Spring Equinox Ziraat Ritual

Friday, March 21st is the spring equinox and the Columbus Sufi Circle will gather to celebrate the turn and balance of the year with a Ziraat ceremony. This ritual was created by Hazrat Inayat Khan, using metaphors of farming to contemplate spiritual growth and it's encouragement. You are invited to bring a reading, a song, a dance, a thought, an object for the altar that represents those ideas. We will meet in the yard behind 170 and 172 E. Maynard Ave. at 7:30 or so. please call Hilal at 614-446-3337 or Khaliqah at 614-447-2084 for more information.

This Saturday's Zikr is Cancelled

I didn't realize that the Simply Living Conference was this weekend, we will reschedule later. So no zikr on March 8.

Zikr Allah, Saturday 3/8/08 ; Universal Worship Sunday 3/23/08

If you are wise like the Friend of God,

the fire is water to you, especially this fire of Love,

which is the soul of all waters . . . and you are a moth.

But the ignorant moth behaves differently than we do:

it sees the light and ends up in the fire.

The heart of the mystic sees fire and goes into the Light.

A fire has been made to look like water,

while within the apparent fire is a real fountain.

-- Mathnawi V:438; 442-443; 445

Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski

"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"

Threshold Books, 1996

Join us on Saturday, 3/8 aty Zawiyya al Mu'min, 1000 Urlin Ave. apt1507 . 6pm potluck dinner, 7:30 pm Zikr Allah - call Hilal at 614-446-3337 for more info

See the fire and go into the Light