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Herzlich gern leite ich Sakis Einladung an Euch weiter. Die deutsche Übersetzung findet Ihr weiter unten. Rückfragen bitte direkt an sie, siehe unten. mit herzlichen Grüßen Latifa [cid:50ad95c9-2651-402e-8671-e9e3783f2f9c] Inayatiyya Deutschland e.V. Sekretariat - Teresa Latifa Grevelhörster Pfarrkeßlar 1 99444 Blankenhain OT Drößnitz Telefon 0 36 422 - 200 243 This summer, Saki Lee will offer the retreat Alchemy of Spiritual Eldering in the Netherlands. The retreat will be held at a beautiful monastery nestled between dunes, forest, and the sea. For further information, please visit: https://sites.google.com/view/conscious-eldering-retreat/home Or the main website: https://www.spiritualeldering.com/ For inquiries, you may also write to: lightsong(a)gmail.com<mailto:lightsong@gmail.com> ________________________________ German In diesem Sommer bietet Saki Lee das Retreat Alchemy of Spiritual Eldering in den Niederlanden an. Das Retreat wird in englischer Sprache gehalten und findet in einem wunderschönen Kloster statt – gelegen zwischen Dünen, Wald und Meer. Weitere Informationen finden Sie hier: https://sites.google.com/view/conscious-eldering-retreat/home Oder auf der Website: https://www.spiritualeldering.com/ Für Rückfragen können Sie auch schreiben an: lightsong(a)gmail.com<mailto:lightsong@gmail.com> blessings and peace, saki Lightsong Inayatiyya http://lightsong.info/ "There is no greater sign of Divine Presence than being fully engaged in the activities of life while demonstrating loving-kindness, tranquility and ease of being." - Hazrat Inayat Khan - Support Lightsong Inayatiyya Your generosity helps us continue offering Sufi classes, personal guidance, as well as administrative costs that keeps everything working. Donate via PayPal: lightsong(a)gmail.com or bank transfer: W.S. LEE IBAN: NL06 ABNA 0485 7807 20 · BIC: ABNANL2A With deep gratitude.

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ERINNERUNG - Retreat/Seminar "Kabbala und Jüdische Mystik" vom 13. bis 15. März in Heilbronn

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Ihr Lieben, BITTE MELDET EUCH AN vom 13. bis 15. März treffen wir uns bei Pavarti im Yoga-Haus Heilbronn zum Seminar/Retreat über die Kabbala und die jüdische Mystik. Es sind noch ein paar Plätze zu vergeben. Bitte schnell anmelden. der Sephiroth: Neben der Auseinandersetzung mit der Sephiroth, dem Baum des Lebens, erwarten Euch Einblicke in die mystische Traditionen der Chassidim, in die heiligen jüdischen Texte, die Bedeutung, Struktur und rituelle Anwendung. Wir lernen über die Kraft der 12-, 42- und 72- buchstabigen Gottesnamen und mehr. Zohar und Kabbala Schließlich ist das Thema Frieden im Kontext der jüdischen Mystik, insbesondere Zohar und Kabbala, tiefgründig und kraftvoll, gerade angesichts des aktuellen Gaza-Konflikts. Die Kabbala und der Zohar lehren, dass Liebe und Mitgefühl die stärksten Kräfte sind, um Dunkelheit und Konflikte zu überwinden. Dieser tiefen Sehnsucht nach Frieden möchten wir dann am Sonntag bei einer gemeinsamen kosmischen Feier begegnen. "Das Licht der göttlichen Einheit erstrahlt, wenn wir einander mit Liebe begegnen." "Wenn zwei Menschen sich versöhnen, dann wohnt die göttliche Gegenwart unter ihnen." Wir freuen uns auf Euch. Taslima und Tawhid

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The Zephyr Newsletter, February 2026 >>> deutsche Version

von sekretariat＠inayatiyya.de

Vielen Dank an Christine von der Übersetzungs-AG für die rasante Übersetzung des aktuellen Zephyrs! Autor ist diesmal Mika’il Petin, Geschäftsführer der Inayatiyya Nordamerika und Ozeanien. mit herzlichen Grüßen Latifa [cid:27b71779-2eec-4278-8986-29373cf684c8] Inayatiyya Deutschland e.V. Sekretariat - Teresa Latifa Grevelhörster Pfarrkeßlar 1 99444 Blankenhain OT Drößnitz Telefon 0 36 422 - 200 243 _________________________________ 18. Februar 2026 Liebe Freunde, Der Januar kam und ging – Wuuuusch! Nun sind wir mitten im Februar. Während Gemeinschaftsmitglieder auf der Südhalbkugel Urlaubsreisen und die Hochsaison der Sommeraktivitäten genießen, stehen diese 28 Tage auf der Nordhalbkugel vor allem für Winter, Karneval, den Black History Month, den Super Bowl und Primeln, die erste Vorboten des Frühlings sind. Einige wissen vielleicht, dass der Aschermittwoch (der Beginn einer Zeit der Besinnung, Buße und des Fastens während der Fastenzeit, die für Christen wichtig ist) in diesem Jahr mit dem Ramadan zusammenfällt, der für Muslime ähnliche Bräuche mit sich bringt. Jedoch geht es in diesem Brief nicht um kulturelle Ereignisse oder Jahreszeiten. Stattdessen handelt es sich vielmehr um eine Art „Liebesbrief”. Nein, ich habe nicht vor, über die Ursprünge des Valentinstags zu schwadronieren. Meine Neugierde gilt nicht der Frage, warum der Monat Februar in weiten Teilen der Welt unverkennbar als Katalysator für die Liebe gilt. Stattdessen werde ich riskieren, mich gegenüber einer Sufi-Gemeinschaft lächerlich zu machen, indem ich sage, dass das, was wir heute über Liebe denken, missverstanden, fehlgeleitet und falsch dargestellt wird. Die Alltäglichkeit der Liebe, die jeder einfach akzeptiert, ist meiner Meinung nach nicht aufrichtig. Zunächst einmal geht es mir nicht um moderne Beziehungen, die Institution der Ehe oder Dating-Apps. Vielmehr möchte ich kurz auf das Konzept der Liebe eingehen. Es gibt viele qualifiziertere Kommentatoren zu diesem Thema. Es ist nur so, dass ich angesichts dessen, was ich in letzter Zeit gesehen habe, ratlos bin. Einige Weise waren der Meinung, dass Liebe die höchste aller Tugenden sei. Diese Überzeugung ist so selbstverständlich geworden, dass sie kaum noch angezweifelt wird. Diese Ansicht ist so weit verbreitet, dass es Gegensätzlichkeiten zwischen verschiedenen Arten von Liebe gibt: • „Liebe überwindet alles“ versus „Selbstliebe über alles“ • „Liebe den Wanderer“ versus „Liebe zum Vaterland“ • „Liebe zur Natur“ versus „Liebe zur Technologie“ • „Ich liebe Menschen“ versus „Ich liebe Tiere“ Ja, es ist in Ordnung, Vorlieben zu haben. Wenn man jedoch ehrlich ist, kann es heutzutage unbescheiden, unaufrichtig und exklusiv wirken, eine starke Affinität zu etwas zu bekunden. Hier gibt es eine Nuance. Denken Sie einen Moment darüber nach, wie Sie zum ersten Mal mit Liebe in Berührung gekommen sind. Das könnte Ihre Familie gewesen sein, Ihre Geschwister, ein Haustier, Ihre erste Liebe usw. Im Laufe der Zeit haben sich die meisten von uns einer engen Vorstellung angepasst, die meiner Meinung nach vom Kommerz beeinflusst ist. Trotzdem ist Liebe mehr als Pralinenschachteln, Marketingstrategien oder Gewinnstreben. Sie ist eine Handlung, ein Ausdruck der Zuneigung zu etwas oder jemandem. Insbesondere wenn wir Zuneigung zu jemandem empfinden, gibt es Momente, in denen unser Herz schneller schlägt und wir atemlos sind, wenn der geliebte Mensch nicht da ist. Wir machen uns vielleicht Sorgen um ihn und fragen uns, ob die Gefühle, die wir in unserem Herzen tragen, erwidert werden. Unsicherheit ist eine natürliche menschliche Reaktion. Dennoch ist meine Herausforderung speziell, wie wir davon überzeugt wurden, über Liebe nachzudenken. In dem Tribalismus, den wir in den letzten etwa zehn Jahren erlebt haben, wurden wir mit Äußerungen darüber überflutet, was manche Menschen lieben, die in der Regel sehr begrenzt sind. Ich reagiere sehr empfindlich auf Menschen, die behaupten, liebevoll zu sein, wenn sich ihre Gefühle aufgrund ihrer Einseitigkeit auf eine ausgewählte Gruppe von Menschen beschränken. Das macht mich misstrauisch, aber das ist nur meine Meinung! Und außerdem möchte ich glauben, dass jeder von uns zu so viel mehr fähig ist. Der Psychoanalytiker und Philosoph Erich Fromm schreibt in seinem Buch „Die Kunst des Liebens“<https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14142.The_Art_of_Loving?mc_cid=95fafb0c…>: „Liebe ist nicht in erster Linie eine Beziehung zu einer bestimmten Person; sie ist eine Haltung, eine Charakterausrichtung, die die Beziehung eines Menschen zur Welt als Ganzes bestimmt, nicht zu einem ‚Objekt der Liebe‘. … Wenn ich einen Menschen wirklich liebe, liebe ich alle Menschen, ich liebe die Welt, ich liebe das Leben.“ Fromm will uns damit sagen, dass das Gegenteil von Liebe nicht Hass ist, sondern Kurzsichtigkeit. Genau das ist es! Ich frage mich, ob Liebe heutzutage aufgrund begrenzter Vorstellungskraft und vergeblicher Hoffnungen missverstanden, fehlgeleitet und falsch dargestellt wird. Das Othering and Belonging Institute<https://belonging.berkeley.edu/?mc_cid=95fafb0c2f&mc_eid=3acf6dcc09> beschrieb kürzlich die Proteste in Minneapolis, Minnesota, hier in den Vereinigten Staaten, als Beispiel für „organisierte Liebe”. Auch wenn die Meinungen darüber, was dort passiert ist – und warum – auseinandergehen, erleben wir doch konkurrierende Ansichten darüber, was Menschen lieben. Wie dem auch sei, der Begriff der organisierten Liebe hat einen Präzedenzfall. Wenn wir an die Bürgerrechtsbewegung der 1960er Jahre hier in den USA zurückdenken (die zu einem Vorbild für gewaltfreie Bewegungen auf der ganzen Welt geworden ist), war dies eine historische Demonstration organisierter Liebe, bei der Menschen afrikanischer Herkunft eine basisdemokratische, multiethnische, generationsübergreifende und multireligiöse, von Werten geleitete Koalition gegen vorherrschende Ideale anführten, die im Gegensatz zur Liebe standen. Ich versuche nicht, Sie davon zu überzeugen, dass Liebe nur dann von Bedeutung ist, wenn sie die Form des Widerstands annimmt. Es ist nur so, dass es sich für uns geziemt, über die Worte von Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. nachzudenken, einem Verfechter der bedingungslosen Liebe während der Bürgerrechtsbewegung, der bekräftigte: „Liebe ist die einzige Kraft, die einen Feind in einen Freund verwandeln kann.“ Ich komme noch einmal auf das zurück, was ich oben gesagt habe: Wie wurden wir davon überzeugt, über Liebe nachzudenken? Auf dieser irdischen Ebene haben wir Liebe als etwas Intimes und Begrenztes kennengelernt, obwohl die Art und Weise, wie wir sie leben sollten, ätherischer ist. Hazrat Inayat Khan lehrt diejenigen, die sich auf dem Weg befinden: „Der Quellstrom der Liebe entspringt in der Liebe zu einem Individuum, breitet sich jedoch aus und mündet in universeller Liebe.“ Spirituell gesehen ist universelle Liebe der Antrieb dafür, dass wir einander hoch schätzen. Das allgemeine Gefühl ist: „Ich liebe dich, weil du ich bist.“ Aber selbst wenn gegenseitige Bewunderung zwischen den Herzen herrscht, kann Unsicherheit bestehen. Machst du dir jemals Sorgen? Worauf wir unsere Liebe richten, kann eine Quelle der Angst und Sorge sein. Denken Sie einen Moment darüber nach, wen oder was Sie lieben. Das kann eine einzelner Mensch sein, Familienmitglieder, ein Auto oder Ihre enge Online-Community. Wenn Sie etwas lieben – egal was –, sind Sie ständig in Sorge. Ich persönlich habe mich mit der Frage auseinandergesetzt, was ich eigentlich am meisten liebe und was mich so sehr beunruhigt. Ohne eine Sekunde zu zögern, nachzudenken oder zu atmen, war es aufrichtig Gott, gefolgt von meiner Familie und dann dem Gedeihen der Menschheit. Was lehrt uns Hazrat Inayat Khan in diesem Zusammenhang? Er sagt: „Die beste Art zu lieben ist zu dienen.“ Ohne also eine Sekunde zu zögern, nachzudenken oder zu atmen, habe ich keinen Zweifel, dass mein Dienst Gott gilt, gefolgt von meiner Familie und dann dem Gedeihen der Menschheit – der gesamten Menschheit! Das ist meine Präferenz. Ich habe erkannt, dass meine Angst daher rührt, dass ich mir wünsche, dass meine Liebe erwidert wird. Gott, Familie und Menschheit, liebt ihr mich? Ich wünsche uns allen dieselbe Klarheit. Während ich auf Antworten warte, bin ich voller Hoffnung, denn ich halte mich fest an eine Sufi-Weisheit, die ich vor langer Zeit gelernt habe: „Sei in dieser Welt, aber sei nicht von dieser Welt.“ Was ich mir für uns alle wünsche, ist, dass wir aktiv die menschlichen Übel der sozialen Isolation, des Ethnozentrismus, des Mangels an Empathie, der Missachtung der Umwelt und der Fallstricke des Konsumdenkens überwinden, indem wir unseren Geliebten verkünden. Wenn jemand die göttliche Liebe kennt, was könnten wir dann noch tun? Es gibt so viel, was wir alle tun können. Natürlich müssen wir Wege finden, mehr von unserer Liebe zu geben. Denjenigen, die wir bereits lieben, sagen, warum wir sie lieben und warum sie uns wichtig sind. Oder wir können die Anliegen unterstützen, die Brücken zwischen Menschen bauen, und die uns am Herzen liegen. Aber was ist mit dem, was nicht offensichtlich ist? Diejenigen zu lieben, die wir nicht kennen, aus keinem anderen Grund als um Gottes willen, des Einen, der Liebe ist. Der Grund dafür ist, dass wir, wenn wir unsere erweichten Herzen öffnen, zurückgeliebt werden. Mich persönlich spricht an, was der Allerhöchste im Kapitel „Maria” des Heiligen Korans sagt: „Denjenigen, die glauben und gute Werke tun, wird der Gnadenvollste Liebe schenken” (19: 96). Was für ein Geschenk?! Sind Sie wie ich und machen sich Sorgen, ob Ihre Taten genügen und Sie von dem Einen, dem Erhabenen, gesegnet werden? Wenn ja, müssen wir noch intensiver lieben. Im Grunde brauchen wir in diesem historischen Moment mehr als falsche Vorstellungen von menschlicher Verbindung und unverbesserliche Hallmark*-Optimisten [*Hallmark Channel ist ein US-amerikanischer Fernsehsender]. Wenn Technologen entschlossen sind, künstliche Intelligenz zu unserer zukünftigen Realität zu machen, dann können wir eine andere Vorstellung von menschlicher Verbundenheit ins Leben rufen. Lasst uns das, was wir beanspruchen – den Wender der Herzen aufrichtig zu verehren – einzig mit unserem Ausdruck der Liebe konkurrieren, damit beides größer wird als je zuvor. Ein Vorschlag wäre, von der Art und Weise, wie die meisten von uns sozialisiert wurden, nämlich davon besessen zu sein, was „ich liebe” im individuellen romantischen oder familiären Sinne, zu einer gemeinschaftlichen Haltung zu wechseln, nämlich dazu, was „wir gemeinsam lieben”. Dieser Kampf ist real, aber durch Nachfragen, ehrlichen Dialog, willkommene Meinungsverschiedenheiten, aktives Zuhören und tiefes Nachdenken zu bewältigen, bis hin zur letztendlichen Harmonie. Es muss nicht perfekt sein. Wenn unsere Vorstellungen von Liebe jemals so eng werden, dass wir uns nur noch an denen orientieren, die genauso denken, glauben, praktizieren, verehren oder die Welt sehen wie wir, dann bete ich darum, dass die Kapazitäten unserer Herzen erweitert werden. Denn wahrhaftig den Einen zu lieben, der die Quelle und das Ziel von allem ist, bedeutet, dass unsere Herzen nicht klein sein können und das, was in ihnen ist, nicht aufgeteilt. Dafür liebe ich uns. XOXOXO, MP _________________________________ View this email in your browser<https://mailchi.mp/inayatiyya/the-zephyr-newsletter-february-2026?e=3acf6dc…> The Zephyr Newsletter [Inayati Order Zephyr Newsletter]<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> 18 February 2026 Dear Ones, [https://mcusercontent.com/fd8625857899793849a6f66bc/images/960f9401-9609-c9… came and went––Whoosh! Now, we are fully in February. While community members in the southern hemisphere are enjoying holiday travel and the height of summer activities, these 28 days are most associated with winter, Mardi Gras, Black History Month, Super Bowl, and primroses that are early signs of spring in the northern hemisphere. Some may know that Ash Wednesday (the start of a period for reflection, repentance, and fasting during Lent that is important to Christians) coincides this year with Ramadan with its similar practices for Muslims. However, this letter is not about cultural events or seasons. Instead, it is a “love letter” of sorts. No, I don’t intend to babble on about the origins of Valentine’s Day. My own curiosity is not how the month of February is unmistakably recognized as a catalyst for love in what seems like more parts of the world. Instead, I will risk sounding ridiculous to a Sufi community by saying that what we think about love today is misunderstood, misdirected, and misrepresented. The commonplaceness of love, I want to reason, that everyone just accepts is not sincere. To start with, my concern is not with modern relationships, the institution of marriage, or dating apps. Rather, I want to briefly look at the concept of love. There are many more qualified commentators on this topic. It’s just that I am at a loss with what I have seen lately. Some sages have held that love is the highest of all virtues. That belief has become so commonsensical that it’s hardly disputed. The sentiment is so widely accepted that there are dichotomies between loves: * “Love conquers all” versus “Self-love above all” * “Love the wayfarer” versus “Love of country” * “Love of nature” versus “Love of technology” * “I love people” versus “I love animals” Yes, it is fine to have preferences. Being truthful, however, to assert a strong affinity for anything nowadays can seem immodest, disingenuous, and exclusive. There is a nuance here. Think for a moment about how you were first socialized when it comes to love. It could have been your family, siblings, a pet, a first love, etc. Over time, most of us have conformed to a narrow idea, which is influenced by commercialism IMHO. In spite of that, love is more than boxes of chocolate, marketing schemes, or profit motives. It is an action, a show of affection towards something or someone. In particular, when any of us has affection toward someone else, there are times when our hearts race, and we feel breathless when the apples of our eyes are absent. We might worry about them, and if the feelings we hold in our hearts are reciprocated. Insecurity is a natural human response. Nevertheless, my challenge specifically is how have we been convinced to think about love? In the tribalism we have witnessed in the past decade or so, we have been inundated with pronouncements about what some people love that are usually very limited. I have strong reactions to anyone who professes to be loving if what they are feeling is limited to a select group of human beings, because of their single-mindedness. It makes me suspicious, but that’s just me! And also, I want to believe that each of us is capable of so much more. In psychoanalyst and philosopher Erich Fromm’s The Art of Loving<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…>, he writes, “Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one ‘object of love.’...If I truly love one person I love all persons, I love the world, I love life.” What Fromm is telling us is that the counter to love is not hate, but is myopia. That’s just it! I wonder, is love today being misunderstood, misdirected, and misrepresented because of limited imaginations and forlorn hopes? The Othering and Belonging Institute<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> recently described the protests in Minneapolis, Minnesota here in the United States as what “organized love” looks like. Even if opinions vary about what’s been happening there––and why––what we are witnessing is competing views of what people love. Be that as it may, the notion of organized love has a precedent. If we think back to the 1960s’ movement for civil rights here in the U.S. (that has become a model for nonviolent movements around the world), it was a historic demonstration of organized love with people of African ancestry leading a grassroots, multiracial, multigenerational, and multifaith values-led coalition against prevailing ideals that contrasted with love. I am not attempting to persuade you that love only matters if it takes the form of resistance. It’s just that it behooves us to ruminate over what Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a proponent of unconditional love during the Civil Rights movement, affirmed, “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” I once more come back to what I state above: How have we been convinced to think about love? On this terrestrial plane, we have known love to be something intimate and limited, though how we should live it is something more ethereal. What Hazrat Inayat Khan teaches those on the path is, “The fountain stream of love rises in the love for an individual, but spreads and falls in universal love.” Spiritually, universal love is the impetus for us to hold each other in high regard. The general feeling is that, “I love you, because you are me.” But even if there is mutual admiration between hearts, there can be uncertainty. Are you ever worried? Where we direct our love can be a source of anxiety. Reflect for a moment on who or what you love. It could be an individual, family members, a car, or your close online community. If you love something––anything––you are anxious all the time. Personally, I have wrestled with what I actually love most that has me so concerned. Without a second to blink, think, or breathe it has sincerely been God, followed by my family then the flourishing of humanity. Relatedly, what does Hazrat Inayat Khan teach us? He says, “The best way to love is to serve.” So, without a second to blink, think, or breathe I am unequivocal in my service to God, followed by my family then the flourishing of humanity––all of humanity! That’s my preference. What I have come to realize is that my anxiety is due to me wanting my love to be reciprocated. To God, family, and humanity, do you love me? For all of us, I wish the same clarity. While I wait for responses, I am hopeful as I hold tightly to Sufi wisdom that I learned a long time ago: “Be in this world, but don’t be of this world.” What I want for all of us is that we are actively transcending human ills of social isolation, ethnocentricism, lack of empathy, disregard for the environment, and trappings of consumerism by proclaiming our Beloved. If someone knows Divine Love, what else might we do? There is so much that all of us can do. Obviously, we need to find ways to pour out more of our love. Tell those whom we love already why we do, and why they matter. Or we can support the causes that are building bridges across human divides that are dear to us. But what about what’s not obvious? Love those whom we don’t know for no other reason than for the sake of God, the One who is Love. The reason being, if we expand our softened hearts, we are loved in return. I am personally drawn to what the Most Perfect says in the chapter “Mary” of the Holy Qur’an, “On those who believe and work deeds of righteousness, will the Most Gracious bestow love for them” (19: 96). What a gift?! Are you like me, and worried about what you send forward in terms of deeds being enough and being blessed by the One who is Exalted? If so, we must love more fiercely. Fundamentally, we need more than false ideas about human connection and Hallmark Pollyanna at this historical moment. If technologists are determined to make artificial intelligence our future reality, then we can bring into being a different idea of human connectedness. Let what we claim––to truly adore the Turner of hearts––only compete with our expressions of love so both are greater than they have been before now. One suggestion is to shift from the way most of us have been socialized into obsessing over what it is that “I love” in an individual romantic or familial sense to a collective attitude of what it is that “we love” communally. That struggle is real, but achievable through inquiry, honest dialogue, welcomed disagreement, active listening, deep reflection, onto eventual harmony. It doesn’t have to be perfect. If ever our ideas of love become so narrow to the point where we are only oriented towards those who think, believe, practice, worship, or see the world the same as we do, then I pray that the capacities of our hearts is expanded. Why so is that to truly love the One who is the Source and Goal of everything means that our hearts cannot be small, or what’s in them compartmentalized. I love us for that. XOXOXO, MP [https://mcusercontent.com/fd8625857899793849a6f66bc/images/36de5865-91a8-54…'s Urs 2026 “The soul is life, it never touches death. Death is its illusion, its impression, death comes to something which it holds, not to the soul itself.” — Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan You can find a photo album from Murshid's Urs in India <https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> here<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…>. [https://mcusercontent.com/fd8625857899793849a6f66bc/images/a1b94340-be6c-a6… from the Mother of the Sun Pir Zia says of the book: “Tears from the Mother of the Sun is a sequence of interwoven stories that form a history of spiritual traditions across the planet over the course of successive eras. I’ve tried to show in the book the way in which cultures always have a sacred foundation, and how they don’t exist in isolation but are instead inextricably linked to each other. The various traditions of the world are all expressions of the planetary spirit. I’ve tried to communicate this perception by retelling traditional stories in a manner that foregrounds the connective tissue that unites them.” Pir Zia's new book is now available, and can be purchased through Inner Traditions<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…>. Please see photos from the launch in Delhi here<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…>. [https://mcusercontent.com/fd8625857899793849a6f66bc/images/b16a0f21-6655-10…]<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> In an Eastern Rose Garden - Part II Teachings on Freedom, Democracy, and the Soul w/ Pir Zia Inayat Khan Sundays, February 22nd to March 15th, 2026 11:00 am – 12:30 pm ET / 5:00 – 6:30 pm CET via Zoom All beings pursue freedom. Freedom is an essential quality of the soul, but too often, freedom is achieved at the expense of someone else. A truer freedom arises from the realization of interconnectedness. This season we continue our exploration of the ideal of freedom. Over four weeks, Pir Zia will guide us through topics such as the power of breath, spiritual democracy, freedom of the soul, and the ideal life. Each session will close with spiritual practices to carry into the week ahead. This program is open to everyone. More details and registration.<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> [https://mcusercontent.com/fd8625857899793849a6f66bc/images/f783562e-7b46-2f…]<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> German Spring Retreat 2026 Forgiveness, Healing, and Wholeness Discourse, Meditation, Music and Interfaith Worship w/ Pir Zia April 2nd - April 6th, 2026 Gersfeld (Rhön), Germany & via Zoom “If you could turn back the clock, would you fly back and change the past? Of course, we cannot change what we have said and done, or the actions of others—but we can change the way the past and present live in us. Knowingly or unknowingly, we are all creating a world within our heart, a world destined to outlast the seemingly objective world outside. The inner world becomes a Garden to the degree in which old enmities are transformed by means of fortifying insight, the circulation of life’s vital sap heals our most enduring wounds, guilt dissolves and coagulates as wisdom and acceptance, and the body-mind-soul nexus is made lucid and whole in the light of the All-Encompassing One.” — Pir Zia Inayat Khan This program is in-person and via Zoom, with registration for both through Inayatiyya Deutschland. More details and registration.<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> [https://mcusercontent.com/fd8625857899793849a6f66bc/images/3ae26ec7-fc5f-5a…]<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> In Search of the Grail: A Fourfold Quest A gathering with Pir Zia and Friends April 9th – 12th, 2026 Glastonbury, UK The Grail is the centrepiece of a series of legends spanning various lands and ages.Seen in its essence, the Grail reveals itself as the fulcrum of human existence, where inner and outer worlds converge, and life is perpetually renewed. Four numinous objects, or “Hallows,” function as fundamental aspects of its power to heal and transform: the Sword, the Spear, the Cup, and the Stone. By approaching these Hallows each in turn, the questing seeker is drawn ever closer to the mystery at the core of life. We will gather for a short pilgrimage over four days in the heart of Glastonbury to peel back the layers of myth. Through storytelling, music, mediation and ritual, we will explore the mystery and wisdom of the Grail. More details and registration.<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> [https://mcusercontent.com/fd8625857899793849a6f66bc/images/fa5a3fb9-2678-ae…] News from the Caravan This month, we have news to share from the Caravan. Read more...<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> The Zephyr is a monthly newsletter of the Inayatiyya, an interfaith mystical fellowship with branches worldwide. For more information, please visit us at inayatiyya.org<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…>. 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Bridging Worlds - Ziraat International Newsletter - Erstausgabe

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Liebe Ziraát-Freunde, das internationale Team Ata'allah, Fazl'Mai, Nehmat, Raqib, Safed, Tasnim und Zebunissa haben die erste Ausgabe des Internationalen Ziraát-Newsletter „Bridging Worlds“ fertiggestellt. Hauptsächlich Nehmat aus Australien, eine der beiden Vice-Presidents für Nordamaerika und Oceanien hat dafür die Hauptarbeit übernommen. Zweimal jährlich soll der Newsletter erscheinen. Er liegt auf Englisch vor. Die Artikel sind in der Dropbox abgelegt und können dort auch auf Deutsch gelesen werden. Wir bemühen uns, die Anfangsprobleme die es mit der Software noch gibt, bald zu bewältigen. Besonders hinweisen möchte ich auf die “Roots and Shoots” – Serie, in deren Rahmen übermorgen, Freitag 13. February, 21.00 Uhr, ein Abend mit Thema “Das Wasser als Quelle unseres physischen und spirituellen Lebens feiern“, gestaltet von einem Team: (Celebrating Water as the Source of our Physical and Spiritual Lives Presenters: Zebunissa Pamela Overeynder, Sharifa Oppenheimer, Tasnim Stupac). 2026 … New Beginnings — Save these Dates Ziraat focus theme for the year: Mysteries of Water - Ya Wahabu Semester 1 Program [USA 3pm-4:30pm ET | Europe 9pm-10:30pm CET] - 2nd Fridays of month. Living Waters - Celebration and Restoration • Friday 13th February – Celebrating Water as the Source of our Physical and Spiritual Lives • Friday 13th March – Managing Water with Permaculture Design • Friday 8th May – Holy Mysteries of Water Earth Day - Our Power, Our Planet and Our Water • Wednesday 22nd April – A combined offering by Ziraat and Music Activities Anmeldungen bitte bei Nehmat ziraat(a)inayatiyya.org<mailto:ziraat@inayatiyya.org> gegen einen kleinen Obolus. Ich freue mich, Euch auch bei der Serie "Natur - Kraftorte - Geomantie - Elemente" wieder zu treffen, deren nächster Abend kommende Woche am 18.02.26, 19.00 Uhr stattfindet. Herzliche Grüße Euer Raqib Koordinator Zira´at Europa Gerhard Raqib Kittel Tel. 0049-911-4622700 info(a)gerhard-kittel.de<mailto:info@gerhard-kittel.de> [cid:image001.png@01DC9B7C.EAB717F0] Sprachen & Übersetzungen Der Newsletter wurde in englischer Sprache verfasst und wir experimentieren derzeit mit Übersetzungen. Wir entschuldigen uns im Voraus für etwaige Fehler oder Mängel in den Übersetzungen. Hilfe zum Anzeigen: Der Newsletter wird möglicherweise in Ihrer E-Mail gekürzt angezeigt. Verwenden Sie den Link „Gesamte Nachricht anzeigen“ am Ende des E-Mail-Teils, den Sie erhalten haben, um den vollständigen Newsletter anzuzeigen. Alternativ können Sie den Newsletter über den folgenden Link in Ihrem Browser öffnen. Klicken Sie auf „Aktualisieren“, wenn er zunächst nicht geladen wird. 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Der Dropbox-Ordner wird geöffnet und Sie können das entsprechende Dokument in Niederländisch, Englisch, Französisch, Deutsch, Spanisch oder Türkisch auswählen. Übersetzt mit DeepL.com Languages & Translations The newsletter has been compiled in English and we are experimenting with translations. We apologise in advance for any errors or faults with the translations. Viewing assistance: * The Newsletter may be clipped in your email - use the View Entire Message link at the end of the email portion you received, to see the full newsletter. * Alternatively, use the link here to open the Newsletter in your browser. Click REFRESH if it doesn't load initially. Translations: * Open the Newsletter in your browser. Use the Translate option in the top right hand corner to change to another language. [Click translate, check the initial language is English, then select the language you require from the blue coloured link at the top of the screen.] Our testing has revealed some difficulties when opening links in the translated versions. * Links to websites should work: - use the REFRESH or RELOAD options, if it doesn't load straight away. * For the READ MORE links to Dropbox folders: you may see a "something went wrong" message. Here's a workaround: Click REFRESH PAGE button and on the next screen click Go to Original URL button. The Dropbox folder will open and you can select the relevant paper in Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish or Turkish. View this email in your browser<https://mailchi.mp/inayatiyya/bridging-ziraat-newsletter?e=ccef0cb9bb> [https://mcusercontent.com/fd8625857899793849a6f66bc/images/b4758372-3e65-a5…] [https://mcusercontent.com/fd8625857899793849a6f66bc/images/ef4812dc-3808-3d…] Inayatiyya Ziraat - International Newsletter January 2026 [https://mcusercontent.com/fd8625857899793849a6f66bc/images/f06ddf61-ee66-ed…] “Ziraat exists for the greening of the self and of the Earth; and this greening is a great need of our time.” Pir Zia Inayat Khan (Zenith Camp 2023) Contents 1. Message to Ziraat Community 2. Events 3. Ziraat Exercises 4. Country Reports and Websites 5. Articles and Contributions 6. Ziraat Calendar (Feb - July) Greetings and Welcome Message from Editors Over the past few years the Inayatiyya Ziraat Community has reached out internationally over Zoom fostering new friendships and connections. This Newsletter takes us one step further in friendship and provides a platform to discover the many and varied ways our Ziraat Service manifests around the world - sharing information and discovering what interests and inspires us. Bridging Worlds We see this Ziraat newsletter as a bridge between countries and geographical regions, as well as to the unseen worlds and spiritual planes, hence the proposed name, "Bridging Worlds". This name also links back to the Ziraat newsletter that was produced in Pir Vilayat's time with the title "Rainbow Bridge" - from 1986-1993. [https://mcusercontent.com/fd8625857899793849a6f66bc/images/293b3b13-97f9-86… this first edition, spirals are mentioned in several places and we are reminded of our place in the cosmos, the many cycles that influence our daily life, our Ziraat cycle of work on the farm and the natural cycles of birth, life, death and the journey beyond. The outer circle illustrates our inter-connection and inter-dependence with all of life and unity with the ONE. The Maori koru is a symbol of new life, new beginnings, growth, peace and happiness. Grandmother Jamia Haqq, (Experienced Farmer, Aotearoa) offers this symbol as a special blessing for this newsletter project. Kia ora We invoke the presence of the Sovereign of the Farm. We offer our whole hearted devotion to the Great Farmer. We offer our homage to the elements - Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Ether and our gratitude to the Elemental Beings. May this project unite us in love and harmony and beauty. Subscriptions This newsletter has been sent via the Inayatiyya Global Email List for Ziraat. If someone has forwarded it on to you and you would like to be added to the Email list - please use this link to SUBSCRIBE<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…>. If you do not wish to receive these in the future, there's an unsubscribe link at the end of the Newsletter. Submissions for the next newsletter are welcome We are planning two editions per year (January and June) and look forward to receiving your submissions for special events, country updates, articles, photos, artwork, etc. Short email announcements may also be sent during the year to advise of special events. We also welcome any feedback and suggestions. [Email: ziraat(a)inayatiyya.org.] Editorial Team: Ata'allah, Fazl'Mai, Nehmat, Raqib, Safed, Tasnim, Zebunissa [https://mcusercontent.com/fd8625857899793849a6f66bc/images/d42c92c4-2b6b-ea…] Retreats and Special Events Journey to the Bosnian Pyramids, near Sarajevo with Yousuf Stefan Zöller * 20 - 27 February, 2026 Yousuf invites you to join him and friends on this journey. For Information: Contact Stefan Zoeller by email (szoeller(a)gmx.de ) * Yousuf will give a report of his journey on 18th March, 19.00 (7 pm CET) by Zoom in the series: Nature-Places of Power-Geomancy-Elements. (... see below) Living Water - Celebration and Restoration - Ziraat NA&O * 2nd Friday of the month for February, March, May at 3pm (USA-ET) * Europe-CET 9pm | Australia-NSW 7am | New Zealand 9am) * Language - English. Recordings will be available after each session * Register online - Fee is by sliding scale Program and Registration<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> * Starts this week - Friday 13th Feb USA & Europe | Saturday 14th Feb Oceania February 13: Celebrating Water as the Source of our Physical and Spiritual Lives Presenters: Zebunissa Pamela Overeynder, Sharifa Oppenheimer, Tasnim Stupac March 13: Managing Water with Permaculture Design Presenters: Ata’allah Bill Meacham and Alia Patricia Michael May 8th: Holy Mysteries of Water Presenters: Raqib Gerhard Kittel and Friends * Please check times<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> in other locations each month Nature - Places of Power - Geomancy - Elements: Ziraat Germany * 3rd Wednesday of the month at 7 pm (Europe-CET) by Zoom * Language - German * The first part of the meeting will consider the astrological rising star-sign * Zoom Link for all of 2026: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88313032716?pwd=xJkxccqWLPFNEYeN0IQLWun204Frmq.1<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> Will of Water - Purification (celebrating Earth Day 2026) * Wednesday 22nd April at 3pm (USA-ET) | 9pm (Europe CET) * All are invited to join this special world-wide Inayatiyya Ziraat and Music collaboration to celebrate Earth Day through creative arts reflecting the healing power of water in a beautiful creative flow of photos, quotes and poetry integrated with music. * Program will be offered by zoom in English * Ziraat Website- Events <https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> - information will be available soon This is a free event. There’s no need to register Art as Zikr: Finding Divine Ecstasy in Artistic Expression - Sufi Seminar in Milan, Italy: 25-26 April, 2026 Note changes: The Seminar will now be held in Vienna on 9th & 10th May * Murshida Amat-un-Nur extends an invitation to any who are interested to attend this conference. It is an in-person event, bringing together exceptional Sufi teachers of our time - a rare opportunity! * Presenters: Murshida Amat-un-Nur, Sheikh Hamdi Ben Aissa, Neil Douglas-Klotz, Muhamad Valsan and Sheikh Burhanuddin Herrmann. * The seminar will be given in English and Italian. * If you feel a resonance with this gathering, we warmly invite you to register and confirm your place ASAP. The early-bird registration period runs to the end of February. * Information: https://inayatiyya.org.uk/events/sufi-conference-2026-milan-italy/<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> * Registration and information - email: Salima Grigolli (salima.inayati.mi(a)gmail.com) * <https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> <https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> Read More ...<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> <https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> translated Flyers and Information sheets Emerald Earth - Ziraat Retreat: (North America) * 3-day residential retreat: 1-3rd May, 2026 * Guided by: Kainat Norton and Muinuddin Smith * The Abode, Spiritual Retreat Centre in upstate New York. * Language: English * Link for Information and Registration <https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> Sowing Seeds of Friendship Retreat at Fazil Manzil, Suresnes - Paris, France * 2-day residential retreat: Monday and Tuesday, June 29 and 30, 2026 * With great joy, we invite you to an international Ziraat meeting taking place at the Khanqah in Suresnes. * Under the theme “Sowing Seeds of Friendship,” this gathering is being prepared by Hayat and Emir from France, MehrunNisa from Belgium, and Tasnim from Switzerland. * Invitations with details will follow in March. [https://mcusercontent.com/fd8625857899793849a6f66bc/images/7e57ad2d-2763-84…] Ziraat - Contemplation Exercises The Maori Koru Symbol Ziraat Aotearoa [https://mcusercontent.com/fd8625857899793849a6f66bc/images/0cc30ed1-d06e-d9…] The Māori word Koru means "loop" or "coil," representing the unfurling frond of the silver fern. Like other ancient symbols, the spiral signifies perpetual movement, the cycle of life, and returning to an origin. The Koru is often used in art, pounamu (green stone) carvings and tattoos. It is also used in meditations to bring harmony and balance. Key Meanings of Koru and spirals: * New Beginnings: Represents a fresh start, new phases in life, and hope for the future. * Growth & Strength: Evokes the unfolding fern frond, symbolizing personal growth, strength, and rejuvenation. * Peace & Harmony: Conveys tranquility, balance, and working in unity. * Perpetual Movement: The spiral shape shows the continuous cycle of life and change. * Connection: The inner coil suggests returning to the source, while the overall form shows interconnectedness. AI Generated content. Graphics: Koru (in Welcome Message): Mountain Jade<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> Tree Fern frond: www.digitalkoru.com Reading - Hazrat Inayat Khan Consciousness and Personality Vol III The Art of Personality (Centennial Volume - p157) When we look at the world we see that everything makes a circle. The plant grows from the seed to its developed state and returns to dust. Human beings grow from childhood to youth, to maturity, then to old age. This, it is said, is an argument for our passing through many lives. But it is not the circle that journeys but the point which, journeying, forms the circle and returns to the place from which it started. It is the consciousness that performs the journey at all times, and not the individual soul. The drops of water in a fountain go up, some higher, some lower, some go a very little way, some rise very high. When each drop falls down it sinks into the stream, flowing away with it, and does not rise again, although the water of the same stream rises again and falls again in drops – which proves to us the fact that the water has a continual rise and fall, not the drop, yet apparently it rises and falls as drops though the portion of water in every drop is different. The wheel of evolution is such that the consciousness gradually evolves through rock, tree, animal, to humanity. When it reaches humanity it cannot manifest further toward the surface because through this journey all its force is spent. Human beings are the most active beings, they have to do with most things. A rock has very little activity; it lasts long. A tree has a little more activity and its life is not so long as that of a rock. There are many animals which live longer than human beings. Humanity has the most activity, and in humanity consciousness reaches the highest point of manifestation. Emerald Contemplation: Sense the presence of nature in each breath Attunement: - from Zebunissa Overeynder * [https://mcusercontent.com/fd8625857899793849a6f66bc/images/dbf5b35c-dab3-d1…] We usually think in terms of self - IN as what is inside and other - as what is OUTSIDE. Nature is outside. Self is inside. Separate thinking. * One way to look at nature is that it is the place where inside and outside are one. In this practice: we bring the “outside” IN on the in-breath and on the out-breath the “inside” merges with the "outside". There’s not a particle of difference between inside and inside. Only what the mind has created. The Buddhists call it "Big Mind". It is always present, immaculate and sparkling. All we have to do is bring our attention to its presence. We could call it nature and we can sense the presence of nature in each breath. * Breathe IN: the vastness—Nature, Big Mind, Wholeness * Hold: a few seconds and feel the Presence— which is always right here, right now. * Breathe OUT: expanding your sense of self into Nature, into union. <https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> Read More ... <https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> <https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> <https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> Continue this contemplation connecting with each of the elements. [https://mcusercontent.com/fd8625857899793849a6f66bc/images/b6f6ad24-3f03-c1…] Country Reports Austria * Website: https://www.inayatiyya.at/die-7-zweige/ziraat/<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> * Salima is the Ziraat Representative for Austria. * Lodges are held regularly around the time of the solstice/equinox or New Moon. * At the end of 2025, Salima was exploring the resonance in the spirit of the Advent Season and pregnancy as an archetype in the process of embodiment. * For the New Moon on 18th January this year, a Ziraat Lodge was held at the stone Labyrinth Circle near Lake Wörthersee. * Salima has submitted an article, called the Power of Creating, about the crafting of this geomantic stone circle. She has also provide a video and a Geopointer manual for those interested to find out more. France * Website: [http://Website: ]https://www.inayatiyya-france.org/les-cinq-activites/ * Fazl’Mai is Ziraat Representative for France. * For the past three years, Ziraat has been offering four annual meetings at the change of seasons or between seasons on the theme of “Our Inner Seasons” as a combined Knighthood and Zira’at event. * Last year, this theme was illustrated by contemplating each of the six Tapestries, called the Lady and the Unicorn<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…>. This alchemical work connects Ziraat with a focus on the seed, planted within the five senses and accompanies the phases of opening the heart. These tapestries are displayed at the Cluny Museum in Paris. * Fazl’Mai has produced a French Ziraat Newsletter for 30 years, with quotes, music and artwork. These are now translated into English, German, and Dutch, and she expresses her grateful to all the translators. Some of her artwork and a music selection are included in this newsletter in the the Creative Work section. * In her Ziraat work, Fazl'Mai sometimes offers walks and excursions, the ‘Z-Walks’, with different themes each time. She's always inviting people to come to her home to Brittany to discover the power of different sites there. * Sowing Seeds of Friendship, is a Ziraat Retreat which will be held at the Khanqah in Suresnes, 29-30 June 2026. More information will follow in March. Germany * Website: https://www.inayatiyya.de/zweige/ziraat/<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> * Safed was recently appointed as the Country Representative - for Ziraat, and has started networking. She intends to create fields of shared experience and enable an active Ziraat field to continue to develop. * She led a Lodge Ceremony for the Winter Solstice via Zoom in order to sow healing seeds together in the field of the New Year. * In 2026, Safed would like to offer a series of online services. In addition, she is thinking about creating a Ziraat web-page with a member's area for internal Ziraat announcements and a chat function etc. * Safed has submitted some art and an article for the Creative Works section of the newsletter called Ziraat - the door to creativity. * 2026 program: Nature - Places of Power - Geomancy - Elements Raqib leads this monthly Meeting, every 3rd Wednesday 7pm CET by Zoom. The first part of this program looks at the rising star signs. At the meeting on 18th March, Yousuf will give a report about his journey to the Bosnian Pyramids, near Sarajevo. Here's the Zoom Link for the year. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88313032716pwd=xJkxccqWLPFNEYeN0IQLWun204Frmq.1<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> Ireland * Website: Soulsanctuary: https://soulsanctuary101.ie/<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> * Nurah Rose is the Guardian of this Forest Sanctuary, where she leads an Earth Healing Ritual via zoom every week on a Tuesday evening 7.30pm CET time. Please contact her if you would like to join this ceremony or her email list. * Soul Sanctuary, is a 19.6 acre forested site located in southeast Ireland (The Emerald Isle) dedicated to restoring balance between people and planet, and is a not for profit enterprise. Our mission is to protect and support all life within the forest to flourish and thrive and to make it safe and beautiful for people to visit and enjoy building relationships with the trees, plants, flowers and all other species existing here. We need help and support to do this. * Befriend a Tree initiative invites you to form a meaningful connection with one of the trees in our woodland by dedicating a ribbon in honour of someone or something close to your heart. Whether you are remembering a loved one, giving a symbolic gift, marking a milestone, or simply feeling called to connect with nature, this gentle gesture offers space for reflection, presence, and belonging. If you feel thus guided, please visit the webpage<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> which has all the details about how to befriend a tree, and how your befriended tree will be identified. Italy * Art as Zikr: Finding Divine Ecstasy in Artistic Expression <https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> International Sufi-Conference at Milan, Italy on 25-26 April Translations of the Flyers and Information sheets. <https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> <https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> Read More ...<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> <https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> Contact Salima Grigolli: (salima.inayati.mi(a)gmail.com) Netherlands & Belgium * Website: https://inayatiyya.nl/de-6-concentraties/ziraat/<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> * The Ziraat Representative for Netherlands and Belgium is MehrunNisa. * MehrunNisa is offering a variety of practices both for people who are initiated in Ziraat and those who are not. Twice a year – once in Netherlands and once in Belgium the Ziraat Lodge is embodied in a full-day program with a Universal Service, sometimes followed by one of the 40 Rules of the Chivalry. And then twice a year, a Ziraat activity is embedded in a Friendship Day, again once in Belgium and once in the Netherlands, * This year, MehrunNisa is planning to give a full day of Ziraat. * Four times a year at the start of each season, MehrunNisa invites people to her garden for a seasonal Nature Contemplation in the garden followed by a silent Nature Walk and Sharings. * Together, Tasnim and MehrunNisa offered the 10 Emerald Contemplations online via Zoom and the full cycle was completed in January-2026. If there is interest, they will consider starting a new group a little later this year. Oceania - Australia and Aotearoa (New Zealand) * Website: our sites are being developed and updated * Jamia Haqq - Experienced Farmer (New Zealand) Nehmat - Experienced Farmer (Australia) * In Oceania, we offer Ziraat Lodges online via zoom on the 4th Wednesday of the month at 7pm NZST. We alternate the leadership of the lodges, which are generally informal allowing opportunities for discussion and sharing on the particular theme. Hadi and Hadia from New Zealand and Maryam and Sufiyah from Australia help with preparation and presentation. * As well as participants from our region, we are often joined by people from Finland, Sweden, Turkiye, USA and Canada - many of whom have been Woofers and stayed at the beautiful Sharda Retreat Centre, founded by Halima McEwan, near Auckland. * Jamia Haqq will be travelling overseas again during the year with the Grandmothers. * For this newsletter, we sent some information about the Koru - Maori symbol which has the form of a spiral and is deeply rooted in cultural and spiritual significance. Pakistan / South Asia * Website: https://inayatiyyasouthasia.com/<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> * Murshida Amat-un-Nur is the Country and Region Representative for Ziraat. * Ziraat and Zikrullah: Spiritual Ecology and Divine Remembrance was a wonderful seminar presented by Murhida Amat-un-Nur, in January this year. The sweetness of the message, as Rumi writes, is that, “the seed of mortality must die in your body so that the spiritual bird within you may grow wings.” Rabia Nuriyah has written her reflections on the seminar. It is included in the Articles section below along with more inspiring quotes about Birds from Ibn Arabi given at the Seminar. * Art As Zikr: Finding Divine Ecstasy in Artistic Expression Murshida will be one of the presenters at this Sufi Seminar in Milan in April. <https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> <https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> Read More ... <https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> see translations of the Flyers and Information Sheets. Switzerland * Website: https://sufismus.ch/inayatiyya/ziraat/<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> * The Ziraat Representative is Karim Rafi. * Karim Rafi, offers Ziraat days four times a year. These days usually take place around the Solstice. He also leads a group of people to various sacred places in nature and holds Lodges there. Turkiye * Demet Aybar is the Ziraat Representative for Turkiye. * Ziraat is in the early stages of formation here. United Kingdom * Website: https://inayatiyya.org.uk/activities-of-the-sufi-order/ziraat/<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> * Margaret Amina is the Ziraat Representative for UK. * She runs an online group every month on or near the full moon, studying the Ziraat Invocation, Nature Meditations and the Element Breaths with movement, along with readings from Murshid on the relevant theme. * The Lodges are often aligned with the progress of the seasons and activities such as ploughing and sowing. There is always an opportunity for discussion in small breakout rooms and we welcome anyone who is interested to join us from other countries. Please contact: margaretnimmosmith(a)gmail.com * There are plans for joint sessions across the Activities and maybe in the future, a Ziraat retreat weekend surrounded by nature. * There will be a joint meeting with the Knighthood activity on Saturday 21 March in person only at the London Sufi Centre 11a.m. - 4.30pm. United States of America / North America & Oceania Council * Website Ziraat Activity (NAO): https://inayatiyyaziraat.org/ <https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> * Ata'allah and Zebunissa, have written a report which describes the Ziraat gatherings in Austin, Texas, where Ziraat lodges are held eight times a year; on or about the cross-quarters and on the solstices and equinoxes. We like tuning into the rhythms of nature. All of these meetings are in person; the lodges are a great way to renew our connections with each other and with the Spirit of Guidance. Link to the full report <https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> * Ziraat Council NA&O meet regularly throughout the year to prepare and present the online semester programs hosted by the Inayatiyya - Astana. We have chosen a theme to explore for the coming year: Mysteries of Water. * Living Water - Celebration & Restoration is the series being offered in first Semester 2026, starting on Friday 13th February. Link for program and registration<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…>. * Ziraat Roots and Shoots - 100 years of Ziraat Mystery School in 2025. The recordings of these inspiring presentations are available on the Ziraat Website - Recordings of Past Programs<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…>, along with transcripts in English, French, German, and Turkish. * The Council plans to continue Ziraat Training offerings this year: adjusting the Cultivating Ziraat (Introductory Training from 2024) as a self-directed or Mentor led program and introducing an Advanced Training for Workers in the second half of the year. Other Ziraat Websites * Ziraat - Sufi Ruhaniat International<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> This website is a great resource for anyone interested in Ziraat. You can access their Quarterly Newsletters Fana-fi-Gaia (under the More Menu). Articles of Interest and Creative Work These Articles have been submitted by members of our community, and the information contained here is based on their personal knowledge, research and spiritual understandings. The shaded "Read More ..." links for each article go to a Dropbox with translations in Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish, and Turkish languages. [https://mcusercontent.com/fd8625857899793849a6f66bc/images/c2a26c3c-e742-76…] Creation, Quantum Physics, and the Unity of the Universe Dr. Wolfgang Quint, Germany God creates creation out of love. From the unity of God flows the diversity of the world – a process of exhaling. Creation is ensouled. Out of love, creatures worship God and long for union with God. For they remember (Zhikr) where they came from. From diversity to unity – a process of inhaling. What does this contemplation have to do with the unity of the universe? Read More ..<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…>.<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> Image: Ian Cuming / Getty Images [https://mcusercontent.com/fd8625857899793849a6f66bc/images/76ccf14f-746f-1f…] A Farmer's Thoughts - The Miracle of Soil Wali Via, USA In many regards trying to comprehend soil is not dissimilar to attempting to comprehend God. We can ascribe qualities to both, but no matter how many qualities we name, the list will be incomplete. What we can do is develop an intimate relationship with the soil, just as it possible to do so with the Divine. We have been trained to use our senses to give us an understanding of the material world. <https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> Read More ..<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…>.<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> Image: freenaturestock-1308 The Spiral: The Meaning of the Oldest Spiritual Symbol Author: Shafiqa Eva Bahlman The spiral symbol is one of the oldest geometric shapes found in almost every culture worldwide, and we know of several rocks from the Neolithic era on which this symbol can be seen carved. Drawings or carvings of spiral symbols have also been common on tombs and gravestones. It is often found in nature and can be observed in the arrangement of the solar system, the celestial galaxies and even in the body shapes of terrestrial plant species and animal organisms....Thus, the spiral symbol in various forms was one of the most important symbols of the Celts, and they used it as a single, double, but also as a triple spiral symbol (triskele). Read More ..<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…>.<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> [https://mcusercontent.com/fd8625857899793849a6f66bc/images/a9f2ec4f-29bd-aa…] [https://mcusercontent.com/fd8625857899793849a6f66bc/images/0a45928c-0229-51…] Image 1: Newgrange entrance stone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral#:<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> Neolithic spirals on the Newgrange entrance slab, unknown sculptor or architect, 3rd millennium BC Image2 : Spiral Galaxy NGC 1232: ESO.org <https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> Wikipedia - Spirals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral#:<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> [https://mcusercontent.com/fd8625857899793849a6f66bc/images/5a14e4b1-4747-5a… of Creating Author: Salima Irmgard Pasterk It is an honor for me, to bring your attention: as a gift …. this STONE-LABYRINTH-CIRCLE, placed in “Europe Park” near the Lake Wörthersee, in the district CARINTHIA in the south of the country Austria, near by the border to Slovenia and Italy. In 2010 many women and two men created a geomantic Stone-circle that was crafted under the guidance of Margan Kalb after her education and training by the Slovenian Geomantic-teacher Marco Pogačnik. Our Ziraat group had a lodge at this place on the NEW MOON 18.1.2026. Like an OVERTURE for the coming: Fire-Horse-Yang Year 2026, which begins at 17.2.2026. Read More ..<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> [https://mcusercontent.com/fd8625857899793849a6f66bc/images/e1d2f472-711b-69…] Geomantieverein Kärnten erschafft den Steinkreis im Europapark Klagenfurtin<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> A short video in German showing the stones being carved. (Youtube: 8:34 mins) Photos and additional resources provided by Salima Ziraat and Zikrullah: Spiritual Ecology and Divine Remembrance by Rabia Nuriyah Zaid Reflections on the Seminar presented by Murshida Amat-un-Nur in January Living in Harmony with Nature Murshida Amat-un-Nur, the head of The Inayatiyya in South Asia, is a remarkable spiritual guide dedicating her life to disseminating the universal teachings of Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan. Beyond her administrative role, she is a gifted educator who facilitates profound spaces for awakening. Her regular seminars and weekly zikr sessions traverse an inspiring spectrum—from mysticism and quantum physics to interfaith harmony, healing music, and the scientific-philosophical underpinnings of religious thought. Each gathering is not merely a lecture but an invitation into a more conscious and connected way of being. The Revolutionary Concept of Hayawān One of the most captivating insights from her seminar centered on the Sufi master Ibn 'Arabi’s understanding of hayawān. Derived from the Arabic root Hayy (The Living), it is often simplistically translated as “animal.” However, its deeper meaning points to the very essence of aliveness itself. The Qur’an characterizes the Hereafter as Dār al-Hayawān—the Abode of Real Life (29:64), suggesting our current reality holds a concealed form of this vitality. Read More ..<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…>.<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> [https://mcusercontent.com/fd8625857899793849a6f66bc/images/b98cb557-b248-89…] The sweetness of the message, as Rumi writes, is that “the seed of mortality must die in your body so that the spiritual bird within you may grow wings.” Murshida’s great gift is her ability to help us feel that germination. She doesn’t just talk about listening to nature; she creates the quiet within us where that listening can begin. Bird Analogies - from Ibn Arabi To see oneself transformed into a bird indicates a soul’s capacity of spiritual ascension. The type of bird indicates the specific quality of the journey. Ibn Arabi developed a sophisticated dream interpretation system in which birds play a key role. A predator indicates power. A songbird indicates intuitive knowledge. A water bird indicates emotional depth. [https://mcusercontent.com/fd8625857899793849a6f66bc/images/d21bf0ac-8aba-2e… his work the Universal Tree, Ibn Arabi describes the human spirit: “The human spirit is like a bird whose head is knowledge of God. Whose wings are reverence and hope. Whose feet are constraint and fear. Whose beak is acceptance of what comes from God. Whose food is divine remembrance. And whose nest is the heart that contains it." Ibn Arabi explains the spiritual hierarchy using bird imagery. “The ordinary believers are like ground dwelling birds that occasionally take flight. The saints are like the birds that spend most of their time in the air, returning to earth only when necessary. The prophets are like birds that soar continuously in the highest reaches of the atmosphere, seeing all below with perfect clarity.” Graphics: Koru tattoo and artwork: https://au.pinterest.com/itsazoo2011/koru-tattoo/<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> Ziraat Inspired Creative Work [https://mcusercontent.com/fd8625857899793849a6f66bc/_compresseds/044d12b8-0…] Ziraat - the door to creativity Safed Ulrike Dreekmann, Farmer Germany "Ziraat is the opportunity to grow the bread of life and green the earth.” Pir Zia Easter Seminar 2024 When we enter the worlds of art, poetry, and music, in their diverse forms of expression, we move in a universal language that connects all levels of being. Creativity is a spiritual act, a soulful devotion to an idea, vision, or inspiration, in which we bring something into matter through all levels of being. The worlds of imagination fertilize the earth. "The greening of ourselves and of the earth.” (Pir Zia Easter 2024) What used to be the seers, the initiates, the spiritual and mystics, are often the artists today. Artists, poets, musicians—the whole world of the arts greens the earth. And the creator greens herself. Read More ..<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…>.<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> From Fazl'Mai - France Music Selection: # Deo Gratias[https://mcusercontent.com/fd8625857899793849a6f66bc/_compresseds/64… Composed by Johannes Ockeghem (C 1410 - 1497) with Huelgas Ensemble - Paul Van Nevel- Thirty Six Part Canon (6.5 mins) * Link for AUDIO only<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> * Link for Youtube Video <https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> Spirals -Artwork by Fazl'Mai Anne Lacomte The two spirals are paintings I created while thinking of Pir Zia. [https://mcusercontent.com/fd8625857899793849a6f66bc/images/ad451b3b-9f06-bc…] [https://mcusercontent.com/fd8625857899793849a6f66bc/images/65135def-73a0-45…] Rose Window Lausanne Cathedral, Switzerland [https://mcusercontent.com/fd8625857899793849a6f66bc/images/0cd5afac-d717-db… medieval times, a rose window was round like the universe. This Imago Mundi, summing up all human knowledge, is seen in the spectacular early rose window in Lausanne cathedral. The stone tracery was built in about 1205, while the glass was placed in about 1230. This stain glass window provides a rich resource for those with an interest in geometry and iconography. ROSE_CATHEDRALE_LAUSANNE_DEPLIANT<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> - Brochure (in French) explaining the different parts of the window: The Zodiac and the Divinatory Sciences The outer circles, representing sepals arranged in a vertical cross, are each composed of five medallions. They originally illustrated the twelve signs of the Zodiac, the four Elements (Air, Fire, Water, Earth) and the four divinatory sciences drawn from the said elements (Geomancy, Hydromancy, Aeromancy, Pyromancy). [A translation of one section of the flyer.] Symbolic Geometry [Source: [https://therosewindow.com/secret/Lausanne/Lausanne-i.htm]<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> [https://mcusercontent.com/fd8625857899793849a6f66bc/images/21eae809-a756-23… The play of squares and circles, symbolising things material (finite) and things immaterial and beyond (infinite).. ** The central square sybolised the Earth which interfaces with half-circles of repeating time - ie the 4 seasons and the 12 months. ** Within the outer square is Paradise seen as a place but beyond time, with its weird inhabitants. ** Paradise interfaces with the formative elements of the cosmos, earth, fire, air and water, surrounded by signs of the zodiac and 2 of the prophecy-by-the-elements figures (The other 2 seem to be lost) ** In the 8 outer trefoils are the Winds of Heaven that keep creation in being. ** The outer circle is the cosmos / heaven. [Some of these panels would seem to be misplaced from their original positions] Links to Videos and Online Lectures * Pantheism - God is in Nature and Nature is in God <https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> Rupert Sheldrake (Substack): (English - 54 mins) * The Paradox of Religion as Peace Maker and Contributor to Violence <https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> Anantanand Rambachan (Youtube - Oxford Interfaith Forum) - (English - 52 mins) * The Circle of Life<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> -- Film Premier 2026 - SAND - (Science and Non-Duality) * Famous Last Words <https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> Jane Goodall (Netflix): (English - you need and Netflix account to access this) * Geomantic Workers in Carinthia 2011- Austria<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> (Youtube: German 8:34 mins) * Innere Welten Äußere Welten - Teil 2: Die Spirale<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> (Youtube: German 33 mins) Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds - Part 2: The Spiral<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> (English: 33mins) Website: https://awakentheworld.com/series/inner-worlds-outer-worlds-series/<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> Ziraat Calendar February 2026 3 Soul Sanctuary Earth Healing Ritual every Tuesday evening 7.30pm CET [Also 10 / 17 / 24 ] 13 NAO - Living Water - Celebrating Water- the Source of our Physical and Spiritual Lives 17 New Moon 18 Germany: Nature – Places of power - Geomancy - Elements 3rd Wednesday/month, at 07 pm CET, in German language. Star sign - Pisces 20-27 Bosnic Pyramids, near Sarajevo - journey with Yousuf Stefan Zoelle 25 Oceania Lodge - host Australia March 2026 3 Soul Sanctuary Earth Healing Ritual every Tuesday evening 7.30pm CET Also 10 / 17 / 24 / 31] 13 NAO - Living Water - Managing Water with Permaculture Design 18 New Moon 18 Germany: Nature - Places of Power - Geomancy - Element Rising star sign - Aries & Report from Yousuf Stefan Zoeller 20 Equinox 25 Oceania Lodge - host New Zealand April 2026 7 Soul Sanctuary Earth Healing Ritual every Tuesday evening 7.30pm CET [Also 14 / 21 / 28] 15 Germany: Nature - Places of Power - Geomancy - Elements Rising star sign -Taurus 17 New Moon 22 NAO - Will of Water: Purification - Earth Day 2026 - Ziraat & Music Activities 29 Oceania Lodge - host Australia May 2026 1 - 3 Emerald Earth Retreat - USA with Kainat Norton and Muinuddin Smith 5 Soul Sanctuary Earth Healing Ritual every Tuesday evening 7.30pm CET [Also 12 / 19 / 26 ] 8 NAO - Living Water - Holy Mysteries of Water 16 New Moon 20 Germany: Nature - Places of Power - Geomancy - Elements Rising star sign - Gemini 25-26 Art as Zikr: Finding Divine Ecstasy in Artistic Expression Sufi Seminar in Milan, Italy 27 Oceania Lodge - host New Zealand June 2026 2 Soul Sanctuary Earth Healing Ritual every Tuesday evening 7.30pm CET [Also 9 / 16 / 23 / 30 ] 14 New Moon 17 Germany: Nature - Places of Power - Geomancy - Elements Rising star sign - Cancer 21 Equinox 24 Oceania Lodge - host Australia 29-30 Sowing Seeds of Friendship Retreat at Fazil Manzil, Suresnes - Paris, France July 2026 7 Soul Sanctuary Earth Healing Ritual every Tuesday evening 7.30pm CET [Also 14 / 21 / 28 14 New Moon 15 Germany: Nature - Places of Power - Geomancy - Elements Rising star sign - Leo 22 Oceania Lodge - host New Zealand SUBSCRIBE<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> Copyright © 2026 Inayatiyya, All rights reserved. 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Cherag-Seminar "Kabbala und Jüdische Mystik" vom 13. bis 15. März in Heilbronn

von tischustr＠posteo.de

Ihr Lieben, vom 13. bis 15. März treffen wir uns bei Pavarti im Yoga-Haus Heilbronn zum Seminar über die Kabbala und jüdische Mystik. Es gibt zwar schon einige Anmeldungen, aber ein paar Plätze sind noch zu vergeben. Neben der Auseinandersetzung mit dem Sephiroth/Baum des Lebens erwarten Euch Einblicke in die Traditionen des Chassidim, in die heiligen jüdischen Texte, die Bedeutung, Struktur und rituelle Anwendung der 12-, 42- und 72-buchstabigen Gottesnamen und vieles mehr. Schließlich ist das Thema Frieden im Kontext der jüdischen Mystik, insbesondere Zohar und Kabbala, tiefgründig und kraftvoll, gerade angesichts des aktuellen Gaza-Konflikts. Die Kabbala und der Zohar lehren, dass Liebe und Mitgefühl die stärksten Kräfte sind, um Dunkelheit und Konflikte zu überwinden. Dieser tiefen Sehnsucht nach Frieden möchten wir dann am Sonntag bei einer gemeinsamen kosmischen Feier begegnen. „Das Licht der göttlichen Einheit erstrahlt, wenn wir einander mit Liebe begegnen.“ „Wenn zwei Menschen sich versöhnen, dann wohnt die göttliche Gegenwart unter ihnen.“ Wir freuen und auf Euch. Taslima und Tawhid

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Online-Meditationstag „Ekstase und Glückseligkeit mitten im Schmerz und Drama des Lebens“

von sekretariat＠inayatiyya.de

Liebe Weggefährt:innen auf dem Sufipfad, bitte findet anbei die Einladung zum Online-Meditationstag „Ekstase und Glückseligkeit mitten im Schmerz und Drama des Lebens“ der am Samstag, den 14. März 2026 stattfindet. Im Leben hier auf Erden kann es sehr schmerzvolle und dramatische Situationen geben, die kaum bewältigbar erscheinen. Solche Situationen können uns paradoxerweise aber auch helfen am spirituellen Pfad vorwärts zu schreiten. Letztlich können solche Situationen sogar eine Gnade enthalten. Murshid hat immer wieder auf die Worte Christus „Eine Niederlage kann sich als Sieg erweisen“ hingewiesen. Der Meditationstag hilft solche Situationen besser und als transformativen Wandel zu verstehen. Wir werden gemeinsam eine Reise unternehmen, auf der wir uns reinigen, immer mehr reinigen, letztlich sogar von uns selbst, und dadurch wird es möglich uns immer stärker der göttlichen Ekstase und Glückseligkeit bewusst zu sein mitten im Schmerz und Drama des Lebens. Herzliche Grüße, Sherdil

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Veranstaltungenskalender der Inayatiyya NACHSCHLAG...

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Veranstaltungenskalender der Inayatiyya

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Updates Osterseminar

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Ihr Lieben alle, seid Ihr noch auf der Suche nach einer Unterkunft für das Osterseminar in Gersfeld? Es gibt noch verschiedene auch preisgünstige Optionen: Auf der Startseite von Gersfeld könnt Ihr über den Button „Unterkunftsuche aktivieren“ nach Angeboten schauen, es sind noch einige wenige günstige Ferienwohnungen und Zimmer in Pensionen verfügbar. Wenn ihr mit dem PKW anreist, findet ihr außerhalb von Gersfeld noch sehr günstige Übernachtungsmöglichkeiten. <https://www.gersfeld.de/unterkunft-suchen.html#/unterkuenfte> https://www.gersfeld.de/unterkunft-suchen.html#/unterkuenfte In der Jugendherberge in Gersfeld ist aktuell nur ein Mehrbettzimmer mit Teilnehmerinnen des Osterseminars belegt. Ein größeres Mehrbettzimmer ist aktuell noch frei, bitte meldet Euch ganz schnell in der Jugendherberge an, wenn Ihr dort übernachten möchtet, sonst wird das Zimmer anderweitig vergeben. Der Verein Inayatiyya Deutschland e.V. hat einen Mitgliedsausweis für die Jugendherberge. Dieser ist für alle Teilnehmer*innen des Osterseminars gültig. Es besteht die Möglichkeit eines Zuschusses von 15,-€ / Nacht für Menschen mit geringem Einkommen (am Sekretariatstisch in der Stadthalle bei Vorlage der Rechnung der Jugendherberge) <https://www.jugendherberge.de/jugendherbergen/gersfeld/> https://www.jugendherberge.de/jugendherbergen/gersfeld/ Das Detailprogramm und weitere Infos zum Osterseminar findet Ihr auf unserer Webseite <http://www.inayatiyya.de> www.inayatiyya.de Über die Muridliste könnt Ihr nach MFGs suchen oder nach Teilnehmenden für eine gemeinsame Unterkunft. Gerne könnt Ihr Eure Anfragen auch an <mailto:seminare@inayatiyya.de> seminare(a)inayatiyya.de schicken und ich sende sie dann gesammelt über den großen Verteiler der Info-Liste. DANKE an alle, die sich für die Weitergabe der Osterseminar-Flyer gemeldet haben!!! Es gibt noch einen guten Vorrat und ich freue mich über jede weitere Bestellung! Für weitere Fragen und Auskünfte stehe ich gerne zur Verfügung! Herzliche Grüße Nura Inayatiyya Deutschland e.V. Geschäftsführung / Seminarorganisation Nura Silvia Kunkies Höbelweg 4a :: 37139 Adelebsen T +49-(0)5506 999 11 69 M +49-(0)163 6603 763 geschaeftsfuehrung(a)inayatiyya.de seminare(a)inayatiyya.de silvia.kunkies(a)t-online.de www.inayatiyya.de

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The Zephyr Newsletter, January 2026 >>> deutsche Version

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Es gehört manchmal ein ganzes Team dazu, etwas in die Welt zu bringen: Dank an Noorani für die Übersetzung, an Halima für die Kommunikation Und an Christine für das Layout. Tolle ÜAG, tolles Team! Dieser Zephyr ist wieder von Pir Zia persönlich geschrieben, Mit der "Tinte flüssigen Erdenlichts" mit herzlichen Grüßen Latifa [cid:072b383d-f31c-4460-a6cd-6226e14acee3] Inayatiyya Deutschland e.V. Sekretariat - Teresa Latifa Grevelhörster Pfarrkeßlar 1 99444 Blankenhain OT Drößnitz Telefon 0 36 422 - 200 243 __________________________________________________________________________________ 21. Januar 2026 Liebe Wegbegleiterinnen und Wegbegleiter, ich hoffe, diese Zeilen erreichen Sie wohlbehalten. Shaykh al-Akbar Muhyi ad-Din Ibn al-‘Arabi<https://ibnarabisociety.org/introduction-muhyiddin-ibn-arabi/?mc_cid=ab5914…> sagte in einem Verspaar: „Die Menschen sind nur Geschichten – alle insgesamt / Sei also die beste Geschichte, die sie hören.“ Wir sind Geschichten. Von dem Tag unserer Geburt bis zu dem Tag unseres Todes formt sich eine Erzählung. Und diese Erzählung hat sowohl einen Prolog als auch einen Epilog im Verborgenen. Wenn unser Körper zur Ruhe gebettet wird, was wird dann von uns in der physischen Welt fortbestehen, außer der Geschichte, die wir gelebt haben? Hoffentlich ist es eine gute, eine tief empfundene. Wir sind nicht nur die Hauptfigur unserer persönlichen Geschichte; wir spielen auch eine Rolle in vielen anderen Geschichten. Während wir als Held unserer eigenen Saga umherziehen – sind wir dann vielleicht der Schurke in der Geschichte eines anderen? Metafiktionen wie das Yoga Vasishtha, die Geschichten aus Tausendundeiner Nacht und die Erzählungen von Jorge Luis Borges<https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jorge-Luis-Borges> erinnern uns daran, dass es Geschichten in Geschichten in Geschichten gibt. Jeder von uns ist nicht nur eine Geschichte, sondern auch eine Bibliothek von Geschichten, die wir von Vorfahren, Freunden, Lieblingsautoren und verschiedenen anderen Erzählern geerbt haben. Als Murshid plötzlich die Welt verließ, erkannte Noor, dass er ihr eine Welt der Weisheit geschenkt hatte, durch die Geschichten, die er ihr und ihren Geschwistern erzählt hatte, wenn er sie abends ins Bett brachte. Sie beschloss, selbst eine Geschichtenerzählerin zu werden. Als der Faschismus sein Haupt erhob, nutzte sie Geschichten des Mitgefühls und der Verbundenheit, um dem nationalsozialistischen Missbrauch uralter Folklore entgegenzuwirken. Manchmal verschwinden Geschichten für eine Weile, nur um wieder aufzutauchen. Noors Lieblingswerk unter ihren Kompositionen, „De l’or sur la cime“ (Das Gold auf dem Gipfel), galt als unwiederbringlich verloren, ist aber in der Sammlung des Sufi-Museums in Den Haag wieder aufgetaucht. Misbah Noor Afridi hat eine englische Übersetzung angefertigt, und ich hoffe, dass demnächst eine zweisprachige Ausgabe erscheinen wird. Es ist eine alchemistische Fabel, die in einer außergewöhnlichen Vision der Engelssphäre gipfelt. Ich freue mich, mitteilen zu können, dass meine Geschichtensammlung mit dem Titel „Tränen von der Mutter der Sonne“<https://www.innertraditions.com/tears-from-the-mother-of-the-sun?mc_cid=ab5…> (Tears from the Mother of the Sun), geschmückt mit eindringlichen Illustrationen von Amruta Patil<https://amrutapatil.wordpress.com/?mc_cid=ab59148a88&mc_eid=3acf6dcc09>, nächste Woche ausgeliefert wird und in Indien bereits erhältlich ist. Was war die Superkraft des Wiedehopfs Ya‘fur? Warum baute Minos ein Labyrinth in Knossos? Wer war die letzte Person, die die Smaragdtafel unter der Pyramide des Hermes las? Die Antworten stehen im Buch. Seit der Arbeit an „Tränen“ haben drei Geschichten in Form von Blankvers-Dramen meine Feder in Beschlag genommen. Die erste davon ist die Artus-Romanze „Al-Battar“, die, so Gott will, vom 9. bis 12. April als szenische Lesung in Glastonbury aufgeführt wird. Ich hoffe, Sie dort zu sehen. Darüber hinaus würde es mich freuen, Sie später in diesem Monat beim Urs in Delhi zu treffen, bald darauf bei den Online-Sitzungen von In einem östlichen Rosengarten<https://inayatiyya.org/event/in-an-eastern-rose-garden-part-2/?mc_cid=ab591…> oder beim Frühlingsretreat in Gersfeld<https://www.inayatiyya.de/events/easter-retreat-2026/?mc_cid=ab59148a88&mc_…> im April. Mögen unsere Leben der Verherrlichung mit sorgfältiger, fließender Handschrift niedergeschrieben sein. Möge unsere Tinte flüssiges Erdenlicht sein. Immer Ihr, Pir Zia ___ In einem östlichen Rosengarten – Teil II Lehren über Freiheit, Demokratie und die Seele mit Pir Zia Inayat Khan Sonntage, 22. Februar bis 15. März 2026 11:00 – 12:30 Uhr ET / 17:00 – 18:30 Uhr MEZ via Zoom Alle Wesen streben nach Freiheit. Freiheit ist eine wesentliche Eigenschaft der Seele, aber allzu oft wird Freiheit auf Kosten anderer erreicht. Eine wahrhaftigere Freiheit entsteht aus der Erkenntnis der Verbundenheit. In dieser Saison setzen wir unsere Erkundung des Ideals der Freiheit fort. Über vier Wochen wird Pir Zia uns durch Themen wie die Kraft des Atems, spirituelle Demokratie, Freiheit der Seele und das ideale Leben führen. Jede Sitzung endet mit spirituellen Praktiken für die kommende Woche. Dieses Programm steht allen offen. Weitere Details und Anmeldung.<https://inayatiyya.org/event/in-an-eastern-rose-garden-part-2/?mc_cid=ab591…> ___ Inayatiyya Berkeley Gathering mit Pir Zia Inayat Khan 5. – 7. Juni 2026 Berkeley, Kalifornien Wir freuen uns, bekannt geben zu können, dass Pir Zia für ein Wochenend-Treffen im Hillside Club in Berkeley, CA, an die Westküste zurückkehren wird. Programmdetails und Anmeldeinformationen werden in Kürze mitgeteilt. Wir laden Sie ein, sich diese Daten vorzumerken und Pläne für Ihre Teilnahme zu schmieden. Es liegt etwas Unersetzliches darin, sich persönlich zu treffen – zusammenzusitzen, zuzuhören und in der Gegenwart unseres Lehrers und füreinander zu teilen. Wir hoffen, dass Sie dabei sein können. ___ Frieden im Wirbelwind Eine Zusammenkunft sufischer Lehren & Freundschaft Mit Pir Zia Inayat Khan & Freunden Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, New York Sonntag, 21. Juni bis Freitag, 26. Juni 2026 Diejenigen, die den Pfad des Sufismus gehen, sind Liebende der Wirklichkeit, stets sehnsüchtig nach inniger Verbindung – Gemeinschaft (Communion) – mit dem Göttlichen. Bei dieser jährlichen Zusammenkunft der Inayatiyya, einer Sufi-Linie, die in den Lehren des indischen Mystikers Hazrat Inayat Khan verwurzelt ist, kommen wir zusammen, um tiefer gehende Ebenen der Gemeinschaft zu pflegen – miteinander und mit dem, was jenseits von Zeit und Raum liegt: der Einheit allen Seins. Wir werden Zustände der Gemeinschaft durch meditative Praxis, spirituellen Diskurs, Freundschaft, heilige Musik, Wirbeltanz und Zikr – das Gedenken an das Göttliche – erforschen. Unsere Führer auf dieser Reise werden Pir Zia Inayat Khan sowie unsere lieben Freunde Omid Safi, Nizam un Nisa Ayeda Husain, Nilufar Maryam Hasnaa, Tarana Jobin und Shams al Haqq sein. Ob Sie neu im Sufismus sind oder diesen Pfad schon lange gehen, Sie sind herzlich eingeladen, sich uns anzuschließen. Weitere Details und Anmeldung.<https://inayatiyya.org/event/peace-in-the-whirlwind/?mc_cid=ab59148a88&mc_e…> ___ Neuigkeiten von der Karawane Diesen Monat haben wir Neuigkeiten von der Karawane zu teilen. Mehr lesen…<https://inayatiyya.org/news-from-the-caravan-january-2026/?mc_cid=ab59148a8…> ___ Der Zephyr ist ein monatlicher Newsletter der Inayatiyya, einer interreligiösen mystischen Gemeinschaft mit Zweigen weltweit. Für weitere Informationen besuchen Sie uns bitte unter inayatiyya.org.<https://inayatiyya.org/?mc_cid=ab59148a88&mc_eid=3acf6dcc09> __________________________________________________________________________________ View this email in your browser<https://mailchi.mp/inayatiyya/the-zephyr-newsletter-january-2026?e=3acf6dcc…> The Zephyr Newsletter [Inayati Order Zephyr Newsletter]<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> 21 January 2026 Dear Companions on the Path, I hope this finds you well. Shaykh al-Akbar Muhyi ad-Din Ibn al-‘Arabi<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> said in a couplet: “People are only stories–all of them / So be the best story that they hear.” We are stories. From the day we were born till the day we die, a tale is taking shape. And the tale has a prologue as well as an epilogue in the Unseen. When our body is laid to rest, what will endure of us in the physical world but the story we’ve enacted? Hopefully it’s a good one, a deeply felt one. Not only are we the protagonist of our personal story; we have a role in many other stories. While going about as the hero of our own saga, are we the villain of someone else’s? Metafictions like the Yoga Vasishta, the Arabian Nights, and the stories of Jorge Luis Borges<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> remind us that there are tales within tales within tales. Each of us is not only a story, but also a library of stories inherited from ancestors, friends, favorite authors, and various other raconteurs. When Murshid suddenly left the world, Noor realized that he had given her a world of wisdom through the stories he had told her and her siblings when tucking them in at night. She resolved to become a storyteller herself. When fascism reared its head, she used stories of compassion and interconnectedness to counteract the Nazi abuse of immemorial folklore. Sometimes stories disappear for a time, only to reappear. Noor’s favorite among her compositions, De l’or sur la cime (The Gold on the Summit), was thought to be irretrievably lost, but has resurfaced in the collection of the Sufi Museum in Den Hague. Misbah Noor Afridi has produced an English translation, and I am hopeful that a dual language edition will come out before long. It’s an alchemical fable culminating in an extraordinary vision of the angelic realm. [https://mcusercontent.com/fd8625857899793849a6f66bc/images/4a5b6689-0031-9d… pleased to say that my story collection entitled Tears from the Mother of the Sun<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…>, emblazoned with striking paintings by Amruta Patil<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…>, ships next week, and is already available in India. What was the hoopoe Ya‘fur’s superpower? Why did Minos build a labyrinth in Knossos? Who was the last person to read the Emerald Tablet under the pyramid of Hermes? The answers are in the book. Since writing Tears, three stories in the form of blank verse dramas have commandeered my pen. The first of these is the Arthurian romance Al-Battar, which will be performed as a reading in Glastonbury, God willing, April 9th-12th. I hope to see you there. Additionally, it would be a delight to see you at the Urs in Delhi later this month, in the online In an Eastern Rose Garden<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> sessions soon thereafter, or at the Spring Retreat in Gersfeld<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> in April. May our lives of glorification be inscribed with meticulous flowing penmanship. May our ink be liquid earthlight. Yours ever, Pir Zia [https://mcusercontent.com/fd8625857899793849a6f66bc/images/b16a0f21-6655-10…]<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> In an Eastern Rose Garden - Part II Teachings on Freedom, Democracy, and the Soul w/ Pir Zia Inayat Khan Sundays, February 22nd to March 15th, 2026 11:00 am – 12:30 pm ET / 5:00 – 6:30 pm CET via Zoom All beings pursue freedom. Freedom is an essential quality of the soul, but too often, freedom is achieved at the expense of someone else. A truer freedom arises from the realization of interconnectedness. This season we continue our exploration of the ideal of freedom. Over four weeks, Pir Zia will guide us through topics such as the power of breath, spiritual democracy, freedom of the soul, and the ideal life. Each session will close with spiritual practices to carry into the week ahead. This program is open to everyone. More details and registration.<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> [https://mcusercontent.com/fd8625857899793849a6f66bc/images/e58206a0-4133-60…]<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> Inayatiyya Berkeley Gathering w/ Pir Zia Inayat Khan June 5th - 7th, 2026 Berkeley, California We’re delighted to announce that Pir Zia will be returning to the West Coast for a weekend gathering at the Hillside Club in Berkeley, CA. Program details and registration information will be shared soon. For now, we invite you to hold these dates and begin making plans to join us. There is something irreplaceable about gathering in person—sitting together, listening, and sharing in the presence of our teacher and one another. We hope you’ll be able to be with us. [https://mcusercontent.com/fd8625857899793849a6f66bc/images/69875469-e010-c5…]<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> Peace in the Whirlwind A Gathering of Sufi Teachings & Friendship With Pir Zia Inayat Khan & Friends Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, New York Sunday, June 21 to Friday, June 26, 2026 Those who walk the path of Sufism are lovers of Reality, ever longing for intimate connection—Communion—with the Divine. At this annual gathering of the Inayatiyya, a Sufi lineage rooted in the teachings of the Indian mystic Hazrat Inayat Khan, we come together to nurture deepening levels of Communion—with one another, and with that which lies beyond time and space: the Oneness of all being. We will explore states of Communion through meditative practice, spiritual discourse, friendship, sacred music, whirling, and zikr—the remembrance of the Divine. Our guides on this journey will be Pir Zia Inayat Khan, along with our dear friends Omid Safi, Nizam un Nisa Ayeda Husain, Nilufar Maryam Hasnaa, Tarana Jobin, and Shams al Haqq. Whether you are new to Sufism or have long walked this path, you are warmly invited to join us. More details and registration.<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> [https://mcusercontent.com/fd8625857899793849a6f66bc/images/fa5a3fb9-2678-ae…] News from the Caravan This month, we have news to share from the Caravan. Read more...<https://inayatiyya.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd8625857899793849a6f…> The Zephyr is a monthly newsletter of the Inayatiyya, an interfaith mystical fellowship with branches worldwide. 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