WELCOME. Dhikrullah: The Circle of Divine Remembrance. Join Shaykha Fariha al-Jerrahi and the Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi Order for enlightening prayer, spiritual discussion and the Ceremony of Remembrance. All are welcome in the Circle of Divine Love. Learn more about the New York City gatherings. This section is regularly updated with streaming/downloadable audio files of Shaykha Fariha's sohbets, khutbas, and talks. TO MAKE A DONATION TO THE NUR ASHKI JERRAHI COMMUNITY, PLEASE CLICK THE BUTTON. SOHBETS/KHUTBAS/DHIKR March 4, 2010 Sohbet at Dergah al-Farah / a simple path / turn to Allah / always seek Allah's Mercy and be the vessel of mercy / the salaat / the times of prayer / taking refuge in Allah (17:04 min)    January 21, 2010 Sohbet at Dergah al-Farah / Reading Surah Hujurat - Inner Apartments / Intimacy with Allah / Adab (26:12 min)    Prayer at Dergah al-Farah (5:29 min)    January 9, 2010 Handtaking od Sister Aysha at Efendi's House (Yonkers) (14:52 min)    January 7, 2010 Sohbet at Dergah al-Farah / intention (10:24 min)    Sohbet continued / a meditation on the breath (11:23 min)    Prayer at Dergah al-Farah (5:59 min)    January 1, 2010 Handtaking of Sister Mariam Rahima (10:55 min)    December 31, 2009 Sohbet at Dergah al-Farah / in tasting there is knowledge (15:04 min)    Prayer at Dergah al-Farah (6:01 min)    Sohbet continued / we are not ascetics (8:03 min)    December 27, 2009 Sohbet at Dergah al-Farah / Day of Imam Husseyn / the moment of passing (8:12 min)    December 17, 2009 Event at Dergah al-Farah / Rumi Night / poetry recitation and illahis (28:18 min)    Prayer at Dergah al-Farah (7:29 min)    December 4, 2009 Khutba by Shaykha Fariha (12:19 min)    December 3, 2009 Sohbet at Dergah al-Farah / Nature of our path / tranforming human qualities into divine qualities (38:01 min)    Prayer at Dergah al-Farah (7:13 min)    November 20, 2009 Khutba by Shaykha Fariha (12:19 min)    November 19, 2009 Sohbet at Dergah al-Farah / On Hajj / question on taqleed (31:13 min)    Prayer at Dergah-alFarah (10:29 min)    Sohbet continued / About the Kaaba / kissing the black stone (16:49 min)    November 12, 2009 Sohbet at Dergah al-Farah / the mystic heart / one drop of love / creation is new moment by moment / turn to Allah / O Lord Increase Me In Knowledge (20:07 min)    November 5, 2009 Prayer at Dergah al-Farah (4:23 min)    Handtaking of Brother Sharif (16:04 min)    October 31, 2009 Sohbet at Dergah al-Farah (4:23 min)    Sohbet continued / About Shaykh Nur (20:23 min)    Prayer at Dergah al-Farah (4:42 min)    October 29, 2009 Prayer at Dergah al-Farah (10:00 min)    October 22, 2009 Prayer at Dergah al-Farah (7:20 min)    Sohbet at Dergah al-Farah / Shaykha speaks to students from a class on Iranian Cinema (12:27 min)    October 15, 2009 Sohbet at Dergah al-Farah / Meeting other traditions / Coming shift / Creativity / Reading a hadith / Going to the Source (33:52 min)    October 9, 2009 Sohbet at Dergah al-Farah / Shaykha speaks to Buddhist guests / About Shaykh Nur (26:18 min)    September 24, 2009 Sohbet at Dergah al-Farah / After Ramadan / being covered over / all longing brings us to the Source / mystic journey of the heart / a passage from Leap of the Dervish from Shaykh Nur (15:14 min)    Prayer after Dhikr / followed by a meditation (11:33 min)    September 20, 2009 Handtaking of Brother Karim Nur at Dergah al-Farah (15:26 min)    September 18, 2009 Sohbet at Dergah al-Farah (11:49 min)    September 17, 2009 Sohbet at Dergah al-Farah / Remembering Allah / Be with the lovers (3: 53 min)    Prayer at Dergah al-Farah / Sohbet continued (10:37 min)    Handtaking of Sister Habiba at Dergah al-Farah (6: 27 min)    September 14, 2009 Sohbet at Dergah al-Farah / Gifts of the last days of Ramadan / Letting go / Give what you love (15: 45 min)    September 12, 2009 Sohbet at Dergah al-Farah / O Allah Increase us in Knowledge / Regarding women (12:51 min)    September 10, 2009 Sohbet at Dergah al-Farah / Think of Allah's Patience / Last ten days of Ramadan / a time of retreat (5:44 min)    Dhikr / Sitting (43:31 min)    Dhikr / Standing (55:26 min)    Prayer at Dergah al-Farah (6:51 min)    September 3, 2009 Sohbet at Dergah al-Farah / Reading from the Heart of Koran - The Storm of Love (8:27 min)    Dhikr / Sitting (46:23 min)    Prayer at Dergah al-Farah (8:07 min)    August 20, 2009 Prayer at Dergah al-Farah / Ramadan (5:44 min)    July 23, 2009 Sohbet at Dergah al-Farah / About the Meraj / each of us experiences a meraj / from Ibn Arabi / nothing separates us from Allah (20:14 min)    July 19, 2009 Prayer at Dergah al-Farah / Meraj Gathering (18:30 min)    July 16, 2009 Handtaking at Dergah al-Farah (15:39 min)    Prayer (5:25 min)    July 9, 2009 Sohbet at Dergah al-Farah / Allah is total freedom / accept the gifts that come to you / everything that we give returns to us / share our knowledge / selflessness in giving and receiving / Allah is ceaselessly giving (20:24 min)    Prayer (4:37 min)    July 2, 2009 Sohbet at Dergah al-Farah / reading hadith / be present to yourself / why do we flee from Allah / everything leads us back to the Source / its all about loving / to love you have learn to let go / be honest and truthful / loving oneself is key / giving up the limited self / heedlessness (26:27 min)    Prayer (7:12 min)    For past khutbas and sohbets go to the archive! Please contact us if you would like more info. OTHER TALKS & EVENTS February 8, 2008 Shaykha Fariha al-Jerrahi / On Sufism A Talk at the One Spirit Learning Alliance (65:17 min)    August 18, 2008 Wendy Salaam McLaughlin inteviews Shaykha Fariha al-Jerrahi Wendy Salaam McLaughlin hosts a bi-weekly show, Sufism: The Heart of Islam, on KWMR (West Marin Community Radio). She interviews Sufis “from all walks of life,” as she says, in order to give her listeners “a more complete view of Islam than is shown in the conventional media.” For more info on Wendy Salaam and podcasts of her other interviews, please go to http://www.sufiradio.com. Sufism: Heart of Islam / Radio Program (56:54 min)   August 10, 2008 Sufi Ceremony of Remembrance With Shaykha Fariha At the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork Bridgehampton, Long Island Sohbet (8:09 min)   Dhikr (Sitting) (32:28 min)   Dhikr (Standing) (49:38 min)   Prayer (5:25 min)   Sohbet Cont. (18:48 min)   April 11, 2008 PATHWAYS OF THE HEART: THE ESSENCE OF SUFISM A WORKSHOP AT THE OPEN CENTER Shaykha Fariha al-Jerrahi and Juliet rabia Gentile recently gave a workshop at the Open Center. Part One (61:51 min)   Part Two (34:41 min)   From the NY Open Center Catalogue: This evening we will discover, through direct experience, the essential ideas, practices and techniques of the Sufi tradition. Sufism, the mystical essence of Islam, has produced such luminaries as Rumi and Hafez as well as influenced the shape and scope of western mysticism in America today. In this workshop we will experience such powerful practices as dhikr (the recitation of specific divine names), sohbet (spiritual discussion designed to bypass the mind and open our hearts) and tafakkur (meditation techniques that combine breathing with the pronouncing of sacred names). We will also explore Sufi philosophy -its relationship to the Quran and hadith (oral tradition), and its universal message as interpreted by Lex Hixon, a major modern spiritual thinker and leader, and other important contemporary mystics. Come discover the essence of this rich spiritual tradition and its remarkable methods that can help us awaken from a state of division and confusion into one of wholeness and integration. March 4, 2008 SUFISM IS THE HEART OF ISLAM BROWN UNIVERSITY Shaykha Fariha al-Jerrahi speaking to students at Brown University / Sufism is the heart of Islam / the path of gratitude / the way of love / falling in love / emptying out / the sultan of the hearts in the garb of a humble man / the inner state / following guidance / recognizing the truth / the heart is the locus of divine revelation / humanity needs the mystic path / practices / reading from Atom, The Leap of the Dervish / Universal Islam / know yourself / the Quran must be embodied / truth is self-evident / allegiance to a teacher / real Islam is unknowing Part One (40:11 min)   Part Two (35:19 min)   December 1, 2007 Dergah Events: A Lecture on Rumi by Professor Jawid Mojaddedi Professor Mojaddedi lectures worldwide on Rumi, Sufism and Islam and is the author of several books on those subjects; most especially his award winning translations of the Mathnawi, Rumi"s great body of work. These translations are unique in the English language as they are in the form of rhyming couplets. The knowledge and scope of work are staggering. Please have a look at Professor Mojaddedi"s website: http://rci.rutgers.edu/~jawid And enjoy this masterful reading-performance by Professor Mojaddedi: http://podiobooks.com/title/masnavi-one/ "Now listen to this reed-flute's deep lament About the heartache being apart has meant: 'Since from the reed-bed they uprooted me My song's expressed each human's agony, A breast which separation's split in tow Is what I seek, to share this pain with you: When kept from their true origin, all yearn For union on the day they can return." - Opening verses of the Masnavi (Translation by Jawid Mojaddedi) Part One (56:44 min)   Part Two (58:38 min)   November 10, 2007 Dergah Events: A Talk on Quakerism by Lorcan Otway "A Friend's meeting, however silent, is at the very lowest a witness that worship is something other and deeper than words, and that it is to the unseen and eternal things that we desire to give the first place in our lives. And when the meeting...is awake and looking upwards, there is much more in it than this. In the united stillness of a truly 'gathered' meeting, there is a power known only by experience, and mysterious even when most familiar." -Caroline Stephen, (1908) Mr. Otway grew up Quaker and is a member of the Committee of Ministry and Counsel for the New York Quaker Quarterly Meeting. www.quakerinfo.org/ Part One (64:23 min)   Part Two (60:59 min)   August 24, 2007 Gathering at East West Bookstore Sohbet with Shaykha Fariha al-Jerrahi (12:16 min)   Closing Prayer (10:43 min)   FROM THE ARCHIVE April 20, 2007 THE ABRAHAMIC PROPHETS / Sufi Circle"s INTERFAITH CONFERENCE FORDHAM UNIVERSITY at Lincoln Center Shaykha Fariha al-Jerrahi offered a talk entitled THE PROPHETIC IDEAL & SUFISM. (38:33 min)   November 16, 2006 Shaykha Fariha speaks via video to sisters in Morocco, answering their questions and concerns regarding the role of women in the Muslim world (14:00 min).   September 27, 2006 Shaykha Fariha al-Jerrahi speaks about the Feminine Mystical Quality (interview with Rabia) (20:45 min)   July 2006 Shaykha Amina al-Jerrahi speaks about Contemporary Mystics (Roshi Glassman and Shaykh Nur) (16:31 min)   Pakistan Women's Conference 2006   Shaykha Fariha speaking via video to the women's conference in Pakistan. (25:43 min)  (right-click/control-click to download) Introduction to Dhikr - by Shaykha Fariha al Jerrahi Sufi Conference, October 14-16, 2005, Rhinebeck, NY Part 1 (62:40)    Part 2 (16:10)    A Talk on Sufism - by Shaykha Fariha al Jerrahi Part 1 (53:45)    Part 2 (25:10)    A Talk by Louise Riskin (64:23 min)   As part of the ongoing series of Interfaith events at the Masjid, Shaykha Fariha invited Louise Riskin CSW to offer a talk on Wednesday, April 12 at 7pm. Louise Riskin is an inspirational Baptist Minister, a contemporary mystic and was at the feet of Sheikhs Muzaffer and Nur. She has been initiated and immersed in Judaism, Hinduism, Islam and Buddhism and was a minister at Mt. Neboh Baptist Church in Harlem for the past twelve years. September 4, 2005 Shaykha Fariha al-Jerrahi speaking in Huntington, Long Island (70:50)   July, 2004 An interview of Shaykha Fariha by Jennifer Bleyer (45:11)   June 7, 2004 The Way of Spiritual Companionship An excerpt from Shaykha's talk is available (19:33 min)   TO MAKE A DONATION TO THE NUR ASHKI JERRAHI COMMUNITY, PLEASE CLICK THE BUTTON.

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