Dear Friends,
I found the following material in Volume 8, II, 13 of Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khans work. It seems to offer some support for questions many of us have today, so I am including it in its entirety.
Conciliation – Ittifaq
This virtue is not always learned and practiced easily, for it needs not only good-will but wisdom. The great talent of the diplomat is to bring about by agreement such results as are desirable. Disagreement is easy; among the lower creation one sees it so often. What is difficult is agreement, for it wants a wider outlook, which is the true sign of spirituality. Narrowness of outlook makes the horizon of man’s vision small, and he cannot easily agree with another. There is always a meeting-ground for two people, however much they differ in their thought, but the meeting-ground may be far off, and man is not always willing to take the trouble of going far enough – as far as required in order to come to an agreement. Very often his patience does not allow him to go far enough: to where he can meet the other. What generally happens is that everyone wants the other to meet him in the place where he stands, and there is no desire on his part to move from there.
This does not mean that in order to become a real Sufi a person must give up his ideas so as to meet others in agreement. There is no benefit in always being lenient with every thought that comes from another, and there is no benefit in always erasing one’s own idea from one’s heart. That is not conciliation. The one who is able to listen to another is the one who will make another listen to him. It is the one who agrees easily with another who will have the power of making another agree easily with him. Therefore, in doing so one gains in spite of the apparent loss which might sometimes occur. When a man is able to see from his own point of view as well as from the point of view of another, he has a complete vision and clear insight: he, so to speak, sees with both eyes.
A Practice for You:
First turn to the source of all healing and imagine putting yourself into the Divine hands. Then say Ya Qabd (ya ka’ bid), Ya Basit (ya baa’ sit) 7 times turning your attention, first to yourself (Qabd) and then to the Universe (Basit). You might feel as if each time you say Qabd you are squeezing out any old impressions that are ready to leave you, and when you say Basit you are letting the Divine bounty pour into your being. Now hold all the people you know – no one left behind, in that Universe within your heart. Even those by whom you are challenged can have the place of one star in the universe of divine beauty that holds many billions of stars.
A Practice for the World:
Be open to the source of All Healing, Love, Harmony and Beauty. As you say Qabd, be aware of the world/Mother/Gaya, whirling on her axis, letting all discomfort/distortion/disease/difficulty evaporate into space. As you say Basitlet the Divine blessing. Love, harmony and healing flow around and into the world. Do this 7 times.
Coming Events:
- September 11-22 – Grandmothers in Michigan. For information contact Jalila cawheeler444@gmail.com
- Tuesday, September 24 – The Advanced Practices Class begins. This class will be offered Every 4th Tuesday at 5 pm pacific time. The coming sessions will be on Pir Vilayat’s teaching on healing and will include a digital recording of one of his meditations or healing classes.
For information, and the link, contact Ardvisura ardvisura.rene@gmail.com - October 17-20 – Healing Activity Yearly Retreat. For information see the Inayatiyya Website or contact Nur Alima at ihana060911@gmail.com see below
- Nov/Dec/Jan – Personal Retreats. Contact DeviTide hudevi@gmail.com
- January 4-5 – ONE-TO- ONE PROCESSING – Healing through breath though, glance and words. This Healing technique was included in the Raphaelite Healer curriculum- 10am-1pm pacific time Jan 4-5. For Information contact Salima greavesjenn@gmail.com
- February 10-20 – Devi and Grandmothers Journey to sacred sites in New Zealand. We’ll visit the Maraes (sacred sites) of two tribes, Rotorua, Sharda Sufi Center, Awakeri hot springs and other sacred sites. Hobbitton, Contact Jalila cawheeler444@gmail.com
- March – Healing Cherag training begins – Contact Devi for details at hudevi@gmail.com
Ongoing Events:
- Healing Services for the World on Wednesday morning and each New Moon. See Astana Calendar https://inayatiyya.org/event/sufi-healing-service-for-the-world/
- Monthly New Moon Healing Service for the World.
Contact Sitara sitaramittenlewis@gmail.com
Dear Ones,
As the summer flies by, we’re announcing two exciting events that we hope you put on your calendar for October!
The Annual Inayatiyya Healing Retreat will be held Thursday October 17th through Sunday, October 20th.The presenters will include:
Muirshida and Kafayat Devi Tide (United States), Kefayat Amina (Greece), Shafayat Qalbi Enjalbet (France), Shafayat Farzana Marie-Helene Falila-Boyle (UK), Murshida and Shafayat Amat-un -Nur (Pakistan), Murshida Zumurrud Butta (Germany), Shafayat Jessica Bromby (United States), Nina Sufia El-Badry, & the Grandmothers – from the Indigenous Peoples of New Zealand and North and Central America. The theme will be
THE PATH OF THE HEALER: TRANSFORMING THE INNER AND THE OUTER. New this year, the retreat registration will also include on Sunday October 20th , Pir Zia’s class “The Alchemy of Happiness “ class at 3:00 pm ET! Registration is through The Astana.
The new Healing Activity class is our second new event “Foundations of Healing: An Introduction to the teachings of Pir-O- Murshid Inayat Khan.” It is a doorway into Pir-O- Murshid Inayat Khan’s Sufi teachings on healing. We will delve into practices of Divine healing and transformation that live within each of us.
The course is based on the newly developed manual, Essentials of Healing, an introduction to the foundations of healing in the Inayatiyya Healing Activity. Our gift to you will be a digital copy of the Essentials of Healing Manual, which will include the teachings from the topics introduced and much more.
Fall Semester Classes will be on Saturdays October 12th, November 9th and December 14th from 3-4:30 pm Eastern time 9-10:30 pm Central European Time.
This course is open to ashiqs, murids and all with a sincere interest. Come to all or any part of the series.
Nur Alima Smith
Bayt-ul-Haram
Co-VP of Healing Activity