Thursday, December 23, 2010


Columbus Dances of Universal Peace
Global Peace Celebration
Friday, December 31
SCHEDULE FOR THE EVENING

5:00 – 6:15 p.m. – Aramaic Prayer Cycle
Chant and move with the expanded meanings of the Aramaic Prayer
(traditional “Lord’s Prayer”)
A circle of focused body prayer led by Munira Elizabeth Reed dedicated
towards peace within and without

6:15 - 7:00 p.m. – Heavy hors d'oeuvres and holiday snacks
Those who wish can bring something to share.

7:00 – 8:30 p.m. – Dances of Universal Peace Global Peace Celebration
On New Year’s Eve Dances of Universal Peace groups around the globe
link together in a shared focus upon global peace. Come for a peace-
filled New Year’s Eve! Join in either one or both of these programs.
No prior experience required. (It all ends in time to make it to later
parties for New Year’s celebrations!)

8:30 – More visiting around refreshments, or departing for quiet
evenings at home, or on to other parties!


Come for one or all parts of the evening. Drop by and join in!
Events are held at:
Columbus Mennonite Church
35 Oakland Park Avenue
Columbus, OH 43214

(Just east of High St. in Clintonville, one block north of North
Broadway)

For more information contact Thallia Blight (by Dec. 30) at:
centralohiosufi@yahoo.com or 614.486.9530

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Start the drumbeat. Everything we've said about the Friend is true. Zikr Allah, 7:30 pm 11/27

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Joseph

Joseph has come,
the handsome one of this age,
a victory banner floating over Spring flowers.

Those of you whose work it is
to wake the dead, get up!
This is a work day.

The lion that hunts lions charges into the meadow.
Yesterday and the day before are gone.

The beautiful coin of now
slaps down in your hand.

The streets and buildings of this city
are all saying, The prince is coming!

Start the drumbeat. Everything we've said
about the Friend is true. The beauty of that
peacefulness makes the whole world restless.

Spread your love-robe out to catch
what sifts down from the ninth level.

You strange, exiled bird with clipped wings,
now you have four full-feathered pinions.

You heart closed up in a chest, open,
for the Friend is entering you.

You feet, it's time to dance!
Don't talk about the old man.

He's young again. And don't mention
the past. Do you understand?
The Beloved is here!

You mumble,
"But what excuse can I give the king?"
when the king is here making excuses to you!

You say, "How can I escape his hand?"
when that hand is trying to help you.

You saw a fire, and light came.
You saw blood, and wine
is being poured.

Don't run from your own tremendous good fortune.

Be silent and don't try
to add up what's been given.

An uncountable grace has come to you.

-- Version by Coleman Barks
"Say I Am You"
Maypop, 1994

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"Start the drumbeat. Everything we've said
about the Friend is true.'
Please join the Columbus Sufi Circle,
7:30 pm on Saturday, November 27, 2010
Zawiyya al Mu'min
1000 Urlin Avenue, Apartment 1507
Columbus, Ohio 43212
All are welcome,
from any Sufi order or none,
no experience needed,
all seekers on the path.

Call Hilal at 614-446-3337 or e-mail hilal1001@sbcglobal.net with questions

Monday, November 1, 2010

Imam Bilal Hyde in Kansas City area next weekend - it's not too late

Imam Bilal will be near Kansas City next weekend, doing a workshop:
Opening the Seven Doors of Divine Love
November 5-7, Leavenworth, KS

The website for the retreat in Leavenworth KS is: http://shiningheart community. org/bilal/ BilalSHC. htm

Imam Bilal is co-author of Physicians of the Heart: Sufi Guidebook to the 99 Beautiful Names Of Allah with Murshid Wali Ali and Pir Shabda Kahn of the Sufi Ruhaniat International, and Faisal Muqaddam, co-creator of the Diamond Approach.

In this workshop, Imam Bilal will deepen the exploration of the mystical qualities of the Divine Names and introduce breath practices for zikr and Dances of Universal Peace. He will continue to introduce makam practices.

You are invited to take part in these traditional Sufi meditation practices, rarely offered to the general public. This powerful and transformative technique opens all the doors of the mystical heart, one at a time, to the light of divine love (`ishq Allah).

This retreat is open to all seekers on the path. For more information contact Rahimah Marie Sweeney at rahimah@allspecies. org.

Dances of Universal Peace, November 13









DUP

Come Cultivate Peace Through Music and Movement


Columbus Dances of Universal Peace

"Paths to Gratitude"


Saturday, November 13, 2010
7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Columbus Mennonite Church
35 Oakland Park Avenue
Columbus, Ohio, 43214



Dress casually and informally.

Childcare is provided.

Children are also welcome to join the dance circle with their parent(s) or guardian(s).

Refreshments following.

No charge but donations gladly accepted to cover rental and other expenses



Dances of Universal Peace are simple, meditative, and joyous circle dances that celebrate the variety of spiritual paths on Earth.












The Columbus Dances of Universal Peace

and the Columbus Sufi Community

invite you to join with Dances Senior Mentor and Sufi teacher

Matin Mize

for a weekend series of spiritual practices.

Matin2010

ALL ARE WELCOME!

No prior experience required.

Participation is welcome at any session.

You do not need to participate in all in order to come.

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Saturday, November 20

Spiritual Lessons on the

Walking Meditations

of Samuel L. Lewis

10:00 am-5:00 pm

Selby Park Shelter House, Worthington

(Turn east on Selby Ave. off High St. and

continue until you reach Selby Park)

Lunch (on your own) at a nearby restaurant

$75 donation

(or less on sliding scale)

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Friday, November 19

Drumming Workshop

7:00-9:00 pm.

The Shalem Center

881 High Street, Suite 206. Worthington, OH 43085

(north of 161/Dublin-Granville Rd.)

upstairs of Worthington Wholistic Health Center

$15 donation

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Saturday evening, November 20

Sufi Zikr

7:30-9:00 pm

Selby Park Shelter House

$15 donation

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Matin Mize is a Khalif in the Sufi Ruhaniat International and a

member of the Mentor Teachers Guild of the Dances of

Universal Peace. He has studied Sufism and the Dances for the

last 30 years and has taught the Dances, Walks, Zikr,

Sufi Practices and Musicianship in the US and UK for

many years. Matin is also a skilled percussionist. He

demonstrates Middle eastern rhythms with Saadi Neil

Douglas Klotz on the Aramaic Lord's Prayer Musician's

demonstration DVD.


For more information, contact registrar:aatoon.nina.massey@gmail.com

or at 614-949-6197.


We want to include all who are interested,

so please contact us if finances would exclude

you from participation.





Sunday, October 17, 2010

Zikr Allah, Saturday, Oct. 23 -be a circling star


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If you don't see the hidden River,
see how the water wheel of stars continually turns.
If the heavens receive no rest from being moved by Love,
heart, don't ask for rest—be a circling star.

Do you think God lets you cling to any branch?
Wherever you make an attachment, He will break it.
Before God everything is like a ball,
subject to Him and prostrating before the bat.

How should you, O my heart,
being only one of a hundred billion particles,
not be in restless movement at Love's command?


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Gar na-mi bini Ju-râ dar kamin
gardesh dulâb-e garduni bin
Chon qarâri nist gardun-râ azu
ay del akhtarvâr ârâmi ma-ju
Gar zani dar shâkh dasti kay helad
har kojâ payvand sâzi beshkalad
Chonke kolliyât pish-e U cho gust
sokhreh o sajdeh kon chawgân-e Ust
To keh yek jozvi delâ zin sad hazâr
chon na-bâshi pish-e hokmesh bi qarâr

-- Mathnawi VI: 913-915; 926-927
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996
(Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra)

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Please join the Columbus Sufi Circle,
be in restless movement at Love's command, a circling star"
7:30 pm on October 23, 2010
Zawiyya al Mu'min
1000 Urlin Avenue, Apartment 1507
Columbus, Ohio 43212
All are welcome,
from any Sufi order or none,
no experience needed,
all seekers on the path.

Call Hilal at 614-446-3337 or e-mail hilal1001@sbcglobal.net with questions

Friday, September 17, 2010

Be dumbfounded, Zikr Allah, Saturday, 9/25, 7:30

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Therefore be dumbfounded without nay or yea, in order
that a litter may come from (the Divine) Mercy to carry you.
Forasmuch as you are too dull to apprehend these
wonders (of God), if you say "yea" you will be prevaricating;
And if you say "nay," the "nay" will behead (undo) you:
on account of that "nay" (the Divine) Wrath will shut your
spiritual window.
Be, then, only dumbfounded and distraught, nothing else,
that God's aid may come in from before and behind.
When you have become dumbfounded and crazed and
naughted, you have said with mute eloquence, "Lead us."
It (the wrath of God) is mighty, mighty; but when you begin
to tremble, that mighty shape is for (terrifying) the unbeliever;
when you have become helpless, it is mercy and kindness.

-- Mathnawi IV, 3748-3754
The Mathnawi of Jalalu'ddin Rumi
Translation and Commentary by Reynold A. Nicholson
Published and Distributed by
The Trustees of The "E.J.W. Gibb Memorial

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Please join the Columbus Sufi Circle to become helpless for mercy and kindness
7:30 pm on September 25, 2010
Zawiyya al Mu'min
1000 Urlin Avenue, Apartment 1507
Columbus, Ohio 43212
All are welcome,
from any Sufi order or none,
all seekers on the path.

Call Hilal at 614-446-3337 or e-mail hilal1001@sbcglobal.net with questions

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

An interfaith event at First UU Church, Sat. 9/11 at 2pm

"Burn NO Sacred Books"

Interfaith Solidarity Service,

Saturday, September 11, 2010, 2 pm
All are welcome!

Event Location:

First Unitarian Universalist Church

93 W. Weisheimer, Clintonville, Ohio;

Parking also off High St, behind Panera


Let’s gather to commemorate 9/11 as well as express solidarity with our Muslim sisters and brothers who are being targeted by hate campaigns, including calls by a Florida-based church (and its copycats) to burn the Qur’an.

The Racial Diversity Task Force is organizing an Interfaith Solidarity Service. We want to send a strong interfaith message to our community that we stand for religious tolerance.

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men (and women) to do nothing." Edmund Burke


Rev. Mark Belletini will be leading the service with participation from Muslim, Jewish, Christian, UU, and other clergy and lay people.

Your presence would be an excellent public witness of your faith in religious tolerance and pluralism. Please bring a food item or a beverage to share for the reception to follow, if you are able.

Also, invite friends of other faiths to this interfaith expression of our common beliefs.

RSVP if you need childcare, or questions?

Call Ray, 614-288-1639


Friday, August 6, 2010

Ramadan zikr, iftar, prayers August 28, 2010; 6:30pm

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Celebrate! The month of fasting has come.
Pleasant journey to the one
Who is the company of the fasting.

I climbed the roof to see the Moon,
Because I really missed fasting
By heart and soul.

I lost my hat while looking at the Moon.
the Sultan of fasting made me drunk.

O Muslims, I have been drunk
since that day I lost my mind.
What a beautiful fortune fasting has.
What a wonderful glory.

There is another secret moon
Besides this one.
He is hiding in the tent of fasting
Like a Turk.

Anyone who comes
To the harvest of fasting in this month
Finds the way to this Moon.

Whoever makes his face
Resemble pale satin
Wears the silk clothes of fasting.

Prayers will be accepted in this month.
Sighs of the one fasting pierce the sky.

The person who sits patiently
At the bottom of fasting's well
Owns the love of Egypt, like Joseph.

O the word which eats the Sahur* meal,
Be silent so that anyone
Who knows fasting will enjoy fasting.

Come, O Shems, the brave one
Of whom Tebriz is proud.
You are the commander of fasting's soldiers.

*Sahur: Meal before dawn during Ramazan fast.

-- Ghazal No. 2344 from the Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi
Translated by Nevit Ergin
(from the Turkish translation of the original
Persian by Golpinarli)
"Mevlana Jelaleddin Rumi: Divan-i Kebir,"
Volume 18, 2002.

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You are invited to join the Columbus Sufi Circle for a special zikr and iftar,
the evening meal to break the Ramadan fast.
( You certainly don't need to be fasting to come)
Saturday, August 28th - the 18th of Ramadan 1431 H.
Zawiyya al Mu'min, 1000 Urlin Ave., Apt. 1507
Grandview Heights, Ohio, 43212

We will begin the zikr at 6:30, sunset prayer and iftar at 8:15.
You may bring food to the meal if you like, it is not required.
I will provide dates, water,spanakopita, a salad, and coffee and tea.

(If you want to bring food, there are a few people in the community
who can't eat various things - wheat, beans or nuts,
and a few who will only eat halal meats.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halal )


Contact Hilal at hilal1001@sbcglobal.net or 614-446-3337
for more information.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

"Become entirely flame" Zikr Allah July 24, 7:30 pm

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When through spiritual poverty someone is graced with nonexistence,
like Muhammad, he loses his shadow.
Fanâ'* graced the Prophet who said, "Poverty is my pride."
He became shadowless like the flame of a candle.
When the candle has become entirely flame from head to foot,
a shadow has no way to approach it.
The waxen candle fled from itself and its shadow into radiance
for the sake of the One by whom it was made.
God said, "I molded you for the sake of fanâ'."
It replied, "And so I took refuge in fanâ'."

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Chon fanâsh az faqr pirâyeh shavad
u Mohammad-vâr bi sâyeh shavad
"Faqr fakhri"-râ fanâ* pirâyeh shod
chon zabâneh-ye shama` u bi sâyeh shod
Shama` jomleh shod zabâneh pâ o sar
sâyeh-râ na-bovad beh-gerd-e u gozar
Mum az khvish o ze sâyeh dar gorikht
dar sho`â` az bahr-e U ki shama` rikht
Goft U "Bahr-e fanâyet rikhtam"
goft "Man ham dar fanâ be-gorikhtam"

*Disappearance of the individual self in the being of God.

-- Mathnawi V: 672-676
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996
(Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra)

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Flee from yourself into radiance! Take refuge in fana'!
Flee with the Columbus Sufi Circle
into the remembrance of God.
7:30 pm, Saturday, July 24
Zawiyya al Mu'min, 1000 Urlin Ave., Apt. 1507
Grandview Heights, OH 43212
All are welcome, no prior knowledge or experience needed.

Please call Hilal at 614-446-3337 or e-mail her at hilal1001@sbcglobal.net
with questions or for directions.

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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Zikr allah, 4th Saturday, 6/26, Zawiyya al Mu'min, 7:30 pm

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THE SNOW-WORLD MELTS

Think of the phoenix coming up out of ashes,
but not flying off.
For a moment we have form.
We can't see.
How can we be conscious and you be conscious
at the same time and separate?
Copper when an alchemist works on it loses its copper
qualities. Seeds in Spring
begin to be trees, no longer seed. Brushwood
put in the fire changes. The snow-world melts.
You step in my footprint and it's gone.

It's not that I've done anything to deserve
this attention from you. Predestination
and freewill: We can argue them,
but they're only ideas. What's real
is a presence, like Shams.

-- Version by Coleman Barks
"Open Secret"
Threshold Books, 1984

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What's real is a presence
How can we be conscious and you be conscious
at the same time and separate?

Please join the Columbus Sufi Circle
as we celebrate consciousness and presence
in song, in poems, in melting snow.

1000 Urlin Ave., Apt. 1507
Grandview Heights, Ohio 43212
Zikr at7:30 pm until 9 or so
followed by sweets and sohbet

For directions or more information e-mail hilal1001@sbcglobal.net
or call Hilal at 614-446-3337

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Zikr Allah, Saturday May 22, 7:30 pm at Zawiyya al Mu'min


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The Music

For sixty years I have been forgetful,
every minute, but not for a second
has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed.
I deserve nothing. Today, I recognize
that I am the guest the mystics talk about.
I play this living music for My Host.
Everything today is for the Host.

-- Mathnawi l: 2084-2085
Version by Coleman Barks
Open Secret
Threshold Books, 1984

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Please join the Columbus Sufi Circle at 7:30 pm on May 22nd
Zawiyya al Mu'min, 1000 Urlin Ave., Apt. 1507
to celebrate this flowing toward us that has never
stopped or slowed.
Every thing today is for My Host
.


Please call Hilal at 614-446-3337 or e-mail hilal1001@sbcglobal.net for information or directions

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

An Event on OSU campus sponsored by Students for Dialogue

SFD proudly presents

Muslim Women in the West
by Dr. Sophia Pandya

Professor Sophia Pandya specializes in women, Islam, and globalization. She received her BA from UC Berkeley in Near Eastern Studies/Arabic, and her MA and PhD from UCSB in Religious Studies, with a focus on women and Islam. Dr. Pandya is currently a professor in California State University, Long Beach.

A Questions & Answers Session will follow Dr. Pandya's talk.

Date: Thursday April 22
Time: 6:30pm
Room: EA 160 (209 W. 18th Avenue )


Peace,

SFD

( I will be there, call me tonight about how to find it if you are not so familiar with OSU - Hilal 614-446-3337)

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Sit down with us beyond the wheel of time. Zikr Allah, April 17, 7:30 pm, 1000 Urlin Ave., #1507

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"Empty the Glass of Your Desire"

Join yourself to friends
and know the joy of the soul.
Enter the neighborhood of ruin
with those who drink to the dregs.

Empty the glass of your desire
so that you won't be disgraced.
Stop looking for something out here
and begin seeing within.

Open your arms if you want an embrace.
Break the earthen idols and release the radiance.
Why get involved with a hag like this world?
You know what it will cost.

And three pitiful meals a day
is all that weapons and violence can earn.
At night when the Beloved comes
will you be nodding on opium?

If you close your mouth to food,
you can know a sweeter taste.
Our Host is no tyrant. We gather in a circle.
Sit down with us beyond the wheel of time.

Here is the deal: give one life
and receive a hundred.
Stop growling like dogs,
and know the shepherd's care.

You keep complaining about others
and all they owe you?
Well, forget about them;
just be in His presence.

When the earth is this wide,
why are you asleep in prison?
Think of nothing but the source of thought.
Feed the soul; let the body fast.

Avoid knotted ideas;
untie yourself in a higher world.
Limit your talk
for the sake of timeless communion.

Abandon life and the world,
and find the life of the world.

-- Version by Kabir Helminski
"Love is a Stranger"
Threshhold Books, 1993

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Join the Columbus Sufi Circle
as we gather in a circle ....beyond the wheel of time.

Zikr Allah , Saturday April 17
Zawiyya al Mu'min
1000 Urlin Ave., Apt. 1507

7:30 pm until around 9:30
followed by tea, coffee, sweet treats and conversation
Everyone welcome, no experience required.
E-mail hilal1001@sbcglobal.net
or call 614-446-3337 if you have questions.

Monday, March 15, 2010

Clarification for dinner and zikr

To clarify last post: The time for dinner at Jeddo Kabab is 5:00, the place is Jeddo Kebab, 6140 Cleveland Ave, Columbus, OH 43221, 614-794-1202 http://www.jeddokabab.com
and the date is the eve of spring - Saturday, March 20th. Then zikr at 1000 Urlin Avenue, apt. 1507, the time is 7:30 and the date is the same, March 20.


Spring is here, friends.
Let's stay in the garden
And be guests to the strangers of the green.


As always call Hilal at 614-446-3337 with questions or e-mail at hilal1001@sbcglobal.net

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Dinner at Jeddo Kebab,5 pm, Zikr Allah at Zawiyya alMu'min 7:30 pm

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Spring is here, friends.
Let's stay in the garden
And be guests to the strangers of the green.

We'll fly from one flower to the other,
Like bees making the six corners
Of this earth's hives prosperous.

An envoy came from this fortress
And said, "Don't beat the drum secretly.
With our yells, we would tear down the place
Where that Love's drum is beating."

Hear that voice which comes from the sky,
"Rise, all insane ones.
I sacrifice my Soul to the insane.
Let's scatter our Soul today."

Let's break all the chains.
Every one of us is a blacksmith.
Let's go to the fireplace where the pincers are.

Let's fan the flame of the Heart's fire
Like the furnace of blacksmiths.
So we can have iron Hearts
Under our control with breath.

We'll put fire in this universe,
Incite riots in the sky,
Make his sober, resisting mind
Turn around, become dizzy like ours.

We are like a ball, without hands and feet,
Sometimes at the end
And sometimes at the beginning of the square.
Who told you we could do what we want?
Who told you we are independent?

No, no. We are like a club
In the hand of the Sultan.
We send hundreds of thousands of balls
To His feet.

Let's be silent. Silence is made
With some material like craziness.
His mind is such a fire
That we hide this fire by wrapping it in cotton.

-- Translation by Nevit O. Ergin
"Divan-i Kebir" -- Meter 1
Walla Walla, Washington: Current, 1995.

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Spring is here, let's be guests to the strangers of the green. Join members of the Columbus Sufi Circle at Jeddo Kebab, 6140 Cleveland Ave, Columbus, OH 43221, 614-794-1202 http://www.jeddokabab.com/ to celebrate Naw Ruz, Persian New Year. Then come over to Zawiyya alMu'min, 1000 Urlin Ave., Apt. 1507 for Zikr starting at 7:30. Or do only one of those things or a little of each. We will be happy to see you.

If you have questions or need directions call Hilal at 614-446-3337 or e-mail at hilal1001@sbcglobal.net

Monday, February 22, 2010

Zikr Allah, Feb. 27, 7:30

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God created suffering and heartache so that
joyful-heartedness might appear through its opposite.
Hence hidden things become manifest through
opposites. But since God has no opposite, He remains hidden.
For the sight falls first upon light, then upon
color: Opposites are made manifest through opposites, like
white and black.
So you have come to know light through light's
opposite: Opposites display opposites within the breast.
God's light has no opposite within existence,
that through its opposite it might be made manifest.
Therefore our "eyes comprehend Him not, but He
comprehends the eyes" (Koran VI 104): Learn this from Moses at
Mount Sinai*.
Know that form springs from meaning as the
lion from the thicket, or as voice and speech from thought.
Form was born from speech and then died. It
took its wave back to the sea.
Form comes out from Formlessness: Then it
returns, for "unto Him we are returning" (Koran II 156).

-- Mathnavi I, 1130-34
Translation by William C. Chittick
"The Sufi Path of Love"
SUNY Press, Albany, 1983

* Rumi alludes here to Moses' words in the Koran: "Oh
my Lord, show me, that I may behold Thee!" The verse
continues, "Said He, `Thou shalt not see Me; but behold
the mountain if it stays fast in its place, then thou shalt
see Me.' And when his Lord revealed His theophany to
the mountain, He made it crumble to dust; and Moses fell
down swooning" (Koran VII 143).

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Let's follow Form back to Formlessness
follow the 99 names to the One

Please join the Columbus Sufi Circle on February 27, 7:30 pm
Zawiyya alMu'min
1000 Urlin Avenue, Apt.1507
Grandview Heights OH 43212


contact Hilal at hilal1001@sbcglobal.net or call 614-446-3337 if you have questions or need help with directions