Sheb-e-yalda Solstice Zikr, December 22, 2012 - Convert dust into gold - 7:30 pm Zawiyya al Mu'min

Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The Parable of His Light is as if there were a Niche and within it a Lamp: the Lamp enclosed in Glass: the glass as it were a brilliant star: Lit from a blessed Tree, an Olive, neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil is well-nigh luminous, though fire scarce touched it: Light upon Light! Allah doth guide whom He will to His Light: Allah doth set forth Parables for men: and Allah doth know all things.

Yusuf Ali translation

Transliteration

Allahu nuru-s-samawati wa-l-'ard; mathalu nurihi kamishkatin fiha misbah; al-misbahu fi zujajah; 'az-zujajatu ka'annaha kawkabun durriyyuny-yuuqadu min shajaratim-mubarakatin zaytunatil-la sharqiyyatin-wa la gharbiyyatiny- yakadu zaytuha yudii'-u wa low lam tamsas-hu nar; nuurun "ala nuur; yahdi- llahu li-nurihi many- yashaa' wa yadribu-llahu -l-'amthala -li-n-nas; wa-llahu bi-kulli shay'-in "aleem

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Like The Morning Breeze

Like the morning breeze, if you bring to the morning good deeds,

The rose of our desire will open and bloom.

Go forward, and make advances down this road of love;

In forward motion, the pain is great.

To beg at the door of the Winehouse is a wonderful alchemy.

If you practice this, soon you will be converting dust into gold.

O heart, if only once you experience the light of purity,

Like a laughing candle, you can abandon the life you live in your head.

But if you are still yearning for cheap wine and a beautiful face,

Don't go out looking for an enlightened job.

Hafiz, if you are listening to this good advice,

The road of Love and its enrichment are right around the curve.

Khajeh Shamseddin Mohammad Hafiz Shirazi

From: Drunk on the Wind of the Beloved

Translated by Thomas Rain Crowe

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Join the Columbus Sufi Circle

to experience the light of purity,

Zikr Allah, poetry,

followed by sohbet, sweets.

Saturday, December 22, 7:30 pm

Zawiyya al Mu'min

1000 Urlin Avenue, # 1507

Columbus, Ohio 43212

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

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Reminder - Enneagram discussion group this Thursday

The Columbus Sufi Circle invites you to a discussion group on the enneagram as a tool for spiritual development, meeting on the first and third Thursdays of each month. Our next meeting is December 12/20. The discussion will focus on our own experience of our type. (If you don't know your type there are many free tests on-line) 

We will use The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram: Nine Faces of the Soul by Sandra 

 Maitri. Here is a link to a PDF of the first chapter: www.sandramaitri.com/pdfs/spiritual_chap_1.pdf

Meetings will be held at Zawiyya al Mu'min, 1000 Urlin Avenue, apartment 1507, Grandview Heights OH 43212 beginning at 7 pm

Contact Hilal at hilal1001@sbcglobal.net or Daryush at daryushnam@yahoo.com with questions 

Give me now the wine of nonexistence instant by instant

This week, Sunlight is offering a series of poems in memory of
the passing of Rumi from earthly life, and specifically focused on
his teachings on the subject of mortality.

Today, Sunlight offers Ghazal (Ode) 1716, in a translation by
Professor William Chittick. For more information on "Urs", the
wedding, Sunlight suggests a visit to
http://www.dar-al-masnavi.org/wedding-night.html

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Tonight, take my spirit totally from my body, so that I
may no longer have shape and name in the world!
At this moment I am drunk in Thee - give me another
cup! Then I may be obliterated from the two worlds in Thee,
and be done with it.
When I have been annihilated through Thee and be-
come what Thou knowest, then I will take the cup of non-
existence and drink it, cup after cup.
When the spirit becomes radiant through Thee,
when the candle lights up - if not consumed by Thee it is raw,
raw.
Give me now the wine of nonexistence instant by
instant; when I have entered nonexistence, I will not know
the house from its roof.
When your nonexistence increases, the spirit will
prostrate itself to you a hundred times - oh you to whose
nonexistence thousands of existences are slave!
Give me wine, measure by measure! Deliver me from
my own existence! Wine is Thy special grace, intellect Thy
general grace.
Send up waves from nonexistence to steal me away!
How long will I pace the Oceans shore in fear?
The snare of my king Shams al-Din is catching
prey in Tabriz, but I have no fear of the snare, for I am
within it.

-- Ghazal 1716
Translation by William C. Chittick
"The Sufi Path of Love"
SUNY Press, Albany, 1983

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Last reminder - and potluck announcement -

tomorrow we celebrate Rumi's Urs.

We'd also like to announce a potluck supper to follow,

please join us and bring whatever you'd like,

or nothing but your own sweet spirit. 

Sorry for the late notice,

see you tomorrow at 5:30

Insha'allah

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Sometime during the night of December 17, 1273( Sunday, 

Jumâda 'l-âkhir 5, A.H. 672 in the Islamic lunar calendar)

 Mevlana Jelaladdin Rumi died, wedded with the Beloved

Like many Sufi gatherings throughout the world, the Columbus Sufi circle will be celebrating the wedding of this master who inspires us still.

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O Sky, don't revolve without me!
O moon, do not shine without me!
O earth, do not go without me!
O Time, do not go without me!
This world is enchanted by you,
that world is enchanted by you
Don't stay without me in this world!
Don't go to that world without me!
Your face, yonder radiant moon
makes lucid and lights our night
I'm only the night, you're the moon . . .
Don't go to the spheres without me!
The rose, she is kind to the thorn
and she protects him from fire
Look, you are the rose, I'm the thorn!
Don't go to your home without me!

Ghazal (Ode) 2195
 -- Translation by Annemarie Schimmel
"Look! This is Love - Poems of Rumi"
Shambhala, 1991

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Please join the Columbus Sufi Circle 
to revolve, to shine
to whirl and chant and read
 and eat sweet morsels and drink tea 
and talk in commemoration
of Mevlana

5:30 pm at Zawiyya al Mu'min

1000 Urlin Avenue, Apartment 1507

Grandview Heights OH 43212

Bring your favorite Rumi poem, 

your whirling clothes, 

potluck supper, sweets

 tea, conversation

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

"O Sky, don't revolve without me!" Rumi's Urs, December 16, 2012; beginning at 5:30, after sunset until about 8 Come dressed for dancing!

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Sometime during the night of December 17, 1273( Sunday, 

Jumâda 'l-âkhir 5, A.H. 672 in the Islamic lunar calendar)

 Mevlana Jelaladdin Rumi died, wedded with the Beloved

Like many Sufi gatherings throughout the world, the Columbus Sufi circle will be celebrating the wedding of this master who inspires us still.

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O Sky, don't revolve without me!
O moon, do not shine without me!
O earth, do not go without me!
O Time, do not go without me!
This world is enchanted by you,
that world is enchanted by you
Don't stay without me in this world!
Don't go to that world without me!
Your face, yonder radiant moon
makes lucid and lights our night
I'm only the night, you're the moon . . .
Don't go to the spheres without me!
The rose, she is kind to the thorn
and she protects him from fire
Look, you are the rose, I'm the thorn!
Don't go to your home without me!


Ghazal (Ode) 2195
 -- Translation by Annemarie Schimmel
"Look! This is Love - Poems of Rumi"
Shambhala, 1991

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Please join the Columbus Sufi Circle 
to revolve, to shine
to whirl and chant and read
 and eat sweet morsels and drink tea 
and talk in commemoration
of Mevlana

5:30 pm at Zawiyya al Mu'min

1000 Urlin Avenue, Apartment 1507

Grandview Heights OH 43212

Bring your favorite Rumi poem, 

your whirling clothes, 

sweets, tea, conversation

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

Reminder - December 6 enneagram group

Just a reminder! Also, upcoming events include Rumi's Urs on 12/16 , 2nd enneagram class on 12/20 and regular monthly zikr on the 22nd (busy week)
Watch for announcements!

The Columbus Sufi Circle invites you to a new discussion group on the enneagram as a tool for spiritual development, meeting on the first and third Thursdays of each month beginning in December (12/6 and 12/20). Our first discussion will be about the origins and history of the enneagram in Sufi practice and its introduction to the west. We'll also talk about the direction the group wants to take in further meetings (including scheduling, of course.)
We will use The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram: Nine Faces of the Soul by Sandra 
 Maitri. Here is a link to a PDF of the first chapter: www.sandramaitri.com/pdfs/spiritual_chap_1.pdf
Meetings will be held at Zawiyya al Mu'min, 1000 Urlin Avenue, apartment 1507, Grandview Heights OH 43212 beginning at 7 pm
 
Contact Hilal at hilal1001@sbcglobal.net or Daryush at daryushnam@yahoo.com with questions