Zikr Allah Ramadan 2, 1433 Saturday, July 21, 7:30 pm, Zawiyya al Mu'min

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آَمَنُوا كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمُ الصِّيَامُ كَمَا كُتِبَ عَلَى الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَ ‡

 أَيَّامًا مَعْدُودَاتٍ فَمَنْ كَانَ مِنْكُمْ مَرِيضًا أَوْ عَلَى سَفَرٍ فَعِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَيَّامٍ أُخَرَ وَعَلَى الَّذِينَ يُطِيقُونَهُ فِدْيَةٌ طَعَامُ مِسْكِينٍ فَمَنْ تَطَوَّعَ خَيْرًا فَهُوَ خَيْرٌ لَهُ وَأَنْ تَصُومُوا خَيْرٌ لَكُمْ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ ‡

  شَهْرُ رَمَضَانَ الَّذِي أُنْزِلَ فِيهِ الْقُرْآَنُ هُدًى لِلنَّاسِ وَبَيِّنَاتٍ مِنَ الْهُدَى وَالْفُرْقَانِ فَمَنْ شَهِدَ مِنْكُمُ الشَّهْرَ فَلْيَصُمْهُ وَمَنْ كَانَ مَرِيضًا أَوْ عَلَى سَفَرٍ فَعِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَيَّامٍ أُخَرَ يُرِيدُ اللَّهُ بِكُمُ الْيُسْرَ وَلَا يُرِيدُ بِكُمُ الْعُسْرَ وَلِتُكْمِلُوا الْعِدَّةَ وَلِتُكَبِّرُوا اللَّهَ عَلَى مَا هَدَاكُمْ وَلَعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكُرُونَ ‡

O you who believe! Fasting is prescribed for you, as it was prescribed for those before you, so

that you may guard (against evil).

 

(Fasting is) for a fixed number of days; and if any of you is ill, or on a journey, the prescribed

number (Should be made up) from days later, and for those (who miss the fast for illness or travel) who are able to do it, is a ransom of

 feeding one that is indigent. But he that will give more, of his own free will, it is better for him.

And it is better for you that you fast, if you only knew.

The month of Ramadhan in which was revealed the Qur'an, guidance for mankind, and clear

proofs of the guidance, and the Criterion (of right and wrong). And whosoever of you is present,

let him fast the month, and whosoever of you is sick or on a journey, (let him fast the same)

number of other days. Allah desires ease for you; He does not desire hardship for you; and (He

desires) that you should complete the period, and that you should magnify Allah for having guided

you, and that peradventure you may be thankful.

Qur'an (2:183-185)

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When it comes to material food, if you eat too little,
you'll stay hungry like the crow and become angry and anemic;
if you eat your fill, you'll get indigestion.
Partake of God's food, which is easily absorbed,
and ride like a ship on the ocean of spirit.
Be patient and persistent in fasting: keep expecting God's Food.
For God, who acts with goodness and is long-suffering,
bestows His gifts on those who are hopeful.
The full-fed person doesn't wait expectantly for bread,
wondering when it might arrive;
but the one who is without food keeps asking, "Where is it?"
hungrily hopeful, that one watches for it.
Unless you are hopeful, that abundant felicity will not come to you.

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Gar khvori kam gorosneh mâni cho zâgh
var khvori por girad ârughet demâgh
Az ta`âm Allâh o qut khvosh govâr
bar chonân daryâ cho kashti shaw sovâr
Bâsh dar ruzeh shakibâ o moserr
dam be-dam qut-e Khodâ-râ montazer
K-ân Khodâ-ye khub kâr bord-bâr
hadyeh-hâ-râ mi dehad dar entezâr
Entezâr-e nân na-dârad mard-e sir
keh sabok âyad vazifeh yâ keh dir
Bi navâ har dam hami guyad keh ku
dar majâ`at montazer dar jost o ju
Chon na-bâshi montazer na-âyad beh-to
ân navâleh-ye dawlat haftâd-e to

-- Mathnawi V: 1746-1753
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

as we " expect God's food ... hungrily hopeful",

as we practice remembrance of God,

Zikr Allah, poetry,

followed by iftar for thode fasting,
sohbet, sweets.

Saturday, July 21, 7:30 pm

Zawiyya al Mu'min

1000 Urlin Avenue, # 1507

Columbus, Ohio 43212

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Zikr Allah, June 16, 7:30 pm (revised, complete)

 

91. Surah Ash-Shams (The Sun) 

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y the sun and his brightness,

By the Moon as she follows him;

By the Day as it shows up the Sun's glory;  

  By the Night as it conceals it;

By the Firmament and  Him Who made it,

  And the earth and Him Who extended it,

   By the Soul,  and Him Who perfected it

Then He inspired it to understand what is right and wrong for it;

  Truly he succeeds that purifies it,
And he fails that corrupts it!  

http://www.youtube.com/watc?v=4L2IOhsyh_s&feature=fvwrel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The love of that cherisher of lovers has come to his own house; Love has in form-conceiving a form melting all forms. You have come to your own house; welcome, enter! Your coming is with joy; enter by the door of the heart, run to the vestibule of the soul! Every mote of my being is in love with your sun; take heed, for motes have long transaction with the sun. See how before the window the motes gracefully suspended beat; whoever has the sun for a qibla prays after this fashion. In the concert of the sun these motes are like Sufis; no one knows to what recitation, to what rhythm, to what harmony. In every heart there is a different note and rhythm, all stamping feet outwardly, and the minstrels hidden like a secret. Loftier than all is our inward concert, our particles dancing therein with a hundred kinds of glory and pride. Shams-I Tabrizi, you are the sultan of the sultans of the soul; no Mahmud like you ever came into being, nor like me any Ayaz. *The love of Sultan Mahmud and Ayaz became proverbial; see Math. V:2858 foll. -- Translation by A.J. Arberry "Mystical Poems of Rumi 1" The University of Chicago Press 1968/1991 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Join the Columbus Sufi Circle in "our inward concert, our particles dancing therein with a hundred kinds of glory and pride" as we practice remembrance of God, Zikr Allah, poetry, followed by sohbet, sweets. Saturday, June 16, 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

How would the ringdoves call like seekers, "Where, oh where?" Zikr Allah al "ala, Sat May 19, 7:30 pm

Surah 87: Surah al 'ala

Exalt the name of your Lord, the Most High,
  Who created and proportioned......

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Without the eyes – two clouds – the lightning of the heart:

How would the herbage grow of union, sweet to taste?
How would the fountains all gush forth with water pure?
How would the rosebed tell its secret to the meadow?
How would the violet make contracts with jasmine?
How would the plane tree lift its hands in prayer, say?
How would the trees' heads toss free in the air of Love?
How would the blossoms shake their sleeves in days of
spring
To shed their lovely coins about the garden wide?
How would the tulip's cheek be red like flames and blood?
How would the rose draw out its gold now from its purse?
How would the ringdoves call like seekers, "Where, oh
where?"
How would the stork repeat his laklak from his soul,
To say: "O Helper high, Thine is the kingdom, Thine!"
How would the dust reveal the secrets of its heart?
How would the sky become a garden full of light?

-- Mathnawi II: 1655-64
Translation by Annemarie Schimmel
"I Am Wind, You are Fire"
Shambhala, 1992

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Join the Columbus Sufi Circle
as we practice remembrance of God,

call like seekers, "Where, oh

where?"

Zikr Allah, poetry,
followed by sohbet, sweets.
Saturday, May 19, 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