NEW CLASS BEGINS THIS MONDAY EVENING

 

Yeshua (Jesus) through the Aramaic Lens of a Sufi

7:00-8:15 pm

Abwoon is an Aramaic word that points to the power of

the universe to create itself anew in each moment

 

 

Alternate Monday evenings,

April 1, April 15, May 6, May 20, June 3, June 17

Shalem Center

881 High St., Suite 206

Worthington, OH 43085

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Based upon the Aramaic translations and spiritual practices of Neil Douglas-Klotz (Murshid Saadi Shakur Chisti) this group will meet twice a month during April, May, and June.

Focus will be upon exploring the translations from various resources through the use of spiritual practices.

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For more information contact Munira at Shalem Center 614-441-9773.

Please email ereed@shalemcenter.org if you are planning to attend. This helps in arranging for the meeting room. It is possible that another site will be used if no suitable room is available at Shalem Center. If changes are made for the site, each person who emailed will receive this new information via email.

Rescheduled Zikr Allah - March 30,2013, 7:30 pm

This is so, because Allah is the Reality: it is He Who gives life to the dead, and it is He Who has power over all things. 

Qu'ran 22:6 Yusuf Ali translation

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You came suddenly like resurrection,

like an infinite blessing

and my thoughts burned like trees on fire.

You came today like God Himself,

generous and full of grace,

holding the key to my freedom in your hands.

Both traveller and the road,

the beginning and the end,

You are the gatekeeper of the Sun.

For so long I have lived in pain, suspended

between my longing and my need for bread.

Now that You have risen in my heart

and taken over my thoughts,

I am breaking the pen and leaving the paper.

My Sun has risen.

-- Translated by Azima Melita Kolin

and Maryam Mafi

Rumi: Hidden Music

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2001

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Join the Columbus Sufi Circle

Come break the pen and leave the paper

Zikr Allah, poetry,

followed by sohbet, sweets.

Saturday, March 30, 7:30 pm

Zawiyya al Mu'min

1000 Urlin Avenue, # 1507

Columbus, Ohio 43212

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

The sword Dhu 'l-Faqar ( in case you wanted to know)

Ali with his two sons Hasan (in green) and Husain (in red), Shia Islam's first, second and third Imam respectively. The man standing behind Ali is probably Qanbar ibn Kadan. He was a slave from Abyssinia who had been freed by Ali, and was very devoted to him.

The Arabic text la fata illa Ali la sayf illa dhu 'l-faqar, translates.: "There is no hero like Ali, there is no sword like Dhu 'l-Faqar". The sword Dhu 'l-Faqar, a booty of war which Muhammad presented to Ali, is one of Ali's attributes.

Original: Small images, Ingvild Flaskerud, Qum 1999

Zikr Allah cancelled due to just people's lives

I regret that the zikr will be rescheduled, I believe for next Saturday -

 I will send a notification when I know. In the meantime:

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    Joyous spring has arrived and the Beloved’s message has come,
we are drunk with love and intoxicated and cannot be still.
    O my darling one, go forth to the garden, do not leave the
beauties of the meadow in expectation.
    Strangers from the Unseen have arrived in the meadow; go
forth, for it is a rule that "the newcomer is visited."*
    Following your footsteps the rose has come into the rosebower,
to greet and meet you the thorn has become soft of cheek.
    Cypress, give ear, for the lily in exposition of you has become
all tongue by the bank of the river.
    The bud was tightly knotted; your grace looses knots; the rose
blossoms thanks to you, and scatters it petals over you.
    You might say that it is the resurrection, that there have raised
their heads from the earth those who rotted in December and
January, the dead of yesteryear.
    The seed which had died has now found life, the secret which
earth held has now become revealed.
    The bough which held fruit is glorying for joy, the root which
had none is shamefast and ashamed.
    After all, the trees of the spirit will become even so, the tree of
excellent boughs and fortunate will be manifest.
    The king of spring has drawn up his army and made his
provisions; the jasmine has seized the shield, the green grass
Dhu ‘l-Faqar.
    They say, "We will cut off the head of So-and-so like chives;
behold that visibly enacted in the handiwork of the Creator."
    Yes; when the succour of divine assistance arrives, Nimrod is
brought to destruction by a gnat*.

          --Translation by A. J. Arberry
            "Mystical Poems of Rumi 1"
            The University of Chicago Press, 1968

* Rumi quotes an Arabic rule of etiquette.
* Nimrod died of a gnat-bite, see Nicholson on Math. I:1189.

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Students For Dialogue sponsored talk at OSU

The Ohio Union is located on North High Street in Columbus, the link will take you to a map showing location of the Union and associated parking garages. Type Ohio Union in the search box on the left of the map. Click on parking and then click "Show" 

http://www.osu.edu/map/google.php

Zikr Allah, March 23, 2013 7:30 pm Come sit with friends in the garden, Which of the favors of your Lord will you deny?

Is there any Reward for Good other than Good? (60) Then which of the favours of your Lord will ye deny? (61) And besides these two, there are two other Gardens― (62) Then which of the favours of your Lord will ye deny? (63) Dark green in colour (from plentiful watering). (64) Then which of the favours of your Lord will ye deny? (65) In them (each) will be two springs pouring forth water in continuous abundance: (66) Then which of the favours of your Lord will ye deny? (67) In them will be Fruits, and dates and pomegranates: (68) Then which of the favours of your Lord will ye deny? (69)

Surah-ar-Rahman Qu'ran 55:60-69

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Whoever is sitting with friends
is in the midst of a flower garden,
though he may be in the fire.Whoever sits with an enemy is in the fire,
even though he is in the midst of a garden.

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Har keh bâshad ham-neshin-e dustân
hast dar golkhan miyân-e bustân
Har keh bâ doshman neshinad dar zaman
hast u dar bustân dar gulkhan

-- Mathnawi IV: 1976-1978
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996
Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra


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Join the Columbus Sufi Circle

Come sit with friends in the flower garden

Zikr Allah, poetry,

followed by sohbet, sweets.

Saturday, March 23, 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

Reminder Enneagram group this Thursday, March 7

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 will be March 21. 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 are generally watching video from enneagram workshops and discussing, no pre-reading is required but we will use The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram: Nine Faces of the Soul by Sandra Maitri. 

Here is a link to 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 , 614-446-3337 or Daryush at daryushnam@yahoo.com with questions