Zikr Schedule for November & December 2007

When you plant a tree

every leaf that grows will tell you,

what you sow will bear fruit.

So if you have any sense, my friend

don't plant anything but love,

you show your worth by what you seek.

Water flows to those who want purity

wash your hands of all desires and

come to the table of Love.

Do you want me to tell you a secret?

The flowers attract the most beautiful lover

with their sweet smile and scent.

If you let God weave the verse in your poem

people will read it forever.

-- Translation by Azima Melita Kolin

and Maryam Mafi

"Rumi: Hidden Music"

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2001

My friends, don't plant anything but Love, come to the table of Love
Potluck meal 6:00, Zikr Allah about 7:30, dessert to follow.
November 2 and December 28 at Zawiyya al Mu'min, 1000 Urlin Ave., apartment 1507, Grandview. Tell the door person downstairs that you want my apartment - if they want a name tell them you want to see Jane Smirniotopoulos, the apartment phone is 488-3337.The door will be unlocked so just come in and welcome!!

Remembrance of Light: Zikr Nur-i-Muhammed

Saturday August 25
7:30 p.m.

Columbus Mennonite Church
35 Oakland Park Ave
(one building off High Street, turn East off High)

For more information contact Hilal at 614.261.3337 or email at smirniotopoulos.1@osu.edu

This ceremony of Zikr from the Chistia branch of the Sufi tradition was given to help awaken the human senses to the light of consciousness in nature and the entire manifested cosmos. This light, which the sufis call Nur, points to the Unity of Being, beyond individual names and forms. When the human being awakens to its capacity to contain the consciousness of the cosmos, then it awakens to its original, ecological self and fulfills the purpose of life.

Neil Douglas-Klotz, Ph.D.

Murshid Saadi Shakur Chisti

Munira Elizabeth Reed and friends will be leading Saadi’s Zikr of Light

Informal, no experience required.

Simple movements with simple chanted phrases

All are welcome!