In a two-part video interview with the Heads of the Ansari Sufi Order, Shaykh Taner and Shaykha Muzeyyen Ansari, the Heads explain:
Thanks to ITV (a South African local community television broadcasting station) for uploading the interview.
From Murshid Shaykh Taner Ansari
PRAYER WITH MINDFULNESS:
I explained Aqim al Salat. Some translate it as worship. We translate it as prayer, especially prayer of your heart. Prayer of your heart is very important. Establish the prayer when you’re eating. Establish the prayer when you’re sleeping. Establish the prayer whatever you’re doing.
Establish the formal prayer, which we call Namaz. Allah said this to all the nations. Establish the prayer does not just mean you have to establish Namaz, which means going up and down. Establish the prayer means all of that, and especially Zikr (Mention / Remembrance).
Some people say Sufism is Bid’ah (Innovation). First of all, Sufism is not Bid’ah. Second, our Prophet (pbuh) himself established Zikr for everybody. Zikr of Sufism is special to those people who want Allah’s Zat (Essence). Zikr of Sufism is designed to clean your nafs (ego). This is what the Prophet (pbuh) established. After each prayer, you say Subhanallah (Glory be to God) 33 times, Alhamdulillah (Praise be to God) 33 times, and Allahu Akbar (God is Greater) 33 times. Allah said: “When you are talking about the Quran, you start with Bismillah er Rahman er Rahim” (In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate). Then He added, “Euzu billahi minesh shaytan irrajim, Bismillah er Rahman er Rahim” (I seek refuge from Shaytan the outcast, in the name of God, the Most Merciful, Most Compassionate) !
BE CONSCIOUS:
What I am trying to do is to bring you to the consciousness of your actions and your acceptance and the belief so that you do not do actions blindly. You have to be conscious of what you are doing and acknowledge the importance of being conscious of what you are doing. Allah created us as Allah’s Khalifas (representatives) against shaytan’s objections, against the objections of the angels. So we owe Allah a lot. Allah chose us. And in return, we should choose Allah. That is why we say, “Bismillah er Rahman er Rahim. Euzu billahi minesh shaytan irrajim”, which means “I take refuge in Allah from the outcast/stoned shaytan, and in the Name of Allah, the Owner of Compassion and Who Acts with Compassion and Mercy.” What does this mean? It means that whatever you are doing will be in the Name of Allah. So that is a reminder to you that you are connected, you are representing Allah, and not to do anything that Allah is not pleased with. I also suggest you start each morning when you wake up by saying this: Euzu billahi minesh shaytan irrajim, Bismillah er Rahman er Rahim !
QADIRI RIFAI ANSARI SUFI ORDER
Invites you to celebrate
URS
of
SHAYKH ABDUL QADIR GEYLANI
with a Traditional Sufi Zikr accompanied with ilahi,
daf and Sufi whirling
Special guest: Shaykh Syed Khaled Ali (from the Qadiri-Tahiri Tariqa)
MONDAY 2 FEBRUARY (19:30 – 21:30)
Essex Unitarian Church
112 Palace Gardens Terrace
Notting Hill Gate W8 4RT
Tel: 07941 653337
NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO AN ILLNESS.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this unfortunate and unexpected cancellation.
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You made me drink from oneness, O drummer
You made my soul a wineglass, O my fate
Thursday 13 November 2014
Buddha on a Bicycle
27 Endell Street
Covent Garden, WC2H 9BA
London
7pm prompt
This will be the last Sufi frame-drum workshop offered by Silk Roads for the year – just in time to raise the temperature for these cold dark days.
Check the video to this Sufi frame-drum workshop where aside from one person none of the participants had ever played the frame-drum before.
http://silkroads.co.uk/?paged=4
We will be learning the instruments with their rhythms and chants as quickly as possibly so that we can practice a Sufi ‘dhikr’ meditation with the daf frame-drums.
Please arrive promptly as the doors close at 7.15pm. (You can ring 07821 182696 to be let in if you’re late)
£10 on the door
The Qadiri Rifai Sufi Tariqa
in collaboration with the
The Rabbani Project and SOAS Spiritual Dialogue
invites you to an Evening of Remembrance: ‘Zikr of Love’
Never be without remembrance of Him, for His remembrance gives strength and wings to the bird of the Spirit. If that objective of yours is fully realized, that is “Light upon Light” – Jelaluddin Rumi
Join us for an Evening of Singing, Chanting, Peace, Love and all things full of Joy.
Come and experience Zikr, poetry and Hadrah
Friday 17th October
6:30pm-9pm
Room: B102, SOAS University, London WC1H 0XG
Free and open to all.
Refreshments will be provided.
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