book:
. Our name, our meaning, and our aim;
. The situation of Islamic groups and general outlook of the Islamic Movements;
. The Action and the task;
. Requirement of ideological education;
. "The system of absolute thought" and "the System of Means";
. Ideology and Revolution;
. The Revolution and its techniques.

Tilki Gunlugu (The Diary Of Fox) (by Mirzabeyoglu)
It contains 6 volumes

    "Tilki Gunlugu is the "secret code" of "the cosmos"... It is a kind of topography of the universe... This book is the art of distillation of the universe under the cycle of language. It is a unique book whose corresponding has never been written in both Turkish and world literature so far. The reader faces a perfect harmony of ideas, real events, dreams, and their interpretations. It can be said that "Tilki Gunlugu" is a sort of book on the interpretation of dreams, but the connection line between dreams and "the life" is deeply felt and lived. Every body can find a room pertaining to himself and to his life in it.

Salih Mirzabeyoglu, the man of thought, who contemplates on the language, and uses it in a perfect manner, is also the man who produces the works of this superior language.
Thousands of words and concepts from the different kinds of languages are used in an amazing harmony in the volumes of "Tilki Gunlugu".
In order to understand and explain the ideas, we need a language which reflects our comprehension of the world.
Every civilization has its own language and every language includes an instinctive, emotional, and imaginative capacity that responds to the beauty, good and order in the concrete world of nature.
It is used among people whose associations and emotions have been molded by common belief.
By using language, man's emotional and mental character can be developed from this perspective. It has a primary role in the construction of a society.
At the threshold of 21. century, people are living in a state of anarchy. All kinds of equilibrium measures are disordered in the world. "Ideal language" will take the true bucket from the well of confusion.

Ihtilal (The Revolution) (by Kisakurek)

    Kur'an teaches us that Allah (C.C.) created "the man" as being made of "two opposite poles". On the one hand, man struggles for the aim of "the good", "the beautiful", and "the right". This side is represented by the "spirit", and thereby man is able to reach at a level above the angels. On the other hand, man has a negative aspect which makes man act in accordance with his pleasure and enjoyment. He is unaware of his responsibility in the world. Kur'an called this kind of man as "belhum adal", that means, "one who is lower than animal".
During his life, man fluctuates between two-poles. While some of them serve to the first pole, the others are slaves of their lust. As a result of this compact, the doors of revolutions are opened to the humankind. It should be noted that "a revolution" will increase in value according to its "purpose". If the aim of the revolution is "Allah's path", it will be valuable and worthy, estimable revolution which is called "Inkilâp", that is a tranformation in society andindividual's mind. Revolution is a tool of "Inkilâp"and it is a pass away for the realization of grand purpose.

Kokler (The Roots) (by Mirzabeyoglu)

    Kokler is the collection of wisdom and measures in the sphere of Tasawwouf. "The pity sayings" and "memories" quoted from Necip Fazil Kisakurek are the corner stones of spiritual network of BUYUK DOGU-IBDA movement.
Some titles from the book:
. The lines of method and the meaning
. The language and the meaning.
. The Golden Nails.

Kultur Davamiz (Our Grand Purpose Of Culture) (by Mirzabeyoglu)

    "This book is the first serious voice of thought of the wizened generations coming after the establishment of the Turkish Republic." says Kisakurek in his critics about the book.
In the book, the clues relevant to the ideology are presented, and the foundations of basic principles are laid.
Some titles from the book:
. While looking for our way
. "The existence" and "the time"
. Dialectic and ethic

Spiritualism and qualificationalism Concerning freedom.
Islâma Muhatab Anlayis "the Understanding Towards Islam" (by Mirzabeyoglu)

    This book talks about the theoretical perspective called "the sphere of the theoretical language" and draws up the framework of the issue of "Islâma MuhatabAnlayis"
Some titles from the book:
. The system and the theory,
. The balance between the opposite pools
. On the framework of the dialectic

Appendix:New researches about Divine Religions in the light of modern sciences.

Butun Fikrin Gerekliligi (The Necessity Of The Universal Thought) (by Mirzabeyoglu)

    The necessity of the universal thought is the fundamental principle where the application of Islam is discussed.
Some titles of the chapters in the book:
. About the social system
. About the power and the sovereignty
. About the process of the change

The Birth Of The State And Its Content
Dil Ve Anlayis (The Language And The Understanding) (by Mirzabeyoglu)

    "Existence and becoming, time and freedom, individiual and society, aesthetic and ethic, language and method... It can not be shown that there is an artist or a thinker who had not made a hard working on the basic matters of humankind."

"In Turkey, we could have never seen one who contemplates on his art and understanding by systematizing his point of view, except for the vital enlightments of BUYUK DOGU and the chapters that we have opened."

"Taking up the language in a separate book illuminating the essentials of it aims to ascertain that this issue can not be separated from the domain of IBDA."

Ibda Diyalektigi (The Dialectics -Method- Of Ibda) (by Mirzabeyoglu)

    This book is the scientific side of elucidation for the problems of "the individual" and "the society" in accordance with "the truth of the salvation path."
At the same time , it is the unique instrument to collar those who try to harm Islam, conciously or not. This book gives young Muslims a prerequisite conscious in order to become "the real Muslim intellectual."
This book also gives the opportunity of research for the connection with the dialectic of IBDA to every person who could not have yet met Islamic truth because of this or that excuse, and has been waiting for the salvation path of Islam .
This book declares a kind of formula which contains the basics of forming the ideal Islamic Society.
From the book:

"Islam is the system including absolute dilemmas concerning the "man" and the "universe". If it is not acknowledged what are the problems of individual and society, the social harmony can not be achieved. And if Muslims do not realize their weakness regarding an understanding to Islam, the struggles would be assimilated in the disorders of the world system. We are trying to illuminate the crucial errors in the analysis of history and universe."
Some titles from the book:
. The content of IBDA
. The account of the history
. Islam and universe-Islam and the time
. Islam and the human, Islam and the measure of the history, Islam and the consciousness of the history
. The principles of abstraction (tecrit)
. The dialectics and the thought.