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.

"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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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